reims, sens, senlis, soissons beauvais, canterbury and chartres would soon show the influence of the new saint-denis. the medieval cathedral was the focus of popular pride and intense rivalry,

reims, sens, senlis, soissons beauvais, canterbury and chartres would soon show the influence of the new saint-denis. the medieval cathedral was the focus of popular pride and intense rivalry, for the prestige and importance of a town was determined lgely by the size, height, and beauty of its cathedral. this rivalry pued church spires to unprecedeed heights. the spire of chartres would extend beyond the top of a 30-story skyscraper. a 40-floor skyscraper would be needed to surpass the spire at strasbourg. the dimensions of the cathedral at amiens made it possible for the entire city, 10,000 people to attend one ceremony. but it was in the height of the vaulting

reims then surpass this with 125 feet. next, amiens rose 139 feet. finally beauvais cathedral which would have beaten them with a vault of 158 feet went beyond the limits of safety and medieval engineering skill, and the walls of the choir collapsed. despite isolated disasters like beauvais, gothic triumphed over much of europe within a few generations. at canterbury, when the choir was destroyed in the great fire of 1174, it was rebuilt in the new gothic style. england was the first to adopt the gothic, not surprising in a country with close dynastic and historal lks with france. but english architects always tended to go their own way, favoring length over height, evolving their own forms often by deliberately misinterpreting their french models. by the early 14th century, at wellsathedral the deep-rooted english tendency toward architectural fantasy broke free producing daring innovation. most striking and eccentric are the massive strainer arches added to reinforce the supports of the crossing tower... and that most notable of english contributio

battle of well we definitely are going to keep our eyes peeled to see what happens with this jake of reimsour research fellow at harvard university thank you so much for joining me my pleasure take care. and the nation's most active death penalty state has just announced it will continue to use the same execution drug that it's running out up the drug is called pentobarbital the state switched to this lethal single dose sedative last year after the substances that made up their three drug execution cocktail became difficult to obtain but apparently switching the drug wasn't enough because now their supply of pentobarbital is also running out other death penalty states have encountered similar problems because many drug suppliers are now barring the drug's use in executions under pressure from death penalty opponents the state will not say how it plans to replace it supply after it expires this month but it seems no executions will be delayed as a result of the shortage so far eleven texas and mates have been executed in two thousand and thirteen with at least six more scheduled for executi

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