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2015-10-07 Afghanistan

Remains of two people found in Presidential Palace

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Posted by Fred 2015-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Um hmmm

Posted by newc 2015-10-07 01:34|| 2015-10-07 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Is "Presidential Palace" as much of an oxymoron as I think it is?

Posted by AlanC 2015-10-07 07:52|| 2015-10-07 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Turkey's new presidential palace covers 3,200,000 square feet and has over 1100 rooms. The Erdogan govt refused to release its construction cost for fear of crashing the economy. It's known as the Ak Saray, or white palace. The courts had forbidden its construction on a number of grounds (one of them presumably good taste) and Erdogan thumbed his nose and went ahead with its cinstruction, so it's often described now as the Kaç-Ak Saray, or "Illegal Palace." On 10 July 2015, the Turkish Council of State found that the construction of the palace violated the law and ordered it to be vacated.

To put the ego in scale: Buckingham Palace as 828,820 square feet. The Palace of Versailles has 721,206 square feet, and a cozy little nest it is. The entire Kremlin complex covers 68 acres, or almost 3 million square feet, which is still slightly smaller than Erdogan's new shack.

The White House has 55,000 square feet arranged in six floors, or a little over an acre and a quarter.

Posted by Fred 2015-10-07 11:47|| 2015-10-07 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 That's as big as Al Gore's house!

Posted by Glenmore 2015-10-07 12:18|| 2015-10-07 12:18|| Front Page Top

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