Word: costaggini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem: the original muralists, Constantino Brumidi and Filippo Costaggini, had used up 274 ft. of the available 300 in getting from Columbus to the Gold Rush (among the scenes generously laid out in their panels: Pocahontas saving the life of Captain John Smith, William Penn's treaty with the Indians, the death of Tecumseh). That left 26 ft. for everything since. Cox's solution will be three brief scenes bringing the U.S. up to the age of flight: 1) Union and Confederate soldiers shaking hands after the Civil War, 2) the gun crew of a U..S. warship...
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