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    The Eagle's Nest Art Colony, the site known in more modern times as the Lorado Taft Field Campus, was founded in 1898 by American sculptor Lorado Taft...
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    Amherst, Virginia Brown County Art Colony, Brown County, Indiana Carl Street Studios, Old Town, Chicago Eagle's Nest Art Colony, Illinois Galena, Illinois...
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    Ponds were members of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony, founded by Lorado Taft, and their association with Taft and the colony led them to design the library...
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    Wallace Heckman purchased the land that would eventually become the Eagle's Nest Colony and Lowden State Park in 1898. American sculptor Lorado Taft and...
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    the ground. It stands on the ground that was once home to the Eagle's Nest Art Colony, which Taft founded in 1898. Though not publicized at the time...
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    19th and early 20th century. He was one of the founders of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony and a member of the Chicago Literary Club from 1888 to 1939. Pond...
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    Lorado Taft founded the Eagle's Nest Art Colony on a bluff overlooking the Rock River, north of Oregon. Taft and his art colony began to exert an influence...
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    Harriet Monroe (category American women art critics)
    hemorrhage, which caused her death. Monroe was a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois, and is mentioned in Erik Larson's The...
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    of the 20th century. In 1898, Taft was a founding member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony, which is currently a field and research campus for Northern Illinois...
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    Dennett Grover and Lorado Taft, who he assisted in creating the Eagle's Nest Art Colony on property provided by the Chicago attorney, Wallace Heckman (1851-1927)...
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  • founding members of the Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago, of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois, and associated with Jane Addams' Hull...
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    Some time during her period in Illinois, she was a member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County. One of her sons was the famed botanist, naturalist...
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    the University of Chicago she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. She was a working actress for two years before going to work for the League...
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  • William A. Harper (category School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni)
    working and painting at the Eagle's Nest Art Colony near Oregon, Illinois where he was the protégé of members of the Colony, including Lorado Taft, Charles...
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    may be large, ranging between five and 500 nests per colony, with an average around 160 nests per colony. A heronry is usually relatively close, usually...
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    Elizabeth Willard The Crusader Heald Square Monument Related Taft family Emily Taft Douglas (daughter) Eagle's Nest Art Colony Lorado Taft Midway Studios...
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    The area was noted by Elia W. Peattie, a poet and member of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony (located at present-day Lowden State Park), who expressed the need...
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    certain Raptorials and Water‐Birds in Kenya Colony—Part II. Ibis, 3(4), 617-643. Shlaer, Robert (1972). "An Eagle's Eye: Quality of the Retinal Image" (PDF)...
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    Bruno Liljefors (category Olympic competitors in art competitions)
    1890 Sea eagle's nest, 1907 Fox stalking wild ducks, 1913 Swans, 1920 Bean geeseshedding, 1921 Eagle hunting hare, 1924 White-tailed eagles hunting, 1924...
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  • Elvish ways. A Great Eagle arrives at the coronation, a rare and powerful omen for the new ruler. However, Belzagar claims that the Eagle's presence signifies...
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    was also one of the founding members of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Illinois. He wrote a column of art criticism for the New York Evening Post. Fuller...
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    Estate, Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill, William Vanderbilt II's Eagle's Nest, the Alexander P. de Seversky Mansion, Otto Kahn's Oheka Castle, and...
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    when they defend their own adjacent nests, they may incidentally benefit condors since they chase golden eagles out of the area that may otherwise prey...
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    lion's, but its wings and mask are like an eagle's." It is not yet clear if its forelimbs are those of an eagle or of a lion. Although the description implies...
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  • All Souls (Asheville, North Carolina) Cornelius Vanderbilt II House Eagle's Nest Elm Court Florham Haras du Quesnay Howard Mansion and Carriage House'...
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    of those lagomorphs. Of these, the great horned owl and golden eagle were able to nest most closely to one another because they had the most strongly...
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    defend the nest until the chicks start hatching, but most leave the nesting area completely to nest again; in a good season, a female emu may nest three times...
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  • fieldwork includes an osprey colony project, purple martin banding, wood ducks, Adopt-a-Swamp pink population, eagle nest monitoring, and international...
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    replacement egg within a week. A whole colony was known to re-nest after a snowstorm forced them to abandon their original colony. Both parents incubated The egg...
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    semi-open habitats, particularly woodland edge, as they prefer to roost and nest within dense stands of wood but prefer to hunt over open ground. The long-eared...
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