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  • preeminent architect in America at the turn of the twentieth century, Burnham ... incorporating his own personal style. Much of his career work modeled the ...
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  • name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard ... today, however, as having perfected the form of the periodical essay. His essays ...
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  • James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 - May 19 ... journals that he wrote for long periods of his life, which remained undiscovered ...
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  • at the top, called the mouth. It may be made of glass, clay, plastic, or other ... Bottles have been developed and used over millennia of human history ...
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  • light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes some ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...
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  • One of the first American writers to use the stream of consciousness ... Dos Passos was born in Chicago, where his father was a wealthy lawyer ...
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  • 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...
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  • founded on March 25, 1957, by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the ... citizens, while also remaining citizens of their home states. ...
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  • "lead") is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing ... industry is a basic and substantial part of every developed economy, due ...
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  • style. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of historical painting marked ... David became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend ...
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  • concertos and piano miniatures, and founder of the American Academy in Rome ... to achieve major recognition as a composer of concert music. The Boston Symphony ...
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  • anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...
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  • track and field athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve ... The Roman Games stressed the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling ...
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  • known as St. Judas or Jude Thaddeus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus ... Jude the apostle is widely viewed as a saint by different branches ...
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  • Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...
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  • and traditions, based on classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, that ... Pope is considered by critics to be one of the greatest poets of the eighteenth ...
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  • Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...
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  • is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely ... on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field. The object of the ...
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  • born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from ... Ian Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of ...
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  • Pasolini's work focused on the underside of modern life, especially ... Pasolini was born in Bologna, traditionally one of the most leftist ...
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