sdandrea1 meagain He made his wife sell "her" beautiful Corvette! NOBODY makes my wife do anything, especially me. She spent the Vette money on a Mercedes. π
Rickochet Amazing pics Steve, thanks for sharing. The Colosseum is amazing. Hard to believe people would go there to watch gladiators and lions having lunch.
sdandrea1 FauxAmish Amavi means I loved So. I came, I saw, I loved. I know, I translated it. My response was I came, I saw, I ate. π
sdandrea1 Roman aqueduct from 500 B.C. Good gawd, it's still standing. That's some serious brick and mortar.
Rickochet FauxAmish Well, you can now see what 6 years of Latin got me. π€‘ You can't speak it any better than Dan Quayle. π
ptjn1201 They knew how to build back then. It's amazing what they could do with pretty much just manpower, beasts of burden, wheels, and levers. These baseball stadiums nowadays, they take them down after 20-25 years.
sdandrea1 ptjn1201 These arches are all cement blocks or rocks or brick, all with mortar. There's no metal forms in there. They're all perfect radii too. Amazing.
sdandrea1 Florence, a lot of Michaelangelo's art. Took him 3 years to scultp David out of a chunk of Marble. Amazing. Took 146 years to build this church. Can you imagine tasking a contractor to build something and getting that answer?
Rickochet sdandrea1 Florence, a lot of Michaelangelo's art. Took him 3 years to scultp David out of a chunk of Marble. Pretty amazing, but he must have started running out of marble when he started sculpting David's junk.