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Athens of the North

Old College, University of Edinburgh, at dusk.

Photo: Steven Lees

Published at 4:44 pm on Sunday 18 May 2008. Categories: Edinburgh Great Britain Tags: , , .
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Who stands atop the dome?

— R.J. O'Hara 18 May 2008 10:11 pm

The statue atop the Edinburgh University dome is “Youth bearing a Torch of Knowledge” by John Hutchison.

— Andrew Cusack 18 May 2008 10:17 pm

That would be an interesting little study, wouldn’t it: “people on top of domes.”

The fellow on top of the Rhode Island State House in Providence is “The Independent Man”:

http://www.film.ri.gov/indeman.html

— R.J. O'Hara 19 May 2008 12:33 pm

I’m afraid I can’t read that line without thinking of Tom Stoppard’s rejoinder – ‘the Reykjavik of the South’

— Oliver McCarthy 28 May 2008 6:50 pm
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