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Incredible piece of art in steel.
Roller coasters--"Steelies" also sometimes have an incredible flow-sweeping curves that are wonderful art.
Here's bridge art of a different sort--the surroundings are lovely too.


Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 03:19:20 AM EST
(In wonderful Semur-en-Auxois, see comments when geezer in Paris posted it earlier.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 03:31:07 AM EST
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Thanks, DoDo- my aging neurons lost the name again.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 05:04:40 AM EST
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We visited the Roman bridge in Vaison la Romaine not long ago:

It was very impressive to see the marker for the 1992 flash flood, which is about one meter above the top of the bridge. That pic gives a glimpse of what it was like:



In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 04:46:49 AM EST
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Holy Mackerel!
Lotta water there.
Amazing it survived.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 05:36:13 AM EST
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It has probably survived quite a number of those through the centuries...

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 03:27:50 PM EST
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Wow, that's what I call a flash flood

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 09:30:27 AM EST
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