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_The Da Vinci Code_ (movie) begins & ends with
I. M. Pei's glass pyramid entrance of the Louvre:
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=2E 116 feet wide (by 71 feet high)
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Ieoh Ming Pei (b. Wednesday April 26, 1917 in Guangzhou, China)
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April 26 is the 116th day of 1917 [1917=3D 71 x (3^3)]
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I. M. Pei puts a lot of himself into his work:
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Pyramid consists of 603 rhombus-shaped & 70 triangular glass segments

Assume 2 triangular glass segments =3D 1 rhombus-shaped segment.

Pyramid consists of 603 + 35
=3D 638 'equivalent' rhombus glass segments.

1917 =3D 3 x 639.

Pei : 3 letters

arcsin(1/3) =3D 19.47122 =BA
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a 19.47122 =BA slice of pei:
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>>> Art Neuendorffer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I. M. Pei also built the new
>>>> National Gallery of Art's *East Building* :
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>>>> <>>> the East Building's signature "knife edge" cleaves the air
>>>> at an angle of 19.5 degrees to a height of 116 feet.>>
>>>>
>>>> .http://www.buildingstonemagazine.com/fall-07/historical.html
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>> Greg Reynolds wrote:

>>> I won't look it up now but what was (or is) the John Hancock
>>> Building in Boston in 1975 was an extreme knife edge
>>> towering far above 116 feet, like over 600'!
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> Art Neuendorffer wrote:

>> More like 60 degrees? http://tinyurl.com/3aoa79
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Greg Reynolds wrote:

> Nothing about that shape constitutes a building.
> It is a spike. No function.

http://tinyurl.com/3c3vxe

> Art Neuendorffer wrote:

>> Why couldn't you have made me an architect?
>> You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.
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Greg Reynolds wrote:
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> Why design one building when you can destroy a landscape?
>
April 26, 1822, Frederick Law Olmsted born.
April 26, 1917, I.M. Pei born.
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April 26th is the 116th day of 1822 & 1917.
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> Art Neuendorffer wrote:
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>> Besides, I'm just demonstrating how geniuses like Pei
>> & de Vere put a lot of themselves into their work.
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Greg Reynolds wrote:
>
> When my family was driving through the Pennsylvania Turnpike
> tunnels in the 60s my mom read that 12 men died during
> construction and were still in the tunnel structure,
> so we kept looking for them in the dimly lit concrete.
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Greg: These are my old friends
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<during his lifetime, he was master of a Masonic Lodge in Lancaster and
a District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.>>

The 19.5 degree angle of the East Bld:
http://tinyurl.com/3c3vxe was certainly influenced by
the "compass" angle of Pennsylvania Avenue:
http://www.cuttingedge.org/map.gif
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/tripletau.gif

Ben Franklin of Pennsylvania was a Confirmed Mason & Rosicrucian.

Note Madison Dr.: <<1809-1817 James Madison, 4th. President of the
United States (DR) Confirmed Mason. Madison is said to have been a
Member of Hiram Lodge No. 59, Westmoreland County, Virginia, a
Lodge which had only a short existence, and whose records are lost.

Vice President George Clinton, 1809-1812.
Confirmed Mason and Illuminati.>>
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Ar(chitec)t Neuendorffer