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| Field armor in the Maximilian style. Notice the duck feet.
| From novels and role playing games I knew two-handed swords were big
but I didn't realize how big.
| The sign advertising the closed wing of the museum.
| What we could see through the closed doors looked pretty impressive.
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| Cleveland
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| In Case Western's suburban campus, one street we walked on from the
museum to our hotel.
| The hotel (more like a bed and breakfast), Glidden House, where we stayed.
It's actually a historic building and was pointed out during our tour of
Cleveland.
| Cleveland's skyline.
| A trash can that could be a great Game clue. We saw many identical cans
along Euclid Avenue. It's apparently part of a project to install
public art on Euclid Avenue. These cans were designed by Mark Howard.
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| A poor picture of a snazzy, clear-walled fountain/pool we passed. I
think this is by one of the Cleveland Clinic's buildings. (By the way,
its main buildings are pretty fancy.)
| East Mount Zion Baptist church, one of the many old churches we spotted
in Cleveland. This picture also shows another church on the next block.
| Cactuses inside the Rockefeller Park
Greenhouse, the only site our trolley tour stopped at. (It has
bathrooms.) The painted wall really contributes to the scene.
| More cactuses: quite an assortment, including varieties I've never seen
before (despite having visited other cactus gardens).
Yes, there
were other plants in the greenhouse besides cactuses. I liked these.
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We spotted an impressive
glass sculpture by William Wainwright hanging in the Cleveland
Galleria. I wasn't fast enough to take a picture; hence the link to
someone else's picture.
| A large mural of whales, like those I spotted elsewhere (e.g., Atlanta,
GA, Portsmouth,
NH). The tour guide said this mural took only one week to paint.
It's apparently part of the Whaling Wall project by the artist Wyland;
100 murals
have been painted. Some no longer exist.
| The WWII submarine U.S.S. Cod. The flags on the side represent the 23 enemy
ships she sunk. The martini glass, labeled O-19, near the flags
represents the party the sailors from the stuck Dutch submarine the O-19
threw for the Cod's sailors as thanks for the Cod rescuing them.
| The I. M. Pei-designed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I also photographed it the
night before.
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| A giant stamp with the word FREE on the bottom.
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| Another of Cleveland's pretty, old, stone churches.
| Cleveland's most distinctive skyscraper, along with downtown's main
public park/square.
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| The sculpture Fountain of Eternal Life (a.k.a., the WWII War
Memorial Fountain), in Memorial Plaza at one end of the Cleveland
Mall.
| The style of this building is not unusual for downtown; that's why I
took the picture. It happens to be of the Cleveland Public Library.
| The Cleveland Board of Education building.
| The skinny building at number 1374 used to be an alley.
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| The railroad over the Cuyahoga River.
| In the same vicinity, a lift bridge, framed by the Main Avenue Bridge.
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| The Wedding
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| Dressed for the wedding, my friend Do plays on Q*bert-like steps.
(We passed this walking to the church.) Could be another Game clue?
| An excellent shot of Amasa Stone Chapel, where the wedding
ceremony was held.
| Severance Hall, the site of the wedding reception.
I took this picture earlier in the day.
| A movie of swing dancing in Severance Hall's lovely foyer. Has sound.
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