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Guess the Architecture for 8/28/2018

Posted August 28, 2018 2:00 PM by MaggieMc

Can you guess this week's building?

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08/28/2018 3:01 PM

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08/29/2018 12:14 PM

The Ted Turner version . . .

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08/30/2018 12:56 PM

Only some will understand, but I have always been a colorful person......

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08/28/2018 3:37 PM

Basilica of notre-dame of orcival?

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08/28/2018 4:49 PM

Judges?...

Yes, we have a bingo!

And now for the Bonus question...

What are these chains and iron balls for?

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08/28/2018 6:52 PM

Those would be conversion tools to prove our religion is better than yours. All major religions have them. (My issue with organized religions.)

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08/28/2018 7:41 PM

OK, I thought they were for holding the wall straight during repairs from earthquake damage....

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08/28/2018 10:18 PM

No matter, I like yours better....haha

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08/29/2018 6:30 PM

But just where is the comfy chair?
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08/28/2018 11:06 PM

A display of the way it used to was.......
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08/29/2018 3:17 PM

"The image of Mary also goes by the name Notre-Dame des Fers (Our Lady of the Fetters), because of the many slaves and captives who were miraculously delivered through her intercession."

From the website of the International Marian Research Institute of the University of Dayton.

So presumably the fetters -- the irons, since "fer" is iron in French -- are symbolic.
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08/29/2018 3:46 PM

Have you already forgotten our little discipline program!? You've been a naughty boy.

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08/29/2018 10:29 PM

When you must apprehend someone running away, you take down the set with the two balls, swing it over your head, and throw it towards the runner. The angular momentum of the balls wraps the chain about the runner's legs stopping him cold. The power cord from a Bell & Howell projector works equally well--nailed him from across the school gym.

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I am wondering if the ball and chains are meant to be weights for a chain-driven clock, the face and mechanism of which deteriorated, and has since been removed.
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08/30/2018 11:01 AM

Interesting idea. The stone behind the chains and balls doesn't match the stone beneath them, as though someone had filled in a hole or some such.

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08/30/2018 2:00 PM

Thank you!
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Interesting how they are in such good condition, like they are ready to be put back in service.
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08/29/2018 9:24 AM

What's the significance of this guy chained beneath Mary?

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Something about something or other running downhill.
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I think it is more symbolic of the triumph of good over evil...

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