Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When John D. Rockefeller Jr. set out to restore the old colonial capital of Williamsburg, Va. back in 1926, he guessed the job might take as much as $5,000,000 to complete. It was a vast underestimation. For one thing, Rockefeller decided to spend $6,200,000 on accommodations...
Last week Colonial Williamsburg Inc. reported the results of 25 years' work: almost $30 million of Rockefeller money has been spent to bring the old town back to life; 82 of the crumbling buildings have been completely restored; 341 more have been built up from scratch on old foundations...
True, the History Department has shown some awareness of South America. But its single full course, half on Latin America's colonial period, half on Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, is far from adequate. By limiting itself to the ABC countries, it overlooks dangerous (for the U.S. at least happenings in...
For example, Saint-Cyr, the West Point of France, would be obliged to admit German, Benelux and Italian cadets, and could no longer have sole say over its own curriculum. Nor would France any longer be able to make, buy or sell arms as it sees fit. There was also...
Every U.S. boy used to be raised on such firewater, with Injuns thrown in to boot. Any who feel like a fresh snort from the old jug could do worse than sample this Australian distillation. Wild Colonial Boys is written in standard Wild West prose; it begins banging almost from...