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* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )
Berthe Morisot, L ' Enfant au Tablier Rouge, a sketch
Among the early projects on which Pei took the lead were the L ' Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC and the Green Building at MIT.
Pei wanted the open spaces and buildings of L ' Enfant Plaza to be " functionally and visually related " to one another.
Pei and his team also designed a united urban area for Washington, D. C., L ' Enfant Plaza ( named for French-American architect Pierre Charles L ' Enfant ).
Pei's associate Araldo A. Cossutta was the lead architect for the plaza's North Building ( 955 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ), South Building ( 490 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ), and Center Building ( 475 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ; now the United States Postal Service headquarters ).
( Vlastimil Koubek was the architect for the East Building or L ' Enfant Plaza Hotel, located at 480 L ' Enfant Plaza SW ).
Pierre ( Peter ) Charles L ' Enfant was given the task of creating the city plan for the new capital city.
In addition to coming up with a city plan, L ' Enfant had been tasked with designing the Capitol and President's House, however he was dismissed in February 1792 over disagreements with President George Washington and the commissioners, and there were no plans at that point for the Capitol.
L ' Enfant secured the lease of quarries at Wigginton Island and along Aquia Creek in Virginia for use in the foundations and outer walls of the Capitol in November 1791.

L and chose
Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children ( the 1981 winner ) as " the best novel out of all the winners.
In L ' Aiglon he chose a subject from Napoleonic history, suggested probably by Henri Welschinger's Roi de Rome, 1811-32 ( 1897 ), which contained much new information about the unhappy life of the Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon I, and Marie Louise, under the surveillance of Metternich at the Schönbrunn Palace.
It was therefore something of a departure when he chose L ' Incident, a novel by Christian Gailly, as the basis for Les Herbes folles ( Wild Grass ) ( 2009 ).
Browne did not appear on the 2000 Arizona ballot, however, as the Arizona Libertarian Party instead chose to run L. Neil Smith, whose candidacy was a protest against that of Browne.
A committee of three men from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was responsible for choosing a name from among the entries ; although it considered the names " Wellington " and " Gladmere ", it chose the name " Bethany Beach " suggested by H. L. Atkinson of the University of Chicago.
In 1940 as American involvement in World War II loomed, the Army Air Corps chose Offutt Field as the site for a new bomber plant that was to be operated by the Glenn L. Martin Company.
The newly formed Orient Townsite Company chose the site of present Sentinel and received a donation of eighty acres from L. N. Whitmer.
In 1913 the L & SWR, led by Sir Herbert Walker who came in 1912 from the London and North Western Railway whose suburban lines he had electrified on a 630 V DC fourth rail system, chose 630 V DC third rail electrification for its suburban routes.
Stops included the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Exile on Bowery @ Bowery Electric in NYC and the GRAMMY Museum at L. A Live in Los Angeles. At the end of a week long RFTT tour in December 2011, Chrome announced to the band that he had decided to stop touring extensively after 2012. This has been misconstrued as his " retirement ", which is not the case. While he planned to honor any shows they booked in 2012, they chose to get another guitar player for the upcoming European tour in May 2012. Chrome remains a non-touring member of RFTT, and will record and perform with the band in the future.
He replaced junior Senator Byron L. Dorgan, who chose not to seek re-election.
Because this was the first time that Symantec had acquired a business that had revenues, inventory, and customers, Eubanks chose to change nothing at BreakThrough Software for six months, and the actual merger logistics started in the summer of 1987, with Turner being appointed by Eubanks as general manager of the TimeLine business unit, Turner was made responsible for the successful integration of the company into Symantec and ongoing growth of the business, with P & L.
The ailing New Jersey Democratic Party chose him as its gubernatorial candidate in 1953, and he achieved a surprise victory, boosted by a minor scandal surrounding his opponent, Paul L. Troast.
As a result, S / L Żurakowski, among many other Polish war heroes, chose to stay in Britain.
Maud, who was ten years younger than Julia, initially horrified her mother when she chose to marry The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum at a time when he was a struggling actor with only a handful of plays ( of which only The Maid of Arran survives ) to his writing credit.
In the lead-up to the 1930 election, the party chose George H. Webster, M. L. A.
Pierre L ' Enfant, as he began to develop his plan for the new Federal City in 1791, chose to locate the " Congress House " on the crest of the hill, facing the city, a site that L ' Enfant characterized as a " pedestal waiting for a monument ".
So she moved to Paris to study art at L ' Ecole du Louve Once graduated from the art school, she chose not to become an artist like people had expected her to become.
The Institute chose to acquire The Braes, the former country estate of Herbert L. Pratt, in Glen Cove on the North Shore of Long Island.
It could have been Seattle or Miami but we chose New York and L. A., and he suggested Detroit and Houston because they both were economically part of the basis of our economy — Motown and the oil industry, so I just poetically wrote that in the bridge.
In 1851, the state legislature chose Jones to replace Hopkins L. Turney in the U. S. Senate.
The English version of L ' inquisition Françoise is of greater interest as it was published with William Taylor, the publisher Daniel Defoe chose for his Robinson Crusoe in 1719.
Presidents usually chose Independence Grandstand ( now known as Quirino Grandstand ) as the inauguration venue because it faces the spot where Rizal was buried, and also the site of the independence ceremony in 1946, according to historian Manuel L. Quezon III.
An Atlanta local named Crystal Jones held auditions for a local group and chose Watkins, and Lisa " Left Eye " Lopes eventually attracted the attention of Perri " Pebbles " Reid and her husband, LaFace Records chief Antonio " L. A ." Reid.

