Word: landmarks
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...With a landmark performance and a triumphant series of encores, the seemingly unstoppable Collins has her team tearing through its opponents...
Stories: One of the landmark features of the hotel is The Oval Room. The Oval Room ceiling showcases a trompe l'oeil sky and cloud mural. According to hotel legend, John Singer Sargeant would lunch at the Oval Room while painting the Boston Public Library murals. Inspired by the grandeur that the room emanated, he joined the painters of the dining room's ceiling mural and added an angel. Unfortunately, 30 years later the hotel painted over the angel while remodeling. It is also rumored that Olympic gold medalist Sonia Henning, when visiting Boston, would often have the Oval Room...
Following the landmark decisions in Californiaand Texas to ban affirmative action inuniversities, the number of students applying tomedical schools has declined sharply, Martin said...
...entire month of December, the historic heart of the city, with its landmark Reichstag and Checkpoint Charlie, will be transformed into a gigantic open-air festival. Multimedia installations, laser animation, sound-and-light shows and an arts festival will honor the once and future German capital...
BONN: Reuniting Germany was Helmut Kohl's greatest triumph; it may also have been his undoing. The voters of the former East Germany, embittered by rampant unemployment and economic stagnation, appear to have tipped the balance in the landmark election Sunday that ousted a sitting chancellor for the first time in modern German history. Gerhard Schroeder, a 56-year-old Social Democrat who had retooled his party along the centrist "Third Way" lines championed by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, soundly defeated Kohl in the hard-fought election. But he won't find it easy to make good on promises...