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To: Sandy
Most of the quotes in your "demonstration" to me dealt with the East Wall Frieze,...

Even that statement isn't true. You are referring to either post #63 which has only one reference to the East Wall Frieze or post #70 which only concerns the east pediment as you correctly pointed out. So far the only thing you have been right about.

81 posted on 11/14/2006 11:16:48 PM PST by TigersEye (Ego chatters endlessly on. Mind speaks in great silence.)
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To: TigersEye
Even that statement isn't true. You are referring to either post #63 which has only one reference to the East Wall Frieze

I'm referring to post #63, where paragraphs 1-5 are all about the East Wall Frieze.

Here:
This quote says where the frieze is located:

There, he said, his tour guide was describing the marble frieze directly above the justices' bench.
And this quote is regarding tour guide's description of of the frieze:
"Between the images of the people depicting the Majesty of the Law and Power of Government, there is a tablet with ten Roman numerals, the first five down the left side and the last five down the right. This tablet represents the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights," she said.
And the following quotes all deal with Dubord's investigation into what the tour guide said about the frieze:
One official Supreme Court document, he found, cited a letter from sculptor Adolph A. Weinman that said the "pylon" carved with Roman numerals I to X "symbolizes the first ten amendments to the Constitution." But the letter was anomalous; it didn't have a number of certifying marks that were typical of others.

(snip)

Further research produced information that in 1987 the building was designated a National Historic Landmark, and came under control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and under the new management the handbook was rewritten in 1988. The Ten Commandments reference was left out of that edition, and nothing replaced it.

The next reference found said only the frieze "symbolizes early written laws" and then in 1999, the reference first appeared to that depiction being the "Ten Amendments to the Bill of Rights."

Now let's recap in case you lost track:

I said: "Most of the quotes in your 'demonstration' to me dealt with the East Wall Frieze."

You said: "Even that statement isn't true. You are referring to either post #63 which has only one reference to the East Wall Frieze"

I say: "I'm referring to post #63, where paragraphs 1-5 are all about the East Wall Frieze." (Those five paragraphs are copied/pasted in this reply.)

90 posted on 11/15/2006 12:54:25 AM PST by Sandy
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