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http://www.mkwd.gov.ph/juana2016/ | 2020-07-08T06:36:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655896905.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20200708062424-20200708092424-00431.warc.gz | 0.952293 | 700 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__134653694 | en | Theme: “Kapakanan ni Juana, Isama sa Agenda!“
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 to Thursday, March 31, 2016
The observance of International Women’s Day (IWD) was a result of the organizing activities of women in the early 20th Century. Between 1909 and 1911, working women in the United States participated in organizing strike activities of the National Women’s Trade Union League and other concerned groups. They were responding to the low wages, lack of protective legislation and the poor working conditions to which women workers were subjected during that time.
The demonstrations were an offshoot of the tragic March 25 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which took the lives of more than 140 working girls, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants. Subsequently, the inhumane working conditions and other unfair labor practices leading up to the disaster were invoked during observances of IWD.
In Europe, Clara Zetkin and the Socialist Women’s International demanded that March 8th be the International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated each year to recognize workingwomen around the world. The celebration of IWD has since stimulated major historical events. For instance, IWD was the inspiration for the general strike which began the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg in 1917 when 10, 000 women textile workers demonstrated.
It is due to such history of women organizing around the world that IWD was officially recognized by the United Nations to celebrate women’s contributions to all societies.
- Proclamation No. 224 s. 1988 declaring the first week of March each year as Women’s Week and March 8 as Women’s Rights and International Peace Day;
- Proclamation No. 227 s. 1988 providing for the observance of the Month of March as Women’s Role in History Month; and
- Republic Act (RA) 6949 s. 1990 declaring March 8 of every year as National Women’s Day.
This year’s theme is “Kapakanan ni Juana, Isama sa Agenda!” (Include Women in the Agenda).
The theme resonates the call for gender-balance in leadership and decision making positions both in public and private sector; inclusion of women’s concerns in leadership platforms and the government’s development agenda; and capacitating and preparing women and girls to reach their ambitions.
Consistent with Proclamation No. 227 s. 1988, the annual conduct of the National Women’s Month Celebration (NWMC) aims to give due recognition to the contributions of Filipino women in our society.
Specifically, this year’s celebration aims to:
1. create an avenue for women and women advocates to celebrate the gains of the current administration with regards to closing gender gap, as well as to call on the next administration to continue supporting the advocacy and prioritize women’s issues in various agenda;
2. present the achievements of the Aquino administration in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, through the Report on the State of the Filipino Women;
3. gather public perception on what women’s issues should be prioritized by the next administration through crowdsourcing of “agenda ni Juana”; and
4. strengthen public advocacy on National Women’s Month, with emphasis on women’s issues that still need to be addressed. | history |
http://www.bdembassyyangon.org/ | 2016-10-22T01:45:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00093-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931454 | 312 | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__203938761 | en | The Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
11-B Than Lwin Road, Yangon, Myanmar
Tel: (0095-1) 515 275, 526 144
Fax: (0095-1) 515 273
Monday to Thursday: 0900 – 1300 hrs and 1400 – 1700 hrs
Friday: 0900 -1230 hrs and 1400 – 1700 hrs
Notice: All Bangladeshi Nationals are requested to register upon arrival in Myanmar with Bangladesh Embassy by email : [email protected]
What One may Know:
- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is the Father of the Nation.
- The 26th March is the official Independence Day of Bangladesh.
- 9-month-long Bangladesh Liberation War started on the 26th March 1971 and ended on the 16th December 1971.
- The 16th December is observed as the Victory Day of Bangladesh.
- Myanmar was one of the first six countries to have recognized Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign state on the 13th January 1972 and diplomatic relations between the two countries were established thereafter.
- Bangladesh Embassy was opened in Yangon, Myanmar and the first Bangladesh Ambassador to Myanmar, Mr. K M Kaiser, presented his credentials on the 13th October 1972.
- Bangladesh Embassy in Yangon has a Diplomatic Wing and a Commercial Wing, headed by a Brigadier General and a Commercial Counselor respectively; it also simultaneously maintains a Consulate at Sittwe in Rakhine State. | history |
https://travelpiper.nz/2017/05/25/%EF%BB%BFmezquita-de-cordoba-spain/ | 2020-04-05T20:00:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371609067.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405181743-20200405212243-00398.warc.gz | 0.954241 | 982 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__73105134 | en | After pounding the busy streets of Seville or competing with fellow tourists for Alhambra tickets in Granada, you might find yourself wondering if the Andalusian dream of long, lazy lunches and sleepy, sun-soaked terraces exists at all. That is until you arrive in Córdoba, the second-largest “Old Town” in Europe and home to some of the sultriest street corners in Spain.
We arrived in Córdoba after three days of scaling Granadian Hills and all the blisters and aching feet that go with it. The city seems confusing from the outside, as is perhaps fitting of a city originally founded by Romans in the 206 BC and subsequently invaded and settled by the Moors, eventually becoming the capital of the Moorish caliphate Al-Andalus in 766 AD. Under the Moors, the city flourished financially and culturally and was considered one of the most important cities in the Mediterranean world. The city’s crown jewel and main attraction, the Mezquita de Córdoba, dates from this period.
Our stop for two nights, Hotel Mezquita, was located a stone’s throw away from the Mosque and in the centre of Córdoba ’s old Jewish quarter. While the rooms are basic (but very clean), we were amused by the quirky and eccentric mix of English and Spanish antiques throughout. A delicious continental breakfast was served in the traditional Andalusian courtyard and while the hotel seemed slightly gloomy to start with, we were quickly grateful for any respite from the harsh August sunshine.
We got up early to explore the Mezquita, hoping to beat the crowds and get some good pictures in the morning light. Despite being officially called a “Mosque”, the Mezquita is more formally known as the Córdoba Cathedral and is still a functioning Roman Catholic place of worship. As a result, opening times do vary so make sure you check before you head out – in summer (between March and October) it is opened from 8:30-9:30 am and 10:00-19:00 from Monday to Saturday and 15:00-19:00 on Sundays. The best news is that the Mezquita is free for tourists between March and October (otherwise €10/€5).
The interior of the mosque is truly astonishing and unlike any other mosque I have seen. Unlike, its contemporaries in Damascus and Jerusalem (Dome on the Rock), the Mezquita was designed as a simple, democratic space echoing the traditional Islamic prayer space of desert or home. The space is horizontal in shape and dominated by a hypostyle main hall held up by hundreds of columns of marble, onyx, jasper and granite. Throughout, you can see the recognisable red and white double arches, modelled on those found in the Dome on the Rock in Jerusalem. At the south end of the hall, is the magnificent mihrab (prayer niche), which is potentially the most beautiful part of the mosque. Illuminated by 1600kg of gold mosaic cubes sent by the Emperor of Byzantium, Nicephoras II Phocas, the mihrab is framed by golden flower motifs and qur’anic inscriptions. Inside the mihrab, a single block of white marble has been crafted into the shape of a scallop shell that forms the dome and amplifies the voice of the imam.
If you have time after your visit, take a few minutes to wander around the Patio de los Naranjos, the picturesque courtyard that frames the entrance to the Mezquita. It’s full of orange, cypress and palm trees as well as gurgling fountains that add an air of serenity to any morning visit. This is the site where ritual ablution (washing oneself) was done before entering the Mezquita for prayers. You can also enter the imposing 54-metre bell tower from the courtyard via the Puerta del Pérdon, a fine 14th-century example of Mudéjar architecture. The tower was originally built to be the Mezquita’s minaret but was subsequently strengthened and made taller by Christians in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Afterwards, head to Córdoba’s Plaza de las Tendillas for breakfast to people watch and enjoy the 1920s vibe. Stop in any café (we tried a couple and they are all excellent) and if you’re feeling brave, go for the crushed tomato on bread (Pan con Tomate) with a generous glug of olive oil and a pinch of sea salt – delicious!
Happy Travelling, Moey xx | history |
https://www.kevinpaisley.com.au/brands/bvlgari/ | 2023-11-30T11:25:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100184.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130094531-20231130124531-00382.warc.gz | 0.922295 | 200 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__314697969 | en | We put your eye care first. Book a bulk billed^ eye test with us today. Book Now
The iconic BVLGARI-BVLGARI theme, inspired by the engravings on ancient Roman coins, has become the décor of a special collection of eyewear.
Symbol of the bond with Rome and Maison’s icon, the BVLGARI-BVLGARI décor - inspired by the inscriptions on the edges of ancient Roman coins - celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2015.
Introduced in 1975 as an engraving on the bezels of watches, it became synonymous with elegance and a distinctive mark of many of the brand’s jewels and accessories. To celebrate the anniversary, Bulgari has dedicated the BVLGARI-BVLGARI eyewear collection to this iconic motif, which becomes a decorative and functional element on various exquisite, sophisticated models that are perfect for today’s refined and modern woman. | history |
https://www.freearmenianpows.com/background | 2023-12-05T12:55:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100551.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205105136-20231205135136-00899.warc.gz | 0.971638 | 339 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__221943863 | en | In September 2020, Azerbaijan started the second large-scale war in Nagorno-Karabakh, after 26 years of frozen conflict. Following this 44-day war, a tripartite ceasefire declaration was signed on 10 November 2020, between the Azeri and Russian presidents and the Armenian prime minister, in preparation for a subsequent peace agreement.
The latter provided for the exchange of all prisoners of war between Azerbaijan on the one hand, and Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh on the other. By the beginning of 2021, all Azeri POWs were returned by Armenia to Azerbaijan. The process of return of detained Armenian POWs and civilians was done in several waves in 2021, but Azerbaijan deliberately stopped it prematurely.
According to information from human rights NGOs confirmed by the ICRC, Baku is still holding 33 confirmed prisoners of war, whom it accuses of terrorism and has unduly sentenced to sentences ranging from 4 to 20 years in prison. In addition to these 33 prisoners of war, evidence indicates the existence of at least 80 other captured persons (videos of their capture, testimonies of freed ex POWs ...) of whom we have no more news. Azerbaijan denies their existence. The fate of these "forcibly disappeared" remains uncertain, as the ICRC has no information about them and cannot visit them.
On 15 June 2021, during a trip to Nagorno-Karabakh in the company of Turkish President Erdogan and his wife, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev openly admitted the he was "still holding many Armenian prisoners of war" in order to use them for blackmail against Armenia and demand concessions not provided for in the tripartite agreement of November 2020. | history |
http://jwoo.flavors.me/ | 2014-10-21T03:43:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507443883.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005723-00020-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.928943 | 331 | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__180475215 | en | Evening on Place des Terreaux, a popular square next to Hôtel de Ville. This square hosts different city events like the Festival of Lights in the winter.
Before the square, the city featured towers and walls for protection from sieges and ditches that could be filled with water. In the 16th century after a siege, the walls crumbled, the ditches were filled, and now atop stand buildings like the opera house and city hall around the square. After a fire and many post-siege beheadings, the square became Place des Terreaux, accessible to the city with new streets around.
This “place” features Fontaine Bartholdi, a fountain of horses sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. In the US, Bartholdi is not famously known for the Statue of Liberty. First placed in Bordeaux, then moved to Lyon in front of Hôtel de Ville (west side of the square), the fountain resides permanently on the north side of Terreaux facing south (though just moved out and placed back in last year for renovations) .
Today, it is an easy meeting place, center of the city between two rivers and right by a metro stop. Locals gather for drinks and snacks at the cafes as workers walk or commute home. After a flight from LA with a layover in Zurich and train+metro from Lyon airport, I’m ready to meet Pauline right where we first met three years ago: at the steps of Hôtel de Ville in Place des Terreaux. | history |
http://flowersbyshamini.blogspot.com/2014/11/age-uk-bromley-greenwich-community.html | 2018-05-25T18:14:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867173.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525180646-20180525200646-00247.warc.gz | 0.944639 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__49118788 | en | Sunday, 2 November 2014
Age UK Bromley & Greenwich Community Volunteers Time Bank
If you're making a special trip to London to see the poppy display in memory of the soldiers killed in the First World War, it's worth also seeing the First World War galleries at the Imperial War Museum, and the Garden Museum's temporary exhibition (the GM is just up the road from IWM).
As well as the Gardens and War exhibition, there is a display in the Garden Museum of embroidered, printed and painted handkerchiefs, inspired by the memories of gardening in wartime.
The artist Cas Holmes worked with the museum on one of their outreach programmes. The Art Interest Group is organised by Age UK Bromley & Greenwich Community Volunteers Time Bank (CVTB), and with Cas, created a beautiful display in the centre of the museum.
Each handkerchief is so unique, because of the techniques used to create it, and the thoughts and feelings that inspired it.
Today there was a Thrift Fair and Skills Swap, and members of the Age UK Bromley & Greenwich group were there, knitting hats for Innocent drinks, to raise money for Age UK. If you want to knit a hat too, you can still do it here - each hat-topped drink generates 25p for Age UK's Spread the Warmth campaign, providing befriending, warm meals, and emergency support in cold weather for older, vulnerable people. | history |
http://mallettracing.blogspot.com/2013/02/group-1-rover-sd1-or-wild-rover.html?showComment=1359900564965 | 2019-02-17T08:50:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481766.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190217071448-20190217093448-00190.warc.gz | 0.983931 | 617 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__215340672 | en | The Wild Rover is one of those great drinking songs that originated in Ireland. It tells the story of a sailor who, returning to his home town, is refused "food and board" (politely) until he demonstrates his wealth. This week I had the pleasure of going to Ireland to meet a couple of gentlemen who owned a Rover 3500 SD1. This particular car was originally built by Dave Price Racing in 1979/80. It was campaigned in the Trimoco British Saloon Car Championship 1980, 1981 and 1982. In 1981 that operation was taken over by Tom Walkinshaw Racing and the cars were resprayed in Sanyo colours, retaining Daily Express sponsorship.
As with any racing car, history is somewhat difficult to trace. We know that in 1980 there were two DPR cars driven by Jeff Allam and Rex Greenslade. Indeed Allam won the Grand Prix support race at Brands Hatch that year, the cars were Triplex sponsored with ESSO support showing on the front of the cars. That ESSO support is quite interesting because it carried on into 1981 and appears in the original location on both cars. In 1981 there were two cars prepared by Martin Thomas for the Patrick Motorsport outfit. These were driven by Brian Muir, Rex Greenslade and at the season finale a third car was pedalled by Rad dougall (this one sold recently at Bonhams). But, returning to the DPR cars, in 1982 the red background ESSO marking only appears on one car, that of Jeff Allam, whereas the Peter Lovett version has the Sanyo blue paint with ESSO written on top.
In 1982 Peter Lovett won the British Saloon Car Championship in his TWR Rover in Sanyo colours. Jeff Allam won the class. But the story doesn't stop there. The car in question has Marlboro markings and dayglo paint, indicating that it went on to further campaigns after 1982. In fact there is strong evidence to suggest this car went to France as the mount for Rene Metge in 1983. The French championship, at that time was a cross between Group 1 and Group A so there was a lot of crossover.
The sharp sighted among you will have spotted the words "a couple of gentlemen who owned a Rover 3500 SD1". I used these words because I am now the proud owner of a significant piece of British touring car history.
This is the car showing evidence of its various paint schemes:
As can be seen there is a lot of work to do,not to mention additional research. There is evidence to suggest that this car is the Lovett car from 1981/82 and whilst Sanyo colours would reflect its most successful period, I think the Daily Express colours from early to mid 1981 would be a better fit. The build will be recorded and I'll put the info up here as we go.
Anyone interested in the Rover story from Group 1 to Group A might want to trawl through this thread on 10/10s. | history |
https://inbo.com/en/topics/meaning-of-a-place/ | 2023-04-01T17:14:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950110.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401160259-20230401190259-00795.warc.gz | 0.852929 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__99467097 | en | The meaning of a place
National monument Kamp Amersfoort is a place of mémoir et miroir. Of reflection, remembrance and, above all, looking ahead: What happened here and what can we learn from it?
The publication The Meaning of a Place pursues remembrance as a design theme and shows the emotionally charged history of this place of commemoration. The book unveils the relationship between the history, the traces in the landscape and the design of the new underground museum and the existing memorial centre.
Floris van Dijk | history |
http://macrovegan.org/tag/digestive-health/ | 2019-03-20T21:10:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202471.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320210433-20190320232433-00166.warc.gz | 0.985481 | 102 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__129435710 | en | Soups and broths have been a regular feature in cooking since before historical records. In fact, one of the oldest books in Chinese medicine is Dr. Yi Yins Soup Classic. In the West we can look to Hippocrates, the Father of Western medicine. He was fond of recommending barley soup to his patients. What we know is that when a person is ill, they may find it easier to drink a restorative soup than eat a full meal. Soups have been used for many reasons. | history |
http://portal-militaergeschichte.de/node/1659 | 2017-05-01T06:33:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917127681.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031207-00037-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.908199 | 584 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__272455681 | en | The Filson Historical Society’s Institute For Advanced Study proposes a conference that will explore the experience of POWs in all American conflicts since the colonial period. The conference aims to advance our understanding of the integral role prisoners of war played in the economic, cultural, political and military waging of American wars. In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the conference conveners are particularly interested in presentations that focus on this era.
Too often prisoners of war have been considered by historians to be a special, separate topic. If discussed at all, POWs make only a brief appearance in legal histories or in the history of POW policies or histories of POW camps. They show up as sums in casualty lists or are discussed as a burden on military resources, creating more mouths to feed, house and guard. This conference proposes to consider prisoners of war as more than simply casualties, losers or victims by examining the range of ways in which POWs played an active role in the conduct and outcome of America's military encounters.
The organisers of the conference seek paper and panel proposals that explore a variety of questions related to expanding the definition of the place of POWs in the waging of war:
- POWs and Military Campaigns
- POWs and Strategy
- POWs and Diplomacy
- POWs and the Economy
- POWs and Post-War Memory
- POWs and the Politics of Warfare
- POWs and Gender
- POWs and Race
- POWs and Community Studies
- POWs and Propaganda
- POWs and Consumer Culture
- POWs and Empire
- POWs and Globalization
- POWs and Migration
- POWs and Labor
- POWs and Health Care
A selection of revised essays from the conference will be published in an anthology that will be co-edited by Lorien Foote and Daniel Krebs. Please send a proposal of no more than one page clearly outlining the subject, arguments and relevance to the conference topic, along with a CV of no more than two pages to LeeAnn Whites, Director of Research, The Filson Historical Society, (lwhites[at]filsonhistorical[dot]org).
Single papers or conference panels are welcome. For panel proposals please provide a one page summary of the panel in addition to paper proposals and vitas from each participant.
Papers will be placed on line on the The Filson Historical Society’s website prior to the conference.
Funds will be available to help defray some travel costs for presenters.
Conference Venue: The Filson Historical Society, 1310 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY 40208, USA
Lorien L. Foote, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of History
Texas A&M University
+ 1 979 845 7151 | history |
http://www.harborhair.com/lancaster | 2023-12-11T02:34:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103464.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211013452-20231211043452-00547.warc.gz | 0.963075 | 117 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__277801284 | en | Harbor Hair Company is located in suites 16 & 17 in the historic Lancaster building at 1 Varrell Lane in York Harbor, Maine. We have ample off street parking available for our clients.
Pictured here from a postcard dated 1922, the Lancaster Building (far right) was designed by E. B. Blaisdell and built in 1895. We are proud to have our salon in this historic piece of York. Our salon features all of the modern amenities you would expect, yet is tastefully designed to respect the wonderful character of this unique slice of the Maine coast. | history |
https://www.techspot.co.ke/epson-printers-exceeds-your-vision/ | 2023-09-22T22:03:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506423.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922202444-20230922232444-00675.warc.gz | 0.952181 | 1,036 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__37989939 | en | Epson’s origins go back to 1942, when a company called Daiwa Kogyo, which was a local clock shop opened by Hisao Yamazaki.
An investment from the Hattori family, the founders of Seiko, helped Daiwa Kogyo expand into manufacturing watch parts and they began to open factories.
Initially the company was focused on manufacturing timepieces, but would later split into two separate companies, giving birth to the printing giant Epson.
The Beginning Of Epson Printers
Suwa Seikosha set up a company called Shinshu Seiki Co in 1961. This
company was a subsidiary that would supply intricate parts to Seiko
watches. The Seiko group was selected to be the time keeper of the 1964
Olympics in Tokyo and Shinshu began to develop and electronic printer
that would print out the timings of Olympic events.
September 1968 saw Shinshu launch the first ever mini-printer called the EP-101, in which the “EP” stands for Electronic Printer. The mini-printer was soon incorporated into many calculators, produced by the company, so calculations could be seen on printed paper and kept for future reference.
First Use Of Epson As A Brand
In 1975, the name Epson was used on the company’s next generation of printers. This was based on the name of the first EP-101 and SON meaning son of electronic printer.In April 1975 Epson America Inc was set up to sell printers for Shinshu Seiki Co.
The TX-80, an eighty column dot matrix printer was released in June 1978, which was mainly used as a system printer for Commodore PET computers. Two years later in 1980, an improved version of the printer, called the MX-80 was released. This soon became the bestselling printer in the USA.
Shinshu Seiki officially became the Epson Corporation in 1982,
launching the world’s first handheld computer in the same year, called
HX-20. This was followed by the launch of the world’s first portable
colour television, a year later in 1983.
Suwa Seikosha and the Epson Corporation merged in November 1985 and became the Seiko Epson Corporation.
The Seiko Epson Corporation went on to develop the Micro Piezo inkjet technology, which used a piezoelectric crystal, which was a feature of the Epson MJ-500 inkjet printer released in 1995. In 1994 Epson released the first ever high resolution inkjet printer. At the time 720 x 720 dpi was considered as high resolution and this is what the Epson Stylus P860A offered to the market, making use of its Micro Piezo head technology. Future models of the Stylus printer began to use Epson’s DURABrite ink and contain two hard drives.
Epson started to outsource their sales reps to retail stores in the
United States in 1994 and started a program called the Weekend Warrior
Sales Program. This program was introduced to improve the sales of
their, as well as enhance the sales reps knowledge of Epson’s products.
Sales reps were given weekend shifts with hours ranging from 12 – 20
In 2007 Epson ceased using outsourced sales reps, but did hire a company called ‘rack jobbers’ to make sure that their products were displayed correctly in a retail environment.
Nowadays the name Epson is synonymous with home and office printers
and it is likely that you will have seen one of their printers on the
shelves of any of the major electronics retailers.
With a rich history of innovation, this market leader will surely bring more technological advancements to the printing world in years to come.
- Epson LabelWorks LW-400 Label Printer(Opens in a new browser tab)
- X-POS P500 mobile receipt printer & Label printer(Opens in a new browser tab)
- X-POS P810 Mobile Receipt Printer & Label Printer(Opens in a new browser tab)
- Bixolon SRP-275 Impact Dot matrix Receipt printer(Opens in a new browser tab)
- PROJECTOR AND PROJECTOR SCREEN(Opens in a new browser tab)
- C13S015337BA Epson SIDM Black Ribbon Cartridge for LQ-590(Opens in a new browser tab)
- Printers, Scanners & Copiers for Sale(Opens in a new browser tab)
- Epson L1800 A3 Photo Ink Tank Printer(Opens in a new browser tab)
- Epson LQ-350 Dot Matrix Printer(Opens in a new browser tab)
- Networking Companies in Kenya: Choosing the Best for Your Needs | history |
https://maritrosclair.com/orange-county-nc/ | 2024-04-17T22:52:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817181.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417204934-20240417234934-00322.warc.gz | 0.978488 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__142430738 | en | Today Hillsborough is the home of writers, artists, fine restaurants, cool shops, government offices and a cast of characters. It has a long history.
The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen County, Granville County, and Johnston County. It was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic.Hillsborough was founded in 1754 on land where the Great Indian Trading Path crossed the Eno River
In the late 1760s, tensions between (in a nutshell) Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in theRegulator movement or, as it was known, the War of the Regulation, which had its epicenter in Hillsborough.
Hillsborough was used as the home of the North Carolina state legislature during the American Revolution | history |
http://miyagitheme.jp/spot01.html | 2019-05-21T03:34:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256215.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521022141-20190521044141-00153.warc.gz | 0.957437 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__122874175 | en | Entsu-in is a Zen Buddhist temple. It was built in 1646 as a mausoleum for Date Mitsumune, a grandson of the first lord of the Sendai Domain, Date Masamune.
Named "Sankeiden", the mausoleum is one of the finest buildings belonging to the Date family using the essence of many special techniques of that time, and designated as an important cultural property of Japan. The building still carries down the influence of the Western ideas brought back by Hasekura Tsunenaga, a missionary who was sent by Date Masamune. The painting of the Western Rose in the building is believed to be the oldest in Japan.
The tile roofed main hall creates a distinctive tranquil atmosphere of a Zen temple combined with the Japanese garden in the grounds of the temple. In the garden, a pond with lotus flowers, maples, azaleas, wild and native flowers and such, are arranged so that every season takes on its own beauty. You may want to take a leisurely walk after offering prayers. | history |
https://thetipsheet.typepad.com/the_tip_sheet/2017/09/new-hampshire-telephone-museum-receives-donation-of-antique-telephone-truck.html | 2022-12-04T12:25:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710972.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20221204104311-20221204134311-00511.warc.gz | 0.957108 | 640 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__294306361 | en | Warner NH – When someone calls the Telephone Museum and asks you if they could donate an old telephone truck to your collection, you say YES without hesitation! That is just what happened at the New Hampshire Telephone Museum when brothers Gregg and Eric Haskin, President and VP-Network Operations of the Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom in Waitsfield VT, made the call.
The Haskin brothers are carrying on the tradition of their parents, Dana and Eleanor Haskin, who owned and operated Waitsfield Telecom since 1904.
The Independent Telephone Company industry was booming throughout much of the 1900’s and it was during that time that the Telephone Association of New England was established. Many relationships were formed throughout New England and it is was through this connection that the Haskin family became friends with NHTM’s founder, Alderic O. “Dick” Violette, who worked for Merrimack County Telephone Company, the Independent that served Contoocook NH and surrounding towns for over 100 years.
Both Dana and Eleanor Haskin have passed away and although the company still thrives under the leadership of the brothers, on the personal side the Haskins had collected lots of antique telephones and related artifacts that have now become the responsibility of their children. The brothers both felt – and knew their parents would agree – that the fully restored 1928 Model A Ford Bell System Telephone Truck should be on display at NHTM.
“We’ve often talked about how an old telephone truck would really round out our collection nicely,” says NHTM Executive Director, Laura French, “but they are not easy to come by these days, so when Gregg and Eric reached out to us we were thrilled!”
The truck will make its official debut in the Warner Fall Foliage Festival parade on Sunday, October 8, 2017. After that it will be displayed in the Warner Firefighters Museum’s portion of the Telephone Museum building until a better display can be created.
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About New Hampshire Telephone Museum
The New Hampshire Telephone Museum is a non-profit 501(c)3 Corporation whose mission is to inspire curiosity by engaging a broad public audience in exhibitions and programs based on its remarkable and expanding collection. The Museum preserves the past and tells the stories of the telecommunications industry. The museum, which opened to the public in 2005 under the direction of Alderic O. “Dick” Violette, a 50-year veteran of the telephone industry, and his son, Paul Violette, a 40-year telephone industry veteran. It features the collection of four generations of one family who, collectively, have careers spanning nearly 100 years. Visit NHTelephoneMuseum.org for more information.
About Waitsfield & Champlain Valley Telecom
Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom is an independent, privately owned telephone company serving the Mad River and Central Champlain Valley regions of Vermont. Locally owned and operated, Waitsfield Telecom has been providing telephone service to the Mad River Valley since 1904. Visit WCVT.com for more information. | history |
http://mootube.ru/idejeich/Indigesti | 2017-04-29T21:44:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123590.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00505-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.6659 | 503 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__55643552 | en | |#||Release title||Total tracks||Type of release is||Imprint date||Label|
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Indigesti are an Italian hardcore punk band from the Torino area in North Italy. Their most active period lasted from the early to the mid-1980s. The band reunited just a few years ago, recording the critically-acclaimed album "In disparte".
Indigesti are famous for their unique guitar playing style, resulting in an especially tense, psychotic sound which led to them being considered by some as one of the best European hardcore bands ever. Their most prominent record is the 1987 LP "Osservati dall'inganno". It was released on TVOR Records, a small independent record label affiliated to legendary Italian TVOR fanzine which helped spark the upsurge of the Italian hardcore movement in the middle of the 1980s. | history |
https://playstation.goshopgaming.com/articles/the-evolution-of-the-playstation-a-brief-history-of-sony-s-iconic-gaming-console | 2023-10-02T11:40:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510994.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002100910-20231002130910-00345.warc.gz | 0.979068 | 566 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__56704851 | en | The PlayStation is a line of video game consoles created by Sony. The first PlayStation was released in December 1994, and it quickly became one of the most successful gaming consoles of all time. Since then, Sony has released several iterations of the PlayStation, each one building on the success of its predecessors and pushing the boundaries of gaming technology.
The original PlayStation was the brainchild of Ken Kutaragi, a Sony executive who had previously worked on the development of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System's sound hardware. Kutaragi believed that video games were the future of entertainment, and he saw an opportunity for Sony to enter the market.
Despite some initial resistance from within Sony, Kutaragi was able to secure the support of company CEO Norio Ohga, and the PlayStation project was greenlit. The first PlayStation was developed in collaboration with Nintendo, but the partnership fell apart, and Sony decided to go it alone.
The PlayStation was released in Japan in December 1994, and it was an immediate success. It was the first console to use CD-ROMs instead of cartridges, which allowed for larger and more detailed games. It also had a powerful 32-bit processor, which was significantly more advanced than the 16-bit processors used in rival consoles at the time.
In September 1995, the PlayStation was released in North America and Europe, where it quickly gained a loyal following. It was particularly popular among older gamers who were attracted to the more mature and realistic games that were being developed for the platform.
