Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other pillar at the north approach is inscribed...
Colonel Astor was one of the greatest capitalists in the world and a pillar in American finance. In the Spanish-American War, he was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Volunteers, and as an attache of Major General Shafter's staff, he took part in the operations in Cuba culminating in the surrender of Santiago. Colonel Astor was the inventor of several useful mechanical appliances and also the author of a book...
...cast of the so-called Emperor Konrad III, the oldest equestrian statue of German sculpture, has been received by the Germanic Museum from His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent of Bavaria. It stands on a pillar in the transept of Bamberg Cathedral; and, since Konrad III is buried in this Cathedral, it is indeed possible that this equestrian statue was erected in his memory. There is, however, no direct evidence of this, and the statue itself shows unmistakable affinity to some princely figures of Rheims Cathedral. It is, therefore, probably safest to consider it as an ideal impersonation...