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Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit Memorial Tower, is a tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco ; at her death in 1929 Coit left one-third of her estate to the city for civic beautification.
After Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads mural was destroyed by its Rockefeller Center patrons for the inclusion of an image of Lenin, the Coit Tower muralists protested, picketing the tower.
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Coit and was
Daniel Coit Gilman was inaugurated as the first president on February 22, 1876.
In John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, Margaret Coit shows how he was raised Calvinist, went into Unitarianism for a bit, but for most of his life was caught in between the two.
At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University.
The Russell Trust was founded by Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman, member of Skull and Bones and later president of the University of California, first president of Johns Hopkins University, and the founding president of the Carnegie Institution.
While the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum was founded by the hospital trustees, the other institutions that carry the name of " Johns Hopkins " were founded under the administration of the first president of the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Daniel Coit Gilman and his successors.
The city was named after Senator John Coit Spooner.
John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, was named President in 1821 and a number of illustrious individuals like Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Johns Hopkins University President Daniel Coit Gilman and Edwin Francis Hyde, a former president of the Philharmonic Society of New York, headed up the organization over the years.
The building was designed by Arthur Brown, Jr., the architect who also created San Francisco's Coit Tower and City Hall.
Daniel Coit Gilman ( July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908 ) was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution.
The Daniel Coit Gilman Summer House, in Maine, was declared a U. S. National Historic Landmark in 1965.
Gilman High School in Northeast Harbor, Maine, was named for Daniel Coit Gilman, who was active in local educational affairs, but it was later rebuilt and christened Mount Desert High School.
Coit Tower was paid for with money left by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a wealthy socialite who loved to chase fires in the early days of the city's history.
Lillie Coit was one of the more eccentric characters in the history of North Beach and Telegraph Hill, smoking cigars and wearing trousers long before it was socially acceptable for women to do so.
Coit was reputed to have shaved her head so her wigs would fit better.
One was Coit Tower, and the other was a sculpture depicting three firemen, one of them carrying a woman in his arms.

Coit and 1998
According to Coit D. Blacker, Rice and George W. Bush also " bonded at Kennebunkport " in August 1998.

Coit and film
The production team consisted of 15 people: five actors ( Paul Mazursky, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Steve Coit and Virginia Leith ), five crew members ( including Kubrick ’ s first wife, Toba Metz ) and four Mexican laborers who transported the film equipment around California's San Gabriel Mountains, where the film was shot.

Coit and Dr
* Dr. Coit D. Blacker
Joseph Burnett, a wealthy resident of Southborough, founded St. Mark's School in 1865, reportedly counseled by Dr. Henry Coit of St. Paul's School of Concord, New Hampshire, who told Burnett that with six sons to educate, he would do well to found a school, instead of sending them north to St. Paul's.

Coit and .
* Gilman, Daniel Coit.
The British Humanist Association took that name in 1967, but had developed from the Union of Ethical Societies which had been founded by Stanton Coit in 1896.
* Coit Taylor Hendley Jr. ( 1982 – 1985 )
The University of California's second president, Daniel Coit Gilman, opened the Berkeley campus in September 1873.
* October 7 – Joshua Coit, U. S. lawyer and politician ( d. 1798 )
* Coit, Margaret, L John C. Calhoun: American Portrait 620pp ; prize winning popular history excerpt and text search
* Coit, Margaret L. ( Editor ).
Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, Dodd Mead and Company, 1903.
* 1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit
Famous New Londoners during the American Revolution include Nathan Hale, William Coit, Richard Douglass, Thomas & Nathaniel Shaw, Gen. Samuel Parsons, Printer Timothy Green, Reverend Seabury.
* Battle of Cat Coit Celidon ( 7th battle ), possibly Caledonian Woods in the Scottish Lowlands.
Cat Coit Celidon is a reference to the Caledonian Forest ( Coed Celyddon ) which once covered the Southern Uplands of Scotland.
In 1888 Charles F. Richardson referred to Bradford as a " forerunner of literature " and " a story-teller of considerable power ;" Moses Coit Tyler called him " the father of American history.
Conway remained the leader of South Place until 1886, when Stanton Coit took his place.
The shows were also padded out with large amounts of stock footage over San Francisco, normally featuring panning shots of the Coit Tower or regular clips of general traffic scenes.

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The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;
The wall follows typical Mycenaean convention in that it followed the natural contour of the terrain and its gate was arranged obliquely, with a parapet and tower overhanging the incomers ' right-hand side, thus facilitating defense.
A large tower was added, the " Frankopyrgos " ( Tower of the Franks ), demolished in the 19th century.
The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.
A Carillon was installed in the tower in the middle of the 20th century, the bells for which were provided by the centuries-old bell manufacturers of Aarau.
It was unclear how the Sultan got hold of scissors in his tower prison cell and how he managed to cut two wrists at once, since no autopsy was allowed afterwards.
The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.
* Ansbach was home of the astronomer Simon Marius, who observed Jupiter's moons from the castle's tower.
It was set up in the mansion's water tower and given the code name " Station X ", a term now sometimes applied to the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley as a whole.
* The Cardinalis tower was constructed in the 14th century as a bell tower for the Dominican convent, which was founded on the bequest of Hugh of Saint-Cher.
A tower house was built on the estate by the Gordons.
By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.
Yet there is now little doubt that the hollow-walled broch tower was purely an invention from what is now Scotland, or that even the kinds of pottery found inside them that most resembled south British styles were local hybrid forms.
The south tower was completed in the 16th century but the cathedral was only completed in the 19th century with the north tower.
The tower which remains from the original Norman church and stands on the north side of the church ( the upper part is 15th century ) was, until the loss of its spire in 1699, 150 ft high.
The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.
But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

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