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Monday, October 01, 2012
The Culture Which Was Victorian
This post from Treehugger on "tin pack tabernacles" captures a key aspect of Victorian Britain: a combination of their engineering ingenuity, their religion, and their determination to civilize the world. Oh, and their penny-pinching. They created a temporary church, made of corrugated iron sheeting, which could be shipped as a package and assembled on the spot.
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