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Designed by Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones, and inspired by the British Museum Reading Room, the builing is formed as a chapter house, separated from the main body of the Centre Block by a corridor; this arrangement, as well as many other details of the design, was reached with the input of the then parliamentary librarian, Alpheus Todd. The walls, supported by a ring of 16 flying buttresses, are load bearing, double-wythe masonry, consisting of a hydraulic lime rubble fill core between an interior layer of finished stone and rustic Nepean sandstone on the exterior, with dressed stone trim around windows and other edges, and a multitude of stone carvings, including gargoyles, grotesques, and friezes, keeping with the Victorian High Gothic style of the rest of the parliamentary complex. The roof, set in three tiers topped by a cupola, was originally a timber frame structure covered with slate tiles, but is presently built of steel framing and deck covered with copper. The initial overall combination of colours – grey Gloucester limestone, and grey Nepean, red Potsdam, and buff Ohio sandstones, as well as purple and green slate banding – conformed to the picturesque style known as structural polychromy.
The main reading room rises to a vaulted ceiling, and the walls and stacks are lined with white pine panelling carved into a variety of textures, flowers, masks, and mythical creatures. In the galleries are displayed the coats of arms of the seven provinces that existed in 1876, as well as that of the Dominion of Canada, and standing directly in the centre of the room is a white marble statue of Queen Victoria, sculpted by Marchall Wood in 1871.
The library's collection comprises 600,000 items, covering hundreds of years of history, and tended by a staff of 300. Access to the facility is generally restricted to those on parliamentary business, but research publications are produced by the library and are available to the public. The main branch on Parliament Hill is only the central hub of a larger complex that spreads to other parliamentary buildings, where services are offered in a number of branch libraries and reading rooms.
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We went over to Anna and Dan's for the Superbowl. I had nothing football themed except for my Bears shirt (which I also wore at the last Superbowl, naturally) so I wore that. Anna made a pan of rice krispie treats and I ate 90% of it.
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On every divesite in the Maldives with caves or overhangs you will always find these Graceful Corals or the similar Faulkner's Coral. I think they look amazing and have taken dozens of photo's of them, but somehow the results are always a bit disappointing. One day I'll find the perfectly photogenic one though. This one has been smoothed out by Topaz Labs.
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Bead count: 2969
Similar to Nidoqueen, this final form Pokémon is large but really straight forward in regards to color choice and assembly. I remember first seeing one in the gym battle against Giovanni and thinking it was awesome. When I actually got one of my own, however, I really wasn't that impressed by anything other than his looks.
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Untitled self-portrait, almost profile. I don't take many profile photos, but I lost some weight and now my jawline is back, huzzah.
This week I'm going to take a couple of different self-portraits again, I have some ideas in mind.
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