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Kentuck Knob
Kentuck Knob is a crescent-shaped one story Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the site in rural Stewart Township near Chalk Hill, inFayette County Pennsylvania. The house, which is about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The house, also known in some architectural publications as the Hagen House, is sited on Chestnut Ridge, the western-most range of the Allegheny Mountains in southwestern Pennsylvania. It is recessed into the southern side of a 2,050-foot (620 m) high geological formation known locally as Kentuck Knob. It is located south of Pennsylvania State Route 2010 roughly four miles from Wright's internationally-celebrated Falling Water. It has a sweeping view of the Youghiogheny River gorge, although the view of surrounding hills and farmland has been somewhat enclosed by trees planted by the original owners, I.N. (Isaac Newton) and Bernardine Hagen, who owned the property until its sale in 1986 for $600,000. The second owner, Lord Palumbo, bought the house and grounds as a vacation home, but since 1996, the Palumbo family has combined part-time residency at Kentuck Knob with a public tour program in a manner reminiscent of the Great houses of Great Britain.
Architectural characteristics
The Hagen House was begin in 1953, when Mr. Wright was 86 years old and in the final phase of his brilliant career as perhaps America's most celebrated and original architect. At the time, he was also at work on a dozen other residences and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and the Beth Shalom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. The Hagens were natives of Uniontown, Pennsylvania and owners of a large dairy serving southwestern Pennsylvania and friends of the Edgar Kauffman family, for whom Mr. Wright had designed and built Fallingwater nearby. The purchased the 80-acre parcel of land and asked Mr. Wright to create a deluxe Usonian house. The house was completed in three years, and the Hagens lived their for the next 30 years.
The house is constructed of native sandstone, red cyprus and glass around a west-facing courtyard. It has a copper roof estimated to cost $96,000. It has a hexagonal stone core rising to the hipped room from the intersection of the living room and bedroom wings. On the eastern side of the courtyard, the flat-roofed carport fuses with the stone of the Knob and anchors the house to the site in the distinct manner characteristic of Wright's organic approach. To the south, the house extends out from the hillside on 10" thick stone-faced concrete ramparts. Kentuck Knob plan is designed on a module system using an equilateral triangle measuring 4'-6" to a side creating a modified L-plan house with a 240 degree outside angle.
The house is oriented to the south and west to capture the best light throughout the year, a feature Mr. Wright frequently used when not limited by the coordinates of a city lot. Mr. Wright also did not select the crest of the Knob, which would have provided more commanding views. Instead, he chose a more challenging and less obvious site, nestled into the side of the knob. This allows the house and grounds to appear harmonious with the landscape rather than dominating it.
Sculpture garden
Mr. Wright was typically meticulous, demanding and even tyrannical about any changes to his design by or for his clients, and Wright enthusiasts often struggle with efforts to retain the purity of his original visions following his death. In the case of the Hagen house, this involved not only the design of the visitor centre, but also the addition of a sculpture meadow that was not part of the original plan. The Palumbos have added the meadow with more than 30 works by contemporary sculptors such as Sir Anthony Caro , Andy Goldsworthy, and Ray Smith, as well as a collection of found art pieces include a French pissoir, red English telephone boxes, and a vertically upright concrete slab from the Berlin Wall. The meadow is reached by a walking path through woods from either the house or the visitors center.
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Sophonisba Breckinridge
Workgroups: Sociology (& Social Work subgroup); Law; History
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948) was a social reformer, social worker, educator, author, editor, public welfare and academic administrator. She was one of the early residents of Hull House, after it was opened to residents (aka social settlers) by the founders Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. She was born in Lexington KY, to a family noted for its commitment to public service. Her father was a lawyer, a confederate Colonel, a US Congressman, and a staunch supporter of women's education. Her great-grandfather was a US Senator and US Attorney General under President Thomas Jefferson. A graduate of Wellesley College in 1888, she became the first woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School and was the first woman admitted to the bar in Kentucky. Although she never practiced law, Ms. Breckinridge used her legal training to pursue a variety of reform interests, including abused and neglected children, child labor, poor families, development of public welfare administration and advancement of the social work profession.
Breckinridge received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1901, and the following year joined the faculty of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (which later became the University of Chicago School of Social Work). She remained on the faculty there until 1942. Other notable faculty colleagues at the time were Edith Abbott, first dean of the School, her sister Grace Abbott, and Julia C. Lathrop, who were also residents of Hull House. Breckinridge served as Dean from 1908 to 1920. At various times, she also served as a Chicago city health inspector, a probation officer for the Chicago Juvenile Court, a member of the executive committee of the Consumers' League, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and as secretary of the Immigrants' Protective League, the American Association of Social Workers (a predecessor to the present National Association of Social Workers, President of the Illinois Conference on Social Welfare, organizer and president of the American Association of Schools of Social Work.
