GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Westminster Abbey, Gustave Eiffel, Ernest Hemingway
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Tourist sites in paris: notre dame cathedral. One of the first cathedrals to use flying buttresses = arched exterior supports. 1345, french gothic: louvre glass pyramid by i. m. Besides various other buildings in the u. s. and elsewhere, i. m. Jfk library and museum in boston: famous parisians. Emperor claudius in 43 ad set up an encampment on the river thames where a bridge could be built. After 400 years, the romans abandoned the islands (celtic, north, european attacks: between roman and normain conquests. Britain came under various overlords: original celts, danes, angles, saxons, vikings: the norman conquest. 1066- the norman invader william the conqueror defeated the saxon king harold.
