Madame Bovary de Flaubert ★ FanMail.biz: The Celebrity Addresses Database Early Dutch Books Online West Wing - White House Museum Ground Floor The ground floor of the West Wing houses offices for the president's staff and security, as well as the cafeteria and the White House Situation Room, made up of the Watch Center, a small conference room, and Video Teleconferencing Room. The old structure (TR/Taft Executive Office Building) had only a rudimentary basement. The expansion of 1934 included not only a second floor but a large basement. President Roosevelt was beaming with happy expectation. The West Wing ground floor once contained the White House Bowling Alley—two lanes installed with private donations during the Truman administration in 1947 but removed in 1955. Click a hotspot on the floor plan to visit the room or return to the West Wing Overview
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AudioLiterate The Mind is a Metaphor | Browse the Database Date: c. 501 B.C. "For souls it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water." — Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE) preview | full record "[He used to say that] there is a greater need to extinguish hybris than there is a blazing fire." preview | full record "One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverse every road--so deep a measure does it possess." preview | full record "[He used to say that] thinking is an instance of the sacred disease and that sight is deceptive." preview | full record "It is difficult to fight with one's heart's desire. preview | full record "[And Heraclitus said, admirably that those] souls have the sense of smell in Hades." preview | full record "Poor witnesses for people are eyes and ears if they possess barbarian souls." preview | full record "A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist." preview | full record