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GEOLOGY EXPEDITION In Waltham, a Henry Hobson Richardson house rises out of the ground like `a glacial moraine'
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It was thanks to a poll that I first learned of one of the
greatest houses in New England. Some months ago, for another Globe
article, I asked a few experts -- historians and architects -- to
make a "10 Best" list of Boston-area buildings. To jog their
memories, I gave each of them a list of 240 architectural gems.
I thought I'd covered everything. But Margaret Henderson Floyd,
professor of art history at Tufts, fooled me. She picked Stonehurst,
a house in Waltham. I'd not only left Stonehurst off the list, I'd
barely heard of it. Yet Floyd called it "one of New England's most
important ...
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THE DANGER OF UNDERPLAYING WORLD'S WEIGHTIEST PROBLEM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...library were the popular works of Hendrik Willem van Loon, published in the years between...an indelible impression on me. Van Loon was a man of encyclopedic interests...for the economic equivalent of van Loon's drawing of the half-mile box...
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More Than Just the Facts: A Hundred Years of Children's Nonfiction.
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine
; ...in 1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon. This title was issued by Horace...One of the strongest supporters of van Loon's book was the influential...involved in its development, for van Loon had shown her his manuscript...
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Today in History - Dec. 16
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...England, Scotland and Ireland. In 1770, composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. In 1905, the...the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. _ Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Dutch-born journalist and lecturer (1882-1944...
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Authors and Authorities: Guides to Children's Books
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...appreciations of Padraic Colum and the oft-maligned Hendrik Willem Van Loon, an unexpectedly fresh and personal view of Tolkien...Paterson, Natalie Babbitt, Maurice Sendak, Chris van Allsburg and others just as distinguished-talk about...
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Almanac
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...England, Scotland and Ireland. In 1770, composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. In 1773, the...means progress, and progress means suffering." - Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Dutch-born journalist and lecturer (1882-1944...
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Today in History - Dec. 7
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...second president of the United States. In 1836, Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United...their most precious possession - their ignorance." - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American journalist and lecturer (1882...
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The eutopitect: Lewis Mumford as a reluctant utopian.(Featured Article)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...Instead, it offers an impressionistic interpretation of the subject. The book was intentionally patterned after Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind (1921) in the expectation that it would be easily accessible and thus widely read...
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...Joan Collins, who is to appear in a new TV sitcom. "Life means progress, and progress means suffering." -- Hendrik Willem Van Loon, journalist and lecturer. "I find cleaning very calming. I clean the house when I need to clear my mind...
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THE PEOPLED ISLAND
Magazine article from: Michigan Quarterly Review
; ...I was born. The Selection Committee was composed of Pearl S. Buck, John Kieran, William Lyon Phelps, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The binding is buckram and the spine, bearing a black and maroon field, is stamped in gold with the author...
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Sunday, December 16
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Bratt, U.S. actor (1963--). Thought For Today: Life means progress, and progress means suffering _ Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Dutch-born journalist and lecturer (1882-1944).
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