Architecture is fun! Because it's inherently interesting and also because you can impress your friends by casually dropping things like "oh, what a nice example of an Ionic column," so let's get a-learning. 

Here's a really short version: our friends the Greeks and Romans generally built temples in three "orders" - Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. 

These styles are characterized, among other things, by the type of column used, and that's...

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