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On September 11, 1777, the peaceful tranquility of the Chester County countryside was shattered by the sounds of heavy musket and cannon fire at Sandy Hollow Park (now located at South New St and Birmingham Roads in Birmingham Township). With an estimated 26,000 soldiers fighting that day, this was the largest land engagement of the Revolution.
2022 marks 245 years since the Battle. In commemoration, the weekend of Sept 24 and 25 will feature a two-day re-enactment event at Sandy Hollow Heritage Park, Birmingham Township with troops movements following the original path on Thornbury Farm- Thornbury Township. “Brandywine 2022, will be a major historical event in this region having over 1,000 re-enactor soldiers and camp followers” said Randell Spackman- Chair of Brandywine 2022. “ In 2017 we had visitors from 27 states and 4 countries come see the Battle” Sandy Hollow Heritage Park and Thornbury Farm is one site within the large Brandywine Battlefield where significant combat took place. It is not often that a Rev War re-enactment occurs on the same land where its battle occurred. The event strives to make community and national history come alive, allowing people 245 years later to witness firsthand parts of this major Battle that occurred on Sept 11, 1777.
In addition to battle re-enactments, camps of both armies will be open for inspection by the public. Historical interpreters portraying George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette, and Alexander Hamilton will be conversing with visitors. Sutlers will be selling time-appropriate goods. Colonial games for children will be played. There will also be a performance element, including singers from area schools and organizations. Artists and authors will also be taking part. Artist, Adrian Martinez, creates paintings with historical themes and has just completed a painting of Lafayette. Authors Gene Pisasale and Bruce Mowday have both written on local history. Mowday wrote a book the Battle of Brandywine and most recently released the book ‘Lafayette at Brandywine: The Making of an American Hero’.
Cornelius A.SMITH,Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Bahamas
Date: June 26, 2012
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Maria Patricia Leiva/OAS
The Heraion of Perachora was a sanctuary of the goddess Hera situated in a small cove of the Corinthian gulf
All of us need to go to shops, whether to buy essentials or for some retail therapy.
And nothing can beat going shopping with friends!
The children of Sr. KG were taken to D-Mart by their teachers.
They were very excited as it was a group visit.
Teachers acted as shopping guides while taking the small team of ‘mini shopaholics’ around.
This field trip gave the children an insight into the entire shopping experience.
We just hope that they will not pull their parents along to shops now...
Here is a strip mall in Bloomington called Bloomdale(near France & Old Shakopee). It's been sitting there abandoned for quite some time. There were supposed to be new shops put in there about 9 months ago but nothing has changed.
The cornerstone was laid in 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. The Founders built the seven Chapels of the Tongues to commemorate the major immigrant groups that were pouring into the building and the city. The cathedral hosts people of all faiths; i.e., Priests, Rabbis, Monks and Imams share the pulpit.
During the Blessing of the Bicycles, hundreds of cyclists, including bike messengers, wheel into the Great Crossing. Animals, including camels, are blessed at the Feast of St. Francis
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Governor Hogan Hosts the State of the State Reception by Staff Photographers at Government House, 101 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to ASEAN, Lahcene Kaid Slimane, presented his Letter of Credence to Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Lim Jock Hoi, on 19 May 2022 at the ASEAN Secretariat
Image Credit: ASEAN Secretariat / Kusuma Pandu Wijaya
The capital of the Republic of Cyprus is also its cultural heartbeat.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
Nicosia is the capital and largest city on the island of Cyprus, as well as its main business centre.It is located near the centre of the Mesaoria plain, on the banks of the River Pedieos.
As part of our actions for the annual Planet 21 ritual, La Residence spent a fun Sunday with the kids at Friends of Hue organization. We tutored the kids how to seed, plant and tend plants, repainted football field, lunched and partook in entertainment activities with them.
During The Currier Museum of Art's "Celebrate Summer" Free Week at the end of August 2012, students from the Dimensions in Dance Studio in Manchester, NH performed in the museum's Putnam Gallery. Cristi Rinklin's installation "Diluvial" provided the dramatic atmosphere for these talented dancer's performance.
Carol Channing attributed part of her success on #Broadway to her 1st portrait in the New York Times by Al Hirschfeld. You can see his most famous caricature of Carol (and many others) in person at @hsvmuseumart starting May 31st. #huntsville #huntsvilleal #art #visualart #ihearthsv #drawing #downtownhsv #NYC #caricature #travel #tourism
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The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856
George Inness
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 64
The Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania was home to the Lenni-Lenape peoples for centuries before the arrival of Europeans.
The word Lackawanna comes from a Lenape term meaning “stream that forks,” which describes the Lackawanna River. The dark, jagged tree stumps in this image by George Inness reveal that the area, once densely wooded, was cleared to make way for industry. He painted this for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company to advertise a rail network that would link Pennsylvania coal mines with new markets.
Inness shows the train moving across a new bridge and track through a landscape altered by development. In contrast, works by Hudson River School artists celebrate seemingly unspoiled American wilderness.
