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A slight exaggeration, perhaps, but for some time the pagoda's 10 storeys made it the tallest Chinese-style building in Europe.
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In merciful recognition of his predominantly Western guests' middle-aged knees, Sugimoto designed a long low table and a set of white stools in the shapes of the pagoda's elements: square, circle, triangle, hemisphere and droplet.
Artist Curates Tea for a Few Julie L. Belcove 2011
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Like many guardians, he is a former temple restorer and tries to supplement his government salary by selling $25 reproductions of the pagoda's murals, done with acrylic paint, sand and glue.
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No record was made of the body's identity in the pagoda's registry as usually required, nor was there any police record or order for cremation.
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The anchoring element of the pagoda's design is the sky.
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In 1586, Ralph Fitch, the first Englishman to record his impressions of Burma, took note of the pagoda's salient qualities: The Shwedagon, he wrote, "is of a wonderful bignesse, and all gilded from the foot to the toppe ... it is the fairest place, as I suppose, that is in all the world."
Glorious Golden Pagoda Jamie James 2008
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The anchoring element of the pagoda's design is the sky.
Glorious Golden Pagoda Jamie James 2008
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In fact, I'm hoping Marlena and her coterie of drag queens manage to put on a special show I'm thinking "Turandot" before the end of the pagoda's run.
Archive 2005-06-01 sfmike 2005
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In fact, I'm hoping Marlena and her coterie of drag queens manage to put on a special show I'm thinking "Turandot" before the end of the pagoda's run.
A Pagoda in Hayes Valley sfmike 2005
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Just a week ago, a jogger had found a woman's body in the overgrown weeds at the pagoda's feet, her throat slashed, her face literally beaten off.
Butchers Hill Lippman, Laura 1998
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