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...George Washington and Thomas Jefferson....
...“For decades she has championed the arts – not just at Lincoln Center – and the chandeliers are a fitting gift for such a luminous person.”...
...After finding success in the 1980s and 1990s, Lee became an influential philanthropist and avid art collector, acting as a trustee at cultural institutions such as the Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern...
...But under excellent, concise conducting from Thomas Wilkins, the star of the show was young bassist Xavier Foley....
...A bigger pity is the presumption, belied by movies such as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, that provoking an audience to reflect on history’s big questions must necessarily be a drag on entertainment....
...Wernick’s concerto is in two movements after Dylan Thomas: “Do not go gentle . . . ” and “ . . . into that good night”....
...From the Welsh kings of Powys and their battle against the “Mercian Supremacy” (a hegemony preserved in Offa’s Dyke) to the marshland “island realm” of Lindsey around Lincoln, this journey through “lost...
...Received letter of thanks from John Nicolay, Lincoln’s private secretary”....
...The inventor Thomas Edison came to the area in the 1880s, and built a winter estate in Fort Myers. Eventually, his friend Henry Ford joined him....
...More impactful than, say, 1896’s Thomas Edison-produced The May Irwin Kiss, these refreshing snippets capture black people’s longstanding desire for representation....
...If it’s Sunday, the Lincoln Road Antique & Collectible Market (open weekly during peak season) is full of funky vintage jewellery and handbags at great prices, plus artisanal cheese and spices....
...Firms from software buyout group Thoma Bravo, to SoftBank, and hedge funds Citadel, Icahn Associates, Elliott Management and Tiger Global Management have opened (or are about to open) Florida-based offices...
...In January this year the San Francisco Board of Education voted to rename 44 schools including schools named after George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln; Washington and Jefferson because...
...Lincoln, a former deputy director of the National Maritime Museum, brings much engaging detail about London life — the gardens, the coffee houses, the shopping....
...President Abraham Lincoln had issued his Emancipation Proclamation, formally declaring slaves as free, more than two years earlier....
...Packer’s title, Last Best Hope (of Earth), after a line from Abraham Lincoln, is thus ironic and earnest at the same time....
...He staged a contest among a trio of architects: Santiago Calatrava, Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick....
...Since then Mr Preston and his writing partner, Lincoln Child, have written dozens of novels, and all of them have made the best-sellers list. “It ended up well for [Hachette], thank God,” he said....
...I’ve got a Henry Clay from 1848, and a Stephen Douglas from when he ran against Lincoln, but I’ve run out of wall space so I am toning down the collecting now....
...To Abraham Lincoln, invoking the country’s 1775-83 revolutionary struggle against the British, America “held out a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come”....
...It is now 180 years since Thomas Carlyle, to some groans, advanced his “great man” theory of history....
...Standing in front of the sculpture of American presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, Mr Trump delivered a divisive political speech in which he denounced...
...Standing in front of the massive sculpture of American presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, Mr Trump denounced a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history...
...Lincoln, in other words, effectively declared war on the US constitution....
...Speaking on Mount Rushmore in front of the sculpture of American presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln the president denounced a “merciless campaign to wipe...
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