Over the next few years, Sony released a series of successful consoles, including the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable (PSP). Each new console added new features and improved upon the technology of its predecessor, making them even more popular with gamers.
In 2013, Sony released the PlayStation 4, which became the company's fastest-selling console ever. The PS4 was the first PlayStation console to support high-definition graphics, and it also introduced the ability to play games remotely on other devices, such as smartphones and tablets.
Today, the PlayStation remains one of the most popular video game consoles in the world. The latest iteration, the PlayStation 5, was released in 2020, and it continues the tradition of offering cutting-edge technology and immersive gaming experiences.
The success of the PlayStation can be attributed to several factors. Sony has always been at the forefront of gaming technology, and its consoles have consistently offered advanced features and capabilities. Additionally, the company has built a robust ecosystem of games, accessories, and services that keep gamers coming back for more.
Overall, the PlayStation is a testament to the power of innovation and the enduring appeal of video games. From its humble beginnings as a collaboration between Sony and Nintendo, the PlayStation has grown into a global phenomenon that has changed the face of gaming. | history |
https://renfrewlegionbr148.ca/our-history/ | 2024-04-13T23:12:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00369.warc.gz | 0.947682 | 692 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__14892984 | en | Our HistoryWe have been serving Renfrew & Area since 1929
Ninety World War I veterans attended the first meeting called to establish Branch 148 in 1929. History records indicate that there were fifteen charter members with the first president being Mr. A.B.C. Throop. The Canadian legion of the British Empire service league was the official name of the organization at the time in 1929.
The present location for the legion started with the purchase of the former home of the McAndrew family. The need to expand was soon realized and a membership building committee was formed. Extensive renovations of the building were started and in 1965 the official opening of our new hall was celebrated.
The mission of our Legion is to serve veterans, including military & RCMP members and their families; to promote Remembrance, and to serve our communities and our country.
The raising of money to erect a memorial to commemorate the dead of World War I was the first major work of the branch founders. The Honourable Thomas Low of Renfrew committed himself to contributing the major cost and consequently it was for him that low square was named. In 2008 the cenotaph was in desperate need of restoration. Comrade Bill Welsh, spearheaded this undertaking. On September 21, 2008, many townsfolk attended a special ceremony to re-dedicate and remember our fallen heroes at the newly restored cenotaph.
The biggest day of the year. The annual parade and attendance is a long standing tradition in Renfrew. It takes a lot of preparation by comrade Bruce Ferguson (the poppy chairman) and the committee to organize the preparations for this very special day. Many, many hours are volunteered by the members to poppy tag the weekend before Remembrance Day. Proceeds from our poppy donations are distributed to:
- Local Veterans Comfort
- Renfrew Victoria Hospital
- Homeless Veterans
- Poetry, essay & poster contest prizes
- Service Bureau Veterans Assistance
- Support of Cadet Units
- Relief of Disasters
- Restoration/Repair of Monuments
Live entertainment is provided in the lounge every Saturday from 4 to 8 pm and two Friday nights a month from 8 pm to midnight. View our upcoming events calendars
The Legion Seniors meet Monday afternoons to play darts and friendship. The Legion Seniors will start again in September.
Renfrew Highland Pipes & Drums
The Renfrew Highland Pipes and Drums was founded in 1913 and plays for concerts, parades and special events up and down the Ottawa Valley. We are proud of our long partnership with the Renfrew Legion Branch 148.
Most Requested Information
Lounge Hours – 613-432-2582
Sunday to Wednesday – Closed
Thursday – 12:00 - 6:00
Fridays - 12:00 - 6:00
Open Mic Fridays - 12:00 - 11:00
Saturday – 12:00 - 10:30 pm
Office Hours – 613-432-6450, email [email protected].
Regular hours: Monday – 8-4
Tuesday - 8-4
Wednesday - 8-4
Thursday - 8-12
Friday - 8-12 | history |
https://journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/source-review-the-tarot-history-symbolism-and-divination/ | 2018-03-21T14:34:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647660.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180321141313-20180321161313-00274.warc.gz | 0.949863 | 430 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__183310389 | en | Books on how to read Tarot cards are dime-a-dozen. (Figuratively, at least; Hermes help me, I wish they were cheaper.) Good books on the Tarot are fewer and further between, and most of them are associated with a particular deck – there are entire libraries, for example, dedicated to the Crowley&Harrison’s Thoth deck, alone. For a generalist book, though, you can hardly do better than this one.
Robert M. Place stand out from other Tarot writers, first and foremost, in that he can distinguish between myth and history. The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination actually has a chapter devoted to each. Unlike many authors, who subscribe to the mythical history wholesale, Place recognizes that the symbolism of the Major Arcana cannot be traced further back than Renaissance Italy, and goes to great length to prove his point, citing a number of studies and histories patently ignored by many in the New Age community, romantically attached as they are to the idea of ancient (even prehistoric) origins. He then goes on to describe and debunk the mythic history, showing where Levi and others invented the Tarot they needed, ultimately culminating in the well-known Waite-Smith deck.
From there, Place traces the individual symbols in many of the cards, providing a clear insight into their historical meanings and contexts. He describes the divinatory and symbolic meanings of the Waite-Smith illustrations (more commonly known as the Rider-Waite deck, a name which credits the corporate publishers over the female artist). He cites Waite and Smith’s memoirs, notes, and letters, giving us further insight into the origin of the modern Tarot deck.
Finally, he has a chapter on layouts, which – to my delight – overlooks the overused Celtic Cross and includes an expanded version of the Twelve Houses spread. It even starts with some general discussion of the theory behind various layouts.
Place, Robert M. the Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination. New York: Penguin, 2005. Print. | history |
https://mnindiangamingassoc.com/key-indian-affairs-leader-keynote-miga-25th-anniversary-banquet/ | 2023-10-04T20:13:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00368.warc.gz | 0.965595 | 614 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__133381005 | en | St. Paul, MN–(September 8) Franklin D. Ducheneaux, former Counsel on Indian Affairs to the U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and a key figure in the drafting of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), will deliver the keynote address at a September 15 banquet hosted by the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association (MIGA) in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Minnesota’s tribal gaming compacts. Minnesota’s compacts were the first in the nation to be negotiated and signed under IGRA, a process that begin in 1989 and concluded in 1991.
Ducheneaux, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, rose to prominence in 1973 as Indian Affairs Counsel to the House Subcommittee on Indian Affairs under Congressman Lloyd Meeds (D-WA). In 1977, he was appointed by Congressman Morris K. Udall (D-AZ) to serve as Indian Affairs Counsel to the full House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee.
From 1973 to 1990, Ducheneaux played a key role in the crafting of virtually every major piece of Indian legislation to come before Congress, including the Indian Self-Determination Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, the Indian Child Welfare Act, the Indian Mineral Development Act, and in 1988, IGRA. During his tenure, he earned a reputation as a fierce and effective advocate for tribal sovereignty and self-determination.
Ducheneaux’s role in the development and passage of IGRA was particularly pivotal, according to MIGA Executive Director John McCarthy A February 1988 Supreme Court decision (California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians) had reaffirmed the right of sovereign Indian tribes to conduct gaming on their own lands without interference from states as long as gambling was legal under state laws.
In the wake of that ruling, a coalition of state governors and attorneys general lobbied Congress to pass legislation that would give states some measure of control over the gaming activities of tribes located within their boundaries. Tribes opposed any federal legislation that would give states regulatory authority over their affairs.
“Frank had the challenging task of drafting a bill that would give states some measure of authority over tribal gaming without going too far in compromising the tribes’ inherent right to govern and regulate themselves,” McCarthy said. “He managed to balance those interests brilliantly, and as a result, the lives of millions of Indian people all over this country were changed forever.”
“Frank is the architect of Indian gaming as we know it,” McCarthy said, “so it’s only fitting that he should join us as the keynote speaker for this very special 25th anniversary celebration.”
The event will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel St. Paul Riverfront, a property of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, starting with a reception at 6 pm followed by the banquet at 7 pm.. Tickets are still available through the MIGA website. | history |
https://www.oldetownejewelers.com/item/vintage-14k-gold-gemstone-etruscan-victorian-revival-slide-bracelet-c-1950s | 2019-06-16T12:36:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998238.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190616122738-20190616144738-00356.warc.gz | 0.921652 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__209875547 | en | Vintage 14K Gold & Gemstone Victorian Revival Slide Bracelet, c.1950s
An exquisite vintage Victorian Revival slide bracelet, set with a multitude of dazzling gemstones. Each of the bracelet's eight slide links is unique, featuring an individual design and gemstone setting. Motifs include snakes, flowers and gorgeous Etruscan rope and bead-work. A miniature hand-painted portrait of a woman occupies one link and a delicately carved coral cameo rests on another. The stones include cultured pearl, agate, turquoise, coral, amethyst and citrine. Originally, slides were used on lady's pocket and pendant watch chains. As these fell from fashion, jewelers began using the gorgeous pieces as links for bracelets. In the 1950s the style was revived, producing a wealth of new designs that incorporated both Victorian motifs and classic jewelry technique. This bracelet is a stunning example. | history |
https://m.clevelandjewishnews.com/community/lifecycles/obituaries/jakob-herbert-gerhard/article_30e50f7c-935d-11e9-9229-83e713ab6d7a.html | 2019-09-19T13:51:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573519.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20190919122032-20190919144032-00083.warc.gz | 0.983479 | 857 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__179487147 | en | Herbert Gerhard Jakob, M.D., passed away in Cleveland on June 11, 2019. Services were June 14 and interment followed at Lake View Cemetery. Arrangements were handled by Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel. Rabbi Steven Denker officiated.
Dr. Jakob was born in Saint Ingbert, near Spiesen-Elversberg, Germany, in 1929. His family fled Germany for Luxembourg in 1935, then came to Cleveland Heights in 1938. His parents were founding members of the synagogue Gates of Hope, later named Congregation Shaarey Tikvah.
Dr. Jakob learned English at Coventry Road Elementary School in Cleveland Heights.
At 14, he obtained a provisional driver license so he could drive a truck for Dembovitz Bakery on Coventry, delivering bread before his school day started at Roosevelt Junior High School. He once delivered to a restaurant and was asked by the owner if the rolls were stale. The owner had a pistol on the table. Replying that the rolls were fresh, the owner replied, “You’re a good boychik.” The owner was Shondor Birns.
By the age of 17, he had saved $6,000 from that job to help his parents buy a house on Whitethorn Road.
Dr. Jakob graduated from Cleveland Heights High School. In 1947, then enrolled in Adelbert College (now Case Western Reserve University).
He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1948 and assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1949, then a sergeant, he was transferred to the active reserves. He then resumed his studies, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and then a medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
While a surgical resident at the former Mt. Sinai Hospital of Cleveland, he met a British nurse named Margaret. They were married in London in 1958.
After leaving Mount Sinai, Dr. Jakob took a position at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, Calif. He was the only surgeon in Humboldt County, allowing him to hone his considerable talents in all areas of surgery. While there, he was made an honorary member of the Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe.
Dr. Jakob returned to Cleveland Heights in 1964 and worked for the Community Health Foundation. He and some other physicians from that group founded the Ohio region of Kaiser Permanente, the first HMO in Ohio.
Dr. Jakob was for many years Kaiser’s regional chief of surgery. He also spent 10 years as physician-in-chief of the Ohio region, during which time he attended and graduated from the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.
Dr. Jakob was not only a proponent, but a practitioner of physical fitness. An avid weightlifter and later runner, he encouraged his children in sports.
All of his children were varsity athletes at Cleveland Heights High School, which inducted him into its hall of fame in 1992. He was fervently proud of how the Heights schools shaped his life and those of his children.
Dr. Jakob retired in 1995. He became a full-time grandfather to four grandchildren and later volunteered as a docent with Congregation Shaarey Tikvah’s Face to Face Holocaust education program. The program still uses a centuries-old Torah that his family hid and brought from Germany.
Dr. Jakob is survived by his two daughters, Linda (Stephen Barrett) of Shaker Heights, Dr. Harriet (Dr. Keith Kruithoff) of Shaker Heights and his son, Charles Jakob of Sacramento, Calif. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Hannah and Jemma Barrett and Bradley and Caroline Kruithoff.
He was predeceased by his wife of 60 years, Margaret Rimmer; his parents, Eugene and Friedl Jakob; and a grandchild, Emma Madeline Barrett.
Contributions are suggested to the Hospice of the Western Reserve, Kol Israel Foundation’s Face to Face Holocaust Education Program, or the Heights Schools Foundation, c/o the CH-UH School District. | history |
https://independentvoice.com/local-life/memorials-at-dixon-veterans-cemetery/ | 2018-06-19T02:58:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267861752.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619021643-20180619041643-00038.warc.gz | 0.902903 | 252 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__104975965 | en | This Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, will be a full day of honoring our fallen veterans.
The Sacramento Valley National Cemetery on Midway Road, south of Dixon, will hold a ceremony including the Air Force Band of the Golden West Brass Quintet (shown above) starting at 9:00 am.
Then a memorial service will be held at the Silveyville cemetery commencing at 10:00 am at the tomb of the unknown soldier, then move to the Flag area of the cemetery for a Flag Ceremony.
Beginning at 11:00 am another ceremony will be held at the Women’s Improvement Club Park next to the Library in downtown Dixon.
About 30 minutes after that there will be a luncheon at the Dixon Veterans Hall.
Boy Scouts and other civic groups will place flags on the graves of veterans buried at Silveyville on Saturday morning.
Other volunteers will place flags on the thousands of graves at the National Cemetery, starting at 9:00 am on Saturday, May 23. Volunteers will also be needed to help remove the flags all day on Tuesday, May 26 at the National Cemetery. For more information or to volunteer, call (707) 693-2460. Drop-in volunteers are also welcome. | history |
http://prefabhousenepal.com/shortcodes/gallery-grid/ | 2024-04-20T12:59:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00788.warc.gz | 0.974781 | 450 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__49244212 | en | Before drywall, most homes and building relied on plaster walls. Plaster was a time consuming process, that was often hard to perfect. Then came drywall, which made wall construction in buildings and homes much easier. Not only was the process quicker, but the walls and ceilings were much more attractive.
Although there have been other types of materials used for walls in the past, nothing comes close the the energy efficiency of drywall. Drywall helps improve insulation and helps to retain room temperature much better than any alternatives.
Not only is using drywall better for your energy bills, but is much more fire resistant than other alternatives. This means that fire will not generally spread as quick and can better contain fires, which could save your home. More importantly, it could save your life.
Drywall is a construction product commonly used to finish building interiors. For hundreds of years prior to its development, the interior walls of buildings were usually made of plaster. This was applied in layers over narrow boards called laths that were nailed directly to the studs. The plaster was pressed into gaps between the laths to make it adhere, and was built up in progressive layers. This building technique called for a fair degree of craftsmanship and experience, but allowed the builder to incorporate interesting textures or decorations as the plaster was worked.
In the mid-twentieth century, drywall, also called plasterboard, sheetrock or gypsum board, came into widespread use, and now almost all buildings have drywall walls. Drywall has a number of advantages over plaster, ease of installation being the most obvious. Any reasonably handy person can refinish a room with drywall, and you don’t have to take any training or join a guild to learn how to do it.
Drywall is made using gypsum plaster, which is then covered on both sides by fiberglass matting or heavyweight paper. Depending on the manufacturer, certain additions, such as anti-mildew and fire-resistant materials, are mixed with the gypsum plaster before applying the paper. | history |
https://www.michalprazsky.com/en/project/projekt-s/ | 2023-10-04T22:57:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511424.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004220037-20231005010037-00415.warc.gz | 0.97069 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__17557642 | en | The design of the new mug is inspired mainly by the history of the Svijany Brewery. The names of the beers such as Svijany Prince, Princess, Baron or Knight refer to the history and therefore the motif of the collar – the iconic collar that used to be part of the clothing of the nobility of the time – was chosen as the main symbol. The motif is applied to the glass in the form of an embossed relief, which not only decorates it but also lightens it. Thanks to the ear with a silhouette of the traditional Svijany coat of arms, the mug also holds perfectly.
Names of Svijany beers such as Svijany Prince, Princess, Baron or Knight inspired me to find the central motif that appears on the glass. This motif is the Krejzlik – a collar that used to be part of the clothing of the nobility of the time. The pattern that comes from this collar is applied to the glass in the form of a relief.
One of the client’s requirements was to create a design that would respect the history of the brewery but would also be attractive to young people. I wanted to achieve this by, among other things, a subtle simplification of the logo. The logo on the glass lacks two lines and is thus more youthful and sits more on the glass.
The absence of historical motifs on the glass was sufficiently compensated by projecting the Svijan coat of arms into the shape of the handle. The curved shape towards the body makes the glass very easy to hold. The year at the top of the handle is a nice detail referring to the founding of the brewery.
During the design process, several prototypes were made from 3D printing and milled plexi. This made it possible to consult with the client on all details and ergonomics. | history |
http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/free/20130705president-fort-mcdowell-yavapai-nation-dies.html | 2016-06-29T19:11:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.970113 | 917 | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-26__0__49682154 | en | Clinton Pattea, the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation leader who helped bring prosperity to an impoverished tribe while advancing the national cause of Indian sovereignty, died Friday at the age of 81.
Pattea served for nearly four decades as a council member in the tiny Indian community along the Verde River east of Scottsdale. He spent more than 25 years as its president.
During that time, he was instrumental in the campaign to stop construction of a dam that would have engulfed Yavapai land, and he helped pave the way for legalized Indian gaming by leading a successful standoff against FBI agents who raided the tribe’s casino.
Largely under Pattea’s leadership, the community of just 950 members developed not only the casino, but a Western adventures company, an RV park, a golf club, two Radisson resorts and businesses in construction materials and agriculture.
Pattea grew up on the 40-square-mile reservation in an adobe house with a dirt floor and no electricity or running water. His great-grandfather had been a Yavapai chieftain in the 19th century.
He attended a local elementary school and then was sent to live part time at the Phoenix Indian School campus. After high school, Pattea worked part time at Valley National Bank while attending Phoenix College, then transferred to Northern Arizona University. He graduated in 1959 with a degree in finance and business administration, and returned to a job at the bank.
Pattea was first elected to the Tribal Council in 1960, just one year out of college. In the early 1970s, he led the campaign to stop construction of Orme Dam, a Verde River project that would have flooded 17,000 acres of tribal lands. After a decade-long political fight, the federal government killed the plan. The Yavapai Nation’s annual rodeo and fair commemorate that event.
Pattea also became a leader in the tribal casino movement. In May 1992, FBI agents raided the Fort McDowell Casino, seized 349 slot machines and put them in moving vans. Before agents could drive away, tribal members moved in and blockaded exits, creating a three-week standoff.
“They had the rifles and guns aimed at us,” Pattea recalled later. “We were very proud of the fact that we did protest in a manner where no one got hurt, and there were no injuries to our side or their side.”
Pattea helped negotiate a compact with then-Gov. Fife Symington allowing the Yavapai casino to remain open.
The pact, which paved the way for other tribes, was considered a national victory for Indian self-determination and is celebrated annually by the Yavapai on Sovereignty Day. It helped changed the fortunes of an impoverished Indian community that had an estimated unemployment rate of 50 percent.
Pattea, considered a titan among Native American-rights advocates, chaired the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs for 16 years. In 2009, the National Indian Gaming Association gave Pattea the Wendell Chino Humanitarian Award for service to Indian country.
Pattea’s tenure has not been without criticism. His 2008 election victory over incumbent President Raphael Bear was challenged after disclosures that Pattea’s campaign manager had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexplained payments from the Fiesta Bowl. Pattea, a member of the Fiesta Bowl board, never responded to interview requests about the controversy.
Over the years, he repeatedly sought to establish the Fort McDowell as the venue for a professional sports stadium, but negotiations always failed.
Known by many as “Dr. Pattea,” the Yavapai president emphasized education as a key to rebuilding the Yavapai economy, and he oversaw tribal contributions to Arizona universities for Native American scholarships. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater in 1999.
“Education opens doors and gives a better understanding about working with the outside world,” Pattea explained in a 2003 interview with The Arizona Republic. “We want our young people to also invest or go into businesses that are off the reservation.”
Ned Morris, a Tohono O’odham Nation chairman, once referred to Pattea as “a man of sound judgment, experience and someone we can look up to and revere as a leader of his people.” | history |
https://www.appalachianpreachingmission.org/audio/music-and-announcements/music-and-announcements-monday-february-12-1973 | 2023-11-29T15:49:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100112.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129141108-20231129171108-00562.warc.gz | 0.921425 | 254 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__11675051 | en | Music and Announcements, Monday, February 12, 1973
Music and announcements from the Appalachian Preaching Mission on Tuesday, February 12, 1973, at the Memorial Gymnasium at East Tennessee Sate University in Johnson City, Tennessee. Music led by Gil Oxendine. This recording immediately precedes the sermon by James Forbes on this site.
Contents are as follows:
00:00 Prayer, Wally Rutledge, North Johnson City Baptist Church
00:47 "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
03:50 "Trust and Obey"
06:15 "I Need Thee Every Hour"
08:09 Announcements and offering
13:52 ETSU Women's Choir sings
Please note: In the original audio, the congregation sings "Every Day with Jesus" and Gil Oxendine sings "He Touched Me." These have been removed due to copyright restrictions.
Relevant documents are attached below, including the 1973 Johnson City Preaching Mission brochure and a promo that shows that the 1973 Mission was part of "Key 73," a nationwide multi-denominational evangelical movement.
Audio, images, and documents courtesy of Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Appalachian Preaching Mission Records. | history |
https://www.edgaged.net/2013/04/teaching-american-history-american.html | 2019-09-19T17:36:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573561.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190919163337-20190919185337-00029.warc.gz | 0.87014 | 98 | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__192564910 | en | If you are looking for a great resource for teaching the American Revolution, check out teachingamericanhistory.org and their interactive map for the American Revolution .
Here you can find a map with each location listed in chronological order. At each point on the map, a short description of the significance is given. The interactives are broken into three sections: 1775-1778, 1778-1781, and Treaty of Paris.
via Teaching American History - American Revolution Interactive. | history |
https://www.ahumc.org/blog/?page=42 | 2022-10-06T14:07:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337836.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006124156-20221006154156-00094.warc.gz | 0.97776 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__20982310 | en | The Live Nativity, a 70 year tradition at AHUMC, was held Sunday, December 6. We are so grateful to God for all who made this special event possible in this unusual and challenging year. The beautiful story of our Lord Jesus Christ’s birth offers us peace, hope, joy, and love anew. It is a deep privilege to share this wonderful story with one another and invite Christ to be born anew in each of us. Nearly 200 people gathered throughout the evening to view the four performances and many others saw it as they drove by on Basse Road. A highlight of the evening was having Rev. Harold & Patricia Burkhardt attend as Harold started the Nativity Scene in 1950 at the old church location on Broadway! Since 1980, Rev. Donna Strieb (along with Rev. Clyde Byrd until his death in 1997) has continued the tradition as staff coordinator. | history |
https://hoteltonanti.rs/en/home-page/offers/surroundings/popina-memorial.html | 2022-07-04T14:26:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104432674.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704141714-20220704171714-00650.warc.gz | 0.971993 | 287 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__185705112 | en | Popina Memorial Park consists of a series of giant granite stones – some shaped like pyramids, others like smooth arches – all with holes seemingly blasted through their centers. Standing several stories high, the sculptures themselves dwarf the vehicles necessary to reach the site, and a human can easily pass through their centers fully upright. Scattered along a wooded slope, at a certain angle one can align the voids into a tunnel-like configuration, which eerily leads nowhere.
Completed in 1981, the tribute was designed by the famous architect Bogdan Bogdanović. Though his name may not immediately ring a bell, this one man is responsible for some of the most immediately recognizable memorials in Eastern Europe, including Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Partisan Memorial Cemetery, the Stone Flower at Jasenovac, Croatia, and Kosovo’s Mitrovica Miners Monument, to mention a just few.
Despite being strikingly minimal in its execution, Popina Memorial Park has a way of sticking with its visitors, even if they know nothing of what once transpired here. On October 13, 1941, a small coterie of troops met in one of the first frontal combat engagements against Germany’s troops. Heavy casualties were incurred. More than 2,300 people were shot in Kraljevo between October 15th and 20th in 1941 as part of Nazi revenge. | history |
http://txng88.com/rock-island-confederate-cemetery/ | 2018-09-26T05:25:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267163326.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180926041849-20180926062249-00244.warc.gz | 0.961197 | 681 | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__179066273 | en | Rock Island Confederate Cemetery Rock Island, Illinois
Rock Island Confederate Cemetery is the only surviving remnant of a massive prison camp that once held thousands of Confederate soldiers. Located near the southeast corner of Arsenal Island in Rock Island, Illinois, the Confederate Cemetery is the final resting place for nearly 2,000 prisoners of war who died in captivity from disease and the poor living conditions of the camp. The modest cemetery stands in poignant contrast to the Rock Island National Cemetery, a half-mile to the southeast.
During the summer of 1863, prison camps in the North were overflowing with Confederate soldiers captured in battle. As a result, Union troops began construction of a new prison camp on an island in the Mississippi River then known as Rock Island, now called Arsenal Island. The camp opened in December 1863 with the arrival of the first prisoners captured at the Battle of Lookout Mountain. The Rock Island Prison Camp was designed to hold more than 10,000 inmates at any one time, and over the final 18 months of the war, more than 12,000 Confederate prisoners passed through its gates.
The deplorable conditions at the camp led some to call it the “Andersonville of the North,” a reference to the infamous prison in Georgia. Disease, including smallpox and pneumonia, ran rampant through the prison claiming many lives, while others died from exposure to the elements and the unsanitary conditions of the camp. During the first four months alone, more than 950 Confederate soldiers died. Initially, the dead were buried in a plot located 400 yards south of the prison, but on advice from the prison surgeon, a new cemetery, one that would become Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, was established in 1864, located 1,000 yards southeast of the prison. In March 1864, the remains of 671 Confederate dead were reinterred in the new burial grounds. In all, approximately 1,950 Confederate prisoners were buried in the cemetery, with the last burial occurring on July 11, 1865. All structures related to the prison were transferred to the Rock Island Arsenal and were subsequently demolished, leaving the Confederate Cemetery as the camp’s only remaining feature.
The Confederate Cemetery covers a rectangular, three-acre parcel of land, bound by Rodman Avenue and a post-and-chain fence to the north, Confederate Avenue to the south, and heavy tree cover to the east and west. A paved walkway extends from Rodman Avenue to the edge of the burials, passing a six-foot tall obelisk the Daughters of the Confederacy dedicated in 2003 to the Confederate veterans who died at Rock Island. At the south end of the grounds, opposite the monument, is the cemetery’s flagpole. Four Confederate cannons sit near the entrance, two each on either side of the monument.
The burial plot is roughly square and consists of 20 rows of graves running north-south. Although the spacing of each row is identical, the beginning and end of the rows are irregular. In 1908, the Commission for Marking the Graves of Confederate Dead began a program to place distinctive pointed-top marble headstones, inscribed with the name and regimental affiliation of each soldier, on the graves. The graves were previously marked with wooden markers and a few private headstones.
U. S. Army Rock Island Arsenal
Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served | history |
https://shapingreality.wordpress.com/category/history/ | 2019-02-22T23:46:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249406966.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222220601-20190223002601-00029.warc.gz | 0.956989 | 875 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__129355448 | en | How many truths can one World War sustain? On the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of war, I won’t attempt to list all the many different versions of history that have already been presented this year. But it’s worth considering the agendas behind these myriad competing truths. Policy is shaped to some extent by history, and so the way we interpret our past matters enormously to our future.
Some want to see WW1 as a noble struggle
This is an understandable desire, driven in part by the sense that so much death and destruction must have served some purpose. We can’t bear to think it was all for nothing. Or perhaps we want to believe that our nation’s role in the destruction was justifiable. A lot of people were killed by our shells and bullets. It would be terrible to think we didn’t have just cause. Demonstrating the villainy of the enemy becomes important.
Truths favoured by this agenda (from a Russian, French and British point of view) include the outrageous demands placed by Austria on Serbia as the price of peace following Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination; the demonstrable belligerence of some in Prussian-led Germany; the binding treaties of mutual defence; the greater degree of democracy in France and Britain than in Germany and Austria; the German invasion of Belgium; the sinking of the Lusitania.
Some want to paint all war as evil
This ideological view is hard to argue against given the horrendous succession of wars in the 20th century. And if we are opposed to war, than it is imperative to emphasise the extreme awfulness of the “Great” war.
There are plenty of truths to choose from here: the sheer scale of the carnage; the pitiful ratio of land gained to lives lost in most offensives; the conditions in the trenches; the environmental devastation; the consequences of the peace for later German politics; the ghastly new developments in chemical warfare and aerial bombardment.
Recruiting Propaganda: “Daddy what did YOU do in the Great War?”
Some want to position WW1 as the inevitable product of the imperial/monarchal system
Britain, France, Russia, Austria, Germany and Ottoman Turkey all had empires of varying sizes and extents. Five of the six had monarchs. They tore each other apart and nearly destroyed Europe in the process. By contrast, democracies without empires never go to war with each other. It’s a seductive line of reasoning.
The preferred truths for this agenda are more nuanced. They relate to the trappings of empire and aristocracy, such as titled officers giving orders from comfortable chateaux, while working class boys died in the trenches (true in parts), the fuss made over a dead Archduke, or the fatal confusion caused by a muddled telephone conversation between one aristocratic diplomat and another. The sacrifices made by imperial subjects, such as ANZAC soldiers at Gallipoli or Indian troops in Flanders also play to this narrative. And so does the early-20th century competition between the great powers for limited resources in far off places, as well as increased tensions at the boundaries between empires — especially in Eastern Europe.
