Nine Massachsetts natives honored in New York Hall of Fame
Unveiling at NYU Hall of Fame features nine Americans with seven born in Massachusetts and five Harvard graduates. Figures include John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, Elias Howe, James Russell Lowell, Horace Mann, John Motley, and Joseph Story. The recited careers span statesmanship, history, literature, invention, education, and law.
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New York University
Massachusetts
New York
Old Bay State
Harvard
John Quincy Adams
Braintree
Mass
Great Britain
United States
Adams
England
America
Monroe
Spain
Florida
Andrew Jackson
House of Representatives
Jackson
Congress
Washington
George Bancroft
Worcester
Europe
James K
Craft
Navy
United States Naval Academy
Annnapolis
Bancroft
James Fenimore Cooper
N. J
Cooper
Cooperstown
N. Y
Patrick Henry
Studley
Henry
Continental Congress
Virginia
Charlotte County
Elias Howe
Bay State
Spencer
Howe
Bridgeport
Conn
James Russell Lowell
Cambridge
Lowell
Harvard Law School
Atlantic Monthly
North American Review
Oxford
Horace Mann
Franklin
Brown University
Massachusetts Board of Education
Mann
Antioch College
Ohio
John Lothrop Motley
Dorchester
Germany
Russia
Dutch Republic
Austria
Motley
Joseph Story
Marblehead
Salem
Madison
Supreme Court of the
Scenic Playgrounds and Hetch Hetchy Views Described
An illustrated piece surveys Hetch Hetchy at Yosemite National Park detailing the dam and lake as a water and power resource, plus scenic uplands north of the Tuolumne river, Tioga road routes, and fishing prospects. It notes the park’s visitors approaching half a million and highlights the Sierra club’s camping grounds.
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Hetch-Hetchy Dam
Yosemite National Park
California
National Park System
Hetch-Hetchy Lake
San Francisco
John Muir
Hetch-Hetchy Valley
Yosemite Valley
Hetch-Hetchy
Heteh- Hetehy
Tuolumne
Sierra Club
Tuolumne Valley
Tioga
Tioga Pass
Monolake
Nevada
Park
National Park
Western Newspaper Union
Not Original With Kaiser Phrase Place In the Sun
The phrase Place In the sun was used by Kaiser William I in 1901 in Hamburg while citing Germanys gains in Kiaochow and other Chinese concessions. The idea appeared earlier in Pascal s Pensees with a caveat about usurpation and ownership.
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Germany
William I
Hamburg
Kiaochow
China
Pascal
Culture by the Bottle in Suburban Snobbery
A newly married couple in a suburban town drew whispers for wealth and pretentious habits. The town gossips teased that the husband was a retired bootlegger while a wag quipped the only cultured thing about them was their acidophilus milk.
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New York
Colonial furniture from Key family at National Gallery
The National Gallery in Washington holds a valuable collection of Colonial furniture once owned by Francis Scott Key and his family. The set includes historical portraits and was passed to the gallery by Key’s granddaughter through her will.
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Key
National Gallery At
Washington
Francis Scott Key
Strange mistake while seeking work in pool room
Brother Charley spent three hours in a pool room while searching for employment and only then realized the place was not an employment agency. The Detroit News notes his unusual mix up in a brief item.
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Charley
Detroit News
Enghien Remains Bilingual Across a Millennia
In Belgium the border between French and Flemish languages has stayed nearly fixed for a thousand years. The town of Enghien in Hainaut province remains entirely bilingual serving as a lasting example of linguistic coexistence.
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Belgium
Enghien
Hainaut
Family Doctor Made Millions of Friends
Dr Caldwell rose to fame fifteen years after graduation for a single prescription. Today Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is the world's most popular laxative. Millions rely on its original herbal formula and safe, gentle relief for constipation and related symptoms.
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Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
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Elmo Scott Watson
Trick Charles Keck
Wide World Photos
Sats
Russell Lowell
By Allan Clark
John Quincy
Adatts
Learned Quinn
James Fentitore Cooper By
Victor Salvatore
Elias Howr
By Charles Keck
Scenic Playgrounds OF
G. M. Kilbourn
Switzerland
Rebecca
Sunnybrooke Farm
Reb
Rosa
Rosa Ponselle
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Rosa Bonheur
Kaiser
C. J. Coffman
Vtaserwreytls
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Arkansas State Farm
K-R-O
K-R-O Co
Springfield
Liberal Commission
E. Compton & CO
Keith
Cincinnati
Parker
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
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