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11 Mar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2t…

This one raises even more questions

Waterfalls & illuminations ImageImageImageImage
It was also "the first storage facility for aerostats in the world"

So these guys did have air travel ImageImage
A bunch of unusual devices, the active components must have long been removed

What did they do, why was it necessary to disable them ? ImageImageImageImage
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11 Mar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Inval…

Date of construction - unknown
Date of major alteration - mid 19th century

For starters, we're being asked to believe that this is the work of toothless illiterates who lived by candlelight

Notice the original project had a semi-circular colonnade ImageImageImageImage
Gee, where else do we see such things ?

Given the numbers of granite columns, this must have been some sort of power station - the columns being the capacitors in which the generated charge was stored
And then there's the dome - actually, three of them stacked on top of each other

The outer dome is covered in gold with a strange installation on top - and the ubiquitous fractal antenna that was retconned as a religious symbol ImageImageImageImage
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