Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baby girl, Marya Whitney Spence, arrived two weeks early, but was in good condition yesterday, officials at Brigham and Women's Hospital said...
...Dream of Orchids, Whitney...
...Dream of Orchids, Whitney...
Basing his novel theory on a year-long scientific analysis of mysterious astronomical patterns in several van Gogh paintings. Professor of Astronomy Charles A. Whitney concluded that Van Gogh produced an almost exact reproduction of the night sky in his own time...
...back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum-coated scrapbook...