He followed that with five consecutive marathon victories : at the Baltimore marathon, in mid May, 1926; the Sesqui-Centennial marathon ( in Philadelphia ) in June; the Port Chester marathon in October; the Baltimore marathon again in March, 1927; and, on April 19, 1927, the Boston marathon.
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Thompson's genius led to exhibitions in some of the most prestigious art galleries in the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, New York World's Fair, Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor, and the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington D . C.
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A year after Hoover gave his speech, a monument was erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution, which simply states " ON THIS SITE / PRESIDENT HOOVER / ADDRESSED AN AUDIENCE OF 75, 000 / AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE / SESQUI CENTENNIAL / OF THE BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN, " finishing with the date of the address.
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It remained idle until a 1960s development plan for a modern sports and entertainment complex at the apex of Broad Street and Packer Avenue was realized with the eventual demolition of the historically remembered Municipal Stadium ( a last remaining structure of the Sesqui-Centennial Expo and the event site of the annual Army / Navy Game ) then renamed in 1964, JFK Stadium, in honor of the then recently assassinated president John F . Kennedy.
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The work was a celebration of the " sesqui-centennial of Methodism . " In 1935 he authored " America s Making in Connecticut " ( the more complete title of which is " The Connecticut Tercentenary Commission offers America's making in Connecticut : A pageant of the races " ), and " The Pageant of Hingham ", a work celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of Hingham, Massachusetts ( Library of Congress Catalog ).
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Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sections of roads in York and Warwick counties of approximately thirteen and one-half miles in length taken into the State highway system for improvement on account of the sesqui-centennial celebration at Yorktown be, and they are hereby, eliminated from the State highway system and revert to the same status as immediately before being so taken into the State highway system, and that the State highway commission be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to re-allocate the said mileage under the provisions of chapter five of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty.
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Thirty foreign nations attended the Sesqui, and all the planes from the exhibition flew in formation with aircraft of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to honor Mustin . " With the airship USS " Los Angeles " circling above, Mustin's most senior classmate, Capt . William L . Littlefield, commander of the yard, unveiled a monument with a plate reading, " This Tablet Erected By His Naval Academy Classmates . " " The ceremonies continued with a skywriting of'Mustin Field,'a flyover that cascaded flowers onto the tablet, a bombing demonstration by three Martin bombers, and a series of stunts culminating in'bubble busting'where aircraft chased balloons until breaking them all ."
