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Heavy bookends—made of wood, bronze, marble, and even large geodes—have been used in libraries, stores, and homes for centuries; the simple sheetmetal bookend (originally patented in 1877 by William Stebbins Barnard) [1] uses the weight of the books standing on its foot to clamp the bookend's tall brace against the last book's back; in ...
Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.
Bookend terrace, an architectural term for a terrace of identical houses, framed at each end by a pair of enlarged houses; Framing device, an element of a story or musical composition occurring at its beginning and repeating at its end; Book end vortices, vortices that form at the ends of a large storm system or derecho
Chicago's Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) addition to Grant Park's southeastern end. The Museum Campus is the site of three of the city's most notable museums, all dedicated to the natural sciences: Adler Planetarium, Field Museum of Natural History, and Shedd Aquarium.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...
The company employed about 130 people in Chicago in the late 1980s. [5] Collectors provide a market for resale of the statues, but they are not generally valued highly in monetary terms. [6] In 1996, the company was owned by B. Paul Brueggemeier and was having to leave its factory at 850 North Ogden to make way for a town house development. [7]
Daryl riding off into the distance could have been a fitting end for The Walking Dead, but soon after the screen cuts to black, a match ignites.In the biggest reveal of the finale, Rick appears ...
In 1895, in a biography of co-founder Nathaniel Bradley, Henry Hall described Bradley & Hubbard as, "This company has enjoyed almost phenomenal success, and from a small concern, employing only six workmen, it has grown to own and occupy an immense plant of brick buildings, with a floor area of nearly seven acres, employing about 1,500 ...