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Compared to the aristocratic homes of other U.S. founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin's house at 36 Craven Street in London is downright modest. George Washington inhabited a grand estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, and Thomas Jefferson built Monticello, an elegant mansion, in the same state. But for 15 years, Franklin was a tenant in a simple four- story Georgian brick row house on a street off the Strand near Trafalgar Square. The house's interior is handsome but spare, reflecting the thrifty nature of the man who popularized the proverb, "A penny saved is a penny earned...
Compared to the aristocratic homes of other U.S. founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin's house at 36 Craven Street in London is downright modest. George Washington inhabited a grand estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, and Thomas Jefferson built Monticello, an elegant mansion, in the same state. But for 15 years, Franklin was a tenant in a simple four-story Georgian brick row house on a street off the Strand near Trafalgar Square. The house's interior is handsome but spare, reflecting the thrifty nature of the man who popularized the proverb, "A penny saved is a penny earned...
Without a key to a multi-million-dollar mansion on Mt. Auburn Street, it can be difficult to find a community at Harvard. FM is mine. I love this magazine if nothing else because it loves me back. Sometimes the relationship is shaky. I have mixed feelings about the times I made fun of freshmen, about the times I boldly bragged about being “quite the practiced masturbator” by the age of nine. I think this magazine sometimes takes life too lightly, over-analyzes too earnestly, mocks too mercilessly, and prints pictures of casual sex acts...
...Five days a week, a group of students come together at 14 Plympton, The Crimson’s own red brick mansion, to put together a newspaper that reaches not only bored breakfasters, but also a troupe of alumni and sometimes even those beyond the Harvard bubble. Not bad for a gig between classes...
...Nagarathar home that has been spared this kind of fire-sale is an Art Deco-style mansion on the outskirts of Karaikudi now converted into a boutique hotel, the Bangala, tel: (91 4565) 250221. Chettinadu Mansion, tel: (91 4565) 27308, a similar property, also recently opened as hotel. Tamil Nadu's tourism commissioner, Shakti Kanta Das, hopes hotels like these will propel the region "to the threshold of big-time tourism...