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...major projects currently underway are the complete renovation of the Washington Elms housing project in central Cambridge and the Jefferson Park units available upon completion...
Henry Adams, who said m The Education of Henry Adams that Harvard "taught little, and that little ill," was 37 when he took up the study of Saxon legal codes and 42 when he first turned to writing the history of the Jefferson and Madison Administrations, and 49 when he laboriously began on Chinese. In his 50s, a tiny, why figure with a graying beard, the future master of Gothic architecture solemnly learned to ride a bicycle. -By Otto Friedrich. Reported...
...Chrysler worker can be replaced and no one will notice or care. But a Terry Bradshaw, a James Jefferson or even a Tim Fox are more marketable and valuable commodities. So, whe NFLPA players' representative Ed Garvey suggests that NFL football players are, indeed entertainers and are similar to personalities like Frank Sinatra, he has made a valuable point...
...Benjamin Franklin had had his way, Ronald Reagan would be declaring 1982 as "The Year of the Turkey." In 1776, the Continental Congress assigned to Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams the task of designing an official seal for the new nation. Franklin opposed the selection of the American bald eagle as the centerpiece on the ground that it was "a bird of bad moral character" that sometimes steals food from other predators. Fortunately for the American psyche, Franklin's preference for the "more respectable" turkey as the national symbol was voted down...
Hoban, an Irish-born architect who practiced in Charleston, S.C. and planned the South Carolina statehouse, was the winner of the 1792 design competition for the proposed new White House. One of those he triumphed over was Thomas Jefferson, who had submitted his entry anonymously. Hoban's vision of the President's house was influenced by one of the finest examples of the English Palladian style, the famous Dublin mansion of the Duke of Leinster...