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had these old mattresses sitting outside my house, to be thrown away, and I knew I had to do something eccentric! Its almost the reverse of this photo shot from the window I was posing in. Instead though, it was much darker and had a sense of 'a fall' the construction overalls innocence, I am also doing a photo every week of the construction site and going to put them together! I'm VERY behind on putting them together, so I will have to spend a day doing that XD
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Today, the story of Lincoln being born in a log cabin, while true, conveys a humble upbringing in a poor, struggling family. However, at the time of his birth, Lincoln’s father, Thomas, was one of the richest men in the county. He owned 600 acres, numerous livestock and horses as well as several lots in town. This changed in 1816 when Lincoln was seven. Due to faulty titles on the land, his family lost everything. They went from the top of the financial hierarchy in the county to the bottom.
Without prospects in Kentucky, the family moved to Indiana. This too proved to be difficult. When Lincoln was nine, his mother died of milk sickness (caused by consuming toxic dairy products). His father remarried the following year. It was his stepmother, Sarah, who encouraged his desire to read and learn. At six foot four inches, Lincoln almost touched the ceiling in the small farmhouse. Sarah joked that he was so tall that he would leave footprints on the ceiling. One day while she was away he had some of the local school boys dip their feet in mud and held them upside down so they could make footprints on the ceiling. As Lincoln put it, "took a broom to my head, but I could tell she was very amused by it." When Lincoln was 21, another outbreak of milk sickness affected their homestead in Indiana and the family moved again, this time to Illinois.
Lincoln left his father’s home the following year and began work in New Salem, Illinois. During this time he took a load of goods for sale down local waterways to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans. Once there, he sold the goods and walked all the way back to New Salem. Perhaps because of this trip he later (at age 40) received a patent (the only one for a president) for an invention that would allow stranded boats to lift themselves off of a reef or shoal and back to deeper water.
Lincoln had probably no more than 18 months of formal education. When he was 23, Lincoln decided to run for office. While able to draw crowds, he was unable to support the campaign financially and lost. That same year he joined the militia and served as a Captain during the Black Hawk War. Two years later he won a seat in the state legislature and two years after that passed the bar in Illinois. When asked how he studied for the bar he replied: "I studied with nobody".
He became engaged to Mary Todd in 1840 with the wedding set for New Year’s Day, 1841. As the date approached the couple separated and was finally married in November 1842. While preparing for marriage a second time, he was asked where he was going, "To hell, I suppose." Once married the Lincoln’s enjoyed their family and raised four boys. Sadly, only one would live beyond age 18.
For sixteen years, Lincoln honed his analytical skills as he travelled Illinois as a prairie lawyer representing clients around the state. In 1857, Lincoln took a case that propelled him onto the national stage. Lincoln represented a railroad that had built a bridge over the Mississippi. A steamboat had collided with the bridge. A suit was filed stating that the bridge was a hazard to river navigation and that a tunnel or suspension bridge should replace it. Lincoln argued that a tunnel was too expensive and that regardless of height, a steamship would be built that exceeded that height. In his conclusion he reminded the jurors that a person has as much right to sail up and down a river as to cross it. In a display of showmanship, he concluded that no less than the fate of western civilization was at stake!
While that trial ended in a hung jury, the argument continued for many years eventually reaching the Supreme Court twice during and after the war. Ultimately the Court agreed with Lincoln and while upgraded and replaced over the years, the bridge remains in use today as a highway bridge for automotive traffic.
It was not until a few years later that Lincoln grew the beard we remember him for today. He cultivated it a month before the election of 1860 at the suggestion of eleven year old Grace Bedell. She thought he would be more electable with a beard because "your face is so thin". In his response he wrote: “…As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection if I were to begin it now?” Soon after, the bearded Lincoln would enter the White House and take his place in history.
