epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:J. William Thompson [Thompson, J. William]

Fig. 11 The World War II Memorial on the National Mall is a traditional memorial that boasts fountains, classical columns, and heroic inscriptions. Photo: Corey Seeman. These are memorial expressions ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Robert A. Bellezza

A photograph made for a vintage postcard in the late 1930s reveals the grandest of all California missions, Mission San Luis de Rey de Francia. The rededication of Mission San ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-14 | Author:Parker Anderson

Many of the men who worked in the mines of Arizona died and were buried far away from the homes where they once lived. It is likely that some of ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Alan Butler

Avebury Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire LATITUDE : 51° 25’ 43.04” N LONGITUDE : 1° 51’ 14.66” W Avebury is my favourite stone circle in the south of England, partly because ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Lisa Speranza

CAPT. ROBERT B. HAMPTON (1814–1863; SECTION 14, LOT 91). Captain Hampton’s devotion to public service was borne of the lawlessness during the California Gold Rush, when he was both a ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-21 | Author:Mark Lardas

The sign-on logo for KUHT-TV. Houston’s channel 8 was the first public interest television station to begin broadcasting in the United States. The original studio was in the Ezekial Cullen ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-21 | Author:Adam Sharr [Sharr, Adam]

The chapel was engineered to achieve the forms Corbusier wanted, rather than following the logic of its materials. Its seemingly weighty roof was actually constructed like an aeroplane wing from ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-11 | Author:Christopher Boyle

epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Tom Quinn

The apartment to which the couple returned comprised most of the ground floor and first-floor rooms on the East Front and, after the initial redecorating on which the duke insisted, ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Anderson, Parker

Robert Bingham attended Yale University from 1915 to 1918 and was a star football player there, leading his team to many victories, including one over Harvard. He was a student ...

azw3 |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:James Reston [Reston, James]

Chapter Ten DEDICATION Maya Lin flew in from Boston several days before the dedication, having finally been invited as something of an afterthought following the 60 Minutes embarrassment. She was ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Richard Hayman

The pit-head layout at Hebburn Colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the mid-nineteenth century included the engine on the left. To the right of the wooden head gear is the heapstead where ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Roy R. Behrens

Lithographic plate from The Grammar of Ornament (1856) by Owen Jones, an indispensable sourcebook for architects. Left half of a panoramic photograph of downtown Mason City in 1907. Photograph by ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Davis, Neal F.

Stephen Verkamp (left) and Ralph Nye of Lowell Observatory are shown in 2008 removing the Verkamp Meteorite in preparation for transport to Lowell Observatory. In 1906, John George Verkamp set ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jenny Uglow

Until one element shall do the work Of all in chaos: until they The creatures proud of their poor clay, Shall perish, and their bleached bones shall lurk In caves, ...