Julia Lathrop and Grace Abbott both later moved to Washington, where they served as the first and second directors of the U.S. Children's Bureau and were instrumental in the design, passage and implementation of a major, but ill-fated piece of national social legislation. Breckinridge is believed to have met Jane Addams and adopted the cause of social work around 1905. This group of women social work faculty members (and Hull House residents) advocated a very different model of social work from the social casework approach of Mary Richmond and the American branch of the charity organization movement. As a group, they placed strong emphasis on understanding social problems, working with, rather than for, those in need, legislative advocacy and “wholesale reform”, and public welfare administration. The adoption of the Sheppard-Towner Act in 1921 was one of the major successes of their approach through the Children's Bureau, although they were unable to repeat their success when that law expired in 1929. Some provisions of the act, however, were later included in Title IV of the Social Security Act when that legislation was drafted under the leadership of Edwin E. Witte and with the involvement of Frances Perkins, Arthur J. Altmeyer, and others in 1935.
Breckinridge was the first co-managing editor, along with Edith Abbott of Social Service Review. A partial list of her publications is included on the Works page of this entry.
From 1907 to the mid-1920s, Dr. Breckinridge lived part of each year at Hull House.
Bibliography page: Additional information about Sophonisba Breckinridge can be found in Lela Costin. Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott (1983).
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(One of the things that unites nearly all communitarians is that they deny that's what they are! The label is attributed by others).
List of Neoconservatives
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- L. Paul Bremer: Retired American Foreign Service Officer and counterterrorism specialist who was Presidential Envoy to Iraq in 2003-2004, running the Coalition Provisional Authority [e]
- Charles Krauthammer: Conservative syndicated columnist, most associated with the Washingon Post; non-practicing psychiatrist; advisor, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; "favorite columnist", American Conservative Union [e]
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- Donald Kagan: Historian and classics professor at Yale University, expert on the Peloponnesian War; Trustee emeritus, Hudson Institute; father of Robert Kagan and Frederick Kagan; Project for the New American Century [e]
- Robert Kagan: U.S. foreign policy analyst and influencer; cofounder of the new Foreign Policy Initiative; senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, contributing editor at the New Republic and Weekly Standard, columnist, Washington Post; member, Council on Foreign Relations; fellow in American diplomatic history at American University; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; son of Donald Kagan and brother of Frederick Kagan [e]
- Frederick Kagan: A Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the Strategic Assessments Group to GEN Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan; former professor of history at the United States Military Academy; involved in planning the "Surge" in the Iraq War; academic adviser, Center for Security Policy; son of Donald Kagan and brother of Robert Kagan, prominent neoconservatives; spouse of Kimberly Kagan [e]
- Kimberly Kagan: Military historian, president of the Institute for the Study of War; member of the Strategic Assessment Group for GEN Stanley McChrystal in developing new doctrine for the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); adviser to Multi-National Force-Iraq; spouse of Frederick Kagan [e]
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- Richard Perle: An American political scientist who has been an important advisor and facilitator, rather than executive, for U.S. foreign policy and is associated with neoconservatism [e]
- Norman Podhoretz: Editor-at-large and formerly editor, Commentary (magazine), a leading journal of neoconservatism; member, Committee on the Present Danger; advisor, Project for the New American Century; adjunct fellow, Hudson Institute; spouse of Midge Decter [e]
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- Elliott Abrams: Neoconservative, convicted and pardoned on activities related to the Iran-Contra affair; National Security Council staff during George W. Bush Administration; senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; spouse of Rachel Abrams and son-in-law of Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz; Project for the New American Century; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute 1990-1996 [e]
- Rachel Abrams: neoconversative writer and blogger; member of the board, Emergency Committee for Israel; spouse of Elliott Abrams and daughter of Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter; contributor, Weekly Standard [e]
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- Douglas Feith: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute [e]
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- Clifford May: President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Expert panel, Iraq Study Group [e]
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- Randy Scheunemann: Foreign policy and national security analyst; neoconservative and Republican Party (United States) consultant who operates a communications firm [e]
- Gary Schmitt: Resident Scholar and Director of Advanced Strategic Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Executive Director, Project for the New American Century (1997-2005}; Adjunct Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (1996-97); Fellow, The National Interest, Brookings Institution, and National Strategy Information Center, (1988-96}; Executive Director, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1984-88}; ; minority staff (1981-1982) director (1982-1984) Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [e]
- Danielle Pletka: Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, of the American Enterprise Institute, and an advocate of a forward-deployed and interventionist US position; member, Committee on the Present Danger [e]
- Jamie Fly: Executive Director, Foreign Policy Initiative; Director for Counterproliferation Strategy at the National Security Council at the National Security Council (2008-2009) and Assistant for Transnational Threats Policy in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense (2005-2008); Republican National Committee 2004 campaign in Ohio and on the 2005 Presidential Inaugural Committee] Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations (2002-2004 [e]