Some want to make sure we never forget
Whether out of respect for the fallen, or out of a determination that we learn the painful lessons of our history, many are concerned that current and future generations do not lose sight of the cataclysm that engulfed Europe one hundred years ago. Truths that will lodge immovably in the memory are therefore, for this group, the most important.
Memorable truths include the large scale, the horrific, the unique, the bizarre: the numbers killed on the first day of the Somme; the exploitation of horses; the poison gas; the rotting feet; the Gatling gun; canaries; barbed wire. But they also include the symbolic. Poppies appeared once a year, in greater quantities than usual, in certain theatres of the war. It’s a truth, and a memorable one at that.
All of these truths co-existed between 1914 and 1918. They can be deployed in any formation to achieve all kinds of objectives. History is a battlefield; choose your side. | history |
https://www.stgis.at/2016/01/visit-vietnam-and-cambodia/ | 2024-02-28T13:05:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474715.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228112121-20240228142121-00897.warc.gz | 0.973529 | 479 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__143741703 | en | This Christmas break the IB history students were fortunate enough to visit Vietnam and Cambodia.The itinerary designed to accommodate the syllabus studied was diverse and certainly memorable as is clearly seen by the reflections below. Our amazing history and politics teachers sharing their knowledge, accompanied by the numerous tours we received from knowledgeable guides, helped to complement our knowledge gathered from textbooks tremendously and successfully brought historical figures like Ho Chí Minh and Pol Pot to life.
There is no better way to bring learning to
life than to explore the places you are studying! It is difficult to encapsulate these experiences in words; I think what I enjoyed the most were the little things we witnessed that made me think, whether that be contrasting architecture reminiscent of various times in history, a conversation with our guide about their family heritage, the vibrant colors of lanterns hanging above each shop, or the more sobering moments of feeling the consequences of the past in the present.
Having studied the Vietnam War for a number of years, it was fascinating to visit the country and see how the Vietnamese reflect upon and represent the conflict. Whilst to us in the West it was a part of the Cold War, a fight against communism, to the Vietnamese it was a war for independence. Understandably, the museums and monument to the war focused highly on the human cost and atrocities committed. It was also interesting to note the differences between North and SouthVietnam. Despite being unified into a single state in 1975, Hanoi, the capital of the communist north, remains less developed, and more traditionally Vietnamese, than Ho Chi Minh City, the former capital of the capitalist south.
There was a noticeable difference between Viet nam and Cambodia. Very quickly after driving across the border into Cambodia, the increased level of poverty became evident. The developingVietnamese towns and cities were replaced by an agricultural society where many of the population still live in wooden houses on stilts, set amongst the rice paddy fields. The visit to the Killing Fields – one the sites of Cambodian genocide – was a powerful experience.The experiences of our guide’s family, and the losses they suffered, were a poignant reminder of just how recent these events were. Despite such terrible pains, in such recent history (many current leading Cambodian politicians were once members of the Khmer Rouge), the people of Cambodia were incredibly warm and welcoming. | history |
https://readingcoremag.net/the-evolution-of-floors-tracing-the-history-of-floor-printing/ | 2023-12-05T19:42:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100555.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205172745-20231205202745-00149.warc.gz | 0.923498 | 705 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__262026955 | en | Floor printing, as an artistic and functional technique, has a rich history that spans centuries of human creativity and innovation. Tracing the evolution of floor printing allows us to appreciate how this art form has evolved from simple designs on earthen floors to sophisticated and captivating artworks that adorn modern interior spaces.
Ancient Origins: The roots of floor printing can be found in ancient civilizations. In ancient Rome and Pompeii, mosaic floors were a popular form of floor point of sale printing. Intricate patterns and scenes were created using small pieces of colored stones or tiles, showcasing the artistic prowess of the time.
Medieval Marvels: In the Middle Ages, elaborate floor designs emerged in European cathedrals and churches. These ornate floor prints, crafted with marble, limestone, and other stones, often depicted religious symbols and biblical narratives, adding a spiritual dimension to sacred spaces.
Eastern Elegance: In Eastern cultures, floor printing also held a significant place in architectural and interior design. In China, intricate floor patterns were created using glazed tiles and bricks, showcasing traditional motifs and symbols. Japanese tatami mats, made from woven straw, became an iconic element of Japanese floor design.
Renaissance Revival: During the Renaissance period, floor printing experienced a resurgence in Europe. Intricate floor designs adorned palaces, royal residences, and affluent homes. These elaborate patterns, inspired by classical Greek and Roman art, demonstrated a revival of interest in antiquity.
Industrial Revolution: The advent of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century brought about advancements in manufacturing techniques and materials. Mass-produced tiles and linoleum became popular flooring options, paving the way for more accessible and standardized floor printing methods.
20th Century Innovations: The 20th century witnessed significant advancements in floor printing technology. Linoleum printing became more refined, and vinyl flooring emerged as a versatile and cost-effective alternative. Custom floor printing techniques were developed, enabling the integration of personalized designs into interior spaces.
Digital Renaissance: The digital revolution of the late 20th and early 21st centuries transformed floor printing into a cutting-edge art form. Computer graphics and high-definition printing technology allowed for intricate and photorealistic designs to be printed directly onto various flooring materials.
Sustainable Solutions: In recent years, sustainable design practices have influenced floor printing. Eco-friendly inks, recyclable materials, and floor prints that replicate the appearance of natural materials have become popular choices, aligning with the growing demand for environmentally responsible solutions.
Augmented Reality Integration: As technology continues to advance, augmented reality (AR) has been integrated with floor printing, opening up new possibilities for interactive and immersive experiences. AR elements enable dynamic and interactive floor designs, enhancing the overall impact of the art form.
The Future of Floor Printing: Looking ahead, floor printing is set to become even more versatile and innovative. From smart floors that respond to movements to holographic elements that create a sense of depth, the future holds exciting advancements that will redefine how we perceive and interact with floor art.
In conclusion, the evolution of floor printing is a testament to human creativity and the quest for artistic expression. From ancient mosaics to modern digital designs, floor printing has evolved into a captivating and versatile art form that continues to leave a mark on interior spaces. As technology and sustainability drive further advancements, the future of floor printing promises to be a dazzling journey of artistic possibilities and innovative experiences. | history |
https://njjs.org/2020/05/01/louis-armstrong-house-founder-michael-cogswell/ | 2024-02-21T22:04:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00526.warc.gz | 0.970681 | 928 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__118489273 | en | “Before the job, there were two people in the marriage,” Dale Van Dyke told Richard Sandomir of The New York Times. “When Louis came into Michael’s life, he came into my life, and, all of a sudden, there were three people in this marriage, and that was fine with me.”
Van Dyke was speaking about her husband, Michael Cogswell, retired Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, who died on April 20 at the age of 66, due to complications from bladder cancer.
When Louis Armstrong died in 1971, he left behind 72 shipping cartons filled with his collection of home-recorded tapes, scrapbooks, photographs, manuscripts, and memorabilia. In 1991, Cogswell was hired by Queens College to catalog and preserve Armstrong’s archives. That led to the founding by Cogswell of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in the house where Louis and Lucille Armstrong lived, on 107th Street in Corona, Queens. In the words of an official statement from the Museum, Cogswell created “monumental research archives, eventually holding 11 collections of Armstrong material. The collections are routinely accessed by scholars, public school students, journalists, record producers, and many more.”
Cogswell was born on September 30, 1953, in Buffalo, NY, and grew up in Fairfax, VA. He held a BA in Music from the University of Virginia, a Masters in Jazz History from the University of North Texas, and a Master of Library Science from Queens College. He literally created the Masters in Jazz History degree at UNT by inserting Jazz Studies courses into the Musicology degree program.
Early on, Cogswell’s interest in jazz centered around the free jazz movement, and he wrote his master’s thesis on the music of alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman. But when he learned that Queens College was looking for an archivist to process Armstrong’s personal collection, he plunged into every recording of and book about Armstrong he could find. He was amazed by Armstrong’s life and art, comparing the experience to “Saul on the road to Damascus.”
In 2017, Cogswell oversaw the breaking of ground on a $23 million education center across the street from the Armstrongs’ house, which will house the archives, an exhibition gallery, a jazz club, and the museum store. In his book, Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo (Collectors Pr: 2003), Cogswell described the modest two-story house the Armstrongs lived in. “Louis,” he wrote, “lived out of a suitcase — he was typically on the road more than 300 days per year — and had no interest in owning a home. Lucille — who had spent some of her childhood in Queens — discovered the house, purchased it, and decorated it without Louis ever having seen it.”
Ricky Riccardi, Director of Research Collections at the Museum, posted a tribute to Cogswell on his Facebook page. “Everyone who loves Louis Armstrong,” he said, “owes him a tremendous debt of gratitude for his vision to open the Armstrong House, Armstrong Archives, and to raise the money for the upcoming Armstrong Center.”
Lewis Porter, Founder and former Director of Rutgers-Newark’s Masters in Jazz History and Research Program, told WBGO’s Nate Chinen that Cogswell “proved to be a remarkable director in every way. Under his guidance, the house and collection became world-famous,” and, “He did an unbelievable job at fundraising.” Dan Morgenstern, Executive Director Emeritus of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark (and Jersey Jazz columnist), recalled to Chinen that, “The house had been in a state of neglect. Nobody had really done anything that should have been done. But, Michael did. He went into this with such dedication and enthusiasm — and love, yes, I think that’s the right word. He just turned the whole thing around.”
Cogswell retired in 2018 because of his health problems. Currently, Jeff Rosenstock is Acting Director. In addition to his wife, Cogswell is survived by two brothers, Dr. Frank B. Cogswell and Col. Charles H. Cogswell. | history |
http://venezia.luxury/en/aqua-palace-hotel/ | 2019-11-22T22:28:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496672170.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20191122222322-20191123011322-00166.warc.gz | 0.915134 | 379 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__36324491 | en | In the Castello quarter, the atmosphere of ancient Venice awaits you at the luxurious 4 star Aqua Palace Hotel, a hotel that symbolizes the new Venetian hospitality for those in search of charm, seduction and comfort, in a perfect balance between traditional and modern.
With a contemporary touch, the finely furnished rooms and suitesinterpret the distant past of Marco Polo’s Venice, suspended between the west and the east, with soft lighting, fine curtains and special materials.
The intriguing luxury of an Hotel in Venice near Piazza San Marco: the 4 star Aqua Palace Hotel, awaits you in Castello, one of the oldest quarters of extraordinary Venice, in a location perfect for reaching the Rialto Bridge and St. Mark’s Square, as well as the stop for the vaporetto that travels through the Grand Canal, passing sumptuous palaces that reflect on the water.
From St. Mark’s Square, the sitting room of Venice, you can reach the hotel with a 3-minute walk, during which you can admire St. Mark’s Basilica, the splendid Doge’s Palace and even move on to the mercerie, a kingdom of designer shopping which starts at Rialto (5 minutes), with its famous bridge and picturesque market.
With furniture from the 1500s and fine finishing touches, the rooms of the 4 star Aqua Palace Hotel in Venice offer first-rate amenities and services in the historic quarter of Castello, with cozy, private suites and junior suites, some with a charming view of a typical Venetian Canal. The rooms, convenient to the Rialto Bridge and St. Mark’s square, are spacious and can host up to 4 guests. They are equipped with air conditioning, Wi-Fi internet, satellite TV and a bathroom with shower or bathtub. | history |
http://www.fsb4me.com/about-us/the-fsb-story.html | 2014-03-07T21:49:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999651159/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060731-00056-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.965402 | 606 | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__35762210 | en | Photo Credit: Tom Cross
The FSB Story
First State Bank has been your community bank since 1884. From its original location, to our nine current locations, it's been our mission to better serve Adams, Brown, Highland, and the surrounding counties.
Owned by dedicated stockholders and directed by a board of eight directors, First State Bank's staff and directors are active business owners and citizens in our community.
Locally owned and operated, First State Bank's goal is to enhance individual, as well as community financial prosperity. With the unique ability to make decisions locally and within guidelines that benefit customer needs, an in-house processing system makes us unique to other banks in the area. In-house processing means all of our bank documents are kept at our Main office in Winchester — and this means efficiency.
First State Bank holds honesty, integrity, ethics, and customer service as top priorities. As such, we offer full service with the latest technology, like online and mobile banking, to help facilitate all of your money management needs.
FSB has stood the test of time — by changing with the times.
Our story begins in 1884 when Lucien Jerome Fenton formed the Winchester Bank Company with a capital of $50,000 — quite a sum of money back then. At the time, the bank was a two-story building and shared space with a dry goods store. Today, it's First State Bank, Winchester Branch.
The Bank of Manchester was also formed in the late 1800s and its original location was on Second Street in Manchester. In 1976, The Manchester Branch moved to 210 Pike Street, where it still stands today as the First State Bank, Manchester Branch.
In 1959 the Winchester Bank Company acquired The Seaman Bank. After undergoing renovations in 1977 and 2004, the First State Bank's Seaman Branch still stands in the same location as the original Seaman Bank.
First State Bank was formed on May 1, 1969, when the Bank of Manchester and the Winchester Bank Company merged. At the time of the merger, the bank had offices in Manchester, Seaman, and Winchester. The new bank was built in 1976 and remodeled in 1990 and shares the same location as the original Winchester Bank Company.
Since then there have been more changes to strengthen our position in the community. In July 1989, First State Bank saw a need for a central office in the area, and built a branch in the Adams County seat of West Union, on the former Old Shell Property. Six years later, in October 1996, First State Bank expanded with a branch in Peebles, on the corner of Main and Church Street, home of the old McFarland Ford Dealership.
In April 2008, First State Bank acquired three branch locations in Brown County: Ripley, Georgetown, and Mt. Orab. And in 2013, we opened our ninth location in Hillsboro in Highland County, proving that we're still going strong — over a century later. | history |
https://wildabouthere.com/ancient-oak-and-giant-redwood-in-uk/ | 2023-12-02T20:45:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100452.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202203800-20231202233800-00844.warc.gz | 0.96255 | 450 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__70789058 | en | Not often can you go on a walk and encounter an ancient oak tree and a giant redwood. But we did.
Our magical tree tour started through an arch covered in roses. First we found huge rhododendrons curling and twisting through the dappled shade.
And then around a path and through an arc of shrubs, the ancient English oak came to sight. For hundreds of years, perhaps even half a century, it had grown while kings and queens had changed thrones.
My children stared in awe at the large girth of this ancient oak.
And a bird sang on one of its branches.
Then we weaved along more paths. A stick in hand while we passed moss covered trees or a fallen leaf filled with raindrops.
My son had always wanted to see the giant redwoods in the US, but he met his first one here in the English countryside.
A British plant hunter, William Lobb, brought seeds back to England in 1853 after an expedition to the US wilderness. Soon it became very popular and fashionable amongst British landed estates to plant the seeds of these monumental trees. Lobb gave some seeds to a botanist at University of London who then first named the tree Wellingtonia gigantean, after the duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. But this created an outcry in the US that the world’s largest tree – discovered in the US – had been named after a British war hero!
Nearby Wakehurst Place in West Sussex is famous for lighting up one of its giant redwoods every Christmas.
So the Soquiadendron giganteum is now known as the giant sequoia, giant redwood or the big tree, yet to this day is often called the Wellingtonia in Britain.
But the British giants are still young in comparison to some of the giant redwoods in the Sierra Nevada in California, many which are thousands of years old.
We smiled on seeing the berries of Lords and Ladies growing in its shadow.
And as we left the woodland path the giant redwood originally from the US soared above the tree line while not far away a magnificent English oak grew elegantly in the shade. | history |
https://hgmjewelry.com/collections/earrings/products/diamond-and-platinum-chandelier-earrings | 2024-04-24T02:32:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00878.warc.gz | 0.957773 | 329 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__185562154 | en | In an era where the glittering soirees of the Art Deco period defined the pinnacle of glamour, there lived a woman whose presence was the epitome of elegance. She was known for her impeccable taste, a taste that was encapsulated in her choice of jewelry, particularly a pair of diamond and platinum chandelier earrings.
These weren't ordinary earrings; they were a marvel of craftsmanship, featuring an array of diamonds totaling 8.00 carats. The brilliance of the F-G color diamonds, with their VS clarity, made them a spectacle of light and luxury. At the heart of each earring, a 0.50 carat round cut diamond shone brightest, its captivating brilliance enhanced by the luster of the finest platinum.
The intricate arrangement of the diamonds captured the essence of the Art Deco era—each stone meticulously set to create an intricate dance of light and sparkle. The platinum setting was not just a testament to the earrings' enduring beauty but also a reflection of the era's fascination with sleek, geometric designs.
These earrings were more than just pieces of jewelry; they were a symbol of the woman's exquisite taste and her embodiment of enduring elegance. As she moved through the grand halls of the most lavish parties, her earrings caught the eyes of many, a dazzling display of sophistication and a nod to the timeless allure of the Art Deco design.
These diamond and platinum chandelier earrings were not merely adornments; they were the highlight of her collection, pieces that reflected her unique aura and the unparalleled sophistication of an unforgettable era. | history |
https://www.photosincancun.com/chichen-itza-fall-equinox-2010/ | 2023-12-07T08:07:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100650.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207054219-20231207084219-00815.warc.gz | 0.941963 | 555 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__274990156 | en | Chichen Itza, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the second-most visited of Mexico’s archaeological sites and today is a magical day at Chichen Itza we went to see the light-and-shadow effect on the Temple of Kukulcan in which the feathered serpent god supposedly can be seen to crawl down the side of the pyramid. The process takes some time as we began to witness the phenomenon when a very large overcast cloud blocked the sun from casting the true shadow that runs the side of the Temple. This newly named “7 wonders of the world” is a fantastic day trip from Cancun or the Mayan Riviera with constant tours and buses leaving to visit the grounds daily. It really is something you must see with your own eyes to appreciate the enormity of the site. You are not permitted to climb the ruins any longer and tour guides are available.
Dominating the center of Chichén is the Temple of Kukulkan (the Maya name for Quetzalcoatl), often referred to as “El Castillo” (the castle). This step pyramid has a ground plan of square terraces with stairways up each of the four sides to the temple on top. On the Spring and Autumn equinox, at the rising and setting of the sun, the corner of the structure casts a shadow in the shape of a plumed serpent – Kukulcan, or Quetzalcoatl – along the west side of the north staircase. On these two annual occasions, the shadows from the corner tiers slither down the northern side of the pyramid with the sun’s movement to the serpent’s head at the base.
Temple of the Warriors
The Temple of the Warriors complex consists of a large stepped pyramid fronted and flanked by rows of carved columns depicting warriors.
At one end of the Great Ball Court is the North Temple, popularly called the Temple of the Bearded Man. This small masonry building has detailed bas relief carving on the inner walls, including a center figure that has carving under his chin that resembles facial hair.
Mesoamerican cultures periodically built larger pyramids atop older ones, and this is one such example. In the mid 1930s, the Mexican government sponsored an excavation of El Castillo. After several false starts, they discovered a staircase under the north side of the pyramid. By digging from the top, they found another temple buried below the current one. Inside the temple chamber was a Chac Moolstatue and a throne in the shape of Jaguar, painted red and with spots made of inlaid jade All information thanks to WikiPedia All Images © Photos In Cancun 2010 | history |
https://friendsofchapmansp.org/history-of-mount-aventine/ | 2024-03-01T13:05:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475311.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301125520-20240301155520-00002.warc.gz | 0.956829 | 248 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__199474072 | en | Mount Aventine changed hands several times in the early 1900’s. From 1938-1954 it served as a part time residence and hunting preserve for the Hubbard family. In 1954, Margit Sigray Bessenyey, daughter of a Hungarian count and an American heiress, purchased the property and set about acquiring other parcels which had been sold from the original tract. Ms. Bessenyey was a noted horse breeder who bred and trained horses at Mount Aventine as well as at ranches in Montana and California. The property served as a part time residence until Ms. Bessenyey’s death in 1987. A tribute to Margit Sigray Bessenyey by Ernest Szecheny provides more insight into the Countess and her life, including how she helped save a stock of Hungarian horses that were being disbanded by the U.S. Cavalry.
Additional information on the marriage of Ms. Bessenyey’s parents, Harriet Daly and Count Anton Sigray, can be found in this article from the The Salt Lake Herald-Republican dated March 27, 1910.
The State purchased the property from a developer in 1998 preserving this unique property for public use. | history |
https://animalvshuman.com/humanity/the-human-story-from-ancient-origins-to-modern-civilization/ | 2023-12-09T23:43:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100989.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209233632-20231210023632-00620.warc.gz | 0.914254 | 741 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__293706871 | en | The history of humanity is a captivating narrative that spans thousands of generations and encompasses the rise and fall of empires, the development of cultures, and the evolution of societies. From our humble origins as hunter-gatherers to the complexities of modern civilization, the human story is a testament to our adaptability, creativity, and capacity for both triumph and tragedy. In this exploration, we embark on a journey through time, tracing the remarkable trajectory of the human species from its ancient roots to the complex tapestry of the present.
The human story begins in Africa, where our ancestors emerged more than two million years ago. Homo habilis, with its rudimentary tool-making skills, gave way to Homo erectus, an early pioneer who mastered fire and expanded beyond Africa. These early humans were nomadic, relying on hunting and gathering for survival.
The Agricultural Revolution
Around 10,000 years ago, a pivotal moment in human history occurred: the Agricultural Revolution. This transition from nomadic life to settled agriculture marked a turning point, leading to the development of complex societies and the rise of civilization. Ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China emerged along fertile river valleys.
Classical antiquity witnessed the glory of ancient Greece and Rome. These civilizations laid the foundations for democracy, philosophy, art, and science. The Hellenistic period saw the spread of Greek culture throughout the known world, while the Roman Empire stretched from Europe to the Middle East.
The Middle Ages
The fall of the Roman Empire ushered in the Middle Ages, a period characterized by feudalism, the spread of Christianity, and the rise of powerful empires like the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphates. It was also a time of remarkable intellectual and artistic achievements, exemplified by the works of scholars like Avicenna and Aquinas.
The Renaissance and Enlightenment
The Renaissance marked a resurgence of art, science, and humanism in Europe, with figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei leading the way. The Enlightenment further emphasized reason, individual rights, and the separation of church and state, influencing the formation of modern democracies.
The Age of Exploration and Colonization
The 15th to 18th centuries witnessed the Age of Exploration, during which European powers ventured to distant lands. This period, while leading to significant discoveries, also brought colonization, exploitation, and the transatlantic slave trade, leaving a lasting impact on global history.
The Industrial Revolution
The 19th century saw the Industrial Revolution, which transformed economies, societies, and living standards. Machines, factories, and railways reshaped the world, but also led to social inequalities and environmental challenges.
The Modern Era
The 20th century was marked by two World Wars, the Cold War, and significant advancements in science, technology, and civil rights. The end of the century witnessed the rise of the internet, globalization, and increased efforts to address global challenges like climate change and poverty.
The Present and the Future
Today, humanity stands at a critical juncture, facing complex global issues such as climate change, political instability, and technological disruptions. The challenges are daunting, but our capacity for innovation, cooperation, and resilience remains undiminished.
As we reflect on the vast tapestry of the human story, we are reminded of the incredible journey that has brought us to this point. Our history is a testament to the enduring human spirit—the ability to adapt, to create, and to strive for a better future. While the path ahead may be uncertain, the human story continues to unfold, driven by our collective determination to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and enlightened civilization. | history |
http://stonearchbridge.com/video/ | 2017-10-21T03:02:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824543.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021024136-20171021044136-00777.warc.gz | 0.925783 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__146748987 | en | Below is a video about the stone arch bridge. Credit to Ray Lowry for making this video.
Uploaded via Youtube on Apr 17, 2011
One of the most recognizable architectural landmarks of Minneapolis is the Stone Arch Bridge. Built by Railroad Baron James J. Hill back in 1883, the Stone Arch Bridge is the only bridge of its kind spanning the Mississippi River.
Built of 100,000 tons of granite and limestone, this 2,100 foot long structure, composed of twenty-three gracefully curving arches, helped usher the railroad age into the city of Minneapolis. In its heyday, forty-eight passenger trains crossed the Stone Arch Bridge each and every day bringing thousands of travelers into and out of the central business district of Minneapolis. But as air travel replaced passenger train travel, the bridge went into decline. By 1980 it had become little more than a fenced off, derelict structure surrounded by crumbling, abandoned flour mills.
In 1994 a partnership of public agencies rehabilitated the bridge for pedestrian use. Today the Stone Arch Bridge is the jewel of the brilliantly redeveloped Minneapolis Riverfront. Thanks primarily to the Minneapolis Park Board, our grandchildren, as well as our grandchildrens’ grandchildren, will one day be able to stroll across the Mississippi River on James J. Hill’s monument to the railroad age.
– Ray Lowry | history |
https://www.spartanburgartmuseum.org/permanent-collection-1/nagasaki-by-moonlight | 2024-02-22T20:26:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00445.warc.gz | 0.927136 | 368 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__197387625 | en | Nagasaki by Moonlight
Hiroaki (Shōtei) Takahashi
6 x 15 inches
15 x 38 centimeters
about the work
Originally believed to be a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print ca. 1680, this print is actually an example of shin-hanga, a modern revival of the classic woodblock technique. Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885-1962) owned a print studio that pioneered the shin-hanga movement, where he employed dozens of printmakers. The shin-hanga prints were not popular in Japan, so most were sent overseas to North America and Europe, where the Japonisme aesthetic movement was still popular. When the Great Kanto Earthquake rattled Japan in 1923, the studio and all of the original print blocks and stored prints were destroyed. Watanabe and his artists re-carved the lost print blocks, sometimes making subtle changes to the designs.
The S. Watanabe woodcut print shop is still in operation in Tokyo today.
This particular print block, as well as its "sister" in Spartanburg Art Museum's collection (Autumn Moon at Ishikawa) was likely designed and printed post-earthquake. Another copy of this image is in the Robert O. Muller collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.
about the artist
Hiroaki (Shōtei) Takahashi (1870-1945) was a prolific Japanese wood block artist, estimated to have created over 500 print blocks over the course of his career.
Other examples of Hiroaki's prints can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. | history |
http://www.book2egypt.com/index.php/package/jewel-the-nile-sun-festival.html | 2018-01-20T23:10:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084889736.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180120221621-20180121001621-00171.warc.gz | 0.921119 | 2,171 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__87208191 | en | Jewel of the Nile Sun Festival - 11 days (15 OCT, START )
Premium Tour. Staying in some of Egypt's smartest hotels and cruising aboard a luxury 5 star Nile cruiser, you'll see the best of legendary Egypt and witness the grand Sun Festival of King Ramses II at Abu Simbel!
Day 1: Cairo
Welcome to Egypt and the start of a wonderful holiday! Arrive Cairo airport, meet and greet service and included transfer to 5 star hotel, located at the foot of the Great Pyramids of Giza. Overnight - Cairo
Day 2: Egyptian Museum
We start with the dazzling antiquities at the Egyptian Museum. Amongst the many exhibits are the treasures of King Tutankhamen. This afternoon offers free time to relax and enjoy the hotel facilities or join us for an optional city tour visiting old Cairo and the Islamic citadel. Overnight - Cairo (B)
Day 3: Pyramids of Giza and Saqqara
Cairo - Luxor. Today we visit Egypt's most loved sight - The Great Pyramids of Giza. We explore the Giza plateau, pyramids and massive lion-headed Sphinx. Later, we tour Saqqara - an ancient necropolis with many half-buried tombs and the famous Zhoser’s step pyramid. Tonight we take an overnight sleeper cabin train south to Luxor. Overnight - Sleeper Train (B, D)
Day 4: Valley of the Kings
Arriving into Luxor we have a full day of sightseeing ahead of us, dictated by the early departure of all Nile cruisers tomorrow morning. The massive pair of statues known as the Colossi of Memnon are the first monuments you’ll see during our morning visit to the West Bank, home to the legendary Valley of the Kings and the colonnaded Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Return to Luxor for check-in aboard our Nile 5 star cruiser. Lunch and time to freshen up.Afternoon visit to the magnificent Temple of Karnak. More than a temple, it’s a gigantic and stunning complex of sanctuaries and pylons dedicated to the Theban gods. Later, we visit to the Temple of Luxor built by Pharaoh Amenophis III. Luxor Temple looks stunning at dusk and is beautifully illuminated at night.
Note: Dependent upon Nile Cruiser scheduling it maybe required that we also undertake our excursion to Karnak Temple this afternoon. Should this occur, day 5 will be spent at leisure. Overnight - Nile Cruiser (B, L, D)
Day 5: 5 Star Nile Cruising
Luxor - Nile cruising. As the sun rises it's anchor’s away! Our cruiser will depart Luxor in the early hours of the morning to wait in queue for the opening of the Esna lock. For us, we enjoy a well deserved day of complete R&R. Pull up a deck chair and relax as we sail upstream toward Temple of Horus at Edfu. depending on our cruise schedule we may tour Edfu Temple this afternoon or early tomorrow morning. Overnight - Nile Cruiser (B, L, D)
Day 6: Kom Ombo Temple
A relaxing day as we sail the Nile. Later today, we visit the waterside Temple of Kom Ombo. Arrive Aswan late evening and remainder on the evening at leisure. Overnight - Nile Cruiser (B, L, D)
Day 7: Aswan - Egypt's most southern city
Nile Cruiser - Abu Simbel. Today, we visit the Philae Temple. Later after lunch, a visit to the High Dam and take a felucca boat journey to Elephantine and Kitchener Island. As the sun sets, free time to shop in the colourful souqs and markets or simply relax and watch an amazing sunset in Egypt's southern most town straddling the River Nile.
