This chapter sketches out a history of the Venetian Republic, from the invasion by Attila's barbaric hordes (452 ad ) to the Serenissima's fall to Napoleon's army in 1797. We highlight a sequence of essential events linked to the birth of Venice, its growth, glory, decline, and fall....
lawrence later said of her viral footwear. “my shoes were a size too big.” will this year's festival deliver even more unexpected style moments? we're about to find out. below, a brief history of red carpet rule breakers at cannes. photo: getty images 1/12 1953 pablo picasso arrives...
美國米高梅電影公司出品,維多.佛萊明(Victor Fleming)執導的《亂世佳人》在台北大世界戲院上映,黃牛猖獗,台北市警察局特出動大批人員監視,以防止黃牛大肆活動。 View on timeline 1952 四月 限制電影放映時間 台灣省政府嚴令禁止影片商以片長過長為由提高票價,以防止電影變相漲價,並規定每場電影放映時間不得多於1小時4...
The advent of modern antibiotics contributed enormously to the dramatic extension of human lifespan since their discovery by virtue of their lethal and selective action against pathogenic microbes. And yet despite our powerful arsenal of weapons against
BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY tells the seemingly calm life of Tu Wein's family disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious boy. The advent of a mysterious boy, Yan Shuo, causes the power triangle between Tu Wei and his parents to fall apart. In the process of self-regulation and searching for...
Brief history of the series of European Biomass Conferences The series of these conferences has been organized and established by the European Commission 1980 (Brighton, UK). The conference started as a purely scientific event. Over the years as biomass use as feedstock for bioenergy and fuels inc...
It wasGiacomo Casanova, an adventurer and author born in Venice in 1725, who perhaps brought the most attention to the city’s celebrations. His autobiography,History of My Life,chronicled not only his sexual conquests but also the character of his home state, where one’s image car...
The history of building automation started back in 1883 when Warren Johnson invented the thermostat. This component is used to sense and regulate the temperature of a physical system, and back then, it was a simple device that responded to falling temperature by activating a light in the boiler...
“Vampires In Venice”. In June, Mark Gatiss -- who was writingVictory Of The Daleksfor Season Thirty-One -- suggested “Vampires Of Venice”, echoing the 1978 Warren Zevon songWerewolves Of London. Whithouse concurred and, by November, the title had undergone only a minor change toThe ...
were Ray-Bans, patented in 1939 as Aviators for the US Army Air Corps. Their shapesreduced lightfrom any angle. They were taken up by the military and became the signature style of General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of US Forces in the Pacific, stationed in Brisbane, ...