Word: landmarks
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Preservationists had the station designated as a national landmark, making it virtually impossible to tear down. So the railroads offered it to the Federal Government. The National Park Service had been hankering for a place to tell tourists about the delights of the capital. It seemed a perfect match. In 1968 Congress enthusiastically passed the National Visitor Center Facilities Act. The bill called for the Department of the Interior to lease the building for $3.5 million annually for 25 years, after which the Government would own it. The owners of the terminal, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads, would...
...predicts the fall of a small village's glass industry; panic and madness ensue. Herzog paints his pictures in colors as vivid as dream life and instructs his actors to proceed with the elegant gravity of silent-film stars. Aguirre, Kaspar and Heart of Glass are three solitary landmark films of the past decade...
...performance one courtroom observe described as "brilliant," a Harvard Law School professor this week argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case that could change liquor licensing laws in as many as thirty states...
Tribe has argued several cases before the Supreme Court before, including a landmark trial involving the right of the press and public to attend trials
Daniel Bell: No List is possible, but the Antigone is "one of the great landmarks of human imagination." The Bible is also a landmark of human imagination, though reading it is just the beginning. "The goal is to know the relevant questions in a variety of different fields. An educated person should have an awareness of epistemological questions, that is, the conditions of knowing what you know. An educated person should have some conception of metaphysics. That is, what is out there in the world and what are its Limits...