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David E. Kelley
KELLEY, David E. 1956– PERSONAL Full name, David Edward Kelley; born April 4, 1956, in Waterville, ME; son of Jack (a civic center operations director and hockey coach) and Gin... Read more |
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Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano , 1937-, Italian architect, b. Genoa. Piano attended architecture school at Milan Polytechnic, graduating in 1964. He worked with architects Louis I. Kahn and Z. S. Makowsky from 1965 to 1970. Piano came to worldwide attention when he and Richard Rogers designed the Pompidou Centre... Read more |
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Peshawar
Peshawar , city (1998 pop. 988,005), capital of the North-West Frontier Province, NW Pakistan. A road and rail center near the famed Khyber Pass, Peshawar is an important military and communications center, the historical terminus of the Grand Trunk Road of India, and the major depot for trade with... Read more |
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.). In 1958 President Eisenhower signed P. L. 85‐874, which provided land and authorized a private fund campaign to establish the National Cultural Center in Washington. Shortly thereafter Edward Durell Stone was selected to be the... Read more |
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Getty Center
Getty Center art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif., operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. Designed by architect Richard Meier , the center opened in 1997. The museum houses the... Read more |
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Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the Fifth Army. San Antonio, long a military center, donated land in 1870 for the site of a permanent military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The... Read more |
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DCi
DCI (Director of the Central Intelligence Agency) ¦ JUDSON KNIGHT The director of Central Intelligence (DCI) is the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), principal intelligence advisor to the president, and leader of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The ... Read more |
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National Space Science Data Center
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Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under the terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The... Read more |
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Strick named director of Nasher Sculpture Center
Jeremy Strick, former...has been named the new director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, the museum's board of directors announced...the second director of the Nasher...board of directors, said they...with the Nasher collection...we saw in ... |