There is time to rest before departing in the wee hours of the morning on our coach journey toward the Grand Temples of Abu Simbel. In readiness we await for the first rays of golden sunlight to touch the temple gate signifying the start of the Sun Festival of the mighty King Ramses II. Overnight - Nile Cruiser/ coach journey to Abu Simbel (B, L, D)
Day 8: SUN FESTIVAL – TEMPLE OF KING RAMSES II – ABU SIMBEL
Friday 22 October 2011. Abu Simbel – Aswan. Possibly the most awe-inspiring temple of all ancient Egypt, with its gargantuan rock-cut façade, the great Sun Temple of King Ramses II at Abu Simbel was created to revere the mighty pharaonic ruler King Ramses II. Ramses the Bold, Ramses the Great, Ramses the Narcissist are perhaps all apt titles for one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful rulers. Celebrating a life that spanned nearly a centenary, Ramses had plenty of time for his more than 200 wives and concubines who produced him some 96 sons and 60 daughters.
Built by Ramses II to demonstrate his political clout and divine backing to the ancient Nubians, Abu Simbel is an awesome self-tribute. Guarding the entrance to the temple (built between 1290 and 1224 BC) hewn into the side of a mountain are four famous colossal statues of the pharaoh himself, which sit majestically staring out across the desert, seemingly since time began. Over the centuries, the desert sands imperceptibly shifted until the temple was all but lost to humanity. It was rediscovered by chance in 1813 by a Swiss explorer called John Lewis Burkhardt. Only one of the heads of the pharaohs was showing and only a small part of the rest of the colossal temple peeked above the desert sands. It wasn’t until the British happened upon Abu Simbel and starting excavating, that the full glory of the temple of Abu Simbel was revealed to the modern world. The other rock cut temple at Abu Simbel is the Temple of Hathor, which is fronted by six massive standing statues. Four of them represent King Ramses II, whilst the other two are of his beloved wife, Queen Nefertari.
The temple was dedicated to the deified Pharaoh, King Ramses II, known also as the great builder and the gods Amun-Re, Re-Herakhte and Ptah. In a fit of precision and architectural egotism, Ramses II had the entire temple carefully angled and oriented in order that the sun’s rays would align twice a year on his date of his ascension to the throne (21 February) and on his birthday (21 October) and illuminate the inner sanctum of the temple. This incredible natural phenomenon provides for a most spectacular sight, which has come to be referred to as the Sun Festival of King Ramses II. Crowds pack in to the temple before sunrise and watch the shafts of light slowly creeping through the rock hewn inner Hypostyle Hall (replete with further statues of the king) and through to the Sanctuary. Significantly, the sun illuminates statues of Amun-Re, Re-Herakhte and Ramses the god, whilst the statute of Ptah - the god of darkness - remains in the shadows.
Famously, the temple was re-located in a multi-million dollar operation in 1972, further up from the shoreline of Lake Nasser, which had threatened to erode the foundations of this monolithic temple complex. For this reason, the sun now strikes a day later than Ramses had originally planned, though the event this morning itself is no less stunning. After the event, there will also be plenty of time to explore the Sun Temple of King Ramses II and also the Temple of Hathor and take plenty of pictures.
Afterward returning to Aswan, the afternoon offers time to relax and enjoy the hotel facilities. Later this evening we'll head to the colourful local souq (market) for a little bargain hunting. The lively night market offers comic entertainment as the sellers go about the business of hocking their wares. The market also offers an extensive array of cotton products, spices, wooden and copper ornaments, alabaster statues, beaded jewellery and mother of pearl trinkets at some of the best prices in the country. Overnight - Aswan (B)
Day 9: Aswan - free time to explore
Aswan - Cairo. A free day to explore Aswan your own way. Return to the colourful markets or simply relax and sip on a cocktail and watch the feluccas ply their way in Egypt's southern most town straddling the River Nile. This evening, we board the overnight train for our journey back to Cairo. Enjoy a light dinner in the comfort of your sleeper cabin. Overnight - Sleeper Train (B, D)
Day 10: Cairo
Arriving into Cairo and hotel check in. Today remains free for you to further explore this exciting city or maybe head to Khan el Khalili market for a little last minute souvenir shopping. Overnight - Cairo (B)
Day 11: Cairo
breakfast and included onward departure transfer to airport. (B)
Cruise schedules & hotels
Cruise Schedules: Dependent upon sailing schedules, our cruise may start from either Aswan or Luxor. Content of tour will remain the same.
Cairo Accommodation: Your tour includes a first and second stay within greater Cairo. One stay (either first or second) will commence at a hotel located in the Pyramids area and the other will be undertaken in a downtown area. The choice as to which location will be used first and second will be notated upon your tour voucher.
Prices & Departure Dates
Prices shown are per person travelling. 'Twin/Double' prices per person apply when there are 2 people travelling, sharing a room. The 'Single supplement' applies for single travellers who require their own room and needs to be added to the 'Twin/Double' price. If you are happy to be paired up with another single traveller of the same sex on your tour, this can be arranged, thus avoiding the single person supplement.
All our scheduled tour departures are guaranteed subject to a minimum of 2 travellers.
To date we have not cancelled a single trip!
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https://knu.ua/en/geninf/history | 2024-04-15T00:16:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00613.warc.gz | 0.952442 | 5,605 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__101878302 | en | І. The establishment of Kyiv University and its pre-revolutionary operation during 1834-1917
1. Kyiv University during the first half of the 19th century
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is a research university with a classic tradition and is the leading establishment of higher education in Ukraine. Its history dates back to November 8, 1833, when its establishment was supported by C.C. Uvarov, then Minister of Education, who founded the Imperial University of Saint Volodymyr with the transfer to Kyiv of the Polish Kremenets High School. The inauguration of the university was on July 15, 1834, the Memorial Day of Saint Prince Volodymyr.
| The Order of Nicholas I to the Ministry of National Education approving the draft statute and status of the University of Saint Volodymyr
On 18 October 1834 Mykhailo Maksymovych, a 30-year-old Professor of botany, history, folklore and a prominent encyclopaedic academic, was appointed as the first Rector of the University by Emperor Nicholas I.
|Portrait of M.O. Maksymovych by Taras Shevchenko (1845)
During the 1834-1835 academic year only the Faculty of Philosophy was in operation at the university, with two Departments: History and Linguistics, and Physics and Mathematics. In the first year 62 students were enrolled and on 28 August 1834 the university commenced teaching. The Faculty of Law opened in 1835 opened, and in 1841 the Medical School was founded, based upon the Medical School of Vilensky University of Vilnius that had been shut down.
A major challenge for the university was the lack of its own premises. Its management was forced during the first eight years to rent a number of private buildings that had not been adapted for educational work. The construction of a new building commenced on 31 July 1837, designed by Vincent Beretti, Professor of Architecture at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
|Vincent Beretti (1781-1842). Architect, academician, master of Russian classicistic architecture. Designer of university buildings and botanical garden.
Under his direct supervision, the building was constructed in a classical style, and is today still used as the main building of the university. Meanwhile, Professor E. Trautfetter laid out the Botanical Gardens, which are still in use today. The transition to its own large building and the adoption in 1842 of the university charter permitted a continual growth in the scale of possible university Departments, and by this time the number of departments increased from 20 to 37.
Within the university's walls progressive ideas have always flourished and grown, despite the obvious desire of the imperial government to turn Kyiv University into an outpost of Russian autocracy. During the period 1830-1860 the university was one of the centres of the Polish national democratic movement, and during 1845 to 1847 the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood was established and began to make its presence felt.
| M.I. Kostomarov (1817-1885). Professor of Kyiv University, an eminent Ukrainian historian, ethnographer, writer, publicist and public figure. Instigator of the Cyril and Methodius Society and author of its charter.
M. Kostomarov, a distinguished historian, was Head of the Department of Russian History at the university, and was creator and author of the credo of the Brotherhood. The intellectual inspiration for the Cyril and Methodius society members was the brilliant poet Taras Shevchenko, who at that time was working as a teacher of painting at the Art School of the University, while simultaneously holding a position in the university Archeography Commission (a temporary commission for the study of antique documents).
|T.G. Shevchenko. Self-portrait. 1845
2. Kyiv University in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The revival of scientific and educational activity at Kyiv University in the second half of the nineteenth century resulted from the liberal reforms of the 1860s and the introduction in 1863 of a new university charter. At this time the right to act autonomously was extended at the university, which opened 15 new departments (increasing the number from 37 to 52), and increased the number of lecturers and students. 90 new lecturers were invited from Russian and European universities to work in Kyiv, and the departments began to keep talented students for academic research and educational activities.
| MD Ivanyshev (1811-1874). Professor, law historian, Rector (1862-1874). Editor-in-Chief of Kyiv Archaeological Commission publications
By virtue of the reforms, by the late nineteenth century Kyiv University -became is a powerful teaching and educational centre of European importance. The number of students during the 1830s and 1840s was 500, mainly Poles, while by 1883 the University had 1700 students, mostly Ukrainian and Russian, and by 1913 this number had increased to 5000. Research and teaching work was provided by 160 professors and associate professors. The University had 45 teaching and ancillary facilities: including 2 libraries (academic and student), 2 observatories (both astronomical and meteorological), a botanical garden, 4 faculty clinics, 3 hospitals and 2 clinical departments at the City Hospital, a theatre of anatomy and 9 laboratories.
| External view of the Anatomy building. Photo from the late nineteenth century.
The lecturers and students were organized, active participants in a number of world-wide academic societies: naturalism, surgery, physics, mathematics, chemistry, and a history society named after Nestor the Chronicler.
Academic activity by the professors was conducted in close collaboration with overseas research centres and prominent scientists around the world. There were frequent overseas research trips, with papers published in international journals and more. One aspect highlighting cultural relations was the election of distinguished academics and cultural figures as honorary members of the university. These included Doctor of medicine Max von Pettenkofer, historian Leopold von Ranke, author Ivan Turgenev, chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, microbiologist Ilya Mechnikov, and others.
| V.S. Ikonnikov (1841-1923). Professor, historian, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Science (1920). One of the founders of the History Society named after Nestor the Chronicler.
3. Kyiv University between 1900 and 1917
The history of the University at the beginning of the twentieth century was marked by the fact that the Ukrainian intelligentsia raised the issue of 'Ukrainianization' in higher education in the region. On 20 April 1906, representatives of the Ukrainian community in the city of Chernihiv (D. Yavorskiy, M. Kotsyubynskiy, M. Fedchenko, L. Shramchenko et al.) raised the issue of opening departments at Kyiv University for the study of Ukrainian language, literature, history, ethnography and common law, requesting that those subjects be taught in the Ukrainian language. On 22 May 1906, Professors V. Peretz and H. Pavlutskiy signed a submission to the Dean of the Faculty of History and Linguistics, which mandated that such Ukraine-oriented Departments be created .
Under their support a number of Ukrainian public and cultural figures emerged from the University of Kyiv: Ivan Lypa, Symon Petliura, Dmytro Doroshenko, Borys Hrinchenko, Oleksandr Lototsky, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Serhiy Yefremov and others. 27 November 1906 saw Ukrainian students submit their applications to the Academic Council of the University to transfer to the newly-opened Ukraine-oriented Departments.
| V.M. Peretz (1870-1935). Professor, literary historian, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Science (1919). Supervised seminars of Russian Linguistics, and chaired the linguistics section of the Ukrainian Academic Society.
1430 students signed such applications. However, the Rector of the University M. Tsytovych spoke out firmly against this idea, heading a reactionary group of professors and management from the Imperial Ministry of Education. In 1907, Professors A. Loboda and V. Perets on their own initiative began teaching Ukrainian literature at the University, until shortly this "seditious experiment" was banned.
| M.S. Hrushevskiy (1866-1934). Distinguished Ukrainian historian, social and political activist, graduate of Kyiv University, Chairman of the Ukrainian Central Rada, the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Founder and Chairman of the Ukrainian Scientific Society. Academician of the Higher Ukrainian Academy of Science (1923) and the Academy of Science of the USSR (1929).
The First World War severely disrupted the educational process. A considerable number of students found themselves conscripted into the army, the medical school of the University was transformed into a military hospital, and some of the laboratories under threat from the occupation of Kyiv by German and Austrian troops, were evacuated deep into the Empire, to the town of Saratov in southern Russia. They only returned to the University of Kyiv during the autumn of 1916. The moves resulted in serious losses to the laboratories, offices and museum collections of the University. Under such conditions, Kyiv University saw daily revolutionary activity, which in Ukraine was part of a struggle for cultural and national revival and the creation of an independent government.
| Lecture by Professor H.H. Pavlutsky in the office of fine art. Early 20th century.
After the overthrow of the autocracy, insistent requests by Ukrainian students and lecturers gradually led to the opening of Ukraine-oriented Departments and the introduction of lecturing in the Ukrainian language, having compelled the new government in Petrograd to make a number of concessions. On 27 June 1917, the Ministry of People's Education had evolved their position to the point of opening at the University of St. Volodymyr four Ukraine-oriented Departments: Ukrainian Language, Literature, History and the history of Western Rus Law. On 5 September 1917 a proposal to that effect was submitted by the Ministry to the Provisional Government. 19 September 1917 saw the Government announce the establishment of the above-mentioned departments at Kyiv University. On 30 September 1917, the university administration ordered the undertaking of preparations to start work and recruitment for the Ukraine-oriented Departments, and this was given a time limit of no more than three months. However, by January 1918, when the three months had passed, the political events that unfolded in Ukraine pushed academic issues into the background.
II. Kyiv University during Soviet times 1917-1991
1. Kyiv University during the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1919.
With the creation in Kyiv of the Central Rada in March 1917, dozens of lecturers and hundreds of university students took an active part in the struggle for the independence of Ukraine. The most heroic page in the history of independence was the story of the events involving students of Kyiv University, which took place at Kruty. In early January 1918 over three hundred university students and school students responded to a call by the leaders of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Kyiv and formed a student battalion. The first 130 volunteers under the command of a student leader, Andriy Omelchenko, led heavy defensive battles, protecting an important railway junction on 29 January 1918 - the Kruty station in the Chernihiv area - and holding back the offensive of Russian Bolshevik divisions on Kyiv.
In the period of the Ukrainian Hetman State, P. Skoropadskiy of the St. Volodymyr University obtained official status for the Russian University of Kyiv. At the same time, in July 1918, Kyiv Ukrainian National University was founded.
2. Break-up of the University into separate higher educational establishments 1920-1933
In February 1919 the Bolsheviks occupied the Kyiv University of St. Volodymyr and the Kyiv Ukrainian National University which they merged into one establishment, Kyiv University, with a main objective of educating the Soviet intelligentsia. The People's Commissariat of Education came into being in 1919 on the territory of Soviet Ukraine, responsible for the development of primary and secondary school education and higher education. In the universities, all so-called "bourgeois remains" were eliminated and all their autonomy was lost. The management structure of universities, such as the posts of Rectors and Vice- rectors was abolished and replaced by Commissars of Higher Education, and at this time all academic degrees and titles were abolished. The Soviet government set the goal of complete subordination of the university to the task of socialist revolution. However, even this very limited form of university had no right to exist, according to leaders of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. They were branded as centres for the "bourgeoisie", which had no place in the new communist society.
As a result of these reforms in 1920 Kyiv University (along with other universities in Ukraine) was disbanded. A separate Medical Institute was created from the remains of the Medical Faculty, and the Faculty of Law was transferred to the Institute of People's Economics. The Drahomanov Institute of Higher People's Education was formed from the Faculties of history and linguistics, physics and mathematics and natural science, together with the Kyiv Teacher Training College and the Kiev Institute of Higher Women's Courses. In 1926 this was renamed as the Kyiv Institute of People's Education (KIPE). The number of Ukrainian students in the Institute reached 65%.
|Training teaching staff to eliminate illiteracy in the Workers' Faculty of the KIPE.
As a result of pivotal reform, higher education in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic began to differ fundamentally from high school in Soviet Russia. Russian universities lost much of their essential value, but were not disbanded and continued to function in Moscow, Leningrad and other Russian cities. Unification was one of the most important targets in Soviet education policy in the 1920s and 1930s, and it became necessary to rebuild the whole system of higher education on a single Russian model.
|Students in the "Soviet Red Corner" of a university dormitory, 1930s
The absence of traditional university education at this time led to a drop in the number of scientists and qualified teaching staff, the loss of educational and academic traditions at universities and falling standards across higher education, as for the entire period after the closure of universities, there was no equivalent replacement. It became altogether obvious that the Soviet authorities were unable to organize the functions of higher educational establishments, not having the knowledge base and experience from pre-revolutionary higher education.
| Participants in a mathematics seminar held by Academician D.O. Grave, 1930
3. Re-establishment of Kyiv University and its pre-war operation 1933-1941
In autumn 1933, universities were re-established in Ukraine, including the Kyiv State University. Before them lay the task of putting students through postgraduate centres to train lecturers for high schools, together with producing scientists for research institutes, scientific laboratories in factories, and scientific research stations. These universities needed to focus on academic training for all major branches of science.
| Students in a university dormitory. 1934
In 1934 the University celebrated its 100th anniversary. At that time its structure was renewed, and research and teaching activities recommenced. In 1935 the University began to publish a series of academic journals on the natural sciences and humanities. New Faculties were formed and by 1938 there were eight: physics and mathematics, history, linguistics, chemistry, geology and geography, biology, law and foreign languages. In March 1939, in honour of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR conferred the title of Kyiv State University on the institution. In the same year, the Kaniv Bio-Geographical Reserve was transferred to the university, giving it a scientific-experimental and educational centre for the Faculties of Natural Science. The following year a new building was opened for the Humanitarian Faculties (now the Maksymovych Academic Library Building).
| Students at Kiev State University. 1936
The massive repression of lecturers and students was a heavy blow to the University during the 1930-40s. Among the lecturers lost during the repression were the academics: M.P. Kravchuk, N.Y. Mirza-Avakyants, M.O. Rusanivsky, K.T. Shteppa, M.I. Bezborodko, and A.Y. Krimsky, together with many others.
However, despite the ideological restrictions and repression, on the eve of World War II, Kyiv University was among the leading universities of the USSR, ranked in third place among Soviet universities. 4,000 students were studying there, with more than 300 professors, associate professors and lecturers working in 52 departments. Among these were 8 Academicians and 6 Corresponding Members of the Academy of Science of Ukraine, 24 PhDs and 65 lecturers with higher academic degrees. Postgraduates at the University became highly qualified in 43 disciplines.
| Meeting of the Academic Council at the newly restored Kyiv University. 1934
When hostilities began in the summer of 1941, Kyiv University was evacuated. The majority of students went to the Front, while many lecturers, together with colleagues from Kharkiv State University, continued the learning process at the United Ukrainian State University in Kazakhstan, in the city of Kyzylorda. Simultaneously, attempts were made to continue some of the work of the university in Nazi-occupied Kyiv, but soon the Nazis closed the university, repressed most of the lecturers, and students were taken as forced labour to Germany. During the battles that took place in Kyiv during October-November 1943, the University suffered irreparable damage and loss.
The main "Red" building of the University suffered considerable, where the library, museum collections and laboratories were looted. The cost only of the laboratory equipment lost reached the colossal sum of 50 million Karbovanets (Soviet roubles) .
| Liberation by Soviet soldiers at the walls of the burnt-out Kyiv University. 1943
4. Kyiv University during the post-war period 1944-1991
Despite the enormous losses during the war, the post-war decades saw the main university of Ukraine manage to not only restore its lost potential, but also substantially strengthen. Immediately after the liberation of Kyiv, the revival of the university began. Students and lecturers rebuilt the Humanities and Chemistry buildings with their own hands and by 15 January 1944, classes resumed for senior undergraduates and for first-years on 1 February. 146 students, 3 professors, 7 associate professors and 11 lecturers from the Kyiv unit of the United Ukrainian State University returned from Kyzylorda in the summer of 1944. Nearly 1,500 young men and women enrolled for the 1944-45 academic year, and within a year they were joined by another 2,000 students. It was possible to reopen 80 departments, with 290 professors, associate professors and lecturers. By 1946 there were over 3,800 students, taught by 357 professors and lecturers at the university.
At the end of the 1940s, the scope of work at the University was reaching pre-war levels. There was especially rapid development of the university during the 1950s. Up to 1958 the Kyiv State University has 11 faculties and almost 10,000 students. During the 1959 to 1984 period, 70 thousand students graduated from the University, moving into various sectors of the economy, science, education and culture.
| International students at Kyiv University just after the war. 1947.
|Public address by M.U. Biliy, Rector of the University, celebrating Shevchenko Day in 1981.
Over the years hundreds of prominent academic have worked at Kyiv University, including:
- Historians and Linguists: M. Maksymovych, V. Tsikh, F. Dombrovski, I. Neykirkh, M. Kostomarov, P. Pavlov, V. Antonovych, V. Ikonnikov, I. Luchytsky, M. Drahomanov, V. Peretz, M. Dovnar-Zapolzky, M. Dashkevych, A. Loboda, F. Volk, F. Fortynsky, Y. Kulakovsky, S. Yefremov, A. Krymsky, A. Hermayze, Y. Tarle, N. Polonska-Vasilenko, A. Ohloblin;
- Philosophers: O. Novitsky, A. Hilyarov, H. Chelpanov, V. Shynkaruk;
- Lawyers: K. Nevolin, M. Ivanishev, M. Vladymyrsky-Budanov, A. Kistyakivsky;
- Economists: H. Sydorenko, M. Sieber, M. Yasnopolsky, P. Kovanko;
- Mathematics and Mechanics: I. Rakhmaninov, M. Vashchenko-Zakharchenko, P. Romer, V. Yermakov, D. Hrave, O. Schmidt, B. Bukreyev, H. Pfeifer, H. Suslov, P. Voronets, M. Boholyubov;
- Physicists: M. Avenarius, M. Schiller, J. Kosonohov;
- Chemists: H. Fonberg, M. Bunhe, S. Reformatsky, A. Babko, A. Holub, A. Pylypenko, A. Kipriyano;
- Geologists: K. Feofilaktov, V. Chyrvynsky, M. Andrusov, P. Tutkovsky, V. Tarasenko;
- Botanists: V. Besser, E. Trautfetter, O. Rohovych, I. Schmalhausen, S. Navashyn, K. Puriyevych, O. Fomin, Y. Baranetsky, M. Kholodny, N. Kornyushenko, D. Zerov, O. Lypa;
- Zoologists: K. Kessler, O. Kovalevsky, O. Severtsov, O. Korotnyev, S. Kushakevych, L. Shelyuzhko, B. Mazurmovych;
- Biochemist: O. Palladin;
- Medical Doctors: V. Karavayev, O. Walter, V. Bets, M. Sklifosovsky, F. Yanovsky, V. Obraztsov, V. Chahovets, M. Strazhesko and other prominent academics.
ІІІ. Kyiv University in independent Ukraine
On 21 April 1994, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv was granted the status of "National" by Leonid Kravchuk, the President of Ukraine by Decree № 176/94, and on 25 November 1999 a further Decree № 1496/99 of Leonid Kuchma, now President of Ukraine, significantly expanded the autonomous status of the university. Decree № 412/2008, of Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine, on 5 May 2008, further stipulated the conversion of the University to becoming the main principal educational and scientific centre of Ukraine for the education of academic and teaching staff with higher qualifications. Then on 29 July 2009 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with Regulation № 795 granted the University the status of being a self-governing and autonomous national research university, while providing increased funding for the future development of the university.
| The main building of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
The University awards Junior Specialist’s, Bachelor’s, Specialist’s and Master’s degrees, Higher Qualification Post-graduate degrees and Doctoral degrees. Training and retraining programs are provided in 14 specialties of Junior Specialist qualification, 55 fields of Bachelor training programs, 49 areas of Specialist training programs and 98 fields of Master training programs. More than 26 thousand students study at the University. Approximately 1,645 postgraduate students and 125 PhD students are working for higher qualifications at the University. Courses are provided by 198 Departments, who have more than 80% of their teaching staff with academic degrees of Doctor or at a Higher Postgraduate level, and over 50% of the teaching staff has attained the academic rank of professor or associate professor.
There are 13 Faculties within the University: Geography, Economics, History, Cybernetics, Mathematics and Mechanics, Sociology, Faculty of Information Technology, Radio Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems, Psychology, Physics, Philosophy, Chemistry, Law. There are 8 Institutes (the Military Academy, the High Technology Centre, the Institute of Geology, the Institute of Journalism, the Institute of International Relations, the Postgraduate Education Centre, the Institute of Linguistics, and the State Security Department) and 1 Training and Research Center (the Institute of Biology), 2 Colleges (Optical and Mechanical College, Geological Exploring College) and Ukrainian Physical and Mathematical Lyceum.
|L.V. Hubersky, Rector, with Honorary Doctors at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 2009
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv has a number of auxiliary facilities: Astronomical Observatory, the Fomin Botanical Garden, the Maksymovych Academic Library, the Kaniv Nature Reserve, a publishing and reprographics unit called "Kyiv University", an Informatics Centre, a Ukrainian Studies Centre, a Geological and Zoological Museum, a Museum of the History of the University, an interfaculty Museum of Linguistics, and others.
|Graduates of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Today the University has bilateral partnership agreements with 227 foreign educational and scientific institutions from 57 countries. 180 foreign academics and lecturers from 32 countries visit the University annually to collaborate in research, attending conferences, and giving lectures. Each year more than 1500 lecturers, researchers and students travel abroad to 59 countries. Two-thirds of those take overseas trips in 2014 travelled abroad for academic purposes (conferences, training, and research).
Today Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is a classical university with a research profile, whose primary objectives are education, research and innovation. | history |
https://icsydney.komosionstaging.com/hotel/future/ | 2024-02-22T20:51:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00125.warc.gz | 0.94048 | 126 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__119168116 | en | We are delighted to announce the unveiling of our reimagined hotel, transformed with a $120-million refurbishment. A new era of luxury travel awaits, including redesigned guest rooms and suites, public spaces and world-class bar and dining venues.
Since its formation as The Treasury Building in 1851, this site has been one of the city’s most significant locations. The new design celebrates its rich history, while restoration works preserve the sacred stories of our nation’s past for future generations to enjoy.
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https://stevemccondichie.com/2017/09/25/marble-tar-babies/ | 2023-04-01T06:56:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949701.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401063607-20230401093607-00295.warc.gz | 0.919939 | 1,130 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__117551120 | en | Inheriting Civil War Stuff
In Joel Chandler Harris’s “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story,” the turpentine and tar stick figure stays still and silent throughout the two-page short story. Yet, it’s the Tar-Baby’s refrain from polite speech that draws the ire of Brer Rabbit while Brer Fox lays low in the bushes. The hundreds of Confederate monuments scattered around America are equally muted and infuriating. Standing watch in front of courthouse squares and manicured green spaces, these sculpted monuments have further divided a fractured country. Erected generations ago by windbag politicians and the doting matrons that formed United Daughters of the Confederacy, these marble tar-babies have ensnared passersby but by their nature are unable to let them loose. The primary solvent is an honest examination of the gilded accounts that have been handed down from our predecessors.
At the centennial of the Civil War in 1961, Robert Penn Warren, the 1946 Pulitzer Prize winner for All the King’s Men, published The Legacy of the Civil War. His 108-page essay was subtitled a Meditation on the Centennial and dissects the war’s “influence on our economy, our social institutions, our domestic politics and foreign policy, our philosophy and our psychology.” The war, Warren asserts, was fought to salvage the Union, the respect for which still beat “deep in many a Confederate breast” and the abolishment of slavery. These are each critical ideas to establish and paramount in placing the war in perspective.
America won the Civil War.
Not the Yankees.
Not the North.
The United States of America.
The same Army that helped win two World Wars and protects us today defeated an enemy intent on destroying the country that we honor before the kick-off of every football game from pee-wees to professionals, and in this victory, we vanquished a heathen system hell-bent on brutalizing our fellow human beings for their own economic gain. On these two facts, there is no room for honest debate.
Warren acknowledges that the war restored the Union and emancipated the slaves, yet “it did little or nothing to abolish racism.” Leaving us with a public discussion on how we free ourselves from the viscous legacy that in our imperious indignation we’ve collectively punched, kicked, and head-butted until we’ve mired ourselves in a befuddling trap.
A recent New York Times article, “Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It,” focused on the issue of children dealing with their parents’ “competitive accumulation of material goods.” Like reluctant offspring trying to diplomatically tell their mothers they don’t want her Lenox china, Southerners have inherited Confederate memorials in public spaces that wouldn’t be erected today. Unfortunately, a hundred Jefferson Davis statues can’t be unloaded at an estate sale, and it fails to address the core of the dilemma:
Not merely subtle colorism, institutional discrimination, or overt bigotry. It’s hate. It’s white supremacy. It’s racial terrorism.
Patrick Phillips’s Blood at the Root provides a chilling account of racial terrorism’s demonic evolution. A former resident of Forsyth County, Georgia, now a sprawling Metro Atlanta suburb, Phillips’s goal was to understand “the people of my home” and “to trace the origins of the ‘whites only’ world they fought so desperately to preserve.” From the forced removal of the indigenous Cherokee to the 1912 merciless purging of all blacks from the county to the 1987 attack on the Brotherhood March, Phillips details the county’s brutal and shameful heritage. It’s the resurfacing of this vitriol hatred in north Charleston and Charlottesville that all Americans should unite against.
These perplexing heirlooms can’t be dealt with by sharing cranky white dude memes or sneaking cranes in at midnight. Dr. Wayne Dyer, a renowned self-development author and speaker, said, “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” The beauty of this is that it works for statues and people.
At the base of Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest chalet in the Austrian Alps is a museum. Nearly all vestiges of der Fuhrer have been stripped from the site to discourage neo-Nazis pilgrims. The various displays are designed for Germans to learn their recent history and to teach us all an invaluable lesson on the menace of a narcissistic cult gone mad. Dynamiting the face of Stone Mountain is problematic, but there’s merit to the establishment of a southern museum of African-American History and Culture at the site of the largest Confederate memorial in the world.
