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O’NEILL, Harry Patrick, Congress, PA (1889-1953)

O’NEILL, Harry Patrick, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pa., February 10, 1889; left school at the age of ten and went to work as a slate picker in the O.…

lintel

(Encyclopedia) lintel, in architecture, the horizontal member that spans an opening, such as a door or window, or that connects two columns. The post-and-lintel, or trabeated, system of construction…

school of Paris

(Encyclopedia) school of Paris. The center of international art until after World War II, Paris was a mecca for artists who flocked there to participate in the most advanced aesthetic currents of…