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- Jeane Kirkpatrick: (1926-2006) First woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Ronald Reagan Administration; President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985-1990) and the Defense Policy Review Board (1985-1993); chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk Reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System (1992); senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute [e]
- John Bolton: American attorney and diplomat, associated with neoconservatism; Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (2007-) and Senior Vice President for Public Policy Research (1997-2001); U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations 2005-2006; not confirmed as Ambassador; Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, 2001-2005 [e]
- David Frum: An American conservative author and commentator, who advocates renewal of the conservative movement and Republican Party (United States), and has written in favor of an aggressive policy against terror, including preventive war; fired in March 2010 as Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute [e]
- Joshua Muravchik: Board of Trustees, Freedom House; neoconservative from Democratic Party and Socialist background; member, Committee for the Present Danger; Member, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; Adjunct Scholar, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; former resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; former president, Young People’s Socialist League [e]
- Daniel Senor: Now a commentator on the Middle East and investment capital adviser, a Republican who was a foreign policy and communications adviser in the Senate, Deputy Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration and spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority; adjunct fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
- Kimberly Kessler: (see Kimberly Kagan.) [e]
- Liz Cheney: neoconservative attorney; daughter of Dick Cheney and assisting him with his memoirs; founding board member of Keep America Safe and Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Study of War; State Department official for the Middle East 2002-2006 [e]
- Dick Cheney: (1941–) U.S. Vice President in the George W. Bush Administration and advocate of neoconservatism and unitary Presidential authority; currently a political commentator; U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George H. W. Bush Administration; spouse of Lynne Cheney; father of Liz Cheney [e]
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- American Museum of Natural History: Large museum located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1869. The museum consists of 25 connected buildings and 46 exhibition halls for display of its large collection of diaramas, artifacts and scientific evidence of natural history. [e]
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Theater
Title | Composer/Librettist | Setting | Main Characters | Date First Produced |
Date Movie |
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Annie Get Your Gun | Irving Berlin | Annie Oakley, "Wild Bill" Cody | 1946 | 1950 | |
Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
Cats | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Argentina | 1900 | ||
Meet Me In St. Louis | Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe | Worlds Fair of 1904 | The Smith family | 1944 | |
My Fair Lady | Edwardian London | 1900 | |||
New York, New York | 1900 | 1900 | |||
Oklahoma | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Oklahoma Territory | Curley McLain, Laurey Williams | 1941 | 1955 |
Oliver | |||||
Pal Joey | 1900 | ||||
Private Lives | Noël Coward | London | 1930 | ||
Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Paris Opera, Paris Sewer | 1941 | 1943 | |
The Sound of Music | Austria | 1900 | 1900 | ||
South Pacific | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | WWII in Pacific | 1949 | 1958 | |
State Fair | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Iowa State Fair | The Frake family | 1996 | 1945 |
West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Wonderful Town | NYC | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Where’s Charley? | 1900 | ||||
The King and I | Siam | 1900 | |||
Guys and Dolls | Broadway | 1900 | |||
London Calling | Noel Coward | London | Willy & George Craft | 1923 | |
Kiss Me Kate | |||||
A Chorus Line | |||||
Hair | |||||
No No Nanette | |||||
Jesus Christ, Superstar | Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber | ||||
Max and | |||||
Gypsy | Steven Sondheim | 1971 | |||
Rent | |||||
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Porgy and Bess | |||||
Starlight Express | |||||
Follies | |||||
Billy Elliot | |||||
Funny Girl | |||||
On the Town | |||||
42nd Street | |||||
Auntie Mame | |||||
The Wiz | |||||
Sunset Boulevard | |||||
Sweet Charity |
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Max and
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Grey Gardens
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Old Timeline
Date | Event |
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1642-1651 | English Civil War: Scarborough sides with the Royalists |
March 1643 | Castle garrison led by Sir Hugh Cholmley; briefly loses the Castle to his cousin, Captain Browne Bushell |
August 1644 | Parliamentary forces reach Scarborough following Royalist defeat at Marston Moor and the fall of York; Cholmley stalls with surrender negotiations |
18th February 1645 | Capture of Scarborough's port; first siege of the Castle by Parliamentary forces begins |
24th March 1645 | Sir John Meldrum, leader of the Parliamentary forces, badly injured in clifftop fall; allows Royalist surprise attack and delays siege by six weeks |
1st May 1645 | Parliamentarians' Committee of Both Kingdoms orders that the Castle be taken at all costs |
10th May 1645 | Royalist counter-attack leads to Parlimentary retreat after three-day bombardment and collapse of the keep's west wall |
11th May 1645 | Heavy hand-to-hand fighting around the barbican; Parliamentarians take heavier casualties, Meldrum killed |
25th July 1645 | Castle garrison surrenders following five-month siege |
27th July 1648 | New castle garrison goes over to the Royalist side |
19th December 1648 | Second siege brings Castle back under Parliamentary control; later used as a prison |
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