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Title: Travel Document for the Schooner Syrena Permitting Transport from Africa to Havana, Cuba, 1817
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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) was a graduate of Yale College. He was a chaplain for three years in the Revolutionary Army. In July 1784 he established at Hartford, Conn., a weekly paper, the American Mercury. In 1786 he was admitted to the bar. Along with John Trumbull and Timothy Dwight, he was a member of the group of young writers, known as the Connecticut, or Hartford, Wits, whose patriotism led them to attempt to create a national literature
Joel Barlow aspired to write the great American epic and did so repeatedly, with his Prospect of Peace (1778), The Vision of Columbus (1787), and The Columbiad (1807). Yet he remains best remembered for his mock-heroic poem about his Connecticut childhood, The Hasty Pudding (1796). Barlow’s accomplishments as poet, chaplain, newspaper editor, bookseller, real estate agent, publisher, and diplomat are impressive, but his simple celebration of American domesticity stands as his most endearing literary contribution.
Barlow sought the patronage of French King Louis XVI by asking him to subscribe to the publication of his poem and then dedicating the poem to him. The long poem, which Barlow called The Vision of Columbus, was published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1787.
The record in the archives of the church in Zarnowiec reads
Anno 1812, Decembris 26 at 1 o'clock P.M. before us the rector of the Zarnowiec parish and civil recorder of the village of Zarnowiec, Pilica County, Department of Cracow, there came Hon. John Blaski, postmaster and Mayor of the village Zarnowiec, residing here and thirty-six years old, and Idzi Baiorkiewicz, residing at his farm of two quarts at Zarnowiec and thirty-three years old, and declared that his Excellency, Joel Barlow, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Emperor of the French and King of Italy, died on the above day at 12 o'clock at noon in the house No. 1 while journeying from Warsaw to Paris, at the age of fifty-six, son of unknown parents, and husband of her Excellency Mrs. Margaret nee Baldwin, residing in the American city of Ridgefield. After reading this to the present we undersigned it with the witnesses, Rev. Stanislaus Bajorski, civil recorder; John Blaski, witness; Idzi Baiorkiewicz, witness.
Joel Barlow was painted by Robert Fulton.
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The Conspiracy of Kings, published in February 1792, is very much a work of its time, the first months of the constitional monarchy in France. Louis XVI and the new Legislative Assembly began their uneasy relationship in October 1792. Outside France, exiled members of the nobility campaigned to persuade the sovereigns of Europe to intervene and restore them to their privileges. On the other side, friends of the French Revolution sought to discourage intervention and to discredit the principles of legitimacy and social hierarchy that supported the old order.
Joel Barlow had arrived in France in 1788 to act as the representative of a scheme to at-tract French settlers to the western territories, in what is now Ohio. After some initial success, difficulties at the American end caused the scheme to fail, and Barlow left France for England in 1791. Having observed events in France at close hand, he had become an ardent supporter of the Revolution, and set himself to advance the cause by writing. He began his prose work, Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principle of Government, the first four parts of which were published early in 1792; the title might serve as a summary of The Conspiracy of Kings.
For English readers, the debate over the revolution was essentially a debate over the views advanced eloquently in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, pub-lished in November 1790. Many of the books that attacked the Reflections were published by Joseph Johnson, a well-established London bookseller and publisher with a long history of taking the dissenting side in politics and religion. (He had published the English edition of Barlow's The Vision of Columbus in 1787.) For Barlow, Burke was a particularly troubling opponent because of his earlier support of the American Revolution. The attack on Burke that makes the centerpiece of the poem is a conflicted one that shows Barlow's regret as well as his scorn for what Burke has become, and stands in sharp contrast to the ironic footnote dismissals of the Vicomte de Calonne and the Comte D'Artois, the leading figures among the exiled nobility.
Barlow has gibes for the Frederick William II of Prussia, Catherine the Great of Russia, and Leopold II of the Holy Roman Empire, but two sovereigns are conspicuous by their absence: George III of Britain and Louis XVI of France. An attack on the first would have exposed Barlow to prosecution in England. As for the second, the jury was still out on the constitutional monarchy as Barlow wrote; his objective was to direct attention from what is happening now in France to the significance of what has happened in France for the rest of Europe. There he sees much to denounce, but the poem ends on a note of hope: the enlightened king Stanslaus Poniatowski has promulgated the Constitution of May 3, 1791 to move Poland toward a more egalitarian society, and on the other side of the Atlantic the United States provides the example which may yet move the nations of Europe to reason their way to governments of that rare union, Liberty and Laws.
