Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Palmolive Building

Built for one of the world's leading soap manufacturers, this office building ("a monument to cleanliness") was the first commercial skyscraper built far from the Loop - at the northern end of Michigan Avenue. It was known as the Playboy Building from 1965 to 1989, when it served as headquarters for Playboy magazine.

From the Chicago Historical Society








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Monday, July 16, 2007

Benito Juarez


Today Benito Juarez is remembered as being a progressive reformer dedicated to democracy, equal rights for the nation's indigenous Indian population, lessening the great power that the Roman Catholic Church then held over Mexican politics, and defense of national sovereignty. The period of his leadership is known in Mexican history as La Reforma (the reform), and constituted a liberal political and social revolution with major institutional consequences: the expropriation of church lands, bringing the army under civilian control, liquidation of peasant communal land holdings, and adoption of a federalist constitution.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Ben Franklin




Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation,[1] and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Visiting...


Out in the Burbs visiting family.

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Monday, July 2, 2007

Goethe















Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism, science, and painting. His most enduring work, the two-part dramatic poem Faust, is considered one of the peaks of world literature.


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Sunday, July 1, 2007

Madam Butterfly

The bikes have been replace by what seems like paper mache dresses and they're all up and down the Mag mile.









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Saturday, June 30, 2007