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    Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (also known as Westward Ho) is a 20-by-30-foot (6.1 m × 9.1 m) painted mural displayed behind the western...
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    Berkeley -"Westward, the course of empire takes its way …" Cole designed these paintings to be displayed prominently in the picture gallery on the third floor...
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  • alternative/post-punk band Course of Empire (album) The Course of Empire, a 2019 album by Atlantean Kodex Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, an 1861 mural...
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  • novella, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way", closes the book, as an extended response to John Barth's metafictional short story "Lost in the Funhouse"...
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    Emanuel Leutze (category People of the Revolutions of 1848)
    composition, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, which is also commonly known as Westward Ho!. Late in life, he became a member of the National Academy...
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  • "Westward Ho!", a 2014 album by Police Dog Hogan Custer's Revenge, a 1982 Atari 2600 video game also called Westward Ho Westward the Course of Empire Takes...
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  • Wallace in the final novella of Girl with Curious Hair, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way". The protagonist takes a creative writing course at a...
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    Mineral painting (category Conservation and restoration of paintings)
    Brace Jovanovich. p. 311. ISBN 9780156577168. "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way". Architect of the Capitol | United States Capitol. Retrieved 30...
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    Founders' Rock (category Natural features on the National Register of Historic Places)
    the same spot where Frederick H. Billings stood in 1866 when he remembered Bishop Berkeley's verse — "Westward the course of empire takes its way" —...
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    together;" Above the world globe soars the eagle. "while the eagle on the crest proclaims," Westward the course of empire takes its way." The bottom ribbon...
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    destiny was a phrase in the 19th-century United States that represented the belief that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America...
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    display of American fascination with explorations earlier in its history draws an interesting parallel with the westward expansion taking place during the time...
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    the festivities and bolster publicity: "Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way." Once a theme was set, the men began securing exhibits and getting...
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  • systems where the head of state has little practical power, and in practice the important part of the passage of a law is in its adoption by the legislature...
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    Currier and Ives (category Printing companies of the United States)
    The Life of a Fireman, lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier and Ives Friendship love and truth Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Takes...
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    The United States Capitol features a dome situated above its rotunda. The dome is 288 feet (88 m) in height and 96 feet (29 m) in diameter. Designed by...
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  • reshaped the political, social, and economic landscape of the world. These wars led to the fall of empires and redrawing of national boundaries. The period...
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    used by the Senate until 1859 and by the Supreme Court until 1935. The rotunda is 96 feet (29 m) in diameter, rises 48 feet (15 m) to the top of its original...
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    The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull. The painting, which was completed in 1820, now hangs in the rotunda of the United...
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    This is a list of African Americans who have served in the United States Senate. The Senate has had 12 African-American elected or appointed officeholders...
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    begin on the central part of the Capitol, where the rotunda and the room beneath it were located, until after the War of 1812. Construction on the Capitol...
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    Cyrus McCormick (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
    in the farm year. A company advertisement was a take-off of the Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way mural by Emanuel Leutze; it added to the title:...
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    The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia...
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    Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives—since its establishment as the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States in 1789...
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    United States Capitol subway system (category People mover systems in the United States)
    of its length, but at the Hart and Capitol stations the tracks converge into one, with a single side platform. This allows easy return travel on the opposite...
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    Tomorrow Berkeley: Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The first four Acts already past, / A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; / Time's...
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    of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, 'westward the course of empire takes its way,' and suggested that the town and college...
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    States Capitol. The congressional office buildings are part of the Capitol Complex, and are thus under the authority of the Architect of the Capitol and protected...
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    Russell Senate Office Building (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2023)
    61st Congress. The growth of staff and committees in the twenty years following its completion resulted in the addition of a fourth side, the First Street...
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    Rayburn House Office Building (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    The Rayburn House Office Building (RHOB) is a congressional office building for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of...
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