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...very fragility of the site led the American Battle Monuments Commission to demand an unintrusive, topographically friendly design. And it got one: two arches of 25 columns each, facing each other like parentheses around the Rainbow Pool, with large earthen berms sloping to meet the ground behind...
...must necessarily betray the scale and grandeur of the war, the planners try to finesse the problem. They provide a large, covered exhibition area--suitable for exploring the larger historical, cultural and, of course, military story of the war--to accompany the memorial, housed partly underground beneath the massive earthen berms...
Harvard Crimson, Sports Photographer; Let's Go Travel, Travel Agent; Radcliffe Research Partnership Program; JV Softball Team; Earthen Vessels Tutoring Program...
...Pres. of Harvard Irish Cultural Society of the Stud. Adv. Comm. to the Harvard Foundation; 4 yr. tutor in Earthen Vessels Prog.; Center for Int'l Affairs Stud. Council, Co-Pres; AFROTC, Cadet, Vice-Commander; Dean's Advisory Comm. on Women, Member...
...Mesopotamia and turned up, much later, in Latin America). It was Snefru who conceived of the more difficult smooth-sided form. "He made the intellectual jump," says Rainer Stadelmann, director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo. Enlisting two of his sons as architects, Snefru perfected a system of earthen ramps that allowed his workers to line up the huge stones; when the stones were in place, the earth was removed, revealing the finished pyramid...