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Even adults can lose themselves in Disneyland, where the past they have not seen melts into the future they will never know. A father and son can sweep from the 1800s into Tomorrowland, pilot an astro jet in simulated flight through space; a 25? piece buys a skyway ride to Fantasyland, reposing behind" Sleeping Beauty's moated castle, where still another ride whisks visitors over a make-believe London, Never-Never Land and Captain Hook's Hideaway. At nearby Frontierland, a Wild West stagecoach and a mule train churn the dust; if business slacks, villainous Black Bart conveniently...
Missouri. Democrat James T. Blair Jr., scion of a politically powerful Missouri family whose roots go back to the 1800s, launched himself into office with a full-dress parade, beefed up by nearly 600 newly created honorary "colonels," and with a two-part inaugural ball. Once in office Jim Blair declined to move from the family home into the 32-room executive mansion, called it a "drafty old barn that would be just like climbing cardiac hill four or five times a day. You could take a well man and put him in there, and he would be a sick...
...Walloons, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, Scots, English, and, on a slow boat from Brazil, 23 Jews. By 1644, just 35 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the great river that bears his name, at least 18 languages were represented in New York's babel of tongues. In the mid-1800s, more than 1,000,000 Irish, driven by famine, poured into New York, along with endless waves of Italian, German and Balkan refugees spilling out of revolution-torn Europe. In 1885 the Statue of Liberty was going up on Bedloe's Island, with its message of compassion and hope...
...early 1800s, Sir Duncan Campbell, captain in H.M. Third Scots Fusilier Guards, donned his scarlet coat, carefully adjusted his black-and-white stock, tied on his red sash, buckled on his sword, and presented himself at Henry Raeburn's Edinburgh studio on York Place. As was his custom, Painter Raeburn squinted at his subject from under his heavy eyebrows, then boldly painted in Campbell's forehead, chin, nose and mouth directly on the canvas. Four or five visits later, the portrait (opposite) was done...
...inversion of the lines of Edna Wheeler Wilcbx, the female Edgar Guest of the late 1800s: "Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone...