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ye olde stanforde

postedby gknot on May6th,2006 tagged humor

A friend sent this picture from the aftermath of the 1906 bay area earthquake. I couldn’t help but share it.

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JohnM Says:
May 18th, 2006 at 8:50 am
When I was in grad school there, I was told that it was a statue of Louis Aggasiz, who (the joke went) — even before the earthquake — had always been better in the abstract than in the concrete.

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