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• Awesome. : Arcanum
• fucking wow, thanks for the link : kingfish
• books r dum : GloriousCow
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  So few of those are in America. Do Americans hate books? :( : Perturbation
  • This is a country that didn't properly teach evolution in schools for decades. : Lone Swordsman
  • most of those shits are older than america : JINKY
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    There are so few beautiful libraries (or buildings, for that matter) in America because the country is "y... : DrWaffles
    • shhh, don't bring logic into this AmericaHate thread. : deathofrats
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    from the list.
    
    Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA
    Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
    George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA
    New York Public Library, New York, USA
    Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA
    Suzzallo Library, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Yale, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Amelia S. Givin Library, Mount Holly Springs, PA
    Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA, USA
    Cornell Law School Library, Ithaca, NY, USA
    Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., USA
    George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore House Library, Asheville, N.C., USA
    Harper Library, The University of Chicago, IL, USA
    Old Chicago Public Library (Current Cultural Center), Chicago, IL, USA
    Pierpont Morgan Library, NY, NY, USA
    Sterling Memorial Library, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    The Grolier Club Library, NY, NY, USA
    Law Library, Iowa State Legislature, IA, USA
    The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Northeast Vermont, USA
    Thomas Crane Library, Quincy MA, USA
    University of Michigan (Old) Law Library, MI, USA
    Widener Library, Harvard. Cambridge, MA, USA
    
    in fact guess which country has the most libraries represented in that list? i'll give you a minute if you need it

    May 31, 2008 7:23pm PDT
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    from the list. Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, ... : GloriousCow
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      Stop! You need to be putting Americans down because they are idiots and morans! : deathofrats
      • american r so fat dey probly eat da bookz amirite lol lol : aeg1x
    • Well, I'll be. I take it back. : Lone Swordsman
    • raped : ninjase
    • Well I'll say *clears throat* I do believe dear boy you've been anally penetrated *adjusts monocle and to... : two50six
    • why do you not hate america? what the fuck is wrong with you? : [fry]
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      glory to the gloriouscow! : dromo5
      • best cow evar : Johnny Law
    • you forgot the Berkeley one. : edgewise
    • lmao! i love you so much :D : Korban
    • jesus christ you just destroyed him. He may never come back. : burning eye
    • * O W N E D * : Zero|DPX
    • Hahahaha. Should I ever meet you, I'm buying you a beer for this post. : alarm cock
    • Why don't you just chop off his foot if you are going to own him Kunta Kinta style? : rosewood
    • lol... obviously he ran away after this. good one Mr. Cow. : mwasher
    • MEEEEEEEEDIC! : Ride-My-Rocket
    • Perturbation before this post: (_Y_) Perturbation after this post (_O_) : Dimmona
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    Russians hate them more. http://englishrussia.com/?p=1849 : tsuba
    • I think it was more a question of not being able to afford libraries. : Lone Swordsman
  • The US has only been around for ~240 years. Plus instead of having a few grandiose libraries we have mult... : ninjase
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    in my town we have on one road, oohh about 8 churches. Each about two, maybe three miles away from each o... : Dschinghis Khan
    • churches are privately funded and libraries are not. : Galadriel07
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    I thik the public library in Sedona, Arizona is beautiful : dognose
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      Holy crap look at this picture of Sedona that I just found http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo... : dognose
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        that is beautiful! : Galadriel07
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          I got fambly in Sedona and get there from time to time, am going this year. Been there? The whole place... : dognose
          • I've been there a few times, it was cool. I also liked Jerome. : Mansmells
          • i have never been there but it looks pretty enough that I need to go see it! : Galadriel07
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        i live in tucson and views like this are not that uncommon. the desert formations and mountains around ... : dromo5
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          Got fambly in Tucson and ya know what we do when I visit there? We play miniature golf. Fuck 105 degree... : dognose
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            nah, when it hits 100 i hide indoors. : dromo5
            • 112 in a stadium is the worst I've encountered. I think I accepted Christ that day : dognose
          • The first time i visited Bakersfield was May of 2001. I got there and it was about 105 degrees. We deci... : Galadriel07
• THe first time I ever went into Harper was the first time I ever thought I wasn't smart enough to be in a... : Deathlove
• those are stunning. : zen!
• I should read more. : owly
• holy shit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joseluisl/161868597/in/set-72157594157815545/ : a uberboy
• suzzallo library is awesome, glad to see that on the list. : dravalen
• Oh man, I thought this was about beautiful librarians... nerdy hot chicks with glasses. : Fred Garvin
• Is it bad I kept looking for symmetrical book stacking just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947... : SolrFlare
• wow : soapland