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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (63572)	3/30/2018 7:50:33 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356344

I had no idea Lisbon had been destroyed! Fabulous things were lost then. I just started reading about it. en.wikipedia.org And the Great Fire of London- was also quite terrible. And then there's the fire bombing of Dresden and other German cities, and the nuking of two Japanese cities and horrendous fire bombing of the others- and the many sackings of Rome, and the destruction of antiquities following the cultural revolution- so much destruction. But again, it's amazing what's left. I think I could spend about a month in the British Museum and never get tired of looking at things. Although I think the museum of Catalan art in Barcelona may be my favorite museum in the world- but then I think of the Colonna in Rome, or the Capitoline...and there's the Pope's digs- but that's so darned crowded. Still, the stuff there is amazing. The "Map Room" is spectacular. And you know what really impressed me, that I did not expect to impress me? El Escorial. It looks brand new- you'd never know it was from the time of Elizabeth I. And they've got a mausoleum with all the dead kings (after their flesh is eaten away- in the "rotting room") and all the dead babies of the kings and queens. And they've got an enormous, huge, gigantic library there. Really- the wonders we have left- astound me when I think on them.