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    redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, architects of Central Park and Prospect Park, in 1867. Fort Greene Park contains the Prison Ship Martyrs'...
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  • Varnum. Roberts Vaux (1786–1836), Judge of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. Father of Richard Vaux. Richard Vaux (1816–1895), Pennsylvania...
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    Park Bushwick Playground Butterfly Gardens (Brooklyn) Cadman Plaza Calvert Vaux Park Campiz Playground Canarsie Park Callahan-Kelly Playground Carroll Park...
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    the Italianate style by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. Following a fire in 1855, Vaux rebuilt the house with modified plans. Richard Morris Hunt...
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  • du Trou-d'Enfer Fort d'Uxegney Fort de Vancia Fort de Vaujours Fort Vaux Fort de Villey-le-Sec Fort de Villiers Fort de Viraysse Fort de Vézelois Ouvrage...
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    battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War I. It is located in Douaumont-Vaux, France, within the Verdun battlefield, and immediately next to the Fleury-devant-Douaumont...
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    Fort Totten is a former active United States Army installation in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located on the Willets Point peninsula on...
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    Blockhouse No. 1 (category Forts in Manhattan)
    in Morningside Park. The fort is the last remaining fortification from these defenses. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the designers of Central...
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    Van Cortlandt Park is a 1,146-acre (464 ha) park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Owned by the New York City Department of Parks...
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    Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The 67-acre (27 ha)...
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    sprawl beyond Prospect Park (completed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1873 and widely heralded as an improvement upon the earlier Central Park)...
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    Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into...
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    Park’s official weather station. Belvedere Castle was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould in 1867. An architectural hybrid of Romanesque and Gothic...
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    Department of Antiquities, led by Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux.: 9  The Cave 1 site yielded discoveries of additional Dead Sea Scroll fragments...
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    484, 487. Simonian (2007), pp. 159, 165, 176, 257, 332, 333. Vaux (2001), p. 5. Vaux (2007), p. 257. Simonian (2007a), p. 257. Daunt, Patricia (1997)...
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  • Coria (1142) – Reconquista Siege of Lisbon (1142) - Reconquista Siege of Li Vaux Moise (1144) – Crusades Siege of Edessa (1144) – Crusades Siege of Al-Bira...
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    Central Park (category Calvert Vaux designs)
    in 1853. In 1858, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition for the park with their "Greensward Plan". Construction...
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    Fort Tilden, also known as Fort Tilden Historic District, is a former United States Army installation on the coast in the New York City borough of Queens...
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    Gentry) Kapsis and Coblentz, p. 143 (interviewer Milan Pavolić) Sara Anson Vaux (2012). The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans...
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    several years. The foundation of Bartholdi's statue was to be laid inside Fort Wood, a disused army base on Bedloe's Island constructed between 1807 and...
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  • up and abusing ex-girlfriends, and her latest lover, single mom Lyndsey Vaux, is no exception. For years, Becky beats, humiliates, and starves Lyndsey...
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    de-mapped. A new landscape design by Calvert Vaux and Samuel Parsons was completed in 1902, several years after Vaux's death. East River Park was renamed Carl...
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  • Texas Minneapolis Central Library – Minneapolis Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – Fort Worth, Texas Monadnock Building – Chicago Morgan Library & Museum...
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  • the Alpenkorps lost over 70% of their strength in the fighting around Fort Vaux and Fleury. After leaving the line, the regiments were reconstituted,...
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  • Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea, and The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish...
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    like models and most women dress in high fashion brands, in reality neither Van Gogh nor models are on the street corners of Paris. In this view, the disorder...
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    the French attempted to re-capture Fort Douaumont on 22 May but were easily repulsed. The Germans captured Fort Vaux on 7 June and with the aid of diphosgene...
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    Prospect Park (Brooklyn) (category Calvert Vaux designs)
    Park was laid out by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for the then-independent city of Brooklyn. Prospect Park opened in 1867,...
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    the Superintendent of Finances, at his palatial residence, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. Louis XIV was impressed by the château and its gardens, which...
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    can be considered a true siege. The main fortifications were Fort Douaumont, Fort Vaux, and the fortified city of Verdun itself. The Germans, through...
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