ETERNAL Truth, thy trump undaunted lend,
People and priests and courts and kings, attend;
While, borne on we?ern gales from that far shore
Where Justice reigns, and tyrants tread no more,
Th' unwonted voice, that no dissuasion awes,
That fears no frown, and seeks no blind applause,
Shall tell the bliss that Freedom sheds abroad,
The rights of nature and the gift of God.
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT VIEW OF MYTH
AND JOEL BARLOW'S
Vision of Columbus
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
One of the ways to approach the problem of the role of myth in
American writing of the Revolutionary era is to ask first how the writ-
ers themselves regarded the subject. A quick survey of their terminol-
ogy, their resources, and above all their reasons for being interested in
myth provides a background, against which I shall then try to show
that Joel Barlow Vision of Columbus, to take only one of a number
of possible examples, has a complex and intentional mythic structure
that makes it a more interesting poem than is generally thought.
To begin with, it must be stressed that the word "myth" was not
used in English until the nineteenth century. The word does not occur
in eighteenth-century dictionaries or encyclopedias. When a single
myth was referred to, it was always as a "mythological fiction," a "po-
etical fiction," a "tradition," a "poetical history," or, most commonly,
a "fable." Almost everything relating to what we now think of as myth
came, for the eighteenth century, under the heading of the word "my-
thology." This word did not then mean primarily a collection of myths
or fables; it meant, first of all, an explanation or interpretation of
myths. Johnson Dictionary ( 1755 ) defines mythology as a "system of
fables; explication of the fabulous history of the gods of the heathen
world." This view is echoed as late as 1806 when Noah Webster de-
fines mythology (there being no entry for "myth" in his dictionary ei-
ther) as "a system or explanation of fables." The first edition of the En-
cyclopedia Britannica ( 1771 ) calls mythology a "science" concerned
with "the history of the gods" and "the theology of the pagans" and
maintains that "mythology, when properly treated, begins with making
learned researches into the real origin of fables, or paganism, and of
that idolatry which was its consequence." From these examples, which
could be multiplied, it should be clear that for the late eighteenth cen-
tury, mythology meant primarily what we would call myth theory,
myth scholarship, or myth criticism.
When they were looking for information about certain myths or
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for collections of myths, mainly classical myths, American writers had
John Lempriere Classical Dictionary only after 1788. There was no
earlier equivalent, and writers had to rely on a variety of handbooks.
Typical of these and by far the most popular was Andrew Tooke Pan
theon of the Heathen Gods, first published in 1698, in its twenty-third
edition by 1771 and its thirty-third by 1825.1 This compendium
avoids the words mythology and mythological, takes a narrowly Chris
tian point of view, and treats classical myth simply as heathen idolatry.
Tooke assumes a Euhemerist origin for myth; he believes that the gods
began as remarkable human beings who were worshipped and deified
by later generations. This view was most fully developed in the eigh
teenth century by the Abbé Banier, whose effort to read myths as po
eticized historical events of the earliest ages lies behind most popular
eighteenth-century treatments of myth, behind Diderot Encyclopédie,
the first Britannica, and the first American dictionary of religions,
Hannah Adams Alphabetical Compendium of the Various Sects which
have Appeared in the World from the Beginning of the Christian Era
to the Present, Boston, 1784.2 This book, renamed A Dictionary of all
Religions, and reaching a fourth edition by 1817, claims that "the de
ities of almost all nations were either ancient heroes, renowned for no
ble exploits and worthy deeds, or kings and generals who had founded
empires, or women who had become illustrious by remarkable actions
or useful inventions. The merit of those eminent persons, contemplated
by their posterity with enthusiastic gratitude, was the cause of their ex.
altation to divine honours."3
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I had to delete original and process scan again. It was just plain and gray.
My first BW film attempt after two years of digital.
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Jenny Lapus
I wanted to incorporate the banderitas used in the original poster, but in a different way. I stylized the text by adding drop shadows.
Buddhist Stela and Base: The Visit of Manjushri to Vimalakirti
Chinese, 6th-century style
Inscription dated 533-43
Limestone
The story of Vimalakirti, a rich and powerful layman from Vaisali (today the town of Basarh, Muzaffarpur district, in Tirhut, Bihar Province, India) who was also a wise follower of the Buddha, ist old in the Vimalakirti-Nirdesha Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist canon that places great importance on the life of the layman rather than t hat of the ascetic monk. Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, was sent by the Buddha to inquire about the health of the ailing Vimalakirti. During the visit, Vimalakirti demonstrated his supreme understanding of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) and his transcendental power.
