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SEATTLE'S 'BIG DIG' SHOWS WHAT AWAITS HUB
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SEATTLE - Halfway through its version of the depression of
the Central Artery, Seattle is often asking itself, as Mayor
Charles Royer puts it, "My God, who bombed us last night?"
While different in many technical respects, Seattle's
construction of a 1.3-mile bus and trolley tunnel is basically
similar to what the Central Artery project in Boston will be: a
huge tunnel dug through downtown, running under key city streets
and alongside major government, office and retail buildings.
The main difference: Seattle's bus tunnel runs through the
heart of the city, while the route of Boston's ...
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Vida de Segundo: Version castellana de la 'Vita Secudi' de Vicente de Beauvais.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
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Picturing the Celestial City: The Medieval Stained Glass of Beauvais Cathedral.(Book review)
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Michelangelo Picone, ed.: L'enciclopedismo medievale.(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
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"Femme de corps et femme par sens": Christine de Pizan's saintly women.
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A Commentary on the Penitential Psalms Translated by Dame Eleanor Hull.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
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Sources and Analogues of 'The Canterbury Tales'.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...excerpts from Titus Livius, the Roman de la Rose, Vincent of Beauvais, and John of Wales. John Scattergood finds more direct...Tale is similarly bereft, so Carolyn P. Collette and Vincent DiMarco provide a penumbra of alchemical writing...
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Wikipedia Grows Up
Magazine article from: Feliciter
; ...history and doctrine. The pre-eminent example, Vincent of Beauvais's monumental Speculum maius, ran to nearly 1,400...just inserted that (true) figure in the article on Vincent. The controversy over Wikipedia in library circles...
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Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
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Pragmatische Schriftlichkeit im Mittelalter: Erscheinungsformen und Entwicklungsstufen.
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Dante's Enigmas: Medieval Scholasticism and Beyond.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...informative account of the descent of Vitruvian ideas into the later Middle Ages (prominent here as intermediaries are Vincent of Beauvais and Hugh of St Victor) culminates in a fresh set of proposals for the geometrical enigma with which the Paradiso...
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