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...You may remember that this was the truck that Milton famously said would have a drinking fountain — much to the surprise of Nikola engineers....
...“Before world war two, Japan had the notion that they would go to war with an industrial powerhouse, and they went ahead even though Roosevelt was rushing reinforcements into the Pacific in the months ahead...
...Henry Sr helped bankroll the presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson; Henry Jr would marry a member of the Lehman family....
...The beautiful Wallace drinking fountains still work, unlike London’s, which are mostly dry and clogged up with leaves and fag-ends....
...One of DC’s newest additions is The Fountain Inn in Georgetown....
...The magnificent marble camel statue is still in place but beyond it there is a burst of light under an enormous glass chandelier which reflects off the fountain below....
...I mean, FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] had polio and was in a wheelchair but he was perfectly capable of being president and getting us through World War II....
...There’s the pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel in Los Angeles, hand-painted by David Hockney in one day in 1988....
...On one hand, it offers stunning views of Roosevelt Island and the city’s bridges, including the Williamsburg, Queensboro and Manhattan bridges, and it tends to be less crowded than the Hudson River path...
...Across town dancing fountains geyser from the sidewalks. Playgrounds metamorphose into “spraygrounds”. Yards Park, overlooking the Anacostia river, is the newest....
...We wandered to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park to see the symbol of Queens: the Unisphere, a large metal globe surrounded by fountains, built for the 1964 World’s Fair....
...They were often the first places in the cities to introduce electric lights, lifts, escalators, air conditioning and soda fountains....
...Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York, which she landscaped in 1912, has been restored with Farrand’s signature vine-draped walls, clipped hemlock hedges and pastel borders....
...In 1804, Frederick Graff Sr designed a hydrant that he had manufactured by Foxall & Richards, a firm better known for producing the cannon used by the US Navy....
...The funny historical museum is back — coming alive at night to disgorge dinosaurs, Robin “Teddy Roosevelt” Williams (in a posthumous cameo) etc — although this time guard Ben Stiller and his chums take a...
...It was later the venue for the Yalta Conference of 1945, where Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill carved up postwar Europe....
...The election delivered a very different result: Roosevelt crushed Landon by 61 per cent to 37 per cent....
...President Theodore Roosevelt compared it unfavourably to a Navajo rug. The controversy served only to inflame Duchamp’s mischievous instincts....
...This might offer Mr Obama some degree of reassurance, even though the sluggish recovery is his main political vulnerability: no president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won re-election with the unemployment...
...His father, Eugene Sr, was a flying instructor and football coach there and was to found three airlines, one of which became TWA....
...Roosevelt, wrote a memo to Truman that I bet has been read by team Obama....
...In 1968, Romney Sr was briefly favoured to become the Republican nominee for the presidential election....
...Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose candidacy in 1912 paved the way for the progressive era of Woodrow Wilson....
...Sixty-six years have passed since a native New Yorker, Franklin Roosevelt, occupied the White House, showing all the thanks we have received for supplying the leader who helped save western civilisation...
...The last 12 presidents take us from Roosevelt to George W Bush....
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