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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat May 17th, 2008 at 05:15:15 PM EST
Ha! I clicked on this thinking this was going to be about  bridge, the card game. Having said that, I'm happy to see that it is a wonderful bridge. In Sydney I once lived almost right under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, in a suburb called the Rocks. I spent hours marvelling at the genial structure.
by Asinus Asinum Fricat (pjmandeville@gmail.com) on Sat May 17th, 2008 at 05:42:01 PM EST
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"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat May 17th, 2008 at 06:19:23 PM EST
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the brand news TGV train station (recently photographed in a diary or comment by DoDo which I cannot find)

I posted my photo from last year of the renewed station (it's still the old masonry structure, with a new UFO front) in a photo blog, but here it is again:



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 03:13:09 AM EST
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Very interesting bridge. I thought Calatrava, I looked at the Structurae site, but no: it's by a French architect named Marc Mimram. Almost all his other work seems to be arch bridges. I knew one of them: Viaduc de la Garde-Adhémar, which takes the LGV Mediterranée [high-speed line to Marseille] over the Canal de Donzère:



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 03:28:24 AM EST
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