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O'Neill's capacity for and commitment to work were staggering. Between 1920 and 1943 he completed 20 long plays-several of them double and triple length-and a number of shorter ones. He wrote and ...
Statler, Ellsworth Milton
U.S. hotel owner, founder of the Statler chain.Boston
The Boston Post Road, consisting of three routes, was one of the most heavily traveled of the early roadways. It opened to mail delivery between Boston and New York City in 1673. Today, the ...
Boston
One of the typical forms of leisure activity in Boston is walking the crooked streets looking at the city and its architecture. Historic Quincy Market, the Boston Common and Public Garden, and the ...
Redstone, Sumner
"The words step down, the word retire is not in my dictionary. I love what I'm doing. I know I'm at the top of my game." These sentiments were expressed in June 2001 by Sumner Redstone, the ...
Architecture and Civil Engineering
Fallingwater, perhaps the most famous house of the 20th century, was found to be in urgent need of structural repairs. Work on architect Frank Lloyd Wright's sagging masterpiece was to begin in 2000. ...
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (-Cecile)
the leading French mural painter of the later 19th century. He was largely independent of the major artistic currents of his time and was much admired by a diverse group of artists and critics, ...
Architecture
The World War II Memorial, on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was under construction at year's end after having survived a court challenge by its critics, who hoped to overturn a law passed by Congress ...
Architecture and Civil Engineering
With the runaway commercial success of the Disney new town of Celebration in Florida, the movement known as the New Urbanism continued to gain in strength and popularity. New Urbanists believed in ...
American Airlines
major American airline serving cities in several states of the continental United States and in Canada, Hawaii, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the western Pacific. Its ...
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