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...homes have come a long way from the one-room cabin Abe Lincoln lived in as a boy. Today many of the custom-built variety are palatial--with high ceilings, six or more bedrooms, great rooms for entertaining, floor-to-ceiling windows and detailed stone and marble work. The adult Honest Abe would have felt right at home in this new generation of log mansions, and he would have had plenty of room to stretch...
...which he wound up living for almost 40 years. Rather than being treated as a trophy, Jenkins said, his first 15 years in North Korea were an almost unrelenting hell, where hunger, cold, and physical and psychological abuse were constant companions. For the first seven years, he shared a one-room house with no running water and unreliable electricity with three other U.S. Army deserters-Private First Class James Joseph Dresnok, Private Larry Allan Abshier and Corporal Jerry Wayne Parrish. They were all forced to study North Korean propaganda for 10 hours a day. (Jenkins says Parrish and Abshier died...
Borlaug, who has received 54 honerary doctorate degrees, grew up on a farm, and spent his first eight years of school in a one-room schoolhouse near Cresco, Iowa...
Amidst the store’s imposing financial troubles, Solano, who has owned and managed the one-room store for 30 years, maintains some hope. “Even though we are in some trouble here, there’s always a certain amount of hilarity, ” she says...
With Gross supplementing her father’s English, Schiller sits in his Newtonville home and describes the evolution of the business from a one-room operation in downtown Boston to a successful local chain of stores...