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...Quakers took advantage of the Crimson's wide defensive lapses while Harvard left Penn's defense untested for 20 valuable minutes of the first half. Passes from behind goal from Penn sophomore Alison Polk-Williams combined with two low corner shots past sophomore goalkeeper Nora Guyer propelled the Quakers to a large lead...
...inspiration to see the students enjoying the works that we've done," said Patrik-Ian Polk, director of Punks, one of the films showcased...
...James K. Polk's Cabinet Room, next door to the Yellow Oval Room, that one of the most fateful discoveries in U.S. history was confirmed. There on Dec. 7, 1848, Secretary of War William Marcy put a heavily laden tea caddy on the table and stepped back for Polk's scrutiny. The caddy contained 230 oz. of gold dust and nuggets from California, proof of the wild and heady stories that had seeped back East...
...cameras and 24-hour cable journalists, who constantly haunt the grounds today. But the White House was always an experimental ground for new, in particular domestic, technology. Jefferson had two flush toilets; Andrew Jackson got running water and the first shower; Martin Van Buren brought in central heating; and Polk did away with candles and oil and lighted his chandeliers with gas. An early form of air conditioning was improvised for the dying James A. Garfield in the summer of 1881. Rutherford B. Hayes introduced the telephone, and Benjamin Harrison had the White House rigged for electricity, though he would...