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To: SMGFan

None shown for Florida

?

We’re still a state, I think.


2 posted on 02/11/2018 7:49:26 AM PST by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: Strac6

Considering the fact that they chose something that resembles a barn silo as the most beautiful church in Massachusetts, consider yourself lucky you were left out.


3 posted on 02/11/2018 7:53:36 AM PST by turfmann
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To: Strac6

Because original page has no photo?

St. Bernard de Clairvaux (North Miami Beach, Florida)

St. Bernard de Clairvaux is more widely known to tourists than parishioners (for Sunday-morning mass). During the 1920s, William Randolph Hearst bought the stone monastery cloister (dating back to 1133 AD in Spain) and shuttled it to New York City in parts. Not until the middle of last century, however, was it reinstalled in Florida.

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/most-beautiful-place-of-worship-every-state


7 posted on 02/11/2018 8:09:18 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Strac6

Have you seen pictures of our State Buildings in Tallahassee? We seem to have a different ‘take’ on things here in Florida... might be why we’re not on the ‘better lists’...

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/perspective/Florida-s-phallic-Capitol-building-is-a-perfect-symbol-so-why-move-it-_164746922

from link:

“The new Capitol, though, turned out to be a monument to something else. There’s a 22-story executive branch tower bluntly thrusting itself toward the sky, bracketed by a pair of domes for the House and Senate. Drive toward it on Apalachee Parkway and it’s hard to miss the resemblance to ...


18 posted on 02/11/2018 8:56:35 AM PST by GOPJ (Were FISA Courts used to spy on Conservative Americans during the Obama years?)
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