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William Kelso disagreed. Unlike his colleagues, Kelso, a specialist in colonial American archaeology who began working for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 1993, was convinced that the fort lay instead somewhere close to the brick church tower built in 1690, the only surviving structure from the colony's first century. So on April 4, 1994, he put his shovel in the ground, and less than an hour later turned up fragments of early 17th century ceramics. Over the next few months, Kelso and a team of volunteers uncovered a series of circular stains in the soil...
According to “The Harvard University Campus Guide,” the red-brick colonial was completed in 1721 as a dormitory for 60 students and tutors. The building was also home to the first experimental physics laboratory in the United States, later barracks for Revolutionary War soldiers, and, since 1939, the Office of the President...
...wartime India, en route to Britain from naval duty, British architect Laurie Baker met Mahatma Gandhi, who challenged him to return after the war to help house India's poor. In 1945, Baker did. Using mud, brick and other local materials, he engineered innovative, exuberant structures, many with pierced brick screens that dappled light and cooled rooms with natural air movement. Baker's low-cost, eco-friendly style, which became known as the "Baker method," inspired an organization of younger Indian architects that has, since the '80s, built homes for more than 10,000 poor families...
...says life expectancy is 34 for women and 37 for men--the lowest in the world. Inflation hit 1,792.9% in February and is predicted to reach 3,700% by year's end. (A currency free fall of that magnitude means, for instance, that in nominal terms, a single brick today costs more than a three-bedroom house with a swimming pool...
...this gesture of intimacy and friendship…Aux armes, artistes! After being refused entry to a small soiree at the Signet Friday night, two ne’er-do-wells registered their disappointment in a manner befitting Harvard’s refined society of arts and letters: a brick through the kitchen window. (Perhaps a sly, if tactless, F.O. Matthiessen reference?) Fortunately, wanna-be actors and playwrights aren’t exactly the strongest group, and the brick didn’t cause any significant damage…A certain marathon-running, Uncle Sam-loving senior went...