Word: virginia
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Thomas Jefferson's rotunda at the University of Virginia...
...same houses that were built in Old England, in East Anglia, in the 17th century, because that was what the Puritans knew how to build. The Fraktur paintings and the massive decorated schranks, or family wardrobes, made by the Pennsylvania Dutch were German decorative arts, transplanted. When a Virginia sotweed planter in 1750 wanted a portrait of his successful self, he chose an artist who could do a passable version of what was fashionable in England and hung it in the saloon of a house whose Anglo-Palladian design had been based on a pattern book by the English architect...
...English establish the ill-fated Jamestown colony in Virginia...
...brought it in was Thomas Jefferson, in his role as architect. Educated in Williamsburg, Virginia, he despised its provincial-English buildings as "rude, mis-shapen piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree, or Square House, which he felt exemplified the candid virtues of the old Roman state. It became the basis of his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, completed in 1799. It was the first temple-form state building to be erected anywhere in 1,500 years--new because...
...prosecuted were well connected politically and gave large campaign contributions, but those connections and possible contributions were irrelevant. We did our job professionally, fairly, evenhandedly and based on our best judgment of the law and the facts in each case. ANNE K. BINGAMAN Senior Vice President LCI International McLean, Virginia...