Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy

Re:Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city... by ben_w on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:07AM (#24332203)

Anecdotes like this abound in the UK.

The oldest part of the closest church to my childhood home was built in the “early 13th century”, according to its website. The cottages next to it (now a pub) seem to date to about the same time as the first British colonies in America.

Then there’s Cambridge university, which celebrated 800 years since its foundation in 2009: https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/history/800th-ann...

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Re:Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city... by fanf2 on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:05PM (#24336762)

I had a very feeble idea about the history of Britain - the sequence of the main events - when I left school. I learned far more from finding out about the architecture, dates, and benefactors of the various buildings in the centre of Cambridge...

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Re:Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city... by sudosysgen on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:23PM (#24333694)

Same when I lived in Morocco. In Fès, there is a university that is 1161 years old, which is simply staggering.

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