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...England Puritans are the same houses that were built in Old England, in East Anglia, in the 17th century, because that was what the Puritans knew how to build. The Fraktur paintings and the massive decorated schranks, or family wardrobes, made by the Pennsylvania Dutch were German decorative arts, transplanted. When a Virginia sotweed planter in 1750 wanted a portrait of his successful self, he chose an artist who could do a passable version of what was fashionable in England and hung it in the saloon of a house whose Anglo-Palladian design had been based on a pattern book...
Around 1715 a German immigrant artist named Justus Kuhn painted one of the young sons of the Maryland oligarchy, Henry Darnall III: a 10-year-old baroque doll, gazed at by an adoring slave boy in a silver collar. The balustrade behind him and the formal gardens and pavilions behind that are complete fictions. No properties in America looked like this. Kuhn was meeting the illusory desire of Colonial gentry to seem like important extensions of European culture. It would be a recurrent fantasy. Fifty years later, in Boston, one sees John Singleton Copley doing much the same in some...
POTSDAM, Germany: German police have discovered what is believed to be a legendary Russian mosaic in the basement of a German truck driver?s apartment. The art was part of an ornate 1,300-square-foot hall with walls made of amber in Peter the Great's 18th Century palace. It vanished during World War II, sometime after Nazi troops took it from St. Petersburg to Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). While the German government claimed the wall panels were destroyed during the1945 Soviet invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate...
...Yard Dorms: One hundred German tourists...
...real culprits are still at large. He will also try to suggest the bombing was the result of a worldwide conspiracy to which McVeigh was only tangentially associated, if at all. Jones has sent investigators to Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For months, he has talked about a German named Andreas Strassmeir, who met McVeigh in 1993; about Richard Snell, a white supremacist who was executed April 19, 1995; and about Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the man accused of organizing the World Trade Center bombing, who was in the Philippines at the same time as Nichols (Nichols' second wife...