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I was skeptical about this anime going into it, but I have to admit that I have to give it more credit than I was willing to when I started. I like the use of clothing as a theme in the show, because it's an amusing exaggeration of our own society in which clothing defines a person's status, identity, and function.…

The Ara Pacis and the obelisk actually form part of a greater complex, the Mausoleum Complex of Augustus, begun soon after Augustus established his position as emperor. The Ara Pacis is actually a really famous Roman monument, and in fact it was a really important symbol of Roman glory during Fascist Italy, when…

Not to poop on this interesting list, but I wouldn't say that all of these were breakthroughs or that they changed the world. Each might have been an example of innovation but it wasn't that each single building changed the world as much as the building programs they were associated with, the forms they exemplified,…

You're right, Aves is still a 'good' group, I don't know why I said it isn't. "Reptilia", as you and I agree, is out of favor, because as it was originally defined it did not include the last common ancestor of the reptiles and all its descendants (which includes birds and mammals as well as the extant scaly crawly…

"Aves" and "Reptilia" are obsolete as classes, because the lineage that includes the birds arose from reptile ancestors. Specifically, the lineage from which birds are descended (the dinosaurs) arose from reptiles (specifically, the archosaurs). So there are "avian reptiles", but for the sake of convenience we just…