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Karl Bitter

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Karl Theodore Francis Bitter (December 6, 1867 – April 9, 1915) was an Austrian-born American sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture, memorials and residential work. [1]

96 relations: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Adolph Alexander Weinman, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, Alexander Stirling Calder, All Angels' Church, Allegorical sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Andrew Dickson White, Audrey Munson, Biltmore Estate, Broad Street Station (Philadelphia), Broadway (Manhattan), Carl Schurz, Carrère and Hastings, Caryatid, Cass Gilbert, Cleveland, Cornell University, Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Dayton, Ohio, Depew Memorial Fountain, Dewey Arch, Eldorado Amusement Park, Forest Park (St. Louis), Francis Bitter, Frank Furness, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Franz Sigel, Free Library of Philadelphia, George B. Post, Gettysburg National Military Park, Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan), Henry Bacon, Henry Hudson Park, Henry Philip Tappan, Henry Villard, Horace Jayne House, Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, Indianapolis, Isidore Konti, Ithaca, James Burrill Angell, Jefferson High School (Portland, Oregon), KeyBank, Kunstgewerbeschule, Lee Lawrie, Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, ..., Madison, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera, Minneapolis, Missouri History Museum, Missouri State Capitol, Montpelier, Vermont, Morningside Park (New York City), National Academy Museum and School, National Portrait Gallery (United States), National Sculpture Society, Naturalization, New York City, Pan-American Exposition, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Paterson, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Railroad, Piccirilli Brothers, Pomona (mythology), Pulitzer Fountain, Richard Morris Hunt, Riverside Park (Manhattan), Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Saint Louis Art Museum, Sculpture, Sleepy Hollow, New York, Smithsonian Institution, Spandrel, St. Paul Building, Staff (building material), Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson (Bitter), Thomas Lowry, Trinity Church (Manhattan), United States Naval Academy, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Utica, New York, Vienna Ring Road, Weehawken, New Jersey, William Pepper, Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Capitol, World's Columbian Exposition, 30th Street Station. Expand index (46 more) »

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school of higher education in Vienna, Austria.

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Adolph Alexander Weinman

Adolph Alexander Weinman (December 11, 1870 – August 8, 1952) was a German-born American sculptor and architectural sculptor.

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Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was a statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House

The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is a building in New York City built in 1902–07 by the federal government to house the duty collection operations for the Port of New York.

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Alexander Stirling Calder

Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11, 1870 – January 7, 1945) was an American sculptor and teacher.

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All Angels' Church

All Angels' Church is located on 251 West 80th Street in the Upper West Side of New York City.

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Allegorical sculpture

Allegorical sculpture refers to sculptures that symbolize and particularly personify abstract ideas as in allegory.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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Andrew Dickson White

Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades.

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Audrey Munson

Audrey Marie Munson (June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996) was an American artist's model and film actress, considered "America's First Supermodel," and variously known as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the "Exposition Girl" and "American Venus".

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Biltmore Estate

Biltmore Estate is a large (6950.4 acre or 10.86 square miles) private estate and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Broad Street Station (Philadelphia)

Broad Street Station at Broad & Market Streets was the primary passenger terminal for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in Philadelphia from 1881 to the 1950s.

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Broadway (Manhattan)

Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Carl Schurz

Carl Christian Schurz (March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer.

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Carrère and Hastings

Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère (November 9, 1858 – March 1, 1911) and Thomas Hastings (March 11, 1860 – October 22, 1929), was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture firms in the United States.

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Caryatid

A caryatid (Καρυάτις, plural: Καρυάτιδες) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.

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Cass Gilbert

Cass Gilbert (November 24, 1859 – May 17, 1934) was a prominent American architect.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Cuyahoga County Courthouse

The Cuyahoga County Courthouse stretches along Lakeside Boulevard at the north end of the Cleveland Mall in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

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Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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Depew Memorial Fountain

Depew Memorial Fountain is a freestanding fountain completed in 1919 and located in University Park in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana within the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza.

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Dewey Arch

The Dewey Arch was a triumphal arch that stood from 1899 to 1900 at Madison Square in Manhattan, New York.

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Eldorado Amusement Park

Eldorado Amusement Park was a 25-acre amusement park that opened in 1891 in the Highwood Park section of Weehawken, New Jersey.

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Forest Park (St. Louis)

Forest Park is a public park in western St. Louis, Missouri.

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Francis Bitter

Francis Bitter (July 22, 1902 – July 26, 1967) was an American physicist.

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Frank Furness

Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 - June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era.

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Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I also Franz Josef I or Francis Joseph I (Franz Joseph Karl; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and monarch of other states in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from 2 December 1848 to his death.

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Franz Sigel

Franz Sigel (November 18, 1824 – August 21, 1902) was a German American military officer, revolutionist and immigrant to the United States who was a teacher, newspaperman, politician, and served as a Union major general in the American Civil War.

