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This article is about a building that once contained the United States' most profitable custom house. The magnificent design includes a plethora of sculptures and statues on the exterior. The second floor contains a sprawling rotunda with ceiling murals, as well as other rooms embellished with carved
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This page was promoted as a Good
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Customs Service moved out.
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appear to be circular (at least from the pictures on our article), may be worth noting that this one is elliptical (I assume the measurements of 85 by 135 feet are the minor and major axes of the ellipse, in a geometric interpretation)
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After nearly five weeks this nomination has only attracted one general support. Unless further attention is forthcoming over the next two or three days I am afraid that it is liable to be archived.
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That is a good point. I worded it this way because the previous sentence says the female figures are personifications; by definition, a personification is a representation of a human.
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Standardize whether punctuation appears inside or outside of quotes (to my recollection it was always outside up until the last section, but this probably warrants another check).
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Overall another example of your excellent work in the topic area. I look forward to supporting on the basis of image use. ♠
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seems to imply that the female figures are not human - Maybe clarify with "...of each group is a human female and..."?
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Since 50 short tons is the same in both long and metric tons, is there perhaps some way to simplify the conversion?
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I removed the duplicate link and added an apostrophe. You're right, it should be possessive.
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scan - not sure which is more correct; that may be worth looking into.
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I have now added inflation to all significant dollar values.
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The northeastern corner contained the cashier's office...
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