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...most intimidating high school magnet of them all,” writes Mathews, is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, which he describes as a place where “students pile on AP courses like extra blankets in winter...
Asian art had a foothold in the U.S. as early as the 18th century, when blue and white Chinese porcelain was a mark of wealth and taste in households, like Thomas Jefferson's, that could afford it. Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853, which forced Meiji Japan to open itself to Western influence, led to a concurrent craze in Europe and the U.S. for all things Japanese. By the turn of the century Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, learned Bostonians infatuated with Japan, were assembling the great collections of furniture, scrollwork, carvings and prints that...
...emerging from equally unlikely venues. Riesling excels in New York's Finger Lakes region, where Konstantin Frank first planted European grape varieties in the 1950s. No one thought they would survive, much less thrive. Today Dr. Konstantin Frank's Rieslings are some of the best in the U.S. Thomas Jefferson, an aficionado of French wines, would have been proud of the Bordeaux-style reds produced by Virginia's Linden Vineyards. And last November three of Texas winemaker Becker Vineyard's products made Wine Spectator's list of the top 12 U.S. regional wines...
...born aboard a slave ship en route from Africa to the Spanish West Indies in 1729.) In 1805 the Irish immigrant and repentant slaver Thomas Branagan published two huge epic poems against slavery, including the autobiographical "Penitential Tyrant; or, Slave Trader Reformed," and boldly sent copies to Thomas Jefferson, then President, who responded guardedly but kept the poems in his library...
...There has been Iraqi terrorism in the Philippines in the past, albeit not by diplomats. During the last Gulf War, two Iraqis tried to blow up the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center?a U.S. government facility?in Manila. One was killed in the bungled attempt, but the survivor eluded capture and returned to Baghdad, where he received a hero's welcome...