Manchester Central Library
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Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed betw
Manchester Central Library viewed from St Peter's Square
Manchester Central Library at night
The central Wolfson Reading Room in 2021
The Shakespeare Hall entrance in 2014
Pantheon, Rome
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The Pantheon is an ancient temple in Rome, Italy, originally built under emperor Augustus and reconstructed under Hadrian; since AD 609, it is a Catholic church called the Basilica of St. Mary and the
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…and constructed between 1930 and 1934. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome. At its opening, one critic wrote, "This is the sort of thing which persuades one to believe in the perennial applicability of the Classical canon…
Façade of the Pantheon
Roma Pantheon 001
The interior of the Pantheon
The inscription at the entrance of the Pantheon reads, in Latin: M⸱AGRIPPA⸱L⸱F⸱COS⸱TERTIVM⸱FECIT