The little boy to whom “the (tar-baby) story had been told” asked Uncle Remus, “Did the Fox eat the Rabbit?” Wise old Uncle Remus doesn’t answer the question conclusively, which is the tale’s resonant appeal. The resolution requires a willingness to turn away from what appears to separate us towards what binds us together. We must set aside our fears for the sake of hope. Compassion must be our legacy.
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https://www.benz-academy.org/en/about/Carl_Benz | 2022-08-08T02:10:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00274.warc.gz | 0.975243 | 873 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__96802373 | en | In 1871, at the age of twenty-seven, Carl Benz joined a mechanical workshop in Mannheim, working together with his friend August Ritter. He first began his work on a two-stroke engine in the hopes of finding new sources of income and despite some early business misfortunes, successfully developed new types of engines and patented key engine components. These patents, among them the patent for the first internal combustion engine (approved in 1879), soon led to substantial revenue increases and helped to subsidize the workshop business.
Carl Benz' true genius became obvious thanks to his successive inventions registered whilst designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine. During this time he patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using sparks with a battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator.
The success of the company gave Carl Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a horseless carriage. He finished his creation in 1885 and named it the Benz Patent Motorwagen. It was the first automobile entirely designed as such to generate its own power, which is why Carl Benz was granted his patent and is regarded as its inventor. The car was first driven in Mannheim in 1885.
In 1887, after years of testing and modifications, Benz created the first definitive commercial vehicle, the Model 3, an automobile with a four-stroke engine of his own design which was gasoline powered, with wooden wheels. This became the first production automobile. The model 3 was introduced at the 1889 World Fair in Paris and soon received recognition from around the world.
In the 1880's, automobile owners faced considerable problems as gasoline was only available from pharmacies. The early 1888 version of the "Motorwagen" had to be pushed when driving up a steep hill. This limitation was rectified after Bertha Benz made her famous trip, driving one of the vehicles a great distance. On returning, she suggested the addition of another gear to her husband. The popular story goes, that on the morning of August 5, 1888, Bertha Benz borrowed this vehicle (without the knowledge of her husband), and embarked on a 106 km (fifty mile) trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim to visit her mother, taking her sons Eugene and Richard with her. In addition to having to scrounge for fuel at pharmacies on the way, she also overcame various technical difficulties and finally arrived at nightfall announcing the achievement to Carl Benz by telegram.
In 1896, Carl Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first ‘boxer engine’ with horizontally-opposed pistons, a design principle which still remains relevant for high-performance racing car engines such as those used by Porsche. The great demand for internal combustion engines increased the size of, and indeed, completely transformed the Benz & Cie. automobile company. By 1899 it had become the largest of its kind in the world, increasing employment from 50 (1890) to 430 (1899) workers and producing 572 automobiles per year.
After World War I, the years of Depression led to an economic crisis and it became desirable for Benz & Cie to pool its resources with another leading company in Stuttgart, Daimler Motors, founded by Gottlieb Daimler and his lifelong partner Wilhelm Maybach. In 1926 the two merged to become the Daimler-Benz company, later to be renamed as Daimler-Benz, which is now part of Daimler AG. Following the merger in 1926, all new automobiles were called Mercedes-Benz in honor of the most important model of DMG automobiles, the Mercedes 35hp.
The name 'Mercedes' derives from the ten year-old daughter of Emil Jellinek, the wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG) in the early 1900's and who helped to improve the design of the DMG engines.
Carl Benz served as a member of the supervisory board of Daimler AG from 1926 until he passed away in 1929.
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https://comeoutindetroit.com/ | 2023-06-04T01:28:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649348.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603233121-20230604023121-00640.warc.gz | 0.945029 | 614 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__60324665 | en | Fifty Years Later, Free Comic Book Tells Story of Michigan’s First LGBTQ+ Pride
The story of Christopher Street Detroit ’72, the first-ever LGBTQ+ pride celebration in Michigan held 50 years ago this June 1972, has been brought to life through a full-color, 32-page nonfiction comic book for free distribution. Freelance illustrator Isabel Clare Paul and historian Tim Retzloff teamed up to create “Come Out! In Detroit” based on eyewitness primary sources, oral histories, and a cache of largely unseen photographs. The comic book’s release was accompanied by exhibits and public programs in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and East Lansing to mark the 50th anniversary of the event.
One June 24, 1972, Detroiters and other Michiganders gathered to publicly parade down Woodward Avenue, rally to speeches in Kennedy Square, dance the night away at the Unitarian Church on Cass, and picnic the next day in Palmer Park. It capped a week of celebrations at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University. In Ann Arbor, the city council declared Gay Pride Week, the first known official recognition of LGBTQ pride by a governmental body in the United States.
The 1972 activities were planned and coordinated by representatives from not only Metro Detroit but also from Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Lansing, and elsewhere in the state under an umbrella group called the Michigan Gay Confederation. It was touted as the earliest example of statewide gay organizing—what we now understand as LGBTQ+ organizing—in the United States.
Distribution started with an early release of several hundred copies at selected comic book stores in Metro Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Lansing on Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 7, 2022. Early distribution also took place at Motor City Comic Con May 13 to 15 at Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. The event, a gathering of comic book, television, and cinema fans, welcomes an audience not typically on the radar for storytellers of Michigan LGBTQ+ history.
Our official release began June 2nd. About a third of the 23,000 copies distributed were personally handed out at pride events, specifically Motor City Pride, Ferndale Pride, Michigan Pride, Hotter Than July in Detroit!, Lansing Pride, and Ann Arbor Pride. Distribution included public libraries, LGBTQ+ community centers, campus gender and sexuality centers, and a number of coffee shops, bookstores, bars, and other sites throughout the state.
The 50th anniversary Christopher Street Detroit ’72 and the publication of the “Come Out! In Detroit” comic book have both provided unique opportunities for additional educational outreach. As such, public programming has been an important aspect of the project as well. Here the comic book is not the end product of our efforts but rather a launching point, a tool for examining history in greater depth.
We are currently pursuing how to get copies into cataloged collections of high school and public libraries. Please reach out to us through the Contact page for more information. | history |
https://sekishuwashi.jp/english/ | 2024-04-18T08:05:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00780.warc.gz | 0.967711 | 671 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__120152348 | en | Tesuki washi (handmade Japanese paper) was invented in 105 AD by a Chinese official named Cai Lun, and introduced to Japan in 610 AD by Doncho, a Buddhist monk from Korea. Sekishu washi, the special washi paper of western Shimane Prefecture, also has a long history of over a thousand years long. The name Sekishu comes from the Sekishu region (present-day Iwami), where the paper was first produced. The paper is also known as Sekishu-banshi (“half sheets of Sekishu”) because of the cut of the paper.
However, the name Sekishu is probably much older, as Kamisuki Chohoki (A Handy Guide to Papermaking), a book written by Kunisaki Jihei and published in 1798, states that Kakinomoto No Hitomaro, a leading official in the area, taught papermaking skills to the local people sometime around 704-715 AD. From then on, for over 1300 years, the art of handmade washi has been maintained and preserved within the area.
The raw materials for Sekishu washi are kozo, mitsumata, and gampi shrubs. Kozo and mitsumata are cultivated in the region but gampi grows wild. Sekishu-banshi made from Sekishu kozo is well known as the strongest paper produced in Japan. By the Edo period (1603-1867), Sekishu-banshi was popular among Osaka merchants for use in account books, and that name became widely known. Whenever a fire broke out, the merchants did not hesitate to throw their account books into a well to protect the records; the merchants were not worried about the paper being damaged by water.
In light of the unique traditional techniques and methods employed to make Sekishu-banshi by the Sekishu-banshi Craftsmen’s Association, Sekishu-banshi was designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1969.
In addition, the techniques and methods used for Sekishu-banshi have been completely preserved by the crafts people who live in Misumi Town. To ensure even further improvement of the art, Sekishu Washi Cooperative was established, and Sekishu washi was declared a “Traditional Craft” by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in 1989.
The Sekishu-Banshi papermaking technique was designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1969, and the Sekishu-Banshi Craftsmen’s Association was recognized as the holding group.
Sekishu-banshi was registered at “the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” based on the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009.
At this time, Sekishu-banshi was reregistered at “the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” based on the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2014, as “Washi, craftsmanship of traditional Japanese hand-made paper”. | history |
https://templeofsumer.com/ | 2024-04-20T12:50:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00096.warc.gz | 0.952155 | 417 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__125976087 | en | Welcome to the Temple of Sumer, a resource for those interested in learning about the religion and myths of the Sumerian peoples.
In our myth section you will see our modern English versions of the myths. We will be bringing you an easy to understand version of the myths without losing the meanings and implications that were put there by the peoples of the Ancient Near East.
This site is a work in progress and a great deal more material remains to be added to it. Much material exists from an older incarnation of the site, but as the authors have grown in their devotion and their perspectives since those articles were written, they must be checked and proofread before being published.
If you have any questions, feel free to join us in the Temple of Sumer Facebook community, which is dedicated to the worship of all the gods of Mesopotamia, and where a friendly, welcoming, knowledgeable community of people are always happy to answer questions and provide guidance,
The Temple of Sumer supports the Temple of Enki. In Sumerian myth, Enki is the god responsible for crafting all the powers of civilisation. He carries over his shoulder the two great rivers which caused the first advanced civilisation to flourish. The Temple of Enki is therefore sacred to Enki's worship, maintaining a YouTube channel and a Facebook community of its own.
The Ishtar Gate is a website aimed at providing a broad overview of the principles of the modern Sumerian faith, with articles on Sumerian gods, Sumerian civilisation and culture, and a series of devotional articles around topics like Sumerian prayer and worship, suitable offerings to Sumerian deities, and setting up a home altar.
The subreddit /r/Sumer is the home of the Sumerian and Mesopotamian faith community on Reddit. Like the Temple of Sumer Facebook page, there are numerous devoted and insightful worshippers of the Sumerian gods who participate in the subreddit, and it is a friendly and welcoming place for anyone who's looking to learn more about our faith. | history |
https://shritravel.com/what-are-the-important-places-to-visit-in-amritsar/ | 2024-04-17T19:07:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817171.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417173445-20240417203445-00518.warc.gz | 0.970213 | 2,072 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__150428608 | en | Amritsar as the name signifies the two words: Amrit means sacred water and Sar means Sarovar or river generally called sacred water river. Basically, the name has been taken from the sacred water pool. On which the shrine of Sikhs Golden Temple is located on that pool or Sarovar. Amritsar is also called Ambarsar or Ramdaspur (in the ancient era) because the fourth Guru of the Sikhs Sri Guru Ramdas Ji founded this city as per Sikh tradition.
Why is Amritsar famous for?
Amritsar is famous for its great heritage and significance in the history of Sikhs. There are various shrines and sacred places of all religions situated in this holy city. Places like Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh, Wagah Border, Ram Tirth, Gurudwara Shaheed Ganj Sahib, Durgiana Mandir, Guru Bazaar, Gobindgarh Fort, Sadda Pind, and there are lot more places which are located in the outskirts of the district.
What is the historical significance of Amritsar?
Well, who can forget the Jallianwala Bagh massacre? Who can forget the attacks on Golden Temple? Who can forget Operation Blue Star on Golden Temple? Those were the dark times when Amritsar and its people faced these bad sins. But after all that period, this city is proud of its rich heritage and culture, bravery, and valour of Panjabis. Even festivals like Diwali, Vaisakhi, Dusshera, Lohri are celebrated with great enthusiasm among Hindus and Sikhs. There is a popular saying or proverb called “Dal Roti Ghar Di, Vaisakhi Amritsar Di”.
And lastly, you might have heard that people say these little proverbs in their homes “Amritsar- Sifti Da Ghar”. Sifti is a Punjabi word that means appreciation/compliments.
What are the popular places to visit in Amritsar? Which are the tourist spots in Amritsar?
1. Golden Temple
Golden Temple or Harmandir Sahib is a famous place and has a great significance in Sikh history. This is the shrine of Sikhs and it is located on the man-made pool called Sarovar. This pool was completed by Guru Ram Das Ji in the year 1577. Then fifth Guru of Sikh Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji requested a Muslim Mir Mian Mohammad to lay the foundation stone of the Golden Temple in the year 1589. Then Guru Arjan Dev Ji placed the copy of Adi Granth in 1604 in the temple. Golden Temple has witnessed various attacks during the Mughal and Afghan periods. But time and again Sikhs gave a befitting reply to every attack in one form or the other. In 1809, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji renovated the whole temple with gold foil and changed the architecture of the gurudwara. That’s why it has been named as Golden Temple.
2. Jallianwala Bagh
Well, you guys must have heard about Jallianwala Bagh in your life or some history books. If not, then you should read this stanza carefully.
Basically, it was a memorial park until the massacre. The infamous park is known for the genocide by the British troops or you can say the British army. On 13th April 1919, people were celebrating the Vaisakhi festival in the park, and also they were peacefully protesting for the two national leaders Satyapal and Saiffudin Kitchlew. Then Brigadier General Dyer entered the park with his army. They blocked the only entrance of the park and started firing on unarmed people. That cruel person did not even see children and women, he just fired a lot of bullets. As a result, thousands of people were killed and sacrificed their lives. General Dyer was criticized for his inhuman act but highly appreciated by the Britain govt.
Consequently, in 1940 at the age of 75 Dyer was shot by Indian freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh in London. This was a retaliation attack related to the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh.
3. Wagah Border
Wagah is a small village situated near the Indo- Pak Border. This border is famous for transportation between India and Pakistan. This border or partition is 24 km from Lahore and 32 km from Amritsar. There is also a railway station called Wagah Railway station. Attari is a small town that is adjacent to the Wagah.
In the evenings, there is a Wagah-Attari retreat ceremony happens between Pakistani Ranger and Indian Forces. People gather here to watch all the activities like hoisting flags, salutes between Indo-Pak soldiers, etc.
The above image shows the great rivalry between India and Pakistan.
4. Gobindgarh Fort
This fort was built by Dhillon Jat Misldar of Bhangi Misl in the year 1760. It was renamed after the tenth Guru of Sikh Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji by Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji. This is a historical military fort located in the heart of the city of Amritsar. Recently in the year 2017, it was opened to the public (earlier it was occupied by the army. The Fort is totally renovated as a theme park or you can say a museum of ancient things or architecture.
This fort is made of bricks and lime and its shape is square in nature. The main entrance of the gate is called Nalwa Gate which is named after Hari Singh Nalwa and the rear entrance is called Kellar gate.
5. Sadda Pind
Sadda Pind is a famous tourist spot in Amritsar. It is located around 8 km from the Golden Temple. So if you are planning to visit Amritsar on a weekend, then this is the best place you can ever visit. You can explore the Punjabi cuisines, culture, flavors of villages, etc. It helps you to rejuvenate and reconnect with yourself and your culture. Bhangra, Sarson da Saag, Gidda, some fun rides are the key ingredients of your visit. Make sure before entering, you should have some 1000 bucks for yourself to visit and accommodation. You can also visit the official website for more information.
6. Bhagwan Valmiki Tirath Sathal
As per Hindu mythology, this place is considered an inseparable part of Ramayana. At this tirath sathal, Bhagwan Valmiki wrote the whole Ramayana. It is also the birthplace of Rama’s sons Luv and Kush. Sita was abandoned by Rama after the Lanka war between Ravana and Rama. Then she stayed here for several years and gave birth to two sons. It is also said that the fight between Rama and his sons took place at this place.
7. War Memorial
The full name of the War Memorial is The Punjab State War Heroes Memorial and Museum. It is located on the outskirts of Amritsar city. This seems to be a prominent place since this is just 18 km away from the international border i.e Wagah Border.
This museum signifies the bravery and gallantry deeds of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives. Around names of 3500 martyrs are carved on the memorial built at an elevation of 4 meters.
You would be amazed to see that there is the world longest or you can say the world’s largest sword is erected on the central edifice. The sword is around 45 meters in height and the material is stainless steel. It represents the audacity and valor of the people of Punjab who defended the nation in times of crisis.
8. Durgiana Temple
Durgiana Temple is also called Lakshmi Narayan Temple, Durga Tirath, or Sheetala Mandir. Its name is derived from Goddess Durga. It is located in the heart of the city near Lohgarh Gate.
Some people might be thinking that it should be Golden Temple but no its architecture is almost similar to Golden Temple, it is a Hindu Temple which is around 5 km from Darbar Sahib. In 1921 Sheetala Madir was rebuilt by Guru Harsai Mal Kapoor. Harsai Mal was a scion of Prithi Chand Mina. Then Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya inaugurated this temple.
9. Gurudwara Shaheed Ganj Sahib
You might have heard about Baba Deep Singh Ji, well known and very brave martyr and Singh in Sikh history. This gurudwara was made to commemorate Baba Deep Singh Ji and other martyrs since the cremation was carried out on this land.
Jassa Singh Ramgaria did construction and rebuilt this memorial to this martyr. The SGPC committee renovated and enlarged the whole Gurudwara in the early 1920s.
10. Partition Museum
Partition Museum has been set up recently by the Punjab Heritage Tourism and Promotion Board and The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust. It is the world’s first museum which was built on the partition.
In 2015 some dedicated people decided to reshape this museum. After a lot of discussion with leading experts, scholars, historians, researchers, authors, filmmakers, journalists, etc, this museum was set up meticulously. In October 2016, this museum was opened for the public, four gallery exhibitions were carried out and the Chief Minister of Punjab inaugurated the museum.
Then on 17 August 2017, then CM Captain Amarinder Singh dedicated this museum to the nation. It was commemorated as Partition Remembrance Day in tribute to millions of people.
Well if you are interested in the aerial view of Amritsar city then check out the whole video below which was captured through the drone. | history |
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was built in the 18th century by the highly affluent Blouin du Bouchet family, who were well known and highly respected in the province of Anjou. Claude Jean Gabriel Blouin du Bouchet, who was personal bodyguard to King Louis XVI and Knight of the Royal and Military Order of St Louis, was the first resident of this noble home.
The original property was an area of 800 hectares of land located in Jarze, including forests, farms and vineyards, a village belonging to Baugeois, in the northeastern part of Anjou province, whose capital is the medieval town of Bauge.
The region is the most forested of Anjou with a lot of aristocrats owning castles and manors.
The Blouin du Bouchet family owned the property until the beginning of the 20th century. The last resident of the family was Isidore Blouin du Bouchet, mayor of Jarze in 1881, who died in 1903. Today, in the private chapel, there is still a memorial stone set to remember Mathilde Marie Charlotte Poulain du Mas, his first wife.
In the absence of any heirs, the Chateau de la Galoisiere was then owned by only two noble families, Vernot de Jeux/de Brullon and the Count and the Countess of Belleville, until 2013.
In 2013, the new owners of the castle has worked with talented painters and upholsterers to tastefully refreshed interiors, whilst maintaining the heritage.
The interior design maintains much of the 18th century opulence, furnished with antique furniture from the same period, showcasing some famous pieces from cabinetmakers and carpenters of the King Louis XV and King Louis XVI.
Adding to the old world glamour are the contemporary luxury touches, especially in the en-suite bathrooms and kitchen. A mixture of Asian influence has been infused seamlessly to reflect the fascination of the silk and spice route era. | history |
http://regalinnsuites.com/military-blog/ | 2023-05-28T17:10:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644309.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528150639-20230528180639-00115.warc.gz | 0.905539 | 429 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__122671364 | en | The nearby Ventura County Naval Base is comprised of the Point Mugu Naval Air Station and CBC Port Hueneme. The Port Hueneme base in southwestern Ventura County is a homeport that furnishes training, administrative, and logistic support for Navy Seabees. Port Hueneme (“pronounced Why-Nee-mee”) is from the Chumash Indian word for resting place.
Military families enjoy the nearby Channel Islands National Park, popular for boating, sport fishing, kayaking and whale-watching excursions. The harbor is also home to Ventura County Maritime Museum and fresh seafood restaurants.
The U.S. Navy Seabee Museum selects, collects, preserves and displays historic material relating to the history of the Naval Construction Force, better known as the SEABEES, and the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps.The Museum is open to the public and tours can be arranged for schools or other groups. Call (805) 982-5167 or email [email protected]
Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Port Hueneme/Point Mugu is located near the cities of Port Hueneme, Oxnard, and Camarillo along the Pacific coastline, just 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles, California, 3 miles from Oxnard Airport, or 60 miles from Los Angeles International (LAX) Airport..
The Point Mugu site is located approximately nine miles from the Port Hueneme site. There the NBVC operates two runways and a 36,000-square-mile sea test range.
NSWC Port Hueneme Division is a field activity of Naval Sea Systems Command and provides the United States Navy global fleet with weapon system in-service engineering, logistics, and test and evaluation. NSWC Port Hueneme is located at Naval Base Ventura County, Calif., where it employs more than 1,900 personnel.
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https://www.greek-handmade-sandals.com/shop/kallistrate-platform-greek-leather-handmade-sandals/ | 2023-11-29T02:11:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100047.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129010302-20231129040302-00838.warc.gz | 0.906116 | 379 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__190395315 | en | This name derives from the Ancient Greek name “Kallístratos (Καλλίστρατος)”, composed of two elements: “kalós (καλός)” (beautiful, lovely, virtuous, noble) plus “stratós (στρᾰτός)” (army, military force). In turn the name means “beautiful army, beauty-army”. 1) Callistratus was an Alexandrian grammarian, flourished at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. 2) Callistratus was a Greek sophist and rhetorician. He wrote Ekphraseis (Statuarum descriptiones), descriptions of fourteen works of art in stone or brass by distinguished artists. 3) Callistratus was a Roman jurist, who, as appears from passages in Justinian’s Digest, wrote at least as late as the reign (198–211 AD) of Septimius Severus and Caracalla
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https://thevail.org/history/ | 2023-09-27T20:43:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510326.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927203115-20230927233115-00881.warc.gz | 0.966453 | 3,454 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__44013042 | en | Vail-Leavitt Music Hall: A Historic Journey
Original research by Harold Smith, Jean Hallock and Sylvia Shaffran (circa 1980)
Revised and updated by Robert Barta (2020)
Of the three theatres which existed in Riverhead in the late nineteenth century, only one – the Music Hall – has come down to us. Miraculously escaping the wrecker’s ball due largely to its upstairs location over two lucrative storefronts, the Music Hall has survived all its contemporaries to become the oldest theater on Long Island or New York City – 20 years older than Broadway’s oldest theater.
Early History – The Vail Years
Located on what today is known as Peconic Avenue (then called Bridge Street), the Music Hall was the talk of the town when David F. Vail, a local lumber dealer built it with the help of his son, George M. Vail.
The Long Island Traveler of April 22, 1881, noted: “Numerous improvements are being made throughout our village. The large brick building is rapidly nearing completion and when finished will be a marked improvement over the old rookeries which now front on Bridge Street….” A week or two later, the Traveler reported that “Mr. J. W. Flack will soon start embellishing and frescoing the interior.” Mr. Flack was a well-known Eastern Long Island interior decorator of the period, and an expert in the application of gold leaf. Even today at the Music Hall, we can see gold highlights at various places in the restored interior.
After a number of previews, including a strawberry festival and musicale, the Music Hall opened with fanfare on October 11, 1881. The event was a concert with both professional and amateur talent, sponsored by the Rough and Ready Engine Company of Riverhead. A smashing success, the show continued until 3 A.M. It was then that the firefighters were called to duty to extinguish a blaze in a barn on Osborne Avenue, owned by Mr. Osborne. Off they went, according to the Riverhead News, grabbing hats and coats hastily and “leaving the ladies to wend their way home as best they could.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was the Music Hall’s first professional play and was produced at the Music Hall by multiple companies during its early years. One of the earliest performances included a wondrous curiosity billed in the programs as “Edison’s Electric Parlor Lamp.” Since electricity was still in the future as a common lighting source, we can only surmise that the lamp must have been battery-powered. This was the Music Hall’s first connection with the name of Thomas A. Edison.
In the ensuing years, Music Hall played host to a variety of events. A lecture by one Theodore Tilton entitled “The World of Tomorrow” so stirred the Music Hall audience that the editor of the Long Island Traveler called for the founding of a group to present more such offerings and to give the proceeds to the Riverhead Reading Room, located on the top floor of the Bank Building still standing on Main Street. This was the start of the Riverhead Lecture Society, which in turn brought about what we know today as the Riverhead Free Library.
In April of 1885, Music Hall contributed to the construction of the pedestal of the “Bartholdi Statue,” according to a Traveler item. Mrs. Frank Baird, a local art teacher, engaged the hall for an “art reception” with the proceeds to be allotted to what we now know as the Statue of Liberty.
Lighting at Music Hall appears to have begun with candles. According to a press item, the candles in the footlights started a small blaze which was quickly extinguished. Whether these candles were a supplement to gaslight or whether the gaslight followed the bad experience with candles is not known. We do know, however, that the Music Hall had its own gas plant behind the theatre, that gas fixtures were placed all along the horseshoe balcony, and that gaslight continued at Music Hall until the advent of electricity there in July of 1888.
The Improved Order of Red Men, a fraternal organization founded by George Washington for the purpose of assisting Native Americans in their problems with incoming settlers, engaged Music Hall for a six-year period beginning in 1900.
In 1908, Thomas A. Edison’s famous name returned to the Music Hall for the first time since “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” It was then that Edison’s “moving picture show” made its Riverhead debut. While it was not the first movie shown in Riverhead, it featured a dramatization of the famous Harry K. Thaw murder case “depicting all phases from the shooting to the incarceration of Thaw in Matteawan.” Taking no chances, the management thoughtfully added “a number of first-class vaudeville acts.”
20th Century and The Leavitt Years
Later that year, George M. Vail (by now sole owner of Music Hall) sold the building to Simon Leavitt. Leavitt’s Men’s Shop served the community into the 1970’s as downtown Riverhead developed into one of Suffolk County’s premier commercial shopping districts. Some local residents recall it as a long-time local outlet for purchasing Boy Scout uniforms and supplies.
Beginning in 1909, the Music Hall became known as the Lyceum Theatre – the Broadway theatre of the same name had been built that year and probably inspired the change – and as such presented moving pictures, vaudeville, occasional stock and road companies, and more rarely, concerts and dances.
It was about this time that the late Ted Leavitt, then a youth, remembered having met a young Western rope-spinner then performing on the Lyceum stage named Will Rogers, who taught the youngster the art of lariat-twirling in between appearances in the theatre upstairs.
In 1912, after several successful years of vaudeville, film, lecture and concert bookings, the Leavitts leased their upstairs showplace to Franklin P. McCutcheon, a vastly experienced showman from Brooklyn. Under the McCutcheon management in 1914 came one of the Lyceum’s most exciting times.
For several years, Thomas Edison had been working on a new development in entertainment – talking motion pictures. At the same time, the talents of the great inventor were devoted to another experiment in nearby Quogue – extracting iron from the sands of that ocean resort. In 1914, an advertisements appeared in the Riverhead News to the effect that “The Eighth Wonder of the World” was coming to the Lyceum Theatre in Riverhead – “Thomas A. Edison’s Talking Pictures.” The all talking program featured John J. McGraw, then manager of the New York Giants; Van and Schenck, popular musical comedy stars; a scene from “Faust”; Edison’s Minstrels; “Julius Caesar” and an all-star feature program. “No silent pictures shown,” declared the Lyceum ad.
In its next issue, the Riverhead News raved about Edison’s experiment. “The talking movies at the Lyceum here last week was a show that greatly pleased large audiences,” stated the enthusiastic reviewer. “Most of the people present declared it a marvelous performance. The accurate timing of the words, music, dancing and various sounds with the pictures produced results practically perfect, and there was hardly any flicker to the pictures themselves. It was hard to believe that live persons were not on the stage contributing to the program.”
Thomas Edison’s experimental system, properly known as “Kinetophone”, was brought to the theater in an effort to raise capital and garner good publicity. It is known that Edison’s own technicians were prohibited from running the equipment in the unionized theaters of New York and other cities, resulting in an embarrassing lack of synchronization between the picture and sound at those showings. As a result, Edison chose to bring Kinetophone to the Music Hall as well as other local theaters across the country.
Edison suffered a major setback when a fire broke out at his lab in West Orange, New Jersey in December of 1914. Many items relating to the kinetophone project were destroyed, although Edison did attempt to continue for a time. Ultimately, lack of investment, other projects, and his own advancing age caused the great inventor to abandon kinetophone. It would be more than a decade until “talkies” reached a mass audience, but the Music Hall remains as one of the only surviving original sites of Edison’s experimental kinetophone exhibitions.
For three more years, the Lyceum continued its career as a purveyor of motion picture entertainment. However, announcement of a palatial new theatre to be called the Riverhead Capitol in late 1917 seemed to throw a pall over activities at the Lyceum. With the onset of World War I and as a flu pandemic struck, the Lyceum’s screen and stage events came to a halt.
It is known that after the war, the old theatre was converted into the Imperial Restaurant, a lavish Chinese restaurant. However in 1925, that enterprise came to a sad end when a kitchen fire damaged an area that had been the stage, but was prevented from spreading elsewhere by a wall that had been erected between the stage and the auditorium. Thus were preserved the ornate box tiers and the notable horseshoe balcony as well as the elaborate stage proscenium arch.
A short career as a pool hall and another one as a betting parlor (ending in an eviction notice from the Leavitts) were the last public activities in Music Hall. A fire, unruly pool sharks and shady bookies were enough for the owner, who vowed from then on nothing would occupy the space over his store but storage…and that was the way it was from 1925 until 1978.
Around 1967, Ted Leavitt told local businessman Harold Smith about the theatre over his store upstairs. Mr. Smith – an actor dating back to 1929 – would soon become the leading force to restore the Music Hall.
