July 27, 2024
Tag: Emlen Physick Estate
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Frank Furness, Philadelphian
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Walking into a building for the first time seldom prompts the question, who was the architect? Names like Wright, van der Rohe, Gropius, Pei and Fuller come to mind, but Furness? – not so much. Frank Furness isn’t well known beyond his home town of Philadelphia, but his forty year career brought over six-hundred homes,…
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November 8, 2020 4 Comments
A favorite question asked on TV trivia programs is, “How many punctuation marks are used in English?” I’ve heard this question on Jeopardy (a long time ago), Do You Want to be a Millionaire (a couple years ago), and most recently (last week) on The Weakest Link, where they ask the contestants, “Whose brain is […]