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    Teapot Dome is a rock formation that had petroleum reserves that was used by the U.S Navy. During this time, Naval ships were switching from coal to oil and setting aside oil reserves was crucial in case of a war. In 1922 Albert Fall the secretary of Interior…

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    shed light on many pressing issues. He fought for conservation, lower tariffs, and better conditions for American sailors, among many others. La Follette should be remembered for his childhood, education, political career, and role in uncovering the Teapot Dome Scandal. (Legacy??) Robert La Follette’s childhood had a great impact on the rest of his life. In 1858, at only…

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    the first-ever medal awarded to an Anmerican silver manufacturer.The design was inspired by the non-western art.The figure of the teapot looks like mosque style architecture, visible minarets that closely identified with mosques and the tea lid consists of a single dome on pendentives.The use of arches in tea service handles and the design between spout of teapot and teapot body credited with spreading Spanish Islamic architecture arch design that lead into an inner space.The surface…

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    Hall Of Zhu Analysis

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    Wu Shi built the Hall of Zhu’e to celebrate his father’s eightieth birthday. This hall not only functioned as a tea-tasting space, but also an art gallery for present family’s painting collection and a museum for displaying the Yixing stoneware teapots. After the death of Wu Shi in 1545, the ownership of this hall has been transferred to the decedents of Wu Jing, who was the brother of Wu Lun. Fortunately, the good taste of tea within the Wu family remained. Almost a century after Wu Shi’s…

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    Wu Lu Beliefs

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    No matter it was Wu Shi or his servant who first created a stoneware teapot that fit the taste of the scholar-officials, the Wu family had played a significant role in the transformation of tea wares occurred in the early-16th century. This transformation not only occurred within the Wu family but also corresponded with the trend of tea consumption in Chinese society. Furthermore, it guided the practice of tea drinking among the elite class to a new direction and generated a new discourse of…

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    Tea is a hot drink made by infusing crushed dried leaves from a tea-plant. The English word “tea” comes from the Chinese word “te” (pronounced as “tay”) which means tea (Marcus, 2016). In the History of Tea article, it is said that “tea” has been with us since 2700 B.C. When China’s mythical emperor Shennong lived, he had tasted all of the herbs known to man including tea leaves, he was regarded as the father of Chinese medicine. Even though many people prepare tea differently it seems that a…

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    As of last week albert Bacon Fall had secretly granted Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome in Wyoming on April 7, 1922. After Pres. Warren G. Harding had transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the Department of the interior, that’s when Fall granted Sinclair the oil rights. When leases and contrasts went under investigation by committees of the U.S. Senate . Fall and members of his family had received from an unknown source…

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    Roberto Lugo

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    histories can work together.” The Roberto Lugo’s Angela Davis/ Toni Morrison teapot combines the spray paint letter effect with the dripping paint clumping together to juxtapose street art with expensive pottery. He uses the contrast of the nice stoneware and the street graffiti to show there are problems with inequality and racism in our society. Roberto Lugo chose Angela Davis, a social activist as the main focal point on the teapot. The artist is trying to show that even though the art is…

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    imagine himself pulled over by the police for acting like a teapot while driving! This humorous introduction…

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    Robertson of Oklahoma was the first Congresswoman to preside over the House of Representatives. But there were of course bad times too. Many of his cabinet members were involved in a scandal that ruined Harding’s reputation. This was known as the " Teapot Dome Affair.” The Harding administration was remembered as corrupt mostly because of all the scandals that took place. Harding also was not sure about his own political abilities, so he promised to rely on “The best of minds” for his…

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