Present-day Riverhead’s first look at the 1881 Music Hall (the name of Lyceum had by then been abandoned) came at the time of one of the early Riverhead Country Fairs. As an early member of Riverhead Townscape, Smith succeeded in interesting the membership in establishing a sub-committee to revitalize the old Music Hall. A first meeting of the new group was held in November of 1978. The committee’s activities broadened, and it was not long before Townscape decided that its offshoot should become an independent body, providing sufficient funds for its incorporation as such.
The new corporation, the Council for the Vail Leavitt Music Hall, accepted the building through a HUD block grant arranged by the Town of Riverhead’s Community Development officer, Robert Schemer. This was accomplished in April 1982. In that period, the Hall’s Council raised over $100,000 in cash and in-kind contributions to operate and restore Riverhead’s historic hall. In September 1985, after several years of work on applications and interviews, Music Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The first phase of Music Hall’s restoration began with the opening of the Music Hall Mini-Cine in the former Leavitt’s Men’s Shop in 1984. Prior to the opening, Council members volunteered their services in rebuilding the former haberdashery into an 84-seat cinema. A generous contribution from a council member provided the funds for the purchase of theatre chairs from the old Freeport Theatre which was to be razed. A Laurel and Hardy Film Festival opened the Music Hall Mini-Cine in the spring of 1984. Revival films were very popular in the early ’80s, and it seemed the public couldn’t get enough of Bogart, Gable, Garbo, Monroe and perhaps most especially, the MacDonald/Eddy operettas.
By the 1990’s the advent of home video spelled the end of revival films in theatres, and the Council was finding it increasing difficult to maintain and operate the Mini-Cine profitably. As a result, upstairs restoration was put on hold.
Recognizing the importance of the Vail-Leavitt to revitalization of downtown Riverhead’s arts district, the Town Board and supervisor Vinnie Vilella allocated $150,000 of mitigation fees received from construction of the Tanger Outlets specifically to restoration efforts at the Music Hall. Unfortunately, disagreements within the Vail’s board resulted in lack of a cohesive plan and direction for several years. Town government, growing impatient with the lack of progress, would not release allocated funds until a viable plan of action was presented to them.
In early 2002, after public hearings called attention to the cause, several new members joined the Council. Bob Barta (a local college professor, musicologist and performer) joined the board and was able to reopen discussions with supervisor Bob Kozakiewicz and the town board, garnering key support. Mr. Barta would quickly become vice-president, and since 2006 has been president of the Vail-Leavitt board. Another notable addition to the Music Hall was Vince Tria, the owner of local radio station WRIV. A former general contractor, Tria became the organization’s treasurer and brought his experience in engineering and local politics to bear on the restoration project.
In just over a year, major renovation took place, including pouring of a foundation floor, fine carpentry restoration, construction of restrooms and a dressing room, carpeting and flooring…a complete overhaul of the Music Hall. Modern heating and air-conditioning were installed while maintaining the Music Hall’s original interior decor.
The Mini-Cine was converted into a multi-purpose area suitable for meetings, limited presentations or intermission-style receptions. A new archway was built to permit direct access from the downstairs lobby to the grand staircase, as well as necessary office space.
The Music Hall’s exterior received attention as well. Originally, the Hall’s brick walls were unpainted, while its cast iron first-floor front sported a coat of gray-blue. Research and expert consultation advocated repainting the exterior rather than attempting paint removal which could damage the soft brick. A rear entry ramp, along with a lift-style elevator, made the Music Hall handicap-accessible for the first time in its long history.
After spectacular interior painting by local artisan Mary Cox and restoration of historical stenciling by Sherrie Netusil-Barta, the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall re-opened in the summer of 2003. Since then, it has hosted numerous performances by local and internationally recognized performers and serves as a symbol of Riverhead’s cultural and artistic heritage.
International artists of note who have graced our stage include:
- Leon Redbone
- Lee Konitz
- Bucky Pizzarelli
- Teddy Charles
- Sam Taylor
- Four O’Clock Flowers
- Pete Best
- Frank Vignola
- Jeff and Anne Barnhart
- Toby Walker
- Rosie Ledet
- Ari Eisinger
- Jerron Paxton
- Peter Tork
- Jim Kweskin
- Geoff Muldaur
- Chad and Jeremy
- Sarah Spencer
- Bob Greene
…along with an equally stellar list of regional talent too large to enumerate.
The Music Hall is proud to feature great local and original performers. From 2006 to 2012 , the Vail-Leavitt produced the Riverhead Blues and Music Festival at the downtown’s historic riverfront, drawing thousands of music fans to hear legendary performers like Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Mose Allison, Johnny Winter, Savoy Brown and many more. The Music Hall also serves the community as a site for public meetings and forums, including charitable fundraisers, debates of local candidates for office, educational presentations, and past inauguration ceremonies for Riverhead’s elected officials.
The Council continues its fundraising efforts to further promote arts and cultural education in downtown Riverhead. We greatly appreciate the support and patronage of our community. | history |
https://www.mossvalehotel.com.au/about/ | 2022-06-30T15:51:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103850139.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630153307-20220630183307-00585.warc.gz | 0.992251 | 176 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__18534528 | en | The first licence for the Moss Vale Hotel was issued to Martin Larkin around 1866. Moss Vale Hotel was the first licenced premises in Moss Vale. Larken had previously held the licence for The Briars at Bong Bong. For the next decade he held the licence of the Moss Vale Hotel.
Martin Larkin must have known a thing of two because this was the period when Moss Vale really started to boom. The railway was coming, and with it all sorts of new opportunities for rural and commercial development.
The railway station at Moss Vale was opened in 1867 but it was called Sutton Forest. The first refreshment rooms, however, were located in Mittagong. The Governor or New South Wales at the time, The Earl of Belmore, resided in Sutton Forest and, for his convenience, the refreshment rooms were relocated to Moss Vale. | history |
https://www.bluegrovesfarms.com/about | 2023-09-26T19:58:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510219.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926175325-20230926205325-00061.warc.gz | 0.958216 | 339 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__78740040 | en | Our story began in 1983 when the Hatch's acquired a 62-acre farm in Eagle, Ontario with plans to grow the best local blueberries. The farm began with the planting of just a few acres with only three varieties and kept growing to its current thirteen-acres of seven different varieties of blueberry bushes.
In late 2013, after a full season of working with the Hatches, the Pierinelli family; Gio and Mariangela decided they would like to run the farm. Enthusiastically committing to improving the logistics of the farm in every aspect and securing its success for many generations to come.
Fast forward, five-years, in 2018 the Pierinelli family passed the farm onto the Innes family. The Innes' jumped right into the blueberry farm life and continued the organic traditions and success of the farm.
In 2021, after a very successful three-years with the Innes family running the farm, two local residents from St. Thomas, ON came across the farm for sale and decided to take the leap into organic blueberry farming. Victoria and Mike look forward to continuing the traditions at Bluegroves Farms.
Not only do we grow incredible organic blueberries, but we also have many other delicious organic produce.
Quality Control & Environmental Commitment
We take a lot of pride to share that our farm is fully oriented to keep it all-natural but at the same time following all rules and regulations set out by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and other government institutions.
We are members of the Ontario Berry Growers Association - www.ontarioberries.com and the Ontario Highbush Blueberry Growers Association. | history |
http://risdhealthplus.org/profile-jean-blackburn/ | 2019-02-20T12:13:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247494741.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220105613-20190220131613-00408.warc.gz | 0.882214 | 576 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__131685662 | en | I have taught in RISD’s Illustration Dept. since 1982 and my work spans painting, sculpture, scientific illustration and design. I have exhibited my fine art work both nationally and internationally. Venues have included the Aldrich Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the De Cordova Museum, the Mint Museum, the Pierogi Gallery, Caren Golden Gallery and many others.
As a Scientific Illustrator, I am currently working with Assist. Prof. Jian Chen from the Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County on several projects.
Additionally I have worked as a Scientific Illustrator on an Etruscan excavation in Murlo, Italy; the reconstruction of the Great Temple in Petra, Jordan; numerous historic and prehistoric excavations in Rhode Island and Mass., as well as survey archaeology in New Mexico.
Career: Design and Validation of Perceptually Accurate Spatial Data Visualization for Brain Cohort Analysis
Ongoing NSF Grant Proposal
Collaborator, with Assist Prof. Jian Chen, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, on NSF grant proposal, entitled “Career: Design and Validation of Perceptually Accurate Spatial Data Visualization for Brain Cohort Analysis: Using Concepts from Arts, Perception, and Information Visualization”. If funded, the project would define perceptual cues, color, drawing and design strategies that could aid in effective spatial visualization of brain scans utilizing large data sets.
Brain Tractography Imaging
Collaborator, with Assist Prof. Jian Chen, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, on Brain Tractography Imaging, creating visualization experiments involving brain pathology to define effective visualization strategies.
Scientific Illustrator: Etruscan Archaeological Expedition
Scientific Illustrator for Prof. Anthony Tuck of UMass Amherst on an Etruscan Archaeological Expedition in Murlo, Italy during the summers of 2012 and 2013, trained and brought 3 RISD students to work as archaeological illustrators for the excavation’s 6 week summer field school. Worked on reconstruction visualizations of a large Etruscan workshop building dating from 600 BCE. I hope to rejoin the excavation in the summer of 2016.
American Museum of Natural History: Visualization of Trilobite Morphology
During the Spring of 2015, my Scientific Illustration class worked with Melanie Hopkins, Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History on the visualization of trilobite morphology.
Excavations of the Great Temple in Petra
Summer 1995, 1996
Scientific Illustrator for Prof. Martha Joukousky, Brown University, in excavations of the Great Temple in Petra, Jordan. During the summers of 1995 and 1996 I worked on artifact renderings and site reconstructions.
Contact Jean Blackburn | history |
https://blog.rentalhomes.com/page/2/ | 2019-07-16T19:19:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524685.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716180842-20190716202842-00005.warc.gz | 0.948218 | 744 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__180829359 | en | The island of Barbados is a desirable sun-soaked getaway in the Eastern Caribbean, just off the coast of Venezuela. This British colony of just 284,000 inhabitants was once the home of many slaves who worked on the prosperous plantations. Today it is famous for its rum, calypso music, colonial architecture and picture-perfect beaches.
Although Amerindians and South American Kalinagos inhabited Barbados for centuries, its modern history began with the arrival of 60 British settlers in 1628. It became the home for pirates, slave traders and sugar plantation owners before finally settling down as a major tourist destination. Temperatures on Barbados rarely stray outside 23-31°C (73-88°F) with tropical afternoon showers in late summer.
Bridgetown, the island’s capital city is named after the historic bridge which spans the Careenage River. It was built in pre-colonial times by the Tainos and was later improved by the British in the 1650s. George Washington was one of the early visitors of note, back in 1751, and he stayed in Bush Hill House which is now part of the historic Garrison area. Visit National Heroes Square, a miniature of London’s Trafalgar Square complete with a statue of Nelson and the neo-Gothic Parliament buildings which are open to the public when the parliament is in session. Bridgetown was once the port from which sugar cane and rum were exported all over the world. The warehouses and period buildings now house cafés and restaurants overlooking the marina.
Crane Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches on Barbados with pink-hued sands at the foot of the cliffs. It is ideal for gentle strolls at the water’s edge or sitting in a shady spot and watching the sunset. Sunbathing and surfing are popular on Barbados along with snorkelling and scuba diving to nearby shipwrecks and coral reefs. On the south and west coasts, windsurfing, jet skiing, parasailing and waterskiing can be enjoyed along with game fishing for tuna, sailfish and barracuda. Visit a rum distillery to learn how this sugarcane derivative is produced, and enjoy some tastings. Horseriding and polo are popular sports, or attend a cricket match, from village friendly matches to International Test Cricket. For keen walkers, the Barbados National Trust offers guided hikes ranging from 8-22km (5-14 miles). For an encounter with local wildlife, head to the Barbados Wildlife Reserve where monkeys, deer, raccoons, otters and deer roam the mahogany forest. There is also a walk-through aviary where visitors can admire the gorgeous colours of toucans, parrots, flamingoes, peacocks and macaws.
Festivals are a large part of the annual calendar of events in Barbados. The Crop Over Festival in early July originates from the harvesting of the sugarcane and a King and Queen of the crop are crowned each year. Farley Hill Plantation is now a ruin, but the grounds are filled with exotic hibiscus and poinsettias. The Morgan Lewis Mill is one of only two remaining intact sugar mills with a delightful Dutch-style windmill. You can tour the Mount Gay Rum Distillery and see how rum is made. The recommended Cocktail Tour includes a cocktail-making contest for all participants with all ingredients provided. Alternatively, opt for the Lunch Tour which includes a tour of the distillery followed by a Bajan lunch with rum punch. After all, you are on holiday! | history |
https://buyerturn.com/wishlist/ | 2022-09-26T13:23:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334871.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220926113251-20220926143251-00430.warc.gz | 0.988934 | 104 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__31336064 | en | American writing is predominantly composed of essays. A lot of great American writers and thinkers were influenced by historical moments. They helped to shape the nation we see today. The religious leaders, judges, and others who were official figures were among the very first American essay writers. The early sermons usually contained thoughtful essay. Samuel Sewall and Jonathan Edwards as well as others have inspired generations of writers and essay order contributed to define the nation. Numerous other American essay writers have played a role in the evolution of the current American writing. | history |
http://www.stilllifegallery.net/alina-poroshina-places-of-refuge/ | 2019-11-19T21:18:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670255.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20191119195450-20191119223450-00242.warc.gz | 0.912169 | 283 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__98737299 | en | Opening Reception With the Artist,
Sunday Oct 25th 2015, 4:00-7:00pm
Show runs December 2nd through Nov 29th, 2015– Baltimore artist Alina Poroshina’s figurative paintings are testimonies of conflict, passage, and transition.
Reflecting today’s refugee crisis while commemorating 100 years since the Armenian genocide of 1915 which claimed over 1.5 million lives, the exhibit illustrates how themes of human history are tragically repetitive. While examining “cultural memory”, Poroshina reflects on how atrocities committed generations ago relate to the continuing global struggle for peace, justice, and the triumph of our humanity over senseless and primitive violence.
The genocide of 1915 and the artist’s own experience of relocation and displacement in the 1990’s illustrate the cyclical nature of unresolved historical conflict that continues to affect us all. Through stories and symbolism, her works manifest the internal resistance to becoming a victim, and the desire to conquer and prevail over adversity.
Combining various allegorical elements, such as iconography, Armenian folklore, and her experiences as a woman in America, Poroshina explores several subjects through a painting style she describes as “Expressive Realism”. Uncertainty, hidden danger, the construction of memories and their effects, are threads that unite Poroshina’s bodies of work. | history |
https://www.dahliakurtz.com/blog/six-holocaust-survivors-share-stories-with-dahlia-kurtz-listen | 2023-02-05T19:59:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500288.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205193202-20230205223202-00308.warc.gz | 0.959986 | 272 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__269709645 | en | The 98-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Who Evaded Nazis By Assuming Fake Identities: The last time he shared his story before his death ...
NEXT: Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter shares how he survived the Warsaw Ghetto and 6 Nazi concentration camps: “Remember the other person is the same as you.”
Vera Gara shares how she survived the Holocaust and horrors of Hitler’s Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp: “As long we are survivors, we have to tell the stories, so it doesn't happen again."
Find out how this Holocaust survivor escaped a ghetto, went into hiding, and reunited with his brave rescuers: Sidney Zoltak shares his story of survival.
Moshe Kraus, the now 98-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose singing voice saved his life, shares his story with me.
AUDIO from Moshe's story:
This last story you won't hear from the Holocaust survivor herself. But you hear it through me. You even see it in my actions. And everything you hear from me is through her scars. My Bubby Rose. I will keep her voice alive. And because of her I can help to keep many voices alive. Please. Never forget. | history |
http://drjohncmorgan.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/homecoming/ | 2014-11-23T10:37:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400379462.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123259-00116-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.982953 | 834 | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-49__0__136923964 | en | The Welsh flag hangs now outside my Pennsylvania home after my return from a two week visit to London and the Welsh countryside. I had gone to find my ancestors, and I did.
I found many family living in England, and one I had never met and whose ancestor was brother to my great-great grandfather.
One day I stood before the grave site of Rev. George Morgan, buried with others of my family, in a small parish cemetery in Staunton, England, near the same church in which he had been I baptized. I found other Morgans whose names I did not know, but one I did–she would have been my aunt who died as a young child. It was a humbling experience to stand quietly by their tombstone and tell George Morgan his great, great grandson had returned. Across space and time, I hope he might have been listening.
The real impact of the journey to Wales was to come later when I returned to my Pennsylvania home.
Last night, my son and wife and I took a drive on the back country roads not far from where we live. Looking out over the distant green mountains and rolling hills and passing a farmhouse where the sheep were heading into the barn, it dawned on me that although I was a long way from Wales, a piece of it was here, in “Penn’s Woods,” (what the Englishman and Quaker William Penn called this state).
I thought of the coal mine we had gone into in Wales and remembered the coal region of Pennsylvania where we have lived and the Welsh community there, including a Welsh congregational church and an annual Welsh choir festival. I remember my friend, George Powell, a lover of poetry and music who would speak Welsh to me and talk about the beauty of the land where he had been born.
I thought of growing up in Philadelphia and all the Welsh influence around me. All I needed to remind myself of this is to name some of the towns: Bryn Mawr, Bala Cynwyd, etc.)
While I was in Wales, I kept thinking to myself: “I feel at home here; I could live here.” And now that I am back in Pennsylvania I realize that a part of Wales is with me in the green hills and small towns, the sheep farms and stone walls, and the music and poetry of the descendents of people who came here a century or two ago.
I am home in a new and deeper way, more satisfied where I live with a deeper appreciation for my Welsh family roots and mine here in this green world of Penn’s Woods. After all, as I learned, I come from a long line of what are called “people of the forest,” those who lived on the borders of England and Wales, and settled in either. Now I live near another woods, not unlike those of my ancestors.
Home is a place, but it also is a region of the heart and mind where one can go in thought, music, poetry, and spirit. That’s what I learned and like the poet William Wordsworth who carried memories of his walks above the Tintern Abbey in Wales to London, I will do the same here. As he wrote in his lines written above Tintern Abbey in July, 1798:
Oft, in lonely rooms and ‘mid the din
of towns and cities, I have owed to them
in hours of weariness, sensations sweet….
And I have felt
a presence that disturbs me with the joy
of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
of something far more deeply interfused,
whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
and the round ocean and the living air,
and the blue sky, and in the mind of man….
Therefore am I still
a lover of the meadows and the woods,
and mountains; and of all that we behold
from this green earth….
The sun was setting over the distant hillside as we headed back from our drive around the countryside. I was home. | history |
https://energetictherapeutics.com/who-is-father-christmas/ | 2021-12-05T08:12:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363149.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205065810-20211205095810-00119.warc.gz | 0.974445 | 364 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__122301730 | en | Did you know there was a difference between Father Christmas and Santa Claus? Their tale emanates from different time periods and regions of the world. The tale of Santa Claus came down from the old story of Saint Nicholas, a Greek Bishop in Myra (now Turkey) in the 3rd Century AD who had a kindness for children and brought them gifts.
Earliest stories of Father Christmas came from ancient British mid-winter festivals during the Middle Ages. Wearing a green cloak and a wreath of holly, ivy or mistletoe, he was considered a harbinger of spring and a sign of good things to come.
Later, in Britain, Father Christmas was also known as King Frost or King Winter. Dressing up like King Frost, a man would be welcomed for a visit into homes and given food in the hopes of a mild winter. Through these customs, Father Christmas became associated with receiving good things.
Over time Father Christmas became associated with the Norse mythological father figure of Odin, (Thor’s father) who would visit the earth during the Yuletide between December 20th and 31st. Odin grew portly, had vastly accelerated travel times, and knew who had been naughty or nice.
In Europe these earlier tales later were blended in with the story of Saint Nicholas, bringing in the association of gifts for children. In the 1600’s the Puritans in England sought to ban Father Christmas and the customs surrounding him were suppressed until the 1800’s Victorian’s revival of the “Spirit of Christmas”.
In America the merger of Father Christmas and Santa Claus became even more complete with the 1822 poem “The Night Before Christmas”, cementing for the coming generations the legend of “Old Saint Nick”. | history |
http://www.hillyork.com/about/history/ | 2013-05-23T12:37:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703306113/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112146-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.966464 | 389 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__67222606 | en | Where it all began: the story of Hill York, South Florida’s leading mechanical contractor.
Imagine the luxury hotels of Miami Beach without air conditioning, closed in the summer, and cooled only by fans in the winter months. As Florida’s first air-conditioning company, Hill York changed all that!
Hill York pursued the challenge of designing and installing air-conditioning in more than half of the luxury hotels in Miami Beach just after World War II, making way for more tourism in South Florida with visitors and conventioneers flocking to the area. To this day, the company is credited with making Miami Beach a year-round community.
In 1936, the two founders, Ren Nitzsche and Everett Carroll were in the equipment business, serving as a distributor for Hill refrigerated cases and York air conditioning. During World War II, the company refurbished and installed used refrigerators, and renamed their company by combining the names of the two companies for which they were distributors.
Ten years after the duo began their business, they met Robert S. Lafferty, Sr., whose vocation was selling oil heaters in New Jersey. Lafferty saw an opportunity in the warm climate of the South to bolster the air-conditioning business of Hill York. He sold the first complete air-conditioning system to The Roney Plaza Hotel on Miami Beach. Other hotels started following suit, and Lafferty soon had nearly every major hotel lined up for air conditioning. Eventually, Lafferty became a part owner of the company.
His son, Robert S. Lafferty, Jr., is now chairman of the board of Hill York, while his grandson, Robert W. “Chip” Lafferty, a professional engineer, presides as chief executive officer. The company still maintains a branch in Miami where it got its start, but Fort Lauderdale is now the location of its headquarters. | history |
https://www.chatuchakmarket.org/history-of-chatuchak-market/ | 2023-06-07T14:57:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653930.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607143116-20230607173116-00173.warc.gz | 0.982525 | 363 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__40938929 | en | History of Chatuchak Market
Chatuchak Market has been running for over 70 years and has gone through huge changes from being a small market in Bangkok to welcoming hundreds of thousands of tourists each weekend.
Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram was the third Prime Minister of Thailand who first came into office in December 1938. During his tenure, he decided that every town must have a flea market of their own to make it easier for locals to trade and boost the local economy. Bangkok was high on his agenda, so it was declared that a flea market would open up in Sanam Luang, which would become the city’s first market in 1942.
In the coming months, the Government changed the venue, as the site was needed for other special functions. They decided to move to Saranrom Palace, in the centre of Bangkok. It stayed there for eight years until it was moved again to Sanam Chai and then back to the original venue Sanam Luang. The return was brief as Bangkok had its 200-year anniversary of the city; meaning that the market’s location had to be switched once more. In 1982, the market was moved as a permanent feature to Chatuchak. Five years later, the iconic Clocktower was built to celebrate King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 60th birthday and the market was finally renamed, Chatuchak Market.
The popularity of the market has grown substantially since it’s relocation from Sanam Luang. The market regularly accommodates 200,000 tourists each weekend and has over 15,000 stalls making it the world’s biggest weekend market in the world.
Want more on Chatuchak Market? Click on our Blog for all the information. | history |
https://thefineartoftravelling.jcldb.com/middle-east/egypt/express-service-to-egypt/ | 2024-04-18T03:19:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817187.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418030928-20240418060928-00237.warc.gz | 0.947748 | 297 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__186865342 | en | Lloyd triestino to egypt
Lloyd Triestino is an old company founded on the 2nd August, 1836 and remains the oldest still-active shipping company even though its name was changed. In the XIX century, Trieste was part of the the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and became the gateway between European and Eastern markets. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 brought enormous benefits to the Lloyd of Trieste. Regular passenger and cargo routes were started to the Middle and Far East, reaching parts of the Red Sea, the Indian peninsula and China and Japan. Among the most established lines was the service to the Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. In the 1970s, competition from the airlines forced the Lloyd, like most other shipping companies, to close down its passenger services. (Source: Italian Liners Historical Society)
About this Lloyd triestino brochure
This 20 pages brochure (14,3 x 22,2 cm) of the Italian shipping company Lloyd Triestino for cruises to Egypt is illustrated with view from antic columns and a ship for the cover and the colossi of Memnon for the back.
Title: “Lloyd Triestino Service Express pour l’Egypte”
Creator: Cover design signed by A.Quaiat
Published : June 1926
Ref / Date: TE-CM-1926-A / 2019 | history |
https://www.thetopbooks.com/books/means-of-ascent-a-class-greytext-href-series-68730 | 2018-04-22T08:50:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945552.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422080558-20180422100558-00092.warc.gz | 0.987593 | 523 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__188399307 | en | Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson #2)
A handshake, as delivered by Lyndon Johnson, could be as effective as a hug.
A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, "They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody.
dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford.
From the earliest beginnings of Lyndon Johnsons political lifefrom his days at college when he had captured control of campus politicshis tactics had consistently revealed a pragmatism and a cynicism that had no discernible limits.
He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes.
if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds.
I never conceived of my biographies as merely telling the lives of famous men but rather as a means of illuminating their times and the great forces that shaped their timesparticularly political power, since in a democracy political power has so great a role in shaping the lives of the citizens of that democracy.
Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Trumans Fair Deal.
Until the end of his life, whenever the subject of the vast growth of the LBJ Company and associated business enterprises was raised, Lyndon Johnson would emphasize that he owned none of it (All that is owned by Mrs. Johnson. I dont have any interest in government-regulated industries of any kind and never have had).
(Until the end of their lives, these men and women would tell stories about the summer they followed Lyndon Johnson and his Flying Windmill around Texas; as Oliver Knight of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would write about one trip, That mad dash from Navasota to Conroe in which I dodged stumps at 70 MPH just to keep up with that contraption will ever be green in my memory.) At the landing site, there would be the brief respite | history |
https://azeddine.forummaroc.net/t109-what-is-the-relation-between-us-and-morocco | 2021-12-05T20:31:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363216.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205191620-20211205221620-00169.warc.gz | 0.966365 | 2,226 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__182582647 | en | LONG-TIME FRIENDS: A HISTORY OF EARLY U.S.-MOROCCAN RELATIONS 1777-1787
BY SHERRILL B. WELLS
Office of the Historian -
United States Department of State
Morocco and the United States have a long history of friendly relations. This North African nation was one of the first states to seek diplomatic relations with America. In 1777, Sultan Sidi Muhammad Ben Abdullah, the most progressive of the Barbary leaders who ruled Morocco from 1757 to 1790, announced his desire for friendship with the United States. The Sultan's overture was part of a new policy he was implementing as a result of his recognition of the need to establish peaceful relations with the Christian powers and his desire to establish trade as a basic source of revenue. Faced with serious economic and political difficulties, he was searching for a new method of governing which required changes in his economy. Instead of relying on a standing professional army to collect taxes and enforce his authority, he wanted to establish state-controlled maritime trade as a new, more reliable, and regular source of income which would free him from dependency on the services of the standing army. The opening of his ports to America and other states was part of that new policy. The Sultan issued a declaration on December 20, 1777, announcing that all vessels sailing under the American flag could freely enter Moroccan ports. The Sultan stated that orders had been given to his corsairs to let the ship "des Americans" and those of other European states with which Morocco had no treaties-Russia Malta, Sardinia, Prussia, Naples, Hungary, Leghorn, Genoa, and Germany-pass freely into Moroccan ports. There they could "take refreshments" and provisions and enjoy the same privileges as other nations that had treaties with Morocco. This action, under the diplomatic practice of Morocco at the end of the 18th century, put the United States on an equal footing with all other nations with which the Sultan had treaties.
By issuing this declaration, Morocco became one of the first states to acknowledge publicly the independence of the American Republic.
On February 2O, l778, the sultan of Morocco reissued his December 20, 1777, declaration. American officials, however, only belatedly learned of the Sultan's full intentions. Nearly identical to the first, the February 20 declaration was again sent to all consuls and merchants in the ports of Tangier, Sale, and Mogador informing them the Sultan had opened his ports to Americans and nine other European States. Information about the Sultan's desire for friendly relations with the United States first reached Benjamin Franklin, one of the American commissioners in Paris, sometime in late April or early May 1778 from Etienne d'Audibert Caille, a French merchant of Sale. Appointed by the Sultan to serve as Consul for all the nations unrepresented in Morocco, Caille wrote on behalf of the Sultan to Franklin from Cadiz on April 14, 1778, offering to negotiate a treaty between Morocco and the United States on the same terms the Sultan had negotiated with other powers. When he did not receive a reply, Caille wrote Franklin a second letter sometime later that year or in early 1779. When Franklin wrote to the committee on Foreign Affairs in May 1779, he reported he had received two letters from a Frenchman who "offered to act as our Minister with the Emperor" and informed the American commissioner that "His Imperial Majesty wondered why we had never sent to thank him for being the first power on this side of the Atlantic that had acknowledged our independence and opened his ports to us." Franklin, who did not mention the dates of Caille's letters or when he had received them, added that he had ignored these letters because the French advised him that Caille was reputed to be untrustworthy. Franklin stated that the French King was willing to use his good offices with the Sultan whenever Congress desired a treaty and concluded, "whenever a treaty with the Emperor is intended, I suppose some of our naval stores will be an acceptable present and the expectation of continued supplies of such stores a powerful motive for entering into and continuing a friendship."
Why Morocco is a friend to USA
The Kingdom of Morocco is the oldest strategic ally of the United States, having recognized the nation shortly after it declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. The treaty of friendship between the United States and the Kingdom of Morocco, which is still in force, was the first international treaty ratified by the American Congress, making Morocco America's oldest diplomatic partner.
