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Offshoots from the “Tree of Life” traveled from Mesopotamia to the Levant to the United States, beguiling everyone with their toothsome confections.

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The first American woman to establish an independent architectural practice, Minerva Parker Nichols built an unprecedented career in Philadelphia.