The Emancipation Proclamation was drafted here, and the rooms downstairs once functioned as a stopping point along the Underground Railroad.
But while television proved a vast wasteland, the Internet provides resources so rich and vast that I find it hard to believe that I once functioned without it.
This was the cover of "Chapter Two," and while, to me, the singer looked inviting, the birds thought differently and moved on to a room that once functioned as a milking parlor.
A charismatic Tuareg aristocrat who for years had been alternatively leading rebellions in the desert and helping tamp them down, he once functioned as a liaison for European governments seeking to pay huge ransoms to release kidnapped tourists.
*How could a state that once functioned without any personal income tax, that first elected its current governor on his pledge to eliminate it, have become so dependent on the revenue that the state is now forced to raise the tax on its wealthiest earners?
As José pointed out a chiselled hole in one of the concrete walls which once functioned as an escape route, we met some of the resident artisans, and climbed through a hole in a roof to see the bleak muralla solitary-confinement cells.
It was about 10 miles south of Captain Cook, not far from Lucky Farm, that we found Puuhonua o Honaunau, a "Place of Refuge" that once functioned as the oceanside home of Hawaii's royal chiefs and as a safe haven for women, children and noncombatants during times of war, and for lawbreakers hoping to evade a death sentence.
The biologist Kenneth R. Miller, for example, has demonstrated that parts of the flagellum once functioned as a protein-secreting apparatus.
The Electric Power Research Institute once functioned with a very substantial budget that it obtained by getting its electric utility members to give like a 10th of a cent per kilowatt hour.
It's accompanied by an upside-down cross and the word Lusbel (Lucifer) and it marks the entrance to a series of orange rooms that seem to have once functioned as changing rooms.
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