276 Comments for Horace Mann School (KC)

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Excellent photo!
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Bah - dum - tsssssss
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Yep. The table doesn't include the newer synthetic elements number 104 to 118 since the school was closed in 1991. Also the symbol for Lawrencium Lw was changed to Lr in 1997.
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I can't make out the letters but are those a roll of year books on the middle shelf there?
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Hmmm this will make a good desktop wallpaper
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Oh I hate seeing books go to waste. It hurts my hear :c.
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I don't advocate taking things off site but I would so browse that bookshelf.
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I'm guessing the pivot door was either for easy access or it spun around to be a wall/chalk board combo, or it once held chalk boards on two different sides perhaps so it could be used for more teachers or subject matter.
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It never fails to amaze me how much humanity wastes. So many buildings crumbling and rotting away...It is truly amazing how we would rather discard than repurpose.
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this could never happen again
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Mica look a LAMP
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iceberg- ha ha
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even armchairs get a pot as they get older
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ah a staircase !!!
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i can't imagine somebody hasn't toppled these cases