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Re: Meijers in Grand Rapids
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:27:27 GMT
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:55:51 GMT, "Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:

It's the talk of GR. :-) Apparently, Leonardo Da Vinci was commissioned by
<mumble>, who was ruler of <mumble, a leading <mumble/italian> state> to

That would have been the da Medici's, IIRC, with their lovely
political advisor Machiavelli. And Genoa.

design a horse statue. He produced a bunch of design drawings and a small
scale model but <mumble, some historical event> interfered and the horse was

They died.

never cast. It was to be HUGE, something like 20<mumble> feet high.

That would be 6.mumble meters, right?[1]

Jasper

[1] Follow-ups to _that_ can go to /dev/null.



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  Re: Meijers in Grand Rapids
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes: <snipped market from the groups list> (...) OK, there's a lot of mumbling coming up here.. It's the talk of GR. :-) Apparently, Leonardo Da Vinci was commissioned by <mumble>, who was ruler of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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