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The Fountain, Too Fast for Shadows

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Different Faces of the Civic Water Dispensing Area

In the popular imagination, something that brings all of these together is of course the chocolate factory of Willy Wonka. Why do the culinary fountains always go in the sweet direction? I want to see more savory ones, you know? So it's the nacho cheese fountain, the gravy fountain and maybe a cheese fondue fountain. Well that that surely exists, right? Some sort of a cheese fountain, I would guess. Anyway, coming back to this water journal paper, the authors here, they stressed that fountains also often stood as symbols of power and wealth. Somebody builds them, someone provides them for the people. But there's still this calming element to the

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