Americans for the Artsserves, advances, and leads the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. America...
aI made an application to the club for membership 我提出了一申请对俱乐部为会员资格[translate] aThe Harlem Renaissance (HR) was a flowering of the arts in the 1920’s and 30’s. African Americans used writing, music, and art to demonstrate strong beliefs. Many of these beliefs were grounded...
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Champlain, too, had sought the Northwest Passage, but he soon realized that beaver pelts would be responsible for the survival of any settlements. He set up a system of company monopolies to systematically hunt and sell pelts and, in exchange for 300 settlers coming to the new land annually,...
After detaching from Yugoslavia and surviving a three-year-long war, Bosnia-Herzegovina is not doing well economically. Its request to join the EU from 2016 is still pending. It does, however, have a neighboring country with such membership: Croatia. Aside from...
the most famous of whom was Giuseppe Garibaldi. By the second half of the century, American cities also typically included Italian street entertainers, tradesmen, statuette makers, and stone workers, who often established the first beachheads of settlement for the migrations to come. Many of these...
Mary Linn, linguist, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Hummingbirds visit my feeders every spring. Are these the same birds returning because they can remember where the food is? Claire Muskus, Lisbon, Connecticut There’s lots of evidence that birds can recall where ...
TheSupreme Courtruled in 2000 that the scouts, as a private group, have a First Amendment right to bar homosexuals from membership. Philadelphia officials, in an effort to appease the homosexual activists, began searching for a way to punish the scouts. The rent increase was the vehicle to do...
For centuries, religious affiliation in Greater Syria was tantamount to membership in a small nation, or at least a political party. The millet system, which the Ottomans used to divide people into political entities according to religion, gave religion social and political meaning. The millet sys...
Zone.The rules for membership were simple: You had to be between the ages of 15 and 21 (after which you were booted out), had to maintain good grades and had to be able to sing, dance and read sheet music, with more emphasis on show tunes than anyt...