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Charles Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, b. La Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland, Oct. 6, 1887, d. 1965, was a Swiss-French architect who played a decisive role in the development of modern architecture. He first studied (1908-10) in Paris with August Perret, and...

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE  In a virgin land the art form that developed most rapidly was the one for which the need was most pressing--architecture. The earliest extant buildings are the dwellings, meetinghouses, and churches that made up the nuclei of the first...

The beautiful and delicate porcelains of China and Japan were taken to Europe after the opening of trade with Asia. They created such an intense fashion for fine porcelain with the ruling classes that it was called a "china mania." Kings vied with each other in...

In 1598, Francis Meres described Shakespeare as "the most excellent in both sides - comedy and tragedy". His comedies are unsurpassed for the marvelous harmony they establish among so many apparently discordant elements. His tragedies, rightly interpreted, do not...

Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass., on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with...

Answers from Chomsky to eight questions on anarchismGeneral comment on all the questions:No one owns the term "anarchism." It is used for a wide range of different currents of thought and action, varying widely. There are many self-styled anarchists who insist, often...

From "The Writings of Mark Twain Volume XX",Copyright 1903, Samuel Clemens. This text is placed in the Public Domain, May 1993. LET me refresh the reader's memory a little. Nearlya hundred years ago the crew of the British shipBounty mutinied, set the captain and his...

Niagara NIAGARA FALLS is a most enjoyable place ofresort. The hotels are excellent, and theprices not at all exorbitant. The opportunities forfishing are not surpassed in the country; in fact,they are not even equaled elsewhere. Because, inother localities, certain...

A Ghost Story I TOOK a large room, far up Broadway, in a hugeold building whose upper stories had beenwholly unoccupied for years, until I came. Theplace had long been given up to dust and cobwebs,to solitude and silence. I seemed groping amongthe tombs and invading...

From Ideal Commonwealths,P.F. Collier & Son, New York. (c)1901 The Colonial Press, expired. This book is in the public domain, released August 1993. NEW ATLANTIS WE sailed from Peru, where we had continued by thespace of one whole year, for China and Japan, by...