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    Works Progress Administration, formerly known by the working name The Scrolls, is an American supergroup led by Sean Watkins, Glen Phillips, and Luke...
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    The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of...
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    Glen Phillips (singer) (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    Peter Gabriel. In January 2008, Phillips formed the supergroup Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) featuring Phillips, Sean Watkins (guitar), his sister...
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    Benmont Tench (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    initially named the Scrolls, now officially known as Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The band is composed of Tench, Sean Watkins (guitar), Sara Watkins...
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    Greg Leisz (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    toured with him. In January 2008, Leisz joined the group Works Progress Administration, a band composed of Leisz, Sean Watkins (guitar), his sister Sara...
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    Sara Watkins (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    supergroup octet tentatively named The Scrolls, later named Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The octet is composed of Watkins, her brother Sean...
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    Pete Thomas (drummer) (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    he has been a member of the band Squeeze during the 1990s and a member of the supergroup Works Progress Administration during the early 2000s. Tom Waits...
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    Sean Watkins (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    member of the contemporary folk band Nickel Creek, the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration. He is the brother of Sara Watkins...
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  • United States entry into World War 2 WPA, a 2009 album by Works Progress Administration (band) Win probability added, a baseball statistic Water pinch...
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    Davey Faragher (category Works Progress Administration (band) members)
    supergroup tentatively called the Scrolls, (now officially Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.)) had formed. The octet is composed of Faragher, Sean...
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  • play saxophone and trumpet. In 1937, he played drums for a Works Progress Administration band in Portland. In 1946, when his father was transferred to a...
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    2008) Works (in) Progress Administration Vol. 1 (October 1, 2008) Works (in) Progress Administration Vol. 2 (January 20, 2009) Works (in) Progress Administration...
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    The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. As many as 10,000 artists were...
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    Columbia High School (Mississippi) (category Works Progress Administration in Mississippi)
    journal l'architecture d'aujourd'hui. It was built in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project. In the 2021-2022 school year, the student body was...
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    Byron White United States Courthouse (category Works Progress Administration in Colorado)
    sculptures, with help from two assistants, working under the Works Progress Administration in 1936. Prominent artwork within the building includes four...
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    Nickel Creek (formerly known as the Nickel Creek Band) is an American bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), and siblings Sara Watkins (fiddle)...
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    Riverside Park Bandshell (category Works Progress Administration in Illinois)
    Illinois. The concrete bandshell was built in 1938–39 by the Works Progress Administration and the Murphysboro Park District. Riverside Park was opened...
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    Alamo Stadium (category Works Progress Administration in Texas)
    limestone construction it was completed in September 1940 as a Works Progress Administration project. The stadium is currently owned and operated by the...
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    Obama administration avoided "conflict of interest" scandals that previous administrations had experienced, in part due to the administration's lobbyist...
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    Conservation Corps (CCC), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the National Industrial...
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  • George Wright Golf Course (category Works Progress Administration in Massachusetts)
    construction completed as one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. It represents one of the least known but impressive...
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  • Artists Project (a division of the Works Progress Administration in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration) to Fort Sill Indian Art Center in...
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    assessment of the Reagan administration's response to that point, describing a "lack of leadership" as one of the biggest obstacles to progress against AIDS. The...
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    Francine Everett (category Works Progress Administration workers)
    with the Federal Theater in Harlem, which was sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. Among Everett's starring roles were the films Paradise in Harlem...
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    further aid by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives inhibited progress, with the additional $61 billion in aid to Ukraine added in April 2024...
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    career spanning six decades, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Springsteen is a pioneer of heartland rock, combining a commercially...
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    Lyons Pool Recreation Center (category Works Progress Administration in New York City)
    Cromwell Center, were designed by Joseph L. Hautman during a Works Progress Administration project in 1935–1936. Opened on July 7, 1936, the Lyons Pool...
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    classroom building was built in 1937–38 with funding from the Works Progress Administration, replacing one of the Rosenwald buildings that had burned down...
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    held one large and one medium-sized band running against its east wall. Music was continuous as the alternative band was always in position and ready to...
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    Roosevelt Stadium (category Works Progress Administration in New Jersey)
    and field events, and boxing. The stadium was envisioned as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project on the grounds of what was the Jersey City Airport...
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