Dr. Horace Wells, also known as the Horace Wells Monument, is a monumental statue in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The statue, located in the...
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gas). Wells was the first of three children of Horace and Betsy Heath Wells, born on January 21, 1815, in Hartford, Vermont. His parents were well-educated...
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Bushnell Park (category National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut)
additions to the park include: the statue of Israel Putnam in 1874, sculpted by John Quincy Adams Ward; the statue of Horace Wells in 1875, sculpted by Truman...
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space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals, and mosaics....
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"Ozymandias" (/ˌɒzɪˈmændiəs/ OZ-im-AN-dee-əs) is the title of a sonnet published in 1818 by Horace Smith (1779–1849). Smith wrote the poem in friendly competition...
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Ozymandias (redirect from Ozymandias, King of Kings)
compilation of his poems published in 1826. The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created...
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Ether Dome (category Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts)
unsuccessful demonstration of nitrous oxide anesthesia by Horace Wells in the same theater the previous year, which was ended by cries of "Humbug!" after the...
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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune...
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schools in the United States. Horace Mann's statue stands in front of the Massachusetts State House along with that of Daniel Webster. At Antioch College...
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was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. One of the...
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William T. G. Morton (category Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees)
Horace Wells even addressed a letter to the editor of the Hartford Daily Courant, outlining his experiments and experience with anesthesia. Wells stated...
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Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was an American painter who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World...
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Sir Horace Jones PPRIBA (20 May 1819 – 21 May 1887) was an English architect particularly noted for his work as architect and surveyor to the City of London...
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Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The statue was discovered...
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Saturnalia (section Rite at the temple of Saturn)
the beginning of Horace's Satire 2.3, and the mask in the Saturnalia imagery of the Calendar of Philocalus, and Martial's inclusion of masks as Saturnalia...
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“The First Book of the Epistles of Horace. Epistle II”, The Works of Horace at Project Gutenberg. Horace. First Book of Letters, letter 2, line 40 (in...
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Place des États-Unis (category Statue of Liberty)
neighborhood of Manhattan. The Place des États-Unis (Square Thomas Jefferson) is the site of a monument to the American dentist, Horace Wells (1815–1848)...
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Philadelphia City Hall to the Wells Fargo Building. The 30-story, 405-foot-tall (123 m) Wells Fargo Building is located on the Avenue of the Arts in Center City...
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Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut) (category Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut)
Switzerland-born landscape architect Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia Amos Whitney, inventor...
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John Francis Dodge (category American founders of automobile manufacturers)
family mausoleum in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery guarded by two Sphinx statues. Horace died the following December, and in 1925 their widows sold the Dodge...
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Whitemarsh Hall (category Horace Trumbauer buildings)
Eva, on 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by the Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer, it was built in 1921...
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The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition...
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The Horace Rackham Memorial Fountain (1939), also known as the Bear Fountain, is a fountain located in the Detroit Zoo, Royal Oak, Michigan. It was designed...
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University of Bristol, University of the West of England, University of Bath, City of Bristol College, Merchants' Academy, Montpelier High School and Wells Cathedral...
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Zephyrus (category Children of Eos)
canvas. Statue of Zephyrus in Hermitage Hall. Zephyrus and Boreas surround Oceanus in a mosaic from Portugal. Zephyrus, Psyche and Eros, statue by John...
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Cleopatra (redirect from Cleopatra VII of Egypt)
works of art, in the Egyptian as well as Hellenistic-Greek and Roman styles. Surviving works include statues, busts, reliefs, and minted coins, as well as...
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when there is an ancient statue standing on the island. After Locke turns the wheel, the survivors arrive to 1974, at the peak of the Dharma Initiative's...
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figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had...
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Victor French (category American people of Armenian descent)
Successful $32,000 Film". The Van Nuys News. Newcomb, Horace (February 3, 2014). Encyclopedia of Television. Routledge. p. 1311. ISBN 978-1-135-19479-6...
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Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (category People of the War of Actium)
friends of Gaius Cestius responsible for erecting statues that once stood at the site of the famous Pyramid of Cestius which is located close to the Porta San...
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