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Free Library of Philadelphia

The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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George B. Post

George Browne Post (December 15, 1837 – November 28, 1913) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition.

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Gettysburg National Military Park

The Gettysburg National Military Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

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Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan)

Grand Army Plaza lies between 58th Street and 60th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue and just east of East Drive.

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Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866 – February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–22), which was his final project.

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Henry Hudson Park

Henry Hudson Park is a small park in the center of Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx in New York City, located at the intersection of Kappock Street and Independence Avenue.

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Henry Philip Tappan

Henry Philip Tappan (April 18, 1805 – November 15, 1881) was an American philosopher, educator and academic administrator.

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Henry Villard

Henry Villard (April 10, 1835 – November 12, 1900) was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway.

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Horace Jayne House

Horace Jayne House (1895) is an architecturally significant building designed by architect Frank Furness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Indiana World War Memorial Plaza

The Indiana World War Memorial Plaza is an urban feature located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, originally built to honor the veterans of World War I. and (PDF) The five-city-block plaza was conceived in 1919 as a location for the national headquarters of the American Legion and a memorial to the state's and nation's veterans.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Isidore Konti

Isidore Konti (July 9, 1862 – January 11, 1938) was a Vienna-born (of Hungarian parents) sculptor.

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Ithaca

Ithaca, Ithaki or Ithaka (Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithakē) is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.

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James Burrill Angell

James Burrill Angell (January 7, 1829 – April 1, 1916) was an American educator, academic administrator, and diplomat.

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Jefferson High School (Portland, Oregon)

Thomas Jefferson High School (colloquially, Jefferson High School) is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1908.

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KeyBank

KeyBank, the primary subsidiary of KeyCorp, is a regional bank headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and is the only major bank based in Cleveland.

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Kunstgewerbeschule

A Kunstgewerbeschule (English: School of arts and crafts or school of applied arts) was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century.

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Lee Lawrie

Lee Oscar Lawrie (October 16, 1877 – January 23, 1963) was one of the United States' foremost architectural sculptors and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Missouri History Museum

The Missouri History Museum is a history museum located in St. Louis, Missouri in Forest Park showcasing Missouri history.

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Missouri State Capitol

The Missouri State Captol is the building that houses the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Missouri, as well as the Missouri General Assembly.

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Montpelier, Vermont

Montpelier is the capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Washington County.

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Morningside Park (New York City)

Morningside Park is a New York City public park primarily located in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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National Academy Museum and School

The National Academy Museum and School, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition." The Academy is a professional honorary organization, a school, and a museum.

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National Portrait Gallery (United States)

The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art museum located between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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National Sculpture Society

Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Pan-American Exposition

The Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held in Buffalo, New York, United States, from May 1 through November 2, 1901.

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Panama–Pacific International Exposition

The Panama–Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) was a world's fair held in San Francisco, California, U.S., from February 20 to December 4, 1915.

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Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Piccirilli Brothers

The Piccirilli Brothers were a family of renowned marble carvers and sculptors who carved a large number of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French’s colossal Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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Pomona (mythology)

Pomona (Pōmōna) was a goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient Roman religion and myth.

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Pulitzer Fountain

Pulitzer Fountain is an outdoor fountain located in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza in New York.

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Richard Morris Hunt

Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of American architecture.

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Riverside Park (Manhattan)

Riverside Park is a scenic waterfront public park on the Upper West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

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Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus

Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus is the 15th municipal District of Vienna, Austria (German: 15. Bezirk).

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Saint Louis Art Museum

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the principal U.S. art museums, with paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Sleepy Hollow, New York

Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Spandrel

A spandrel, less often spandril or splaundrel, is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure.

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St. Paul Building

The St.

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Staff (building material)

Staff is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting temporary buildings.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Thomas Jefferson (Bitter)

Thomas Jefferson is one of several versions of a statue of Thomas Jefferson executed by Karl Bitter.

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Thomas Lowry

Thomas Lowry (February 27, 1843 – February 4, 1909) was a lawyer, real-estate magnate, and businessman who oversaw much of the early growth of the streetcar lines in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding communities in Minnesota.

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Trinity Church (Manhattan)

Trinity Church is a historic parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York located near the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway in the lower Manhattan section of New York City, New York.

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United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Utica, New York

Utica is a city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States.

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Vienna Ring Road

The Ring Road (German: Ringstraße) is a circular grand boulevard that serves as a ring road around the historic Innere Stadt (Old Town) district of Vienna, Austria.

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Weehawken, New Jersey

Weehawken is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.

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William Pepper

William Pepper Jr., M.D. (August 21, 1843 – July 28, 1898), was an American physician, leader in medical education in the nineteenth century, and a longtime Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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Wisconsin State Capitol

The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, houses both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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30th Street Station

30th Street Station is the main railroad station of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of the seven stations in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's (SEPTA) Center City fare zone.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bitter

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