(urth) Who's Right

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/4/2010 10:47 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>  wrote:
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>> On 12/4/2010 9:19 AM, Son of Witz wrote:
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>>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Jeff Wilson<jwilson at io.com>   wrote:
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>>>> (It may be worthwhile to note that in the much smaller citadel of the 1950's A&M campus, at least one building had prominent animal skull relief on the fascia.)
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>>> Might you share an image link, good sir?
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>> I'm still hunting for archived images; there were not many of the older bldgs left when I went back a couple of years ago to document them. Back in my salad days of the class of 91, there were several collections of older images on display at the campus, but they've moved along as well. One I really want to find was about the vanished library - still there, but totally concealed by subsequent additions and remodeling until it was a minor part of the "new" library, seen here:
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>> http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23570465
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>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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> That's neat about the library.  How is A&M like a citadel? I'm totally ignorant.

It was a military academy as well as a college, various of which have 
been called citadels, and it has habitually been a clump of buildings of 
varying styles added at different times by a succession of 
administrations and patrons, often repurposed considerably from their 
original form and function. I don't think there's been a itme when the 
campus was completely walled around, so it's not like the citadel of the 
Autarch in that way, but they have ceremonial cannonades, rites and 
beatings, symbolic sculpture and architecture, and the underground 
tunnels. I suppose the guilds could be representative of the various 
civilian employee departments like faculty, maintenance, administration, 
etc. and the latinos would have comprised the autocthons and the 
remnants of the previous empires.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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