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2 unusual facts about California Quadrangle


California Quadrangle

The dome's design looked to the dome at the Church of Santa Prisca and San Sebastián in Taxco, Mexico.

The great central dome is encircled with the inscription "Terram Frumenti Hordei, ac Vinarum, in qua Ficus et Malogranata et Oliveta Nascuntur, Terram Olei ac Mellis", (A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey), (Deuteronomy 8:8 taken from the Vulgate of St. Jerome), as well as the California motto, "Eureka".



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