... comedic actor John Brougham (who co-authored London Assurance with Dion Boucicault). In 1879, after it was remodelled by Steele Mackaye with the backing of the Mallory brothers, it was renamed the Madison Square Theatre. It boasted a remarkable elevator stage pictured below (figure 8), as well as a primitive but effective air conditioning system. Ice was brought in every day, and air was ... circulated over it and through the same ventilating system that carried heated air in the winter. This was a great innovation and created quite a stir. The orchestra was located above the proscenium...

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... square when a smaller square was cut out of one corner. According to the Pythagoreans a number that equaled the sum of its divisors including 1 but not the number itself was a perfect number such as 6, 28 and 496. Those, which exceeded the sum of the divisors, were known as excessive and those that were less were called defective. Numbers to the Pythagoreans meant only whole numbers. They did not deal ... They helped others understand the concept of a number, which became for them the ultimate principle of all proportion, harmony and order of the universe. Through their studies they estab...

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... individual regions. This country spans over 301,230 square miles of land and is inhabited by over 57 million people. France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia border Italy in the north. The peninsula is surrounded by the Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Sicilian Sea and the Ionian Sea in the south, and the Adriatic Sea in the east. As a result, Italy has a very temperate climate ... but varies a great deal according to how far one is from the sea or the mountains. This beautiful country is characterized predominately by ... ...

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