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...Captain Walter Rull, 30, and his passengers (twelve men, five women), immigration authorities made the now-standard announcement: since none of the voyagers had an immigration visa, they could not enter the U.S. They were shepherded to a warehouse on Miami's Municipal Pier 2. Cots and food were donated by well-wishers. There the voyagers made themselves at home with the 29 other Estonians and one Finn who had landed from the Inanda and the Brill. For the time being, they seemed patient...
...leave her moored to a West Street pier...
...found himself liking Bermuda better & better. The crowd that greeted him at the pier was friendly and polite. The formalities were simple. He rode to the Governor's palace in an open, horse-drawn landau, spent a few minutes, rode back. After that he savored his leisure as he pleased...
...Michelangelo Buonarroti . . . wore stockings of dogskin for months together, and when he took them off the skin of the leg sometimes came with them." Once, Pier Soderini (a Florentine politician) said he thought the nose of the David too short, so Michelangelo "took his chisel and a little loose marble dust in his hand and climbed the scaffolding. As he tapped lightly on the chisel, he let the marble dust drift down. 'I like it better now,' said Soderini. 'You have given it life...
Arthur S. Pier...