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Lee Lawrie was born in Rixdorf, Germany, in 1877, and came to America with his family at the age of four. His artistic talent revealed itself first as he sketched and drew the world around him as a young boy. At fourteen he was hired to do odd jobs in a sculptor’s studio, there he taught himself to model clay in the evenings. Within a year he had improved his skill and was allowed to translate models into full size sculpture for the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893. Later he worked in the studio of Beaux Arts sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

In 1910 Lawrie earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale and taught there until 1919.

He began working with Goodhue in 1895, his specialization in architectural sculpture complemented Goodhue’s early Gothic revival designs. The reredos (carved stone altar screen) in St. Thomas Church in New York is an important example of his collaboration with Goodhue which culminated in the exterior sculpture of the Capitol in Lincoln.

Goodhue and Lawrie had a vision of the exterior sculpture for the Capitol being an integral part of the architecture. Lawrie’s figures are engaged with the building, not separate and free standing, their form coming from the stone, buttresses and pylons of the building face. With his work for Nebraska, Lawrie brought Architectural sculpture into the modern era. Later work on Rockefeller Center continued this modern emphasis. From 1921-1954 Lawrie received eight national awards. He died in 1962, one of America’s foremost architectural sculptors.

The Gibson Girl was an iconic representation of the feminine ideal in the US at the turn of the 20th century, as portrayed by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. The Gibson Girl was tall and slender, with an hourglass figure and tightly corseted wasp waist. Why was an RAAF survival radio transmitter carried by World War II aircraft on over-water operations nicknamed the "Gibson Girl"?

What’s the proper way to break ground for the new home of the Cornhuskers? With a team and a plow, of course!

University officials broke ground on Memorial Stadium on April 26, 1923. An estimated thousand people showed up to hear speeches and watch Chancellor Samuel Avery ceremonially plow a furrow.

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Lincoln's Emancipation did nothing at all for slaves in Maryland etc.

Lincoln's Emancipation did nothing at all for slaves in Maryland etc.

Strategic move to outrage the rebs and give those enslaved hope.Think it worked

Strategic move to outrage the rebs and give those enslaved hope.Think it worked

I think it was more focused on Europe than the enslaved, who would not have heard a word about it generally speaking.  My guess is the rebs chuckled at it.
 The fact it did not apply to the Border States was a kind of issue I think, though he felt he lacked the power to issue it universally.  It didn't even apply to Delaware.