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  • On December 24, demonstrators dynamited the eighty-foot statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Frenchman who had completed the construction of the canal in 1869.50

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • One pressed leaf with a black spot — from an eighty-foot oak.

    Viewshed 2010

  • On December 24, demonstrators dynamited the eighty-foot statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Frenchman who had completed the construction of the canal in 1869.50

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • One pressed leaf with a black spot — from an eighty-foot oak.

    Viewshed 2010

  • One pressed leaf with a black spot — from an eighty-foot oak.

    Viewshed 2010

  • The parallel walls of water between which the Israelites pass were created by mounting cameras shooting straight down at water that was being agitated at the bottom of an eighty-foot ramp to create the effect of churn.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • Despite lacking all the skills that would provide us with the lifestyle we strongly felt we deserved, we knew that one day we would wear our own Top-Siders, actually worn down by us from use on our eighty-foot pleasure craft.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • In December of 1935, Rockefeller Center welcomed an eighty-foot, sixty-year-old Norway spruce, once again from Babylon, Long Island.

    The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Nancy Armstrong 2010

  • Then the seas strike again, maniacal eighty-foot waves over the mastheads.

    “Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

  • Despite lacking all the skills that would provide us with the lifestyle we strongly felt we deserved, we knew that one day we would wear our own Top-Siders, actually worn down by us from use on our eighty-foot pleasure craft.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

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