In spring, the sprawling meadows bloom anew with kaleidoscopic wildflowers. By summer the rock-flour rich alpine lakes sparkling fluorescent blue. In the fall, the foothills become awash with reds, oranges, and yellows. Come winter, the cities and wilderness alike become wonderlands. Few...
the domain of nomadic Native Americans, followed by rough-riding gauchos, who were in turn forever enshrined in the nation’sromanticliterature. As Borges describes them in his storyThe South,the Pampas stretch endlessly to the horizon, dwarfing the humans within them; traveling from the capital ...
Back in the 1800s, the Wild West was in full swing. It was here, in what is now Canyonlands National Park, that Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Gang would hide out for weeks on end until the heat from their latest heist subsided....
in 1707 to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain. (The adjective “British” came into use at this time to refer to all the kingdom’s peoples.) Ireland came under English control during the 1600s and was formally united with Great Britain through theAct of Unionof 1800. The ...
Map (left) is an example of a URL to an image hosted on the web. Loading 1800: Thomas Jefferson In 1800, Thomas Jefferson was elected as the President of the United States, not too far from Howard County Maryland the new center of US population. He of course did not have a Twitter ...
根据In the late 1800s,a scientist named Alfred Wegener was interested in studying the map.He came up with a brave guess.He thought that all the continents once formed one huge land.(19世纪晚期,一位名叫阿尔弗雷德•魏格纳的科学家对研究地图很感兴趣。他提出了一个大胆的猜测。他认为所有的大陆...
These early dances performed in Italy during this time led to the further development of ballet in France. The first ballet company ap-peared in France and was called The Queen's Ballet Company.In the 1800s the romantic style of ballet appeared, thanks in part to the ballet L a Sylphide...
in equal measure, these blue maps capture details of a transitional moment in the history of China—and the wider world. This exhibition considers these two maps in the context of their production, consumption, and functionality, revealing them as unique objects in the global history of map...
Joe Daunt
Founded byMahmud Shah, thefugitivesultanofMalacca(now spelledMelaka), and his sonAlauddinafter the Malaccan kingdom fell to the Portuguese (1511), the area declined in the 18th century when the seat of power shifted to theRiau (Riouw) islands(now part of Indonesia), south of Singapore. Th...