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The Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was a proposed planetarium, restaurant, and scenic overlook designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the top of Sugarloaf Mountain in Maryland. Wright developed the design in 1925 on commission from Chicago businessman Gordon Strong. Strong began to buy land on Sugarloaf Mountain as early as 1902, and between then and his retirement in 1935... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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    Gordon Strong Automobile Objective

    The Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was a proposed planetarium, restaurant, and scenic overlook designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the top of Sugarloaf Mountain in Maryland.
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    List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

    Chronological list of houses, commercial buildings and other works by Frank Lloyd Wright. ... Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland, 1924
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    Plan for Greater Baghdad

    The Plan for Greater Baghdad was a project done by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for a cultural center, opera house, and university on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1957-58. ... The spiraling ramp appears memorably in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and also in unbuilt projects such as the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and the Point Park Civic Center.
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    Point Park Civic Center

    The Point Park Civic Center was a proposed civic center for downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, where the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers forms the Ohio River. ... For instance, the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, designed by Wright in 1924, included as its main feature a spiraling ramp that wrapped around a domed planetarium, which was built on the top of a mountain.
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    Sugarloaf Mountain (Maryland)

    In the early 1900s Chicago businessman Gordon Strong bought substantial land holdings on and around the mountain. In 1925, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, on commission from Strong, proposed an automobile objective development for the top of the mountain, but that was never carried out.
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    President Barack Obama meets Prime Minister Gordon Brown

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    Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom and President Obama ... Everyday personal transportation in America is dominated by the automobile.
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    Richard Nixon

    Other parts of the Nixon plan included the reimposition of a 10% investment tax credit, assistance to the automobile industry in the form of removal of excise taxes (provided the savings were passed directly to the consumer), an end to... ... His objective was to prevent a war and safeguard Pakistan's interests, though he feared an Indian invasion of West Pakistan that would...
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    Bizzarrini

    With the objective of getting freelance engineering projects, Ferrucio Lamborghini asked Bizzarrini to design a new engine through Societa Autostar in 1962. ... Iso automobile
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    Woodrow Wilson

    Wilson was an early automobile enthusiast, and he took daily rides while he was President. ... As a long-term objective, Wilson sought $3 million for a graduate school and $2.5 million for schools of jurisprudence and electrical engineering, as well as a museum of natural history.
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    Self (programming language)

    Their objective was to push forward the state of the art in object-oriented programming language research, once Smalltalk-80 was released by the labs and began to be taken seriously by the industry. ... vehicle _AddSlots: (| name <- 'automobile'|).

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