From my Peru trip:


Lima capitol buidlings and/or a cathedral:
http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~winslorc/pub/peru/peru%20_%20lima%20capitol.jpg

From atop Machu Picchu, looking off the side opposite where llamas rest during the day:
http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~winslorc/pub/peru/peru%20vista.jpg


I'll get a hold of more pics soon! 

builds lots of stuff, including nuclear power plants. Here's some pics:
http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/01.html
http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/02.html
http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/03.html
http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/04.html
http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/05.html

and chornobyl images :(
http://www.ukrchicago.com/inform/dovidky/Chornobyl_1/index.html 

Was the worst commodity that communism has ever created.

Communism has made me drnruk. 

the millions killed (and largely ignored) in the Gulag Archipelago
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060007761

strikes me as somewhat worse. For a bit of evil history and American complicity, I would suggest looking up Operation Keelhaul. Stalin would have never got away with it if it wasnt for his supporters in the West. 

Compassion is the stupidest this thing ever. Why bring it up?

For example: compare Jangaweed genocide with the Indian ocean tsunami. One is ignored almost entirely while the other gets more support than is useful. Completely stupid. 

This thread has been nothing but awesome so far. Don't mess it up with starting a discussion! 

then a mile high pile of human skulls can be considered one as well.

By saying 'worse', you brought in to the discussion a scope including a moral dimension. I am saying Gulags are worse than Chernobyl as a human event. By any measure other than a geographic one that should be self evidently true.

I'm not even sure what compassion has to do with it.

Tsunami is an apple, Genocide is an orange. The later is preventable, the former is not. 

I didnt even post a reference that time to keep it somewhat in line. I'm sorry. 

http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_11.htm 

http://www.realtor.org/rmomag.NSF/pages/arch35?OpenDocument

learn your column varieties!! This is just good knowledge to have.

This site however is pretty good at giving you a general idea of a time periods architecture.
Some better than others. 

we can get people to stop referring to eras as various as the Byzantine, Romanesque, Renaissance, and the Boroque under the all encompassing lable Gothic. 

iy's all the same 

that is fucking badass, nice find 

the temples that pope posted are much more awesome than those pics show. 

http://www.satanslaundromat.com/sl 

Spent a couple days in the south of France, and took some random photos of architecture and stuff, maybe it'll inspire some of you, who knows...
http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005

I should really go take some shots of all the cull stuff in Paris someday... 

that's amazing photos! 

Especially because of this:
http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005/IMG_3350 

cool 

I didn't know Bal could paint! 

I was wondering where you had ran off to.... looks like a very inspiring place. 

http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005/IMG_3365

And this was the point in the gallery where I made a mess of my pants. 

I'm not so good with this sort of stuff, but most of the architecture in that city was said to be a mix of roman and gothic styles... 

Nice photos really.. I didn't know that Dordogne have this kind of architectural "treasure" !!
BTW, I made a little search on the web using google, and most of the architecture in the city are roman and gothic like you said... but concerning the photo pushplay mentionned, it's typically "Renaissance" Style architecture (XVIth century)... ;) 

http://www.atwitsend.org/rjarchitecture.html