Word: lande
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...University] share the concerns of the community and support the community's interest in land-marking the site," said Mary H. Power, director of the University's community relations with Cambridge...
...Although Harvard supports the land-marking of the exterior of the chapel, Power said the University would not necessarily be in support of a measure allowing the city to designate any building's interior a historical landmark...
...could potentially discourage adaptive reuse of historic properties," Power said. "Many of Harvard's properties are historic. If the landmark were to include the interior space, it might make it more difficult for Harvard to support land-marking in the future...
...airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east from Switzerland on March 1, raced across Mexico from the Pacific on Tuesday, and headed out over the Caribbean. Piccard and Jones have already...
...neighbors, and the galleries reflect their coziness. A room replicating Emerson's study contains his circular writing table and books often borrowed by Louisa May Alcott. Next door is the Thoreau gallery, with the desk, bed and chair from that famous rustic cabin Thoreau built on Emerson's land at Walden Pond, as well as Thoreau's walking stick, notched in inches so that he could take accurate measure of all he observed during his frequent peregrinations. Also in the museum collections: a doll and teakettle that belonged to Louisa May Alcott, and the wood-soled mud shoes worn...