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I won't pretend to be an expert (not even close), so I must defer to label Enfant Terrible and their description, as they are far more learned on the various subtle differences in the world of dark electronic music subgenres.
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The work of Major LEnfant, which is greatly admired, will show, Washington said, that he had many objects to attend to and to combine, not on paper merely, but to make them correspond with the actual circumstances of the ground.
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Although he'd never been through it before Wednesday, he was familiar with L'Enfant's quirky design.
N.Y.-Fla. avenues' intersection becomes an even bigger head-scratcher Ashley Halsey III 2010
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Although he'd never been through it before Wednesday, he was familiar with L'Enfant's quirky design.
N.Y.-Fla. avenues' intersection becomes an even bigger head-scratcher Ashley Halsey III 2010
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It just so happens that two, Marisa Baumgartner and Nicole Cohen, both with Washington roots, conceived separate projects devoted to the traffic circle, the signature aspect of L'Enfant's design for Washington's urban grid.
Art review: Taking the Katzen roundabout Kriston Capps 2011
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Give me the skyscrapers of Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan over L'Enfant's traffic circles and a city that can't build a 300-foot building.
Political Football: Chicago has already won Rep. Mike Quigley 2010
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L'Enfant's original 1791 sketch showed the Mall as little more than a long, broad open space between the Capitol and the Potomac River.
Century-old plan to dress up Mall looks good today Roger K. Lewis 2010
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L'Enfant's plan for Washington, New York City's grid, Le Corbusier's boxes in the sky -- these ordered visions are all the products, in Mr. Kingwell's view, of a hyper-rational "Cartesian" way of thinking.
The Cities of Our Dreams Thomas Meaney 2008
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A quick perusal of the web-site shows these guys to be total wing-nuts one feature is entitled "September 11th was an inside job", the site also claims that L'Enfant's layout of the DC streets is part of a satanic plan, so I admit that it is easy to take on these guys.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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The 500-foot obelisk sits in the middle of L'Enfant's wonderful mall, a global symbol of our glorious republic.
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