If the Spanish empire then fell to him, it would have resurrected a domain as vast as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's in the 16th century. To the maritime powers of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, this would have been as undesirable as a Franco-Spanish union.[101] Conclusion of ...
Thank you to Amy Burger for this photo of myself completely overwhelmed and grateful in front of the Northland Shopping Center portion of the Coloring STL exhibit. AUGUST 2022 –8 months after the artifacts left, the museum staff created Coloring STL magic. The mid-August night we got a sne...
Last year: 16th Seattle has played five matches against teams averaging at least 1.5 points per game; it has scored three goals in those matches (all against St. Louis City) and allowed two. Are the Sounders good? Definitely. Are they playing some serious lowest-common-denominator ball? Also...
St. Louis, October 9-12, 2014 The Shroud and the iconography of Christ Emanuela Marinelli Abstract The similarity between the Shroud face and most of the depictions of Christ known in art, both Eastern and Western, is clear and cannot be attributed to pure chance; it must be the result ...
Last week, after watching a press screening of Julian Schnabel’s biopic of Vincent Van Gogh titled “At Eternity’s Gate”, I was so struck by its divergence from the memories I had of Vincent Minnelli’s 1956 identically themed “Lust for Life” that it struck me as worth writing about...
the genesis of capitalism is confined to a single geographical region — the English countryside — immune from wider intersocietal developments. Such tunnelling cannot explain why the extensive presence of formally free wage-labour prior to the 16th century (both inside and outside England) did not...
One Direction star Payne died from “polytrauma” aged 31 on October 16th after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires. Five people have been charged with manslaughter over his death. Also at the premiere on Monday ...
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Africans assisted the Spanish and the Portuguese during their early exploration of the Americas. In the 16th century some Black explorers settled in the Mississippi valley and in the areas that becameSouth CarolinaandNew Mexico. The most celebrated Black explorer of the Americas wasEstéban, who tra...
If we consider Biden’s circumambulations (distributions) from the Asc, we see in the directed charts that the “distributor” (“divisor”) this year is moving from Saturn (ruler of the last term of Aquarius) to Venus (ruler of the first term of Pisces). In other words, Saturn who ...