... brother Lawrence, who became something of a substitute father for his brother, had married into the Fairfax family, prominent and influential Virginians who helped launch George's career. An early ambition to go to sea had been effectively discouraged by Georges's mother; instead he turned to surveying, securing, (1748) and an appointment to survey Lord Fairfax's lands ... nation, he toured the New England states and the South. An able administrator he never failed to heal the widening breach factions led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton...

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... completion of this important construction, carried out with a special technique that made it possible to create the curves of the huge cupola without a supporting framework, took most of his life and formed the basis of Renaissance architecture (Pic. #2). Stemming off the Renaissance era the Baroque period emerged in both Rome and Paris shortly after the 1600's. This was mostly due ... and similar plant forms. In the second half of the eighteenth century the transition to neoclassicism was a direct result of a desire to revitalize certain historical connotations of the ancient world. Thom...

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