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No, not that one - Sir Christopher Michael Wren F.R.S.[^], the architect of St Paul's Cathedral in London. (Thanks Google!)

A building described by the monarch at the time (King Charles II) as "awful, pompous, and artificial".
And that was a complement!

Awful meant awe-inspiring.
Pompous meant majestic.
Artificial meant ingeniously designed.

So in four hundred years or less, the meaning of the words have completely reversed. I'm just guessing that being understood is going to be a major problem for the "casual" time traveler! Laugh | :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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