Gargoyles

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History: GARGOYLES, An Architecture Walk Around City College. Ten-year old Will interviews architect Mr. Rafael Mejia of the Salvadori Center, where kids learn science and math through architecture

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    The word gargoyle shares a root with the word gargle, coming from the old French word for throat, gargouille. A true gargoyle has a waterspout. Other unusual carved creatures are properly called grotesques. Is anyone still carving such creatures? Meet Walter S. Arnold. Arnold started sculpting in stone at the age of twelve.


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