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...they reach that conclusion, South American officers are not bound by the strict moral prohibition against interfering in politics that would inhibit Anglo-Saxon military men. As a result of a legacy that dates back to the military's role in liberating the continent from Spain in the 1800s and to its subsequent support for social reform, the officers consider themselves the saviors and protectors of their countries' wellbeing. If the exercise of this lofty mission entails tossing a few politicians out of office, the military conscience remains untwinged...
...Claude Monet, 1877." Now fully restored, the canvas appears to be one of Monet's largest impressionistic versions of Paris' Gare St. Lazare. But how did Monet ever get covered over? Easy: it was the vogue, since impressionists were held in such low regard in the later 1800s. Value of the picture on today's market: at least...
...Starbord House, dinners were served on an early-1800s English table from porcelain that had belonged to Madame du Barry and the Prince de Condé. The sitting room, library and foyer were crammed with rare 17th and 18th century furniture and objets d'art. When Wickes, a retired lawyer, died in 1964 at the age of 88, his heirs gave the $4,000,000 collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Some 800 selections from it go on view next week. They have been exquisitely installed, with the aid of Wickes' longtime caretaker, English-born Charles...
...Arkansas, Red River, Salt Fork, Verdigris, Caney, Cat Creek, Possum Creek, Dog Creek and Skunk Branch all are up after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom...
Cohesive Design. The story of Amoskeag begins in the early 1800s, when Samuel Blodgett, a Massachusetts businessman, was looking for a farm to buy near the small village of Derryfield on the Merrimack River. Just back from England, and impressed with the opportunities in the textile industry, he instead put his fortune into building a canal linking the Merrimack with Boston. He boasted: "Here, at my canal, will be a manufacturing town that shall be the Manchester of America." The small cotton mill he started did indeed grow to house the largest textile mill in the world, and after...