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surrounded on three sides by glistening blue waters, and a stroll through its streets provides a unique glimpse of the first European steps in the New World. The city was founded in 1519, when the Spanish still had one foot in the Middle Ages and captains would casually write in their ship...
But her work is more than that. Sure, you can talk about the feminist themes of “When it Changed”, where the male astronauts who visit the colony of Whileaway are not greeted with the open arms that they expect. That was my first encounter with Russ, and it was in the secondDangero...
The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony is located in the Catskill Mountains, one-and-a-half miles from the center of Woodstock, New York. Founded as an Arts & Crafts community in 1903, it has been a haven for visual artists, writers, crafts people, musicians and theater artists for almost a century....
Following his death, Hadrian deified Antinous and founded an organised cult devoted to his worship that spread throughout the Empire. Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis close to Antinous's place of death, which became a cultic centre for the worship of Osiris-Antinous. Hadrian also founded...
founded in 1511. Joining us wasJosé Barreiro, assistant director of research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. With Hartmann, Barreiro has been tracking Indigenous descendants since 1989. Based on their research, the pair estimate that at least 5,000 Natives survive in...
New York: ACM Press, pp. 656–671. Dombrowski, Lynn; Amy Voida; Gillian R. Hayes; and Melissa Mazmanian (2012). The labor practices of service mediation: a study of the work practices of food assistance outreach. CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computin...
She founded Literacy Volunteers of America, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received the nation’s highest civilian award: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Aug. 18. Al Attles, 87. A Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA champion Warriors and spent more than si...
On this occasion, the colonists pledged allegiance to Penn as their new proprietor, and the first general assembly was held in the colony. Afterward, Penn journeyed up the Delaware River and founded Philadelphia. However, Penn's Quaker government was not viewed favorably by the Dutch, Swedish, ...