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  2. Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House - Wikipedia

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    [57] [58] Each painting has a gold frame and depicts a Dutch or English port in the New World. [58] The office also included a stone fireplace mantel with a plaque referencing Fort Amsterdam and the Government House. [59] [60] [53] The coffered plaster ceiling has molded decorations, including a motif of the collector's monogram.

  3. P. D. Q. Bach - Wikipedia

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    Schickele's works attributed to P. D. Q. Bach often incorporate comical rearrangements of well-known works of other composers. The works use instruments not normally used in orchestras, such as the bagpipes, slide whistle, kazoo, and fictional or experimental instruments such as the pastaphone (made of uncooked manicotti), [10] tromboon, [11] hardart, lasso d'amore, [12] and left-handed sewer ...

  4. QWERTY - Wikipedia

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    Before its design, Latin American vendors had been selling the Spanish (Spain) layout as default. Its most obvious difference from the Spanish (Spain) layout is the lack of a Ç key; on Microsoft Windows, it lacks a tilde (~) dead key , whereas on Linux systems the dead tilde can be optionally enabled.

  5. Golden Temple - Wikipedia

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    Interior of Darbar Sahib with gold encrusted walls and featuring a golden chandelier The destruction of the temple complex occurred during the Operation Blue Star . It was the codename of an Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 to remove militant Sikh Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the buildings of the ...

  6. Florence Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    In 1864, a competition held to design a new façade was won by Emilio De Fabris (1808–1883) in 1871. Work began in 1876 and was completed in 1887. Work began in 1876 and was completed in 1887. This neo-gothic façade in white, green and red marble forms a harmonious entity with the cathedral, Giotto's bell tower and the Baptistery.

  7. B - Wikipedia

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    B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.Its name in English is bee (pronounced / ˈ b iː /), plural bees.

  8. Cathedral of Learning - Wikipedia

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    Made possible by a gift from F. James and Foster J.J. McCarl, [82] it was designed by Alan J. Cuteri and his architectural firm Strada, LLC, and includes wood finishes, double-height spaces with high ceilings and windows, a main corridor conceived as an interior street, and many elements that refer to the Cathedral of Learning's Gothic ...