Sunday, August 8, 2010

Model of Bialystok

A huge (20 x 20 ft.) model of the city, in the museum, showing it around 1750.

Income distribution is a problem in the U.S., with a growing divide between the very wealthy & the rest of us.

It's got a long history, too, in Poland & other European countries. The formal gardens in the center of the picture are at the Branicki Palace. The nobility (& the church!) siphoned huge chunks of wealth off the ordinary, poor working folk...

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