Morocco places high value on its long-standing history of friendship and cooperation with the United States. It has been an invaluable partner in the wake of terrorist attacks on the United States. Its own commitment to progressive political and social development has also made the Kingdom an exemplary partner in the United States effort to promote and support political, economic and social reforms in the broader Middle East region. As it has in the past at critical moments, Morocco also continues to play a strategically important role in the effort to resolve the on-going conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Chief among the Center's objectives is to assist the Kingdom of Morocco to obtain American support for its efforts to construct a stable, progressive, democratic and economically dynamic region in North Africa. In pursuit of this broader strategic objective, the Center will focus a substantial amount of its resources and its activities on helping to facilitate a viable political solution to the longstanding issue of the Western Sahara.
Morocco - U.S. Relations
"We are delighted with our strategic partnership with the United States of America…and we are particularly keen to consolidate and diversify our partnership relations."
H.E. King Mohammed VI, "Throne Day" Speech, 30 July 2004
> 1750 - 1912
> World War I - World War II
> 1956 - Present
1750 - 1912
During the American Revolution, so many American ships called at the port of Tangiers that the Continental Congress sought recognition from the "Emperor" of Morocco. This was accorded, in effect, in 1777, making Morocco the first country to recognize the fledging American republic. Negotiation of a formal treaty began in 1783, and resulted in the signing in 1786 of the Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both future U.S. Presidents, were the American signatories.
During the American Civil War, Morocco reaffirmed its diplomatic alliance with the United States by assuring Washington that the Kingdom, "being a sincere friend of the American nation, would never air or give countenance to the [Confederate] insurgents."
The first international convention ever signed by the United States, the 1865 Spartel Lighthouse Treaty, dealt with a navigational aid erected on the Moroccan side of the Strait of Gibraltar. The Treaty, ratified by Morocco, President Andrew Johnson and nine European heads of state, granted neutrality to the lighthouse with the condition that the ten naval powers signing the agreement assumed responsibility for its maintenance.
Around the turn of the 20th Century, as European colonizers gazed hungrily as Morocco's resources and strategically located harbors, the United States strongly defended the Kingdom's right to its continued sovereignty at the 1880 Madrid Conference and at the Algeciras Conference in 1906.
In 1912, after Morocco became a protectorate of Spain and France, American diplomats called upon the European powers to exercise colonial rule that guaranteed racial and religious tolerance: "In short," the U.S. Consul in Tanger declared," fair play is what the United States asks for Morocco and all interested parties."
World War I - World War II
During World War I, Morocco was aligned with the Allied forces. In 1917 and 1918, Moroccan soldiers fought victoriously alongside U.S. Marines at Chateau Thierry, Mont Blanc and Soissons.
With France occupied by the Nazis during World War II, colonial French Morocco sided with the Axis Powers. When the Allies invaded Morocco on November 8, 1942, Moroccan defenders quickly yielded to the American and British invaders. Shortly after Morocco surrendered, President Franklin Roosevelt sent a message to Morocco's King, H.E. Mohammed V, commending him on the "admirable spirit of cooperation that is animating you and your people in their relationships with the forces of my country. Our victory over the Germans will, I know, inaugurate a period of peace and prosperity, during which the Moroccan and French people of North Africa will flourish and thrive in a manner that befits its glorious past."
In what was to be the most pivotal meeting of Allied leaders during the World War II, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Free French commander General Charles De Gaulle, met for four days in the Casablanca suburb of Anfa in January 1943 to discuss the war. During the Anfa Conference, the Allies agreed that the only acceptable outcome of the conflict was the "unconditional surrender" of the Axis forces. Roosevelt also conferred privately with King Mohammed V to assure him that the United States would support Morocco's quest for independence.
1956 - Present
When Morocco finally gained independence on March 2, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower sent a congratulatory message to King Mohammed V: "My government renews it wishes for the peace and prosperity of Morocco, and expresses its gratification that Morocco has freely chosen, as a sovereign nation, to continue in the path of its traditional friendships."
In November 1957, King Mohammed V traveled to Washington to pay an official call on President Eisenhower. Two years later, Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon, traveled to Rabat to meet with the King.
In 1961, H.E. King Hassan II, Mohammed V's successor, made the first of several diplomatic visits to the United States to confer with President John F. Kennedy. King Hassan II would later journey to Washington to meet Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
President Clinton personally flew to Rabat in July 1999 to attend King Hassan II's funeral, and to meet the son who succeeded him, H.E. King Mohammed VI. One year later, King Mohammed VI made his first official visit to Washington.
In the 21st century, both countries have become close allies in the global war on terror. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Morocco shared valuable information with the United States about al Qaeda. Conversely, when Casablanca was the victim of terrorist bombings on May 16, 2003, the U.S. government offered Morocco - one of it oldest allies -- the full resources of its military and intelligence community.
It is this extensive network of relations - political and diplomatic, commercial and economic
, military and security, and our common sense of purpose and commitment to economic reform and development that underscore the strength of the Moroccan-US relationship | history |
http://schools.wps60.org/juarez/about/26.html | 2014-04-24T01:26:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223204388.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032004-00314-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.976953 | 260 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__64301487 | en | |Our Namesake: Miguel Juarez|
Miguel Juarez was born July 25, 1952 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. His family immigrated to El Paso, Texas, one year later. Miguel Juarez become a Waukegan police officer on November 14, 1979.
Miguel Juarez rose through the ranks of the Waukegan Police Department, beginning as a patrol officer and working in the SWAT team and detective bureau, and later as a supervisor and commander of the gang unit, major crimes scene unit and narcotics unit. He was appointed deputy police chief in 1993, and served as deputy chief of services and deputy chief of operations for eight years. Miguel Juarez was appointed chief of police in April 2001.
During his career in Waukegan, Miguel Juarez became the department's first Hispanic sergeant (1985), lieutenant (1990), deputy chief (1993) and police chief (2001). During Juarez's tenure as chief of police, crime rates in the city continued their decline, according to department statistics.
Miguel Juarez was a member of the Waukegan Unit School District Board of Education, Chief of Police in Waukegan, Illinois, and long time NLPOA Member. | history |
https://www.globalgovernanceproject.org/author/rikio-kozu/ | 2024-04-23T19:43:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00453.warc.gz | 0.990035 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__150080842 | en | Rikio Kozu joined the Nippon Steel Corporation in 1979 and began his trade union career in 1984, when he was elected executive committee member of the workers’ union at the Nippon Steel headquarters. In 1990, his trade union career was interrupted for three years while he served as first secretary to the Japanese embassy in Thailand. After his return to trade union work, he was elected general secretary of the Japan Federation of Basic Industry Workers’ Unions (Kikan Roren) in 2006 and president in 2010. He became general secretary of RENGO in 2013 and president in 2015. At the 15th biennial convention in 2017, he was re-elected for a second term as president. | history |
http://www.churchfield.org/acton-cards/ | 2023-09-21T19:23:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506029.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921174008-20230921204008-00034.warc.gz | 0.960595 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__39676618 | en | Local artist Colin Bays has created a set of four cards featuring various architectural highlights of Acton. Two of them show gems of Churchfield Road: the Almshouses (as they were before redevelopment) and The Churchfield pub (now The Station House). The other two show the Old Action Fire Station (now the Oak Tree Anglican Fellowship) and Acton Library (now closed, awaiting redevelopment).
Notes about the building’s history are also included on each card. Further details: blank interior, A5 folded, envelopes included.
Each set costs £4.00, 40p of which will be donated to the Acton History Group.
If you would like to buy the cards, contact the artist’s brother David Bays, chair of the Acton History Group, on 020 8992 0287 or [email protected] | history |
https://www.worldconstructiontoday.com/pressreleases/syria-clashes-destroy-aleppo-minaret-unesco-site/ | 2023-09-22T08:03:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506339.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922070214-20230922100214-00536.warc.gz | 0.971645 | 369 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__214390455 | en | The minaret of one of Syria’s most famous mosques has been destroyed during clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. According to the BBC, images on the internet now show a pile of rubble in its place.
Syrian state news agency Sana has accused rebels of blowing up the 11th-Century minaret of the Umayyad Mosque, while activists say the minaret was hit by Syrian army tank fire.
The mosque is a Unesco world heritage site, described as “one of the most beautiful mosques in the Muslim world”. Last October, the heritage organization appealed for the protection of the site.
The structure in the old city of Aleppo dates was founded in the year 715 by the Umayyad dynasty on the site of a Byzantine church, and was later damaged by both fire in 1159 and the Mongol invasion in 1260.
However, the surviving part was the 45m-high minaret, which dated back to 1090 AD. A report by Sana blamed the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group. It quoted a government source saying that “terrorists… placed explosive materials in the minaret and the mosque’s southern door and set them off”.
However, Aleppo-based activist Mohammed al-Khatib, quoted by AP news agency, said a tank shell had “totally destroyed” the 45m (148ft) minaret.
The mosque has suffered extensive damage during months of fighting, both to its antique furnishings and its intricately sculpted colonnades.
Artefacts, including a box purported to contain a strand of the Prophet Muhammad’s hair, are also reported to have been looted. Rebels say they have salvaged ancient handwritten Koranic manuscripts and hidden them. | history |
https://moviemartlk.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/selma/ | 2018-03-19T12:46:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646914.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319120712-20180319140712-00534.warc.gz | 0.84936 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__64506254 | en | Posted by moviemart
A chronicle of Martin Luther King‘s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
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https://www.paulschnieber.com/princeton-avenue-history-moorpark-ca/ | 2022-09-28T11:56:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335254.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928113848-20220928143848-00634.warc.gz | 0.918702 | 109 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__266644699 | en | Princeton Avenue History | Moorpark, CA
Thank you for your interest in the Princeton Avenue Improvement project. Although a top priority for the City throughout its history, the project is also among the most complex capital projects Moorpark will ever construct. At long last, the City put the project out for construction bids in December 2021, and awarded a construction contract in February 2022!
This page is dedicated to the long history of the project. For current project information, please visit www.moorparkca.gov/PrincetonAve. | history |
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/events/2013-arrc/ | 2016-05-31T00:07:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051151584.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005231-00069-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95772 | 342 | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__20567860 | en | 2013 American Road Race of Champions
Nov 01 - Nov 03 at Braselton, GA
In 1994, after twenty-four years of outstanding success at Road Atlanta, the SCCA’s National Championship event (the Runoffs) was usurped by Yankee carpet-baggers and moved to Mid-Ohio. To fill the gap on the track’s calendar the Atlanta Region SCCA and Road Atlanta collaborated to resurrect an historic name, the American Road Race of Champions, and invited most of the regional-only classes to a single event to determine the champions in each of those classes. Grassroots Motorsports magazine was involved in those early versions of the event, and in 2007 they became the presenting sponsor of the ARRC by GRM.
Although the event primarily consisted of Improved Touring cars in the early years, we added other regional-only classes like ASR, SPO/U, CF, and CFC over the years. We were also among the first to recognize Spec Miata, so when that class became eligible for the Runoffs we modified our rules to include regional-only Spec Miatas as well. Over the years the event has added and subtracted classes in reaction to the whims of the National Directors, but through it all the event has featured outstanding racing from some of the best drivers in North America. In some circles an ARRC trophy is more coveted than a Runoffs medal, and the ARRC by GRM has truly become “the National Championship event for those drivers who choose not to attend the Runoffs.”
Start: Nov. 1, 2013, End: Nov. 3, 2013
SCCA - Atlanta Region | history |
https://campaign-42033.obsidianportal.com/ | 2018-11-14T11:40:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741979.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20181114104603-20181114130603-00076.warc.gz | 0.96761 | 614 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__80824463 | en | The historical fork in the road between this Earth and ours occurred in 1192 at the end of the siege of Acre. The English King Richard the Lion-Hearted had won one of the first major victories against Saladin’s Muslim empire during the Third Crusade. With Acre back in Christian hands, King Richard negotiated the release of 3000 Muslim prisoners in exchange for pilgrimage rights throughout the Holy Lands and forfeiture of Saladin’s claim to Acre.
King Richard accepted the offer of aid in the negotiations from a local Muslim Imam, Abdul Alhazred. When negotiations faltered, Alhazred advised the 3000 prisoners be put to death in a mass execution as a show of strength. As the last prisoner was executed, it became clear that something was wrong. Alhazred channeled the deaths to finalize a ritual to bring fourth a great evil he was secretly an agent of. Multiple shimmering rifts appeared in the air around the city; thousands of spirits flooded through each, many demonic, some divine, the majority foreign, beastial or elemental in nature. The city of Acre was engulfed in its second war in a week. Few humans survived. King Richard was one of them. A Divine spirit had merged with him, protecting him and gaining his strength.
Rifts had opened all over the known world. Most spirits found they had to bond with a living creature to stay for long. Bonding changed the hosts; A bull might become a minotaur, swine and boar to an orc. Divine spirits bonded with the men and bent them to the will of God, allowing them to work minor and great miracles. Demonic spirits bonded with men of all types, granting arcane powers.
Saladin, King Richard and the Christian world, formed the Acre Alliance to shut the rifts and fight back the spirits and the resulting monsters and horrors created. Spain instigated the inquisition to strip them of their demonic or elemental spirits. The Teutonic order strived to eliminate all who had bonded with any spirit. Lithuania, in direct conflict with the Teutonic Order welcomed all bonded humans.
The first century was a losing battle for mankind. The First Dragon War (1234-1242) ended with the death of King Richard. The Second Dragon War (1307-1356) saw the last of the known Great Dragons slain, though there are rare sightings to this day. The Great Wizards War (1392-1424) saw to it that what little Necromancers and war wizards were left had fled into hiding.
The year is now 1498. Europe is still recovering, many inner lands are still in the control of evil humanoids, and bonded humans are still common day. Much of the coast has been recovered, but not all. And you? You have just wandered into a small Barony in what may one day become Germany.
Note: This campaign is a modified story line to Bioware’s “Lionheart”. | history |
http://www.stgeorge-themartyr.co.uk/organ-history-the-jordans/ | 2017-07-27T20:36:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549429485.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727202516-20170727222516-00619.warc.gz | 0.978186 | 2,035 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__124204996 | en | It is at St George’s that Abraham Jordan’s connection with organ building is first made, indeed this may be his first organ. He was a parishioner and had premises immediately opposite the church and in nearby streets. His son, Abraham Junior, continued in his father’s footsteps and was also the parish organist. The article below has been reproduced by kind permission of Dominic Gwynn.
Abraham Jordan History
Jordan, Abraham (c.1666–1715/16). English organ builder. His family came from Ratbey in Leicestershire, though Abraham may have been born in London, where he was apprenticed as distiller in 1679, perhaps to his widowed mother. In 1686 he married Ann Greenhill, and in 1689 he married Elizabeth Butler who was the mother of his surviving children. By 1694 they had settled in St George’s, Southwark, leasing dwelling house and out-buildings from St Thomas’s Hospital.
Abraham seems to have been a successful businessman, both as distiller and investor in property, with an interest in organs which propelled him into organ building. Sir John Hawkins wrote that “Jordan, a distiller … betook himself to the making of organs, and succeeded beyond expectation”, although he “had never been instructed in the business, but had a mechanical turn”. His route into organ building may have started with organ playing, and continued with an interest in the organ at St George’s Southwark, his parish church, very close to his house. On 12 December 1702 ‘Abraham Jordan Distiller’, signed articles of agreement for a new organ there, already ‘erected and Sett up … being in full perfection and approved of by Dr. John Blow and Jeremiah Clerke’ and valued by them at £600. In fact he undertook to make the organ, provide an organist (his son Abraham junior) and keep the organ tuned and mended for £100 and the old organ, and £20 per annum. It was the first ‘annuity organ’, so far as we know.
Although supposed to be a new organ, what survives in the present organ is pipework from Bernard Smith’s workshop, and indeed Jordan took the old organ in part payment (“Mr. Smith” had worked on the organ in 1683 and 1690). It looks as if Jordan learnt his organ building at secondhand from Smith, an impression reinforced by the similarity between Jordan’s and Smith’s surviving work. It also looks as if Jordan may have used some of Smith’s former workmen after he died, such as William Stephens (Smith’s ‘man’ who became a tenant of Jordan’s), Thomas Knight and Thomas Friend. He may also have taken over some work from Smith’s workshop at Bath Abbey in 1708.
In 1705 Jordan made a new organ for St Saviour’s Southwark, subsequently Southwark Cathedral, at the other end of the Borough High Street from St George’s. This organ had three manuals and 26 stops, including a full set of mutations and most unusually a Double Diapason on the Great. In 1712 Jordan advertised in the Spectator his finest achievement, “a very large organ in S Magnus Church at the foot of London Bridge, consisting of four sets of keys, one of which is adapted to the art of emitting sounds by swelling the notes, which never was in any organ before”. A patent was applied for but never granted, which suggests that the authorship was not clear. It may have been a response to a proposal of Renatus Harris for a grand organ in St Paul’s Cathedral, advertised in the same year, but the ‘invention’ of the Swell organ is certainly Jordan’s claim to fame. In 1714 he made an organ for St Benet Fink in the City of London, an organ which was preferred in competition to an organ of Christopher Shrider’s, unfairly in the latter’s view.
Jordan died in 1716, leaving his business to his eldest son, also Abraham (1690–1755/6). Abraham was organist at St George’s, Southwark, and presumably trained in his father’s workshop and in his office. He was also inventive, in 1730 advertising in the London Journal “An organ made by Jordan, being the first of its kind, the contrivance of which is such that the master when he plays sits with his face to the audience, and … is so contrived that the trumpet base, and trumpet treble, the sesquialtera and cornet stops, are put off and on by the feet, singly or altogether, at the master’s discretion, and as quick as thought without taking the hands off the keys”. These claims were challenged by John Harris and John Byfield.
Like his father Jordan seems to have used the latest opportunities for publicity, advertising the latest projects in the newspapers, including organs made on spec, and sometimes opening concerts on organs destined for the provinces or overseas in his workshop in Southwark. When advertising the opening of the new organ at St George Botolph Lane in the City of London in 1723 he was not afraid to tell the world that “The Maker has acquir’d the Character of an ingenious Artist added to that of an honest Man”. In 1728 and 1729 Jordan joined with Christopher Shrider in making organs for Westminster Abbey and St Alban Wood Street in the City of London. In 1733 he was one of the signatories to the Quadripartite Indenture, an agreement for all to share the proceeds from contracts signed by any one of them, with certain specific exceptions. Previous spats with John Harris and John Byfield seem to have been forgotten. Jordan signed most of the contracts, even when Richard Bridge and John Byfield did the work or collected the money. That may be because his capital enabled him to finance projects. We know of a few organ contracts which specified a single payment after completion and assessment by experts. It tended to be the lesser known builders who asked for instalments.
The result is that Abraham Jordan junior seems to have been the most prolific builder in his day. He made four new organs for the City of London, and for the growing suburbs and the increasing number of proprietary chapels. He made organs for the increasingly prosperous regional centres, particularly sea and river ports like Yarmouth, Portsmouth, Southampton and Maidstone. And organs which went further afield, for Wales and Scotland, for the colonies such as Barbados (at least four) and Boston Massachusetts (for which the assembly instructions survive). Very little survives in a form which we can appreciate now. The closest to Jordan’s intentions would be the 1723 organ for St George Botolph Lane now immaculately restored at St George’s Southall Middlesex. The 1720 organ made for the Duke of Chandos at Cannons near Edgware Middlesex, was moved to Holy Trinity Gosport in 1747, where the case and much of the pipework survive relatively unaltered, though the overall effect is now Victorian.
In 1731, he married Lucy Goodyard, who brought a considerable dowry. He changed his business address to Budge Row, St John Baptist, City of London at the same time, though the Southwark workshop continued in use. It is surprising that he was one of the signatories to the 1733 Indenture since his business seems to have been the most active, and showed no sign of decline during the next 25 years, one wonders why he was willing to share his success. It may be that the newly married Jordan was aiming at a more genteel lifestyle, living off his property dealings and his inherited wealth, and the profits from his organ building business, though his direction was important enough for a “Paralytick Disorder” to hold up progress on the new organ for the Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich in 1754. By 1745 he resided in Camberwell ‘on the east side of the road a little south from the College at Dulwich’ in a house he had inherited. He died in 1756, his wife in 1764; both were buried at Dulwich.
J. Hawkins A general history of the science and practice of music vol4 pp356-7fn (1776)
Joan Jeffery ‘Abraham Jordan’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn (Jan 2008)
Joan Jeffery ‘Organ builder history from fire insurance policies’ British Institute of Organ Studies Journal vol26 pp76-106 (2002)
Paul Tindall Research Notes BIOSReporter vol33/2 p23-30 (April 2009) newspaper adverts
Paul Tindall Research Notes BIOSReporter vol34/2 p23-4 (April 2010) St Benet Fink
David S. Knight ‘The Early History of the Swell’ The Organ Yearbook vol26 pp127-144 (1996)
Southwark Local Studies Library Surrey, deed 1232 (Abraham Jordan 1702 contract)
Barbara Owen, ‘Colonial organs’ British Institute of Organ Studies Journal vol3 pp92–107 (1979)
Nicholas Plumley ‘The Harris/Byfield connection’ British Institute of Organ Studies Journal vol3 pp108–34(1979)
Nicholas Plumley The Organs of the City of London p52 (Positif Press Oxford 1996)
National Archives PROB11/550 will Abraham Jordan, senior
National Archives PROB 11/820 will Abraham Jordan, junior | history |
https://www.sayyesinkeywest.com/venues/7-casa-marina-resort/ | 2024-04-13T15:24:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816820.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413144933-20240413174933-00109.warc.gz | 0.883829 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35275755 | en | Historic Casa Marina is Key West’s most romantic wedding venue. Built in 1920, Henry Flagler’s vision of grandeur and elegance is evident in the dramatic architecture and sprawling grounds that lead to the largest private beach on the island.
Imagine your Key West wedding ceremony on a white sandy beach with the ever changing colors of the Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop. While you exchange your vows, family and friends share the moment with you creating truly special memories. Stroll the grounds and private dock for stunning pictures while your guests enjoy refreshing cocktails and scrumptious hors d’oeuvres on one of our intimate patios surrounded by tropical foliage.
Timeless with hardwood floors, 10’ arched windows and strikingly high ceilings, their ballrooms capture the essence and spirit of the illustrious past that is unique only to Casa Marina. | history |
https://www.andotherstories.org/authors/shalash-the-iraqi/ | 2022-09-26T04:00:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334644.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220926020051-20220926050051-00319.warc.gz | 0.974954 | 422 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__192989353 | en | Shalash the Iraqi
Shalash the Iraqi
The second U.S. invasion of Iraq began in the spring of 2003. By the autumn of 2005, though the Saddam Hussein regime had reached its bloody end, ordinary Iraqis were seeing little improvement in their daily lives. Their country was ‘free’, but to many it seemed free mainly to become a mire of sectarian violence, corruption, confusion, and fear.
In the midst of this turmoil, a hero arose – or, rather, a jester, which in wartime might amount to the same thing. In a country where electricity was only intermittently available, a series of blog posts began to appear at a soon-to-be-defunct website and took Baghdad by storm. Individual entries were printed out and passed around for months, until the pages were nearly shredded. Where neither computers nor printers were available, the posts were retold aloud, then passed along at second- and third-hand.
What could inspire such devotion? Signed ‘Shalash the Iraqi’, the posts proved to be nothing less than portions of a madcap serial novel thumbing its nose at Iraq’s new normal. Employing a variety of genres and styles – from drunken monologues to prayers, from poetry to dirty jokes, from fairy tales and folk stories to brutal realism – the fictional Shalash sheds light on as well as mocks every possible aspect of Iraq’s political, religious, cultural, and social situation.
Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans – as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals – this is a novel whose only peers are Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, and Catch-22. Never written to be published, all but lost save for those disintegrating printouts treasured by its devotees, Shalash the Iraqi is here presented in its first authorised translation, with the blessing and commentary of ‘Shalash’ himself. | history |
http://xuhu.zazuga.ru/accuracy-in-carbon-14-dating-1007.html | 2018-12-16T21:02:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827992.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216191351-20181216213351-00092.warc.gz | 0.947948 | 524 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__89130971 | en | Accuracy in carbon 14 dating gratis dating sider danmark Høje-Taastrup
The field of radiocarbon dating has become a technical one far removed from the naive simplicity which characterized its initial introduction by Libby in the late 1940's.It is, therefore, not surprising that many misconceptions about what radiocarbon can or cannot do and what it has or has not shown are prevalent among creationists and evolutionists - lay people as well as scientists not directly involved in this field. The Radiocarbon Revolution Since its development by Willard Libby in the 1940s, radiocarbon (14C) dating has become one of the most essential tools in archaeology.Radiocarbon dating was the first chronometric technique widely available to archaeologists and was especially useful because it allowed researchers to directly date the panoply of organic remains often found in archaeological sites including artifacts made from bone, shell, wood, and other carbon based materials.Alone, or in concert, these factors can lead to inaccuracies and misinterpretations by archaeologists without proper investigation of the potential problems associated with sampling and dating.
Comparison of ancient, historically dated artifacts (from Egypt, for example) with their radiocarbon dates has revealed that radiocarbon years and calendar years are not the same even for the last 5,000 calendar years.Shells of known age collected prior to nuclear testing have also been dated ( to ascertain the effects of old carbon (i.e., local marine reservoir effects). However, the most common materials dated by archaeologists are wood charcoal, shell, and bone. In brief, radiocarbon dating measures the amount of radioactive carbon 14 (14C) in a sample.Radiocarbon analyses are carried out at specialized laboratories around the world (see a list of labs at: When a biological organism dies, the radioactive carbon in its body begins to break down or decay.Compared to conventional radiocarbon techniques such as Libby's solid carbon counting, the gas counting method popular in the mid-1950s, or liquid scintillation (LS) counting, AMS permitted the dating of much smaller sized samples with even greater precision.Regardless of the particular 14C technique used, the value of this tool for archaeology has clearly been appreciated.
Radiocarbon dating is especially good for determining the age of sites occupied within the last 26,000 years or so (but has the potential for sites over 50,000), can be used on carbon-based materials (organic or inorganic), and can be accurate to within ±30-50 years. | history |
https://www.edgewaterfoundation.com/2022-hall-of-fame-invitation/ | 2022-09-30T13:32:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335469.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930113830-20220930143830-00759.warc.gz | 0.920683 | 562 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__72244538 | en | Please join us in honoring the newest members of the
Edgewater High School Hall of Fame
Class of 2022
Saturday, April 30, 2022
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
5:30-7:00 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres Reception
in the EHS Cafeteria/Atrium
7:00-9:30 p.m. Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
in the O.R. Davis Auditorium
2022 Hall of Fame Inductees
Ralph “Tommy” Browning (Class 1960)
Howie Dorough (Class 1991)
Michael Gonzales (Class 2005)
Mykal Kilgore (Class 2001)
Elizbeth Allan Reid (Class 1969)
Alan MacAllster (Class 1960)
Nancy Robbinson (Class 1982)
Bill Robbinson (Class 1980)
Georgio Rodriquez (Class 2000)
Patti “Neal” Whitted (Class 1976)
Joseph “Vincent” Zappini (Class 1966)
Tickets prices are $75.00 per person or for table sponsorships (seating for 8) are $1,000.
Edgewater High School Hall of Fame, we are thankful for the opportunity to celebrate some of our school’s most outstanding staff and alumni. Teachers and staff have walked the halls of our school and we are honored to look back on a part of our school’s 60-year history and reconnect with those who have laid the foundation!
With the help of long-time EHS supporters and advocates, the EHS Foundation established The Edgewater High School Hall of Fame in 2011. The purpose of the Edgewater Hall of Fame is to honor distinguished Edgewater alumni and supporters who are acclaimed through their outstanding accomplishments in one of six categories: Arts, Academics, Athletics, Professional, Community and Eagle Spirit.
Edgewater has many outstanding alumni who have used their education and experience to become successful, positive contributors to society. We believe that positive role models are extremely important in today’s world and that these graduates of EHS should be held up as role models for today’s students.
Candidates are nominated annually and presented to the EHS Hall of Fame Board of Trustees. The trustees review and select the inductees. The EHS Foundation is proud to present and celebrate these distinguished inductees at the EHS Hall of Fame Induction. In addition, a permanent display honoring the inductees has been established in halls of the O. R. Davis Auditorium so that students, staff, parents and visitors will be able to commemorate the legacy of these inductees. | history |
https://cervo.ulaval.ca/fr/jules-bernard-luys-and-subthalamic-nucleus | 2019-03-24T21:04:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203493.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20190324210143-20190324232143-00470.warc.gz | 0.928544 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__128960654 | en | Publication Type:Journal Article
Source:Mov Disord, Volume 17, Issue 1, p.181-5 (2002)
Keywords:France, History, 19th Century, Humans, Neurology, Subthalamic Nucleus
Jules Bernard Luys, a highly energetic French investigator who made important contributions to anatomopathology, clinical neurology, and psychiatry, discovered the subthalamic nucleus in 1865. Unfortunately, Luys' description of the nucleus that still bears his name, as well as his highly original insights on the role of this important motor structure, are rarely taken into account in the current thinking about the basal ganglia organization. Thus, we thought it of interest to review Luys' contribution to our knowledge of the subthalamic nucleus and also briefly examine the other remarkable achievements of this singular figure of 19th century neurology. | history |
https://www.sevendestination.com/delhi-tour-package-from-kolkata/ | 2024-02-26T23:10:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474669.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226225941-20240227015941-00644.warc.gz | 0.869217 | 383 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__183766418 | en | - Car Rental
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The three most visited tourist places in North India are Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, all of which are included in this tour package. You will see Qutub Minar, Jama Masjid and Red Fort in Delhi. One of the world’s most famous structures, the Taj Mahal, is located in Agra. You will see Jantar Mantar, City Palace and Amber Fort in Jaipur.
