What is fact is that Verdura's setting the stones in yellow gold was revolutionary--the era's regnant style, Art Deco, prescribed platinum.

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The same old Buicks and Chevys from the 1950s belch fumes under billboards bearing revolutionary slogans from the same era.

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The loaded artillery piece was one of two Revolutionary War-era cannons being stored at the park's Ramble shed, near the 79th Street transverse, according to the affiliate.

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Walking among the headstones recently, Silvia who was among the first female West Point graduates in 1980 points out Revolutionary War-era dead and stoops down to tidy the marker for a recently deceased colonel she admired.

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The time-hopping premise of the series means that it can milk the Revolutionary War for a year or two, and then move on to an entirely new era with all the buzz that comes with that.

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Today, we are a long way from the era when a single person working with an assistant or two can make a revolutionary technological breakthrough.

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