L and Jenkins
by R. J. H. Jenkins and L. G. Westerink ( Washington ( DC ), 1973 ).
He first worked with William L. " Big Bill " Stidger ( not Burris Jenkins ), pastor of the Linwood Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri.
The incorporators were John B. Smith, Henderson Gaylord, Peter Shupp, Draper Smith, Josiah M. Eno, Daniel Gardiner, A. R. Matthews, William Jenkins, George P. Richards, S. M. Davenport, Edward Griffith, Lewis Boughton, A. F. Shupp, John J. Shonk, James McAlarney, J. P. Davenport, Eli Bittenbender, David McDonald, C. A. Kuschke, Andrew F. Levi, Querin Krothe, David Madden, John Dodson, Darius Gardiner, John Cobley, William L. Lance, Jr., J. E. Smith, R. N. Smith, John Dennis, David Levi, W. W. Lance, William W. Dietrick, James Hutchison, George Brown, Oliver Davenport, Samuel French, A. Gabriel, Theodore Renshaw, Edward G. Jones, J. L. Nesbitt, J. W. Weston, J. H. Waters, John E. Halleck, E. R. Wolfe, F. E. Spry, C. F. Derby, Anthony Duffy, D. Brown, A. G. Rickard, Thomas P. Macfarlane, William L. Lance, Lewis Gorham, John Jessop, A. S. Davenport, A. Hutchison, Brice S. Blair, John S. Geddis and C. H. Wilson, M. D.
* Congressman William L. " Bill " Jenkins, born 1936, was the Republican Representative from Tennessee's First Congressional District from 1997-2007.
* Reines, F., Gurr, H. S., Jenkins, T. L. & J. H. Munsee.
* 1983: Thomas L. Friedman and Loren Jenkins, New York Times and Washington Post respectively, " for their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath.
" Were it not you ken Mr Dean extraordinarily well ," writes Sir L. Jenkins to J. Williamson in 1672, " it were impossible to imagine how assiduous and drudging he is about his press.
Former trustees include retired Major General and author Franklin M. Davis, Jr, Theodore Dreier, an engineer and educator who was one of the founders of Black Mountain College, and Alfred L. Jenkins, a career diplomat who served as chairman of MIU but left after three years.
William L. Jenkins is the system's interim president.
Twitty's success in country music was a key factor in his winning a 1983 case, Harold L. Jenkins ( a / k / a Howard Twitty ) v. Commissioner in United States Tax Court.
* British Amateur – J L C Jenkins
L ' Enfant referred to the hill chosen as the site of the future Congress House as " Jenkins Hill " or " Jenkins Heights ".
Who Jenkins was and how his name became associated with the hill, as reported by L ' Enfant, remains unclear.
The party had not even fielded a nominee in the gubernatorial election four years prior, but suddenly the nomination seemed valuable, in large measure to the factors cited above, and in the primary Dunn defeated four opponents, including 1962 Republican nominee Hubert Patty, then-Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives ( and future 1st District-Congressman ) William L. Jenkins, Claude K Robertson, Knoxville attorney, and industrialist Maxey Jarman, head of Genesco Corp. Harry W. Wellford ( then a private attorney but later U. S. District Court and then U. S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Justice ) served as Dunn's campaign chair and closest confidant.
* Jenkins, B. L., & Phillis, S. ( 1976 ).
Quillen did decide to retire prior to the 1996 election and was succeeded by Circuit Court Judge William L. Jenkins, a fellow Republican.
Like Benjamin Britten's War Requiem before it, it is essentially an anti-war piece and is based on the Catholic Mass, which Jenkins combines with other sources, principally the fifteenth century folk song L ' homme armé in the first and last movements.
In 1989 / 90, Tremaine fronted the short-lived band Milk along with Lewman ( guitar ), Jenkins ( bass ), and BMX rider R. L.
Other important contributors include Anne Atkins, Jonathan Bartley, Alan Billings, John L. Bell, Rhidian Brook, Tom Butler, Brian Draper, Giles Fraser, Richard Harries, Roy Jenkins, James Jones, Clifford Longley, Rob Marshall, Colin Morris, Mona Siddiqui, Indarjit Singh, Elaine Storkey, * Vishvapani, Antony Sutch and Angela Tilby.
Jenkins also starred as Dr. Carole Eggert in the third season of Chicago Hope, and with Steve Buscemi in Twenty Bucks and Ed and His Dead Mother and had notable guest appearances as Mariah, the leader of the G. E. L. F.
L ' Enfant then designed in his " Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of the United States ..." the city's first layout, a grid centered on the United States Capitol, which would stand at the top of a hill ( Jenkins Hill ) on a longitude designated as 0: 0.

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