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3 unusual facts about Tower of Babel


Incoherence

Folded out, the booklet contains a tower built with the lines of the songs of Incoherence, a reference to the Tower of Babel.

La Biblia en pasta

The film shows a humorous version of four episodes of Genesis: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Flood and the Tower of Babel, also Abraham appears very briefly at the end.

Paul Kos

This piece is inspired by a Biblical story of the Tower of Babel in which people used to speak only one language before they became too ambitious and tried to build a tower to the heavens.


Agamemno

It was revealed in the JLA storyline Tower of Babel (also written by Waid) that the body swap by Agamemno led Batman to develop a number of contingency plans to take down the JLA and other heroes should they go rogue.

Seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Urban legends and Internet memes have long alleged that its design consciously mirrors the Tower of Babel as painted by Bruegel (the Vienna version), and although unfounded, the rumour has entered mainstream media through Glenn Beck.

The Hollowing

In addition to introducing Native American culture into Ryhope wood, mythagos about Jack (as in Jack and the Beanstalk), the Tower of Babel and Jason and the Argonauts appear, the last two of which involve variations on myths that are uncharacteristically non-English in origin.

Tombé pour elle

In the lyrics he mentions two cities and an island of the Gironde department (Arcachon, Cap-Ferret, the Île aux Oiseaux), which he calls "my house, my Eiffel Tower ... my Tower of Babel, my light, my stronghold".


see also

Babel Rising

Graphically, the initial inspiration was taken from the very famous painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, whose representation of the tower of Babel is part of modern imagery.

Intelligent design and science

Robert T. Pennock Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism.