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PCIntern

(25,489 posts) Tue Jul 17, 2018, 11:19 AM Jul 2018

Doesn't Trumps Former Taj Mahal look more like the Kremlin

Than the actual Taj Mahal?

https://goo.gl/images/s67bGk

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Doesn't Trumps Former Taj Mahal look more like the Kremlin (Original Post) PCIntern Jul 2018 OP

Uncle Pootie probably financed it. Meadowoak Jul 2018 #1

trump gaudiness sdfernando Jul 2018 #2

Trivia I find interesting: the Kremlin is older than the Taj Mahal Recursion Jul 2018 #3

Meadowoak

(5,536 posts)

1. Uncle Pootie probably financed it.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 11:28 AM

Jul 2018

sdfernando

(4,925 posts)

2. trump gaudiness

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 02:02 PM

Jul 2018

no class, ugly as f@%k

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

3. Trivia I find interesting: the Kremlin is older than the Taj Mahal

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 02:06 PM

Jul 2018

The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1632 and completed in 1643 (there are Harvard dorms older than it). The Kremlin (in its modern form) was commissioned in 1505 and completed in 1600.

But, both are from the same historical periods, and the same central Asian architectural ideas influenced both.

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