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In addition to the high school competition, NHTI students from the Architecture and Civil Engineering Technology programs showcased their skills by designing and building aluminum bridges as part of their Steel and Timber Design course. These collegelevel bridges, while not part of the competition, demonstrated the advanced techniques students develop in higher education.

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history Dec. 19, 1774: The British frigate Scarborough arrives at Portsmouth Harbor, the second of two ships whose presence quells an insurrection. In two raids during the week, dissident colonists have taken light cannons, muskets and gunpowder from Fort William and Mary. The presence of the British ships is credited with keeping the dissidents from returning to seize the fort’s 45 heavy cannons.

Dec. 19, 1975: The state accepts as a gift the historic John Langdon house in Portsmouth, birthplace of an early New Hampshire

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Dec. 20, 1863: New Hampshire man Benjamin Brown French attends “the most brilliant” reception in his time as a White House aide to President Lincoln.

Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are all on hand. The guests of honor: a Russian delegation visiting the capital. “The Russian officers were magnificently uniformed,” writes French, “and exceedingly polite and stiff in their manners, as all foreigners appear to be to us free-and-easy ‘Yankees.’ ” Dec. 21, 1999: Encouraged by a Vermont Supreme

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Dec. 22, 2000: Former Nashua alderman Phil Grandmaison is among 59 people granted pardons by President Clinton. Grandmaison served nine months in prison for lobbying two colleagues on behalf of the construction company

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