07-30-2016, 09:17 AM
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Pixie's Resident Reptile
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central MD, USA
Posts: 21,194
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#65 Pierre Charles L'Enfant designed the traffic circles in D.C. not only with an eye towards connecting the diagonal avenues with the rectangular grid of the streets, but also with an eye towards allowing artillery to easily face any direction, should it be necessary to defend the city.
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