Tuesday, December 16, 2008

TKAM blog

Page 128-168

5.-Burnham bearly saw his family because if where he worked.
- The Mines Building was the first of the main exposition buildings to begin construction.
- Eiffel had an idea of another tower, and President Baker requested his advice.
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The most scared thought always running through Burnham's head was the idea of a fire.
- So sacred of fire, Burnham demanded hundrets of hydrents and telegrophle boxes

4.- How large was the platform the builders were placing their thigns on?
- Buffalo Bill, is this the nitorious psycopath?
-Why was Eiffel's arrivel like a slap in the face to AMerican arcitects?
- Why would they cover the hydrents in menure to conceak the heat?

3.- Bordello: A brothel. (Page 134)
- Sedge: Any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places. (Page 132)
- Robust: Strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous (Page 151)

2.- "The engineer urged that as a precaution the ground 'be covered with right feet of feather bedding'" -> (Page 142) Sarcasim
- "The walls seemed as if they were drooping" -> Personifacation (Page 163)

1.-Final touches upon the Worlds Fair, and Holmes gets married.

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