Nikos Papastergiadis. “As Melbourne in the world.” 2013 “What the show delivers in spades is a sense of the city as a place of immense creativity and subtle exploration. While non-Melburnians might be tempted to see this as an especially large example of the city’s enduring fascinatio...
49 BCE, January 10 - Julius Caesar, defying the order of the Roman Senate not to so, crosses the Rubicon River with his legion, famously uttering "alea iacta est" meaning "the die has been cast and leading to the Roman Civil War. He was assassinated in 44 BCE ...
“A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces” (“Shokoku Taki Meguri,” c. 1832):This series features landscapes and waterfalls from various regions in Japan. Hokusai’s meticulous attention to detail and his ability to convey the dynamic forces of nature are evident in these prints. Each ...
When is a theory of movement not a theory of movement but of invariance? Versions of this question appear in a series of philosophical debates about the change that does not change. Henri Bergson focuses on the difference between quantitative and qualitative multiplicities, Gaston Bachelard on...
She was a civil service lifer whose mastery of the arcana of job rights, seniority, pay levels and retirement bred in her a sense of entitlement that scarcely existed anyone in the private sector”. A Republican by instinct, Tripp was appalled by the laxness of the Clinton administration and...
She left during the Civil War and they came through and burnt the mission. The family came back and rebuilt the mission. Her mother translated the Bible into the Creek language. At 18 years old she went off east to raise money for the Presbyterian missions. A young national person, who’...
This large exhibition presents a broad selection of many different visual arts in New York City in the period between the completion of the Erie Canal and the onslaught of the Civil War, a time when the city rose to national prominence as the commercial and cultural capitol of the nation. ...
In the end, at least 18 lay dead, mostly bystanders, and by the end of the week four more would die. 150 were wounded or injured, and 177 were arrested, in what was the largest civil disturbance in New York at the time. The following day, a mass rally at City Hall w...
the International Morse code was adopted for all international communication. However, many railroads and telegraph companies continued using Railroad Morse code because it could be sent faster. Today, American Morse code is nearly extinct. A few amateur radio users and Civil War re-enactors still ...
Civil war in America had broken out in April and Britain had issued a proclamation of neutrality that in effect assisted the slave-owning south. Opinion was divided; many, especially in the cotton-manufacturing north of England, largely liberal in politics, supported their economic inter...