The scene on this stela depicts the disputation of Vimalakirti ad Manjushri during the visit. On the right, Vimalakirti, who is wearing a loose gown, a fur cape, and a hat, sits on his sickbed. On the left, Manjushri, with a halo, sits on a lotus seat under an elaborate canpoy. Many bodhisattvas and discipies of the Buddha throng the rooms in anticipation of a brilliant conversation. During the discussion, a devakanya (heavenly maiden) showers flowers on them. She appears again under a gingko tree in the enter of the scene to discuss the issue of differentiation with Sariputra, a chief disciple of the Buddha. In the extreme right of the sky, a bodhisattva brings a lion throne, which representsthe 32,000 lion thrones that Vimalakirti summons for Manjushri and the newly initiated bodhisattvas. Another bodhisattva descends from the Buddha to the congregation with a bowl of fragrant rice. Below this scene are two ros of niches in which the donors of this stela each attended by a servant holding a canpoy, are depicted.
This complex scene is arranged symmetrically, with the two main figures rendered in high relief and the less important figures in low relief. This hierarchy not only highlights the focus of the composition but also creates a rich tapestry of details on the stone panel. Shifting between sculptural and linear interests with great ease, this scene is an eloquent and moving pictorial representation in stone.
Rogers Fund, 1929 and 1930
29.72, 30.76.302
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.
In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.
National Historic Register #86003556
Kookie Santos
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We were asked to make a re-design of the poster of last year's Fine Arts Festival. This poster aims to inform its viewers easily through the use of hierarchy of elements. The information of all events is enclosed in the blue and yellow banderitas so that it may emphasize the information despite it's small size relative to the title of the main event (Kalinangan).
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RAMOS, Matthew Jacob F.
The logo basically reminded me of the boats and weavings in Mindanao, so I decided to go for that. This is the revision of my previous work on the subject. Hopefully, it looks practical.
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In these times of world economic crisis, we may find ourselves examining our more basic requirements as theorized by Abraham Maslow in his "hierarchy of needs".
Hall with a Fountain in the Harem. This is the vestibule where the princes and consorts of the sultan waited before entering the Imperial Hall. The walls are decorated with Kütahya and Iznik tiles from the 17th century.
The Imperial Harem is the section of the Topkapı Palace where the most private apartments of the sultan are located. The Harem was home to the sultan's mother, the concubines and wives of the sultan, and the rest of his family, including children, their servants as well as the eunuchs guarding the harem. The Harem consists of a series of buildings and structures, connected through hallways and courtyards. Every service team and hierarchical group residing in the Harem had its own living space clustered around a courtyard. The Harem wing was only added at the end of the 16th century.
The Topkapı Palace is a sprawling palace complex whose construction started in 1459--only six years after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul). It served as the official and primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans for approximately 400 years (1465-1856). The palace is a complex made up of four main courtyards and many smaller buildings. At the height of its existence as a royal residence, the palace was home to as many as 4,000 people. Topkapı Palace gradually lost its importance at the end of the 17th century, as the Sultans preferred to spend more time in their new palaces along the Bosporus. In 1856, the court was moved to the newly built Dolmabahçe Palace.
Shivalaya | Badami | Karnataka | India | Dec | 2008
The capital of the Early Chalukyas, Badami is picturesquely situated at the mouth of a ravine between two rocky hills. Badami is famous for its four cave temples - all hewn out of sand stone on the precipice of a hill. The temples dates back to 6th-8th century.
This picturesque location has been used by Mani Ratnam in numerous scenes in his famous film "Guru"(2007)
Hierarchical Vigil by Metropolitan Hilarion and Bishop Nikolai of Manhattan in the presence of the Kursk-Root Icon The Vigil at St. John The Baptist Cathedral in Washington on September 10, 2021. Photo by Yuri Gripas
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This was the common area or day cell of what was called the "Top Right" cell block. This area was where the inmates would play cards, eat meals, etc. The paint is peeling and rust is taking over. Many a card game was played on these tables. There were seats that folded down for extra players. The cells on the left had two bunks each, and senior inmates usually had the cell right next to the door, prison hierarchy at its best...