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  2. Filippo Brunelleschi - Wikipedia

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    Brunelleschi won the competition and designed the structure and built the base for the lantern, but he did not live long enough to see its final installation atop the dome. [ 47 ] In 1438 Brunelleschi designed his last contribution to the cathedral; four hemispherical exedra , or small half-domes, based on a Roman model, set against the drum at ...

  3. Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).

  4. Pazzi Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The most common argument for crediting Brunelleschi is the chapel's clear similarity to the Old Sacristy; others argue that his style had developed in the twenty-year interim and that the Pazzi Chapel would represent a retrograde step. [4] The first written mention of Brunelleschi as the architect was written by an anonymous author in the 1490s ...

  5. Florence Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    (The genius of Filippo Brunelleschi and the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore). ISBN 978-88-8347-691-4. The book is the result of forty years of research on the secret technique with which Brunelleschi built the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.

  6. Le Griffon - Wikipedia

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    James Mansfield [1] says that in the fall of 1678, La Salle built a vessel of about 10 tons burden at Fort Frontenac and that this vessel, named Frontenac, was the first real sailing vessel on the Great Lakes; specifically, on Lake Ontario (which some at the time called Lac de Frontenac). Many authors since Mansfield have followed suit.

  7. Italian architecture - Wikipedia

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    The competition to build it was won by Brunelleschi, who built the largest dome since Roman times. Basilica of San Lorenzo. The Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence was designed by Brunelleschi using all the things he had learnt by studying the architecture of Ancient Rome. It has arches, columns and round-topped windows in the Roman style.

  8. Great Lakes Waterway - Wikipedia

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    The Great Lakes Waterway (GLW) is a system of natural channels and artificial locks and canals that enable navigation between the North American Great Lakes. [1] Though all of the lakes are naturally connected as a chain, water travel between the lakes was impeded for centuries by obstacles such as Niagara Falls and the rapids of the St. Marys ...

  9. Great Lakes Basin - Wikipedia

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    Quebec, a portion of whose lands drain into the St. Lawrence Basin, is a signatory to the Great Lakes Charter of 1985, the 2001 Charter Annex, and the Agreements of 2005. [2] While not a part of the Great Lakes Basin, Quebec's position along the Saint Lawrence Seaway makes it a partner in water resource management with Ontario and the eight US ...