Families who want to see all the main attractions of Delhi in a fun and interesting way should definitely consider this tour package. You will see some of the most loved tourist attractions in Delhi, like Akshardham Temple, Red Fort, Jama Masjid and Qutub Minar. Apart from this, you will be able to visit Dilli Haat market, take a boat ride on the Yamuna river and take a rickshaw ride in the old city.
With our painstakingly designed tour packages, Seven Destination Tour & Travels cordially invites you to discover Delhi, the dynamic capital city of India. Whether you’re looking for a mix of modern and traditional flavours, historical monuments, or cultural experiences, we have the ideal package to make your trip to Delhi unforgettable.
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Take a journey through time, exploring the rich history and dynamic culture of Delhi. Seven Destination Tour & Travels is your preferred choice for Delhi tour packages, offering a range of options to suit different tastes and budgets. Contact us today to explore the grandeur of Delhi’s landmarks and experience the captivating essence of this historic city. | history |
https://www.seuleadershipforum.com/speakers/peggy-noonan/ | 2023-02-04T15:27:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500140.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204142302-20230204172302-00042.warc.gz | 0.958245 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__233166973 | en | Peggy Noonan is a widely admired columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the best-selling author of eight books on American politics, history, and culture, including What I Saw at the Revolution and When Character Was King. In 2010, she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. In 1988, she was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush when he ran for the presidency. Before entering the White House, Noonan was a producer at CBS News in New York. In 1978 and 1979, she was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.
Follow Peggy Noonan on Twitter @peggynoonannyc. | history |
http://congowatch.blogspot.com/2007/02/ | 2018-07-16T04:37:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589179.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716041348-20180716061348-00227.warc.gz | 0.977929 | 143 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__171241566 | en | DRC troops jailed for war crimes
Thirteen soldiers have been jailed for life after the discovery of mass graves in the north-eastern Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Note, the report also tells us, in a separate trial in Bunia, four members of the same unit were jailed for life for the murder of two UN military observers in 2003. Two others were given jail terms of 10 and 20 years.
A military court found them guilty of killing about 30 civilians found buried in the graves in November last year.
The soldiers who were tried came from the army's First Brigade - one of several made up of fighters from factions who fought in DR Congo's 1998-2003 war. | history |
https://www.palmoilextractionmachine.com/news/industry_news/55.html | 2023-10-03T03:45:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511053.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003024646-20231003054646-00043.warc.gz | 0.977458 | 156 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__80853119 | en | Palm Oil History
Palm oil in Malaysia
Oil palms are originally from West Africa, but were brought to South-East Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. The primary demand for the industry's expansion came from the British Industrial Revolution. At the time, 250,000 tons of palm oil was being exported annually from South-East Asia. This figure has risen to over 60,000,000 tons today.
Malaysia was the world's largest producer of palm oil by the mid 20th century and this stayed true until the Indonesian government began investing into this industry in 1970s. This expansion officially pushed the country into the leading spot for top producers in 2007 and the nation now supplies the majority of the world's growing demand for this cheap edible oil. | history |
https://www.phoenixestateplanning.co.uk/post/a-brief-history-of-iht | 2024-02-22T07:21:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473735.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222061937-20240222091937-00602.warc.gz | 0.971608 | 221 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__43223219 | en | Modern inheritance tax dates back to 1894 when the government introduced estate duty, a tax on the capital value of land, in a bid to raise money to pay off a £4m government deficit.
It replaced several different inheritance taxes, including the 1796 tax on estates introduced to help fund the war against Napoleon. The earliest death duty can be traced back to 1694 when probate duty, a tax on personal property in wills proved in court, was brought in.
When the tax was first introduced it was intended to affect only the very wealthy, but the rise in the value of homes, particularly in the south-east of England, has brought more families into the net in recent decades.
From 1896, it was possible to avoid estate duty by handing on gifts during the life of the donor. To counter avoidance through last minute transfers, gifts handed over a limited time before death were still subject to the tax. Initially the period was one year but that rose to seven years over time.
And there you have it, a brief History of IHT - Britains most hated tax! | history |
https://dopplerthepom.com/armenian-genocide-app/ | 2024-04-25T05:19:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297284704.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425032156-20240425062156-00126.warc.gz | 0.882561 | 1,410 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__46310435 | en | Unveiling History: Introducing the Armenian Genocide App by DopplerThepom.
Introducing the Armenian Genocide App
In today’s digital age, technology serves as a powerful tool for education and remembrance. One such remarkable endeavor is the Armenian Genocide App by DopplerThepom, an innovative platform designed to shed light on one of the darkest chapters in human history.
Overview of DopplerThepom’s Initiative
DopplerThepom’s commitment to preserving history and promoting awareness culminates in the creation of this groundbreaking app. With meticulous research, thoughtful design, and a dedication to truth, the app stands as a testament to the resilience of the Armenian people and the importance of commemorating their history.
Understanding the Armenian Genocide
Historical Context: Ottoman Empire and Armenian Population
The Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, remains a harrowing reminder of the atrocities humanity is capable of. The app provides a comprehensive overview of the historical context, exploring the vibrant Armenian culture and the events leading up to the genocide.
What Constituted the Armenian Genocide?
Through detailed documentation and historical accounts, users gain insight into the systematic extermination of Armenians, including mass deportations, forced marches, and massacres. By confronting the truth of the genocide, the app invites users to honor the memory of its victims and recognize the importance of justice and reconciliation.
Impacts and Legacy of the Genocide
The ramifications of the Armenian Genocide reverberate through generations, shaping the Armenian diaspora and influencing global efforts for recognition and prevention of genocide. By examining its lasting impacts, the app fosters a deeper understanding of the genocide’s significance in shaping contemporary discourse on human rights and justice.
The Journey of Creation
The inspiration behind the App Development
The inception of the Armenian Genocide App stemmed from a desire to amplify voices long silenced by history. DopplerThepom’s founders were moved by the stories of survivors and the urgent need to preserve their testimonies for future generations.
DopplerThepom’s Vision and Mission
Driven by a commitment to truth and historical accuracy, DopplerThepom embarked on a journey to create an accessible platform for learning and commemoration. The app serves as a digital memorial, ensuring that the stories of the Armenian Genocide endure in the collective memory.
Collaborative Efforts and Research
The development of the app involved collaboration with historians, scholars, and survivors’ descendants, ensuring the accuracy and authenticity of its content. Through extensive research and meticulous attention to detail, DopplerThepom crafted a comprehensive resource for understanding the Armenian Genocide.
Exploring the Features
User Interface and Navigation
The Armenian Genocide App boasts a user-friendly interface designed for seamless navigation. Intuitive features make it easy for users to explore the app’s wealth of content and engage with its interactive elements.
Comprehensive Documentation: Texts, Images, and Videos
From historical documents and photographs to immersive videos, the app offers a rich tapestry of resources for users to delve into. Each piece of content is carefully curated to provide a nuanced understanding of the Armenian Genocide.
Interactive Maps and Timelines
Interactive maps and timelines allow users to trace the events of the Armenian Genocide geographically and chronologically. By visualizing the scope and scale of the atrocities, these features bring history to life powerfully and engagingly.
Testimonials and Reviews
The app includes firsthand accounts from survivors and their descendants, offering a poignant glimpse into the human experience amid tragedy. User reviews further underscore the app’s impact in fostering empathy and understanding.
How to Utilize the App
Installation and Compatibility
The Armenian Genocide App is available for download on both the Google Play Store and the App Store for iOS, ensuring accessibility across various devices. Installation is simple, allowing users to begin their journey of discovery with ease.
Navigating Through the Content
Upon launching the app, users are greeted with a curated selection of featured content, providing a starting point for exploration. From there, intuitive navigation tools guide users through different sections, allowing for a personalized learning experience.
Making the Most of Interactive Features
Interactive features such as quizzes, virtual tours, and augmented reality experiences enhance users’ engagement with the app. By offering immersive learning opportunities, these features deepen users’ understanding of the Armenian Genocide and its impact.
Impact and Significance
Educating and Raising Awareness
The Armenian Genocide App serves as a powerful educational tool, reaching audiences around the world with its compelling narrative and immersive content. By raising awareness of the genocide, the app empowers users to become advocates for truth and justice.
Commemorating the Armenian Genocide
Through commemorative events, virtual memorials, and community outreach initiatives, DopplerThepom ensures that the victims of the Armenian Genocide are never forgotten. The app provides a space for reflection and remembrance, honoring the resilience of the Armenian people.
Contributions to Historical Preservation
By digitizing historical documents, photographs, and testimonies, the app contributes to the preservation of Armenian history for future generations. Its comprehensive archive ensures that the stories of the genocide’s victims and survivors endure as a testament to the human spirit.
Future Developments and Community Engagement
Updates and Enhancements
DopplerThepom remains committed to enhancing the Armenian Genocide App with regular updates and new features. User feedback drives the app’s development, ensuring that it continues to meet the needs of its diverse audience.
Outreach Programs and Partnerships
Through partnerships with educational institutions, museums, and advocacy organizations, DopplerThepom expands the reach of the Armenian Genocide App and fosters meaningful dialogue around genocide prevention and human rights.
Feedback and Suggestions
DopplerThepom welcomes feedback and suggestions from users, recognizing the importance of continuous improvement. By listening to the community, the app evolves as a dynamic platform for learning, commemoration, and activism.
The Armenian Genocide App by DopplerThepom stands as a testament to the power of technology in preserving history and promoting awareness. Through its comprehensive content, interactive features, and commitment to truth, the app invites users to engage with the legacy of the Armenian Genocide in a meaningful and impactful way.
Invitation to Download and Explore
Join DopplerThepom in commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide by downloading the app today. Together, we can ensure that their stories are remembered and their voices are heard.
DopplerThepom’s Commitment to Historical Education and Remembrance
As we look to the future, DopplerThepom remains steadfast in its mission to educate, inspire, and empower through technology. Join us in honoring the past, shaping the present, and building a brighter future for generations to come. | history |
https://www.lorahotel.com/hotel/history/ | 2024-04-21T05:05:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421040323-20240421070323-00723.warc.gz | 0.958209 | 498 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__168143683 | en | At Lora, you find yourself in a place of historic significance. In 1848, Stillwater housed the first territorial convention, beginning the establishment of Minnesota’s statehood. Located along the St. Croix river, Stillwater emerged as a prominent lumbering town, with the river granting passage to nearby pine lands. As railroads arrived in the early 1870s, Stillwater flourished.
Stillwater’s rich brewing tradition emerged amid this growth, to quench the thirst of hardworking fellers. In 1868, the Joseph Wolf Brewery was built into the bluffs where Lora now stands. It was connected to a series of caves used to store beer and source spring water, thus tapping into nature’s resources and harnessing natural refrigeration. The beer was advertised as a healing elixir: “an efficient antidote against fatigue from strenuous work, play or the weakening of old age.”
Following a fire, the brewery’s damaged building was rebuilt into a steam-powered brewery facility – the first of its kind in the state – along with a brewhouse and hotel. Under the name Empire Brewery, it became one of the largest breweries in the state. But the 1890’s ushered in a temperance movement. Liquor sales declined. The brewery kept its taps flowing by turning to one of America’s beloved pastimes – baseball. Forming one of the toughest teams in the state, the brewery’s baseball team garnered newspaper coverage whenever they stepped up to the plate.
In 1920, Prohibition went into effect, and the brewery closed. The company continued to produce bottled water, sodas and sparkling water until 1925.Over the years, lumber production slowed, Stillwater’s economy shifted to dairy farming and manufacturing, and the population declined. After World War II, the town’s population began to rise again and, by the 1970’s, Stillwater began to reinvent itself as a tourist destination.
In 2018, Lora emerged from the brewery’s original foundation. Here, one still feels the intrigue of Stillwater’s storied past. We’ve retained the original stone walls that were built into the cliff, as well as vaulted ceilings from ancient warehouses, and even cave entrances that lead to nowhere. A sense of adventure and lore remains, mysterious like the persistent call of a loon that stirs the night. | history |
https://businessinsiders.org/enzo-ferrari-biography-and-story.html | 2024-04-23T11:21:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818474.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423095619-20240423125619-00379.warc.gz | 0.983023 | 1,585 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__15018754 | en | Enzo Ferrari is known as the founder of Ferrari, a luxury and sporty car manufacturing company from Italy. The history of Ferrari, which has the prancing horse logo, was founded in 1947. Ferrari is one of the most well-known luxury car brands in the world, apart from being a sporty model, it also has high speed. No wonder Ferrari is identified with luxury. What is the biography of Enzo Ferrari and the history of Ferrari itself?
Enzo Ferrari Biography
His full name is Enzo Ferrari, who was born on February 18 1898 in Modena, Italy. His father’s name is Alfredo Ferrari and his mother’s name is Adalgisa Ferrari.
Enzo grew up in Modena, but he grew up without receiving a formal education like other children. Young Enzo Ferrari had a passion for racing cars.
It is known that Enzo started driving racing cars from a very young age and decided to become a racer at the age of 10.
Enzo became interested in the automotive world when his father Alfredo Ferrari took him to watch the races at the Bologna Circuit in 1908.
Enzo Ferrari then started watching a lot of racing competitions in Italy after that, in his mind racing competitions were an interesting challenge for him.
In 1914, Enzo worked as a teacher at the Lathe Operator School in a firefighting workshop in Modena, Italy.
Bad luck befell Enzo when World War I raged. In 1916, he lost his father and brother who died due to a flu epidemic in Italy. Stay up-to-date with Deltsapure! Provide accurate and updated news for readers.
Joining the Military
In the same year, Enzo Ferrari joined the military during World War I and was assigned to the Third Alpine Regiment, Val Seriana. However, at that time he was hit by a flu epidemic in 1918, which caused Enzo to leave the military when World War I was almost over.
After leaving the military, Enzo Ferrari received a letter of recommendation from the Italian military authorities at that time. Enzo then applied for a job at the Fiat company in 1918. Unfortunately there were no vacancies there at that time.
But, he then got a job as a test driver in the city of Turin, Italy for a motorbike company. In 1919, Enzo started working for a company called Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali, in the city of Milan as a test driver.
Starting the First Race
His driving skills meant that Enzo was immediately promoted as a racer. In 1919, Enzo Ferrari made his first racing debut at the Parma-Poggio race in Berceto.
He finished in 4th place in the race. He also participated in the Targa Florio race in the same year but had less than satisfactory results due to problems with the fuel tank.
In 1920, Enzo Ferrari entered the Targa Florio car race once again. He drove an Alfa Romeo, and finished in second place. This victory was the beginning of his 20 years of experience with the Alfa Romeo team.
In 1921, Enzo took part in many races as a driver for the Alfa team. He had his first crash that same year at the Brescia Grand Prix.
Formed the Scuderia Ferrari Racing Team
Ferrari’s history began when in 1923, Enzo met Count Baracca, Francesco Baracca, and Countess Baracca. They gave their “Prancing Horse” logo as the mascot on Enzo Ferrari’s racing car.
In 1929, Enzo then formed the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix racing team which became part of the Alfa Romeo racing team.
1931 was Enzo’s last year as a racer. His last race was at the Three Provinces circuit where he finished second driving an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 MM.
After that he left racing that year. In 1933, due to financial constraints, Alfa ended its relationship with the Scuderia Ferrari racing team formed by Enzo Ferrari.
Alfa then took over racing in 1937 and Enzo was placed as Sports Director. In 1939, he left the Alfa Romeo team with an agreement that he would not use the name ‘Ferrari’ in connection with racing cars for the next four years.
In the same year, he founded his own company called Auto Avio Costruzioni in Modena. He started his company in a garage on Viale Trento e Trieste.
Founded the Ferrari Company
In 1940, Enzo Ferrari then designed a racing car for the Mille Miglia. That same year Enzo’s company was forced to produce cars for Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Government as World War II raged.
In the history of Ferrari, it is known that he also designed the first Ferrari car in 1945. After World War II ended, Enzo Ferrari officially founded the Ferrari company in 1947.
Winning the Grand Prix First Time
Then in 1951, the Enzo company won its first Grand Prix with Jose Froilan Gonzalez at the Silverstone circuit. This championship was the Ferrari company’s first victory.
That year was also the time when the Ferrari company began selling sports cars of its design and the proceeds were used to finance its participation in racing tournaments.
In the biography of Enzo Ferrari, it is known that in 1957, Ferrari and Englebert, who were tire manufacturers, were accused of murder when Mille Miglia and Alfonso de Portago, driving a Ferrari, died along with his partner when one of his tires exploded. At that time nine people from the audience also died. However, the lawsuit was discontinued in 1961.
In 1969, Enzo sold about 50% of his shares to the Fiat company but Enzo had full control in organizing races for Ferrari. Even though at that time Ford was the first company to make an offer to Ferrari, he decided not to continue the offer.
In 1974, Enzo chose to retire from the position of managing director of Ferrari. He then promoted Luca Cordero di Montezemolo to Formula One team manager and asked him to represent him at all races.
Making Various World Class Cars
In 1982, Ferrari made a car that had a sturdy chassis and chose a world-class driver. Although Ferrari remained involved with the Scuderia until his death, there were no more championships for Enzo Ferrari.
Enzo Ferrari Dies
Enzo Ferrari died on August 14 1988 at the age of 90. His death was announced two days later. During his life, Enzo Ferrari was known as a private person, almost never appearing in public or giving interviews to journalists. Enzo is also known as a hard worker.
In his personal life, Enzo Ferrari is known to have married Laura Dominica Garello Ferrari in 1932. They had a son named Alfredo ‘Dino’ Ferrari. However, his son died of muscular dystrophy in 1956.
In the previous year, namely 1945, Enzo Ferrari had a second son named Piero from his girlfriend, Lina Lardi, but in 1975 he only recognized Piero as his legitimate son, after Lina Lardi’s death.
Ferrari Company After the Death of Enzo Ferrari
After the death of Enzo Ferrari, the Ferrari company became one of the world’s most famous racing and sporty car manufacturing companies. Ferrari production cars are known for their elegant and luxurious designs. Ferrari also still participates in Formula One racing tournaments around the world. | history |
https://speakofthepast.com/2019/05/31/john-sellenger-or-salinger-1832-1906-convict-no-2400/ | 2023-06-09T19:06:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656788.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609164851-20230609194851-00522.warc.gz | 0.968661 | 1,153 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__115995362 | en | John Sellenger (variants: Salinger, Sallinger, Sallenger) arrived in Fremantle on 31st. August 1853 on the ship Phoebe Dunbar, which had sailed non-stop from Kingstown, Ireland, taking 89 days. He was fortunate not to have been one of the 16 convicts and passengers who died during the journey, supposedly of Typhus but more likely of advanced Scurvy. 3 others died a few days later once in Fremantle.1
The Phoebe Dunbar. Source: The Maritime Heritage Association
John had been convicted of robbery on 24th July 1850 and sentenced in Kilkenny, Ireland to 10 years for his crime. He was 18 years old and his occupation listed as a tailor, semi-literate and of Roman Catholic faith.2
His physical description was 5’5” tall, black hair, grey eyes, long face, pale complexion, much pock-pitted, middling stout, single and with no children.3
John spent three years incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, prior to being transported to Fremantle.4 He would have been one of the first prisoners to be housed in this establishment of 500 single cells, built in 1850. The Phoebe Dunbar departed Kingstown on 2nd June 1853.
It was a year after he arrived in Western Australia that he gained his Ticket of Leave, which enabled him to seek employment outside the confines of prison. On 13th December 1858 he was granted a Conditional Pardon. He became a carter, who would employ 64 Ticket of Leave men on occasions from 1858-1874 including 15 brick makers, 9 woodcutters & 2 boatmen.5
John married Mary Cunningham in Perth on 19th September 1858.6 Mary and her sister Catherine had left Mount Bellew in Galway, Ireland on the ship Palestine in November 1852.7
John and Mary had seven children. Mary Louisa Salenger born Abt 1859; Catherine Sallinger born 1861; William Charles Sellenger born 14 Feb 1863 (adopted into the family); Ellen Sellenger born 30 Jun 1865; Margaret Mary Sellenger born 12 Jun 1867; Frances Sellenger born 1869; John Sellenger born 25 September 1871.
It is somewhat ironic that both of John’s sons became policemen and one of his daughters married a policeman. The eldest son, William Charles had risen to the ranks of Chief Inspector before retiring after 44 years of service.
Although John appeared before the courts on various occasions, they were for minor offences, except in 1871 when he was jailed for 1 month for assaulting his wife Mary.8 There is no record of him re-offending after that time. His business prospered.
On 7th December 1894, John’s wife Mary died of dysentery at their home in Howick Street, Perth, aged 65 years.9 She was buried in the Catholic section (plot 98) at East Perth Cemeteries.
By 1903, John had retired and he and his son John and daughter Ellen were living at 279 Hay St, Perth.
John died on 4th August 1906 of kidney inflammation, cystitis and exhaustion. He was 74 years old. 9 An article in the Western Mail newspaper stated “… his funeral was very largely attended.”10 He was buried in the Catholic section of East Perth cemeteries in the same plot as his wife. ©Maggie Speak 2019
I have volunteered to write this biography for East Perth Cemeteries https://www.eastperthcemeteries.com.au
1. The National Archives Surgeon’s journal https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11542199
2. State Records Office Western Australia (SROWA); Convict Department Registers; Character Book for Nos 2373 – 3639; ACC 1156/R18 https://ancestry.com.au
3. SROWA; Convict Department Registers, ACC 128/40-43, Reel No FCN42; https://ancestry.com.au
4. SROWA; Convict Department Registers; Character Book for Nos 2373 – 3639; ACC 1156/R18 https://ancestry.com.au
5. State Library of Western Australia (SLWA); Employers of ticket of leave men, 1850-1890 microfilm reels 3&4 (Private Archives – yellow labelled drawer in microfilm room, Battye Library)
6. SLWA; Battye Library; MN 812, Catholic Church records, ACC 4363A. http://slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/mn/mn501_1000/mn812.pdf
7. SROWA; Albany Passenger list of Assisted Emigrants; Accession: 115; Roll: 214; https://ancestry.com.au
8. The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times (WA : 1864 – 1874) Friday 24 March 1871 page 3. http://trove.nla.gov.au
9. Australia Death Index; Western Australia; Dept. of Justice; Registration No. 531. https://bdm.justice.wa.gov.au
10. Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 – 1954); Sat 11 Aug 1906; Page 15; MR. JOHN SELLENGER, SEN. https://trove.nla.gov.au/ | history |
https://katodesignandphoto.ca/canucks-in-khaki/ | 2024-04-13T00:53:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816465.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412225756-20240413015756-00433.warc.gz | 0.916609 | 316 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__53504786 | en | For historian Warren Sommer, Canucks in Kahki: Langley, the Lower Mainland, and the Great War of 1914 to 1918 is the culmination of over 20 years of careful, sometimes pain-staking research. It was published on the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and in conjunction with the opening at Langley Centennial Museum of Sacrifice and Sorrow, an exhibition in which Sommer also played vital roles as curator and organizer.
In her endorsement, printed on the book’s back cover, UBC professor emeritus Jean Barman says: “If you read just one book marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, Warren Sommer’s gracefully written and evocatively illustrated Canucks in Khaki is it. From the intimacy of the war’s impact on a slice of rural British Columbia to graphic first-hand accounts from the front and not-so-front lines, we relive five heart-wrenching unforgettable years in the history of Canada and British Columbia.”
The design brief for Canucks in Khaki: Langley, the Lower Mainland, and the Great War of 1914 to 1918 comprised of the printed hardcover, dust jacket, endpapers reproducing historic photos, and the interior page design to include 440 photos in black and white. This book also contains an appendix of Langley enlistments in the Great War, endnotes, bibliography, list of photo sources, and index.
To order your copy contact [email protected] | history |
https://shbr.org/about/history/ | 2024-02-23T16:14:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474440.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223153350-20240223183350-00865.warc.gz | 0.981448 | 877 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__69826410 | en | ABOUT THE BOARD
The Board of Directors at SHBR are voluntary positions. Equity members run and vote for three-year terms. The Board then elects an Executive Committee: President, Vice President, and Secretary. This is a working Board and requires some time and stamina from the members. Please contact us if you have interest in helping to run the club.
History of Sleepy Hollow Bath & Racquet
Fenbrook Bath and Racquet Club, named for the two men who designed, built, and owned it, opened on July 1, 1956. It was the brainchild of Dr. A. Budd Fenton and Mr. Douglas A. Brooks, friends who lived in the Malbrook neighborhood off Sleepy Hollow Road. After visiting a swim and tennis club in New Jersey where summer clubs were starting to spring up, the two men decided to use a piece of land owned by Doug Brooks to provide the Sleepy Hollow area with a summer club.
The land on which Fenbrook later stood was part of the Holmes Run Park development but could not be used for residences because it was located on a flood plain. After presenting their idea to the Holmes Run Park neighbors at an open meeting at Brooks’ home, Brooks and Fenton took their idea to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to request a zoning change.
Despite the concern of the neighbors that such a facility would be a noise problem and would lower home values, the necessary zoning change was granted. Local architect Victor Spencer was hired to design the swim and tennis club to Brooks’ and Fenton’s specifications. Fenbrook Bath and Racquet Club had an “Olympic” (remember this was 1956!) size swimming pool as well as a small wading pool for young children. Additionally, there were two tennis courts, two shuffleboard courts, a gazebo with picnic tables, and a nine-hole pitch and putt golf course.
Cabanas were available for rental by the members, and there was a snack bar that provided food and drink. The snack bar was operated by Robert V. Dobson, a friend of Fenton and Brooks who had experience in this area since he was then managing an Alexandria bowling alley with a food facility. His wife, Gwendolyn Dobson, provided the new club with some notoriety by writing an article about it for the Alexandria Gazette, for which she was a feature writer prior to becoming Women’s Editor of the Evening Star newspaper.
Fenbrook Bath and Racquet Club provided its members with many social activities including dinner dances with live bands for the adult members, as well as swim and dive meets for the children. The cabana decorating contest was a favorite with the members who went to great lengths to design clever and amusing spaces. One year Budd Fenton wrote a musical and directed the members-actors in the “The Fenbrook Follies”. Rehearsals and a single performance were held under the stars.
Fenbrook Bath and Racquet Club was privately owned for four years and then sold to the community. It was then renamed Sleepy Hollow Bath and Racquet Club. Over the years, the land the golf course occupied was utilized to expand and enhance the tennis and swim programs. During the 1960s the upper pool and four more tennis courts were added. In 1974, three more tennis courts were added bringing the total to nine. Somewhere along the line (does anyone know when?) the parking lot was paved and the present gazebo was built in the mid 1980s.
Since Sleepy Hollow Bath and Racquet has passed the 50-year mark, significant renovations to facilities have been taking place. The club survived the great flood of September 2008 and a second great flood of September 2011, both of which left the club under water and caused considerable damage. In addition to repairs from flood damage, renovations during the years 2008 through 2012 have included full renovations of the main entrance building, bathrooms, showers, and all sets of cabanas for the first time since they were initially constructed.
Editor’s note: Kip Carroll, Budd Fenton’s daughter, provided most of the above information. If anyone has additional knowledge of the Club’s history or old photos, please share with any board member. | history |
https://templeeyewear.com.au/collection/moscot/ | 2023-12-05T07:40:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100550.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205073336-20231205103336-00870.warc.gz | 0.960225 | 230 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__167217420 | en | The MOSCOT optical roots were first planted in America by great grandfather and family patriarch, Hyman Moscot, who arrived from Eastern Europe via Ellis Island in 1899. Hyman began selling ready-made eyeglasses from a pushcart on Orchard Street on Manhattan‚ famed Lower East Side, and the rest, as they say, is history!
In 1925, Hyman’s son, Sol, joined the family business and at the tender age of only 15, he opened the family‚ first retail shop, MOSCOT‚ at 94 Rivington Street. By 1950, MOSCOT was settled at 118 Orchard Street, on the corner of Delancey Street, where it remains to this day.
Today, the fourth generation Moscot siblings have reinvented what was once a neighbourhood optical shop into what is now a global lifestyle brand, beloved by fans worldwide.
MOSCOT is a New York City institution. The label infuses its unmistakably refined, downtown aesthetic with 100 years of eyewear expertise and unparalleled craftsmanship to create its timeless eyewear. | history |
http://blog.momu.be/2016/collection/game-changers-the-conservation-of-a-balenciaga-dress/ | 2017-04-30T03:18:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124297.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00241-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.978821 | 339 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__201072864 | en | With our newest exhibition Game Changers, MoMu wanted to tell the story of how Balenciaga and the generations after have changed the feminine silhouette from waist-obsessed to free form. To portray this liberating story, MoMu acquired the most astonishing pieces from the Balenciaga archives. But not all of them were in the greatest conditions. Thankfully, our MoMu restaurator Kim, was able to save this dress from 1967!
One of the key features of the dress are the red flowers on top which was in bad condition. Not only were the flowers completely out of shape but also torn and wrinkled. Traces on the flowers showed that the dress was relocated several times over the years which caused the dress to look different than how it originally was. It was impossible to display the dress as it was so with the blessing of Balenciaga Archives in Paris, we decided to properly treat and conserve it.
Besides the flowers, the silk crêpeline underneath the flowers was also in poor condition. Kim decided to seperate the flowers and the crêpeline and support it with special material before putting it back together. The flowers were brought back into shape by using cold steam and pillows of fiberfill to support them. The torn leaves were supported by conservation tulle. After leaving the leaves in this position, the flowers were back in its original shape.The silk crêpeline and the flowers were then relocated to its original position which gave the dress once again it’s original appearance!
Game Changers. Reinventing the 20th Century Silhouette on display at MoMu Antwerp!
Words by Kim Verkens | history |
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