We look across and down into a valley with a person sitting near a tall tree and a train puffing smoke beyond, all enclosed by a band of mountains in the distance in this horizontal landscape painting. Closest to us, several broken, jagged tree stumps are spaced across the painting’s width. A little distance away and to our left, the person wears a yellow, broad-brimmed hat, red vest, and gray pants. He reclines propped on his left elbow near a walking path beside a tall, slender tree with golden leaves. The green meadow stretching in front of him is dotted with tree stumps cut close to the ground. Beyond the meadow, puffs of white smoke trail behind a long steam locomotive that crosses a bridge spanning a tree-filled ravine, headed to our left. The ravine creates a diagonal line across the canvas, moving subtly away from us to our left. The train has climbed out of the valley, away from a cluster of brick-red buildings. The most prominent structure is a train roundhouse, a large building with a high, domed roof to the right of the tracks. Smoke rises from chimneys on long, warehouse-like buildings, and a steeple and smaller structures suggest a church and homes to our left. Hazy in the distance, a row of mountains lines the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. The sky above deepens from pale, shell pink over the mountains to watery, pale blue above. The artist signed the work in tiny letters in the lower left corner: “G. Inness.”
Rather than celebrating nature in the tradition of the Hudson River School, George Inness' Lackawanna Valley seems to commemorate the onset of America's industrial age. While documenting the achievements of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, Inness has also created a topographically convincing view of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The artist took relatively few liberties with his composition, but in compliance with the wishes of his corporate patron, he intentionally exaggerated the prominence of the railroad's yet-to-be-completed roundhouse. His inclusion of numerous tree stumps in the picture's foreground, although accurate, lends an important note of ambiguity to the work.
Whether it is read as an enthusiastic affirmation of technology or as a belated lament for a rapidly vanishing wilderness, this painting exemplifies a crucial philosophical dilemma that confronted many Americans in the 1850s; expansion inevitably necessitated the widespread destruction of unspoiled nature, itself a still-powerful symbol of the nation's greatness. Although it was initially commissioned as an homage to the machine, Inness' Lackawanna Valley nevertheless serves as a poignant pictorial reminder of the ephemeral nature of the American Dream.
More information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 350-354, which is available as a free PDF.
Born in Newburgh, New York, in 1825, George Inness was raised in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. His early life was disrupted by severe illness, and he had as a result little formal academic or artistic education. In Newark, he studied with the itinerant painter John Jesse Barker, and in New York, probably in 1843, with the French-born landscape painter, Régis François Gignoux. Inness visited Italy in 1850. In 1853 he visited France, where he studied French Barbizon landscape painting, admiring especially the work of the most radical of the Barbizon artists, Théodore Rousseau. This was, in the influence on his style, the most decisive experience of Inness' artistic life. In the early 1860s Inness moved from New York to Medfield, Massachusetts. In 1864, he moved to Eagleswood, New Jersey. At Eagleswood he was introduced to the teaching of Emanuel Swedenborg. It became his religious faith, and determined, too, the increasingly allusive, expressive, and almost mystical character of his later art.
Inness lived in Italy from 1870 to 1874 and in France briefly in 1875, when he returned to America. In 1876 he settled in Montclair, New Jersey. He lived in Montclair for the rest of his life, but traveled widely, often for the sake of his health, to Niagara Falls, Virginia, California, and Tarpon Springs, Florida.
He died on a trip to Scotland in 1894.
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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Signature of the European Partnership for Integration
More info: europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-5352_en.htm & www.etuc.org/press/social-and-economic-partners-sign-deal...
Gangneung, Republic of Korea - Monday, January 29, 2024: Means Ravald of Sweden exhausted after his semi-final run for Cross Country Skiing Men’s Sprint Free at the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games in Gangneung, Republic of Korea.
Photo by Yann Henri Durand/IOC Young Reporters
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Fox squirrels (and one red squirrel) on a fall day at the University of Michigan. I have been feeding a momma on the bur oak tree inside the Ross complex. Her juveniles are making their way up and down the tree. I also saw a squirrel mother over on the Law Quad who also has three juveniles. Lots of fun watching these little ones make their way in the world. There was a break in the rain and I went over to Law to see the juveniles in that squirrel family! Pictures from Ann Arbor on a few quick walks through campus on Tuesday November 2nd, 2021. Wishing you joy and health wherever you are.
According to the saga of Olav Tryggvason (written by Snorre Sturlasson in approx.1230-1240), Leiv Eiriksson sailed out from Trondheim harbor for his historic voyage to Vinland (North America) in the year 1000. The Leif Erikson Society of Seattle gave this replica to the city of Trondheim in 1997 to honor the thousand-year anniversaries of the founding of Trondheim and Leiv Eiriksson's voyage to America.
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Sago (Metroxylon sagu) drying in Sawai village, North of Seram, Central Maluku District.
Photo by Nining Liswanti for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
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Elsa's not actually walking yet, but she can do it with this wagon. She's just not so good at steering.
Image from 'The Homes of other days: a history of domestic manners and sentiments in England from the earliest known period to modern times', 003984722
Author: Wright, Thomas
Page: 279
Year: 1871
Place: London
Publisher: Trübner & Co.
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