Topic: Rome (Italy)

The stimulus bill is bad enough, then add the mortgage bailout, T.A.R.P. 2 (banking bail out), universal health care, the omnibus budget bill, and social security/Medicare obligations. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed, wrote this legislative equivalent of a road apple. A good ...

Features of Historical Domes

Creating domes of a size that we are now accustomed to seeing in cities around the world was considered impossible until Brunelleschi's " This became the largest dome built since that of the Pantheon in Rome, which was rebuilt by the Emperor ...