SHREVEPORT, La. -- R. Buckminster Fuller was a 20th-century inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician and part-time poet. He pioneered the geodesic dome, a lightweight and portable structure, as a means by which to ease housing shortages and help eradicate global poverty. Back in the 1940s, as the story goes, a visitor to Fuller's prototype house proclaimed, "My God! This is the house of the future!" For the past 36 seasons, Centenary has played in a geodesic arena called the Gold Dome, but ...

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