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...cavalry doctor with the 11th Cuirassiers during World War I, Raymond Duchamp-Villon knew equine anatomy well. As a sculptor, and one of the triumvirate of brothers that included Painter Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp, a founder of Dada, he was familiar with the idea that the horse gave aristocratic stature to its rider and had long been the very symbol of man in power. With the beginning of World War I, Duchamp-Villon foresaw that the power of the horse would metamorphose into machine power. The result was his Large Horse...
Even as Harvard proceeds with plans for the 10th House, many members of the Administration envision the eventual construction of an 11th House...
...there is an 11th House, it may be built on a plot of land adjacent to Leverett Towers and across the street from the new 10th House...
...thought it might have to use additional space to build a large enough House. Administration members then mentioned two major drawbacks: the undesirability of building one House on two pieces of land, and the sacrifice of the second plot, which, they said, could eventually be used for the 11th House...
...revelation also has its embarrassing side: Gytha's great-grandfather was none other than the cruel 11th century Earl Leofric of Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through town. In the light of the new British tax hike by a latter-day Harold (Wilson), some Britons may hope that the Godiva instinct is not dead in the breast of her queenly descendant. Elizabeth, after all, is a fine horsewoman...