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    HarperCollins (redirect from Portico Books)
    several notable magazine publications in the nineteenth century that would later be sold or discontinued, including Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly...
    74 KB (6,513 words) - 01:54, 19 September 2024
  • accepting the oath with the words, "I will, so help me God." In 1929, Time magazine reported that the Chief Justice William H. Taft began the oath uttering...
    53 KB (3,786 words) - 19:58, 15 September 2024
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    Agrippa's older temple. The building is round in plan, except for the portico with large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two...
    64 KB (7,567 words) - 13:25, 25 October 2024
  • Will Hodgkinson (category Mojo (magazine) people)
    meet girls for the first time. His book, The Ballad Of Britain (2009) (Portico), is a travelogue for which he travelled through Britain making field recordings...
    6 KB (601 words) - 13:54, 19 March 2024
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    children's literature. The bulk of Neal's poetry was published in The Portico while studying law in Baltimore in the late 1810s. By 1830 he had "acquired...
    130 KB (3,780 words) - 19:57, 16 September 2024
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    completed around 1866 just after the American Civil War. The east front portico was extended in 1958. The building's Visitors Center was opened in the...
    95 KB (9,860 words) - 12:28, 29 October 2024
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    English periodicals such as Blackwood's Magazine and to serve as editor of several American papers. The Portico regularly offered reviews of contemporary...
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    construction continued with the addition of the semicircular South Portico in 1824 and the North Portico in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion...
    104 KB (10,192 words) - 16:23, 30 October 2024
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    was common and lawful, and the restaurant extended over the 42nd Street portico, which had been built on the sidewalk without authorization. This was common...
    20 KB (1,986 words) - 01:52, 29 September 2023
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    ceremonies had taken place on a platform over the steps at the Capitol's east portico. They have also been held inside the Old Senate Chamber, the chamber of...
    84 KB (6,458 words) - 08:02, 25 August 2024
  • Ben Myers (category Mojo (magazine) people)
    Myers on BBC1 programme Countryfile. His novel Beastings (2014) won the Portico Prize For Literature and the Northern Writers' Award. It was also longlisted...
    27 KB (2,417 words) - 22:56, 13 October 2024
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    Portico Quartet are an instrumental band from London, United Kingdom. They are known for their use of the hang, a modern percussion instrument. Their...
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    forum, an agora on three levels connected by stairways and dominated by a portico characterized by a colonnade. The complex process of national unity and...
    64 KB (7,071 words) - 17:42, 26 October 2024
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    singer and songwriter. He played the hang as a founding member of the band Portico Quartet. In 2011 he started his career as a singer-songwriter releasing...
    11 KB (634 words) - 15:41, 30 August 2024
  • Portico Quartet is the third studio album by the British group Portico Quartet, released in January 2012. Portico Quartet is Portico Quartet's third studio...
    10 KB (949 words) - 04:56, 21 July 2024
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    apparatus, as well as a chapel within the second and third floors. A massive portico with stone pillars was added to the western facade soon after completion...
    5 KB (445 words) - 20:27, 29 September 2024
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    display a 28 foot (8.5 m) AIDS ribbon on the White House's iconic North Portico on World AIDS Day 2007. The display, now an annual tradition across four...
    14 KB (1,348 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2024
  • Tobias Watkins (category American magazine writers)
    played leading roles in early American literary institutions such as The Portico and the Delphian Club and in early American medical institutions such as...
    22 KB (2,372 words) - 09:31, 28 September 2024
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    2nd century AD who carved a summary of the philosophy of Epicurus onto a portico wall in the ancient Greek city of Oenoanda in Lycia (modern day southwest...
    10 KB (1,082 words) - 11:06, 10 September 2024
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    facetious stories, with many of their works being published in The Portico magazine. The club's structure and terminology were inspired by classical antiquity...
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