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Kerouac's On the Road scroll on display at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, UK, December 2008 - January 2009
Nation : Czechoslovakia
Pavilion Name : Czechoslovakia Pavilion
Subject : Text
Island : Ile Notre Dame
Description : Ancient document found in the Czechoslovakian Pavilion's Hall of Centuries.
General Description:
The two storey Czechoslovakia Pavilion consisted of two buildings linked by an entrance hall. A simple, clear architectural strategy provided a harmonious backdrop for the exhibition's exciting displays. The first building featured two levels of exhibition space with a central courtyard which drew some of the largest crowds at Expo. Czechoslovakian art, technology and industry were presented to visitors through an attractive mixture of light, sound and video. The Hall of Centuries exhibit showcased texts and artifacts from ancient royalty. In the Hall of Tradition, visitors could find old and new glass and crystal and learn about their manufacturing processes. The World of Children enchanted the pavilion's younger visitors featuring puppet shows performing traditional tales. The second building featured four restaurants; Le Bistro served light snacks; the Bratislava Inn was a wine tavern; the Castle Restaurant featured fine Czechoslovakian cuisine; and the Prague was home to the famous pilsener Urquell beer. Offices, a gift shop and a theatre could also be found in this second Czechoslovakian building.
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This is a photograph from the Athlone 10KM and 5KM road races were held in Clonown Village, Co. Roscommon, Ireland on Sunday 26th of April 2015 at 14:00 and 14:30. Clonown is a small townland on the west bank of the River Shannon and is situated about 3 miles south of the town of Athlone. Whilst the townland is almost completely rural it is accessed easily from major routes and towns by the M6 motorway. The weather was perfect for today's race and participants enjoyed very warm spring sunshine. There was a slight breeze on certain parts of the course but overall it was a beautiful day for running. Over 200 people took part in both events.
Reading on a Smartphone or tablet? Don't forget to scroll down further to read more about this race and see important Internet links to other information about the race! You can also find out how to access and download these photographs.
We have an extensive set of photographs from today in the following Flickr Album: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157651739578427/
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=864 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
This race was the fourth annual running of the vent. Every aspect of the organisation was professional: from stewarting, registration, start of races exactly on time, car-parking, and post race refreshments. The 10KM route followed an anti-clockwise loop. The race started on the L2035 Togher Road (about 100m from Clonown Centre - see here on Google Streetview goo.gl/maps/xWj3i) and heads towards the old Ballinasloe Rd (emerging here - see on Google Streetview goo.gl/maps/P6rE8) and back via Creggan (turning off the main road at this point - see Google StreetView goo.gl/maps/wCHT0) with the finish at the Clonown Community Centre. The course turns at this point [goo.gl/maps/7sa6u] to return to the finish. The stretch from the exit off the Old Ballinasloe Road to the Creggan turn off brings the race through wide open bogland areas used in the peat extraction industry.
The 5KM race route follows a different route around the townland. The race starts at the church in Clonown and head clockwise around the Ballinaculla townland which offers lovely views of the River Shannon. The route then goes to the Drumlosh road and runs for 1.5 km before the roundabout which is the 3km mark. The race then turns around and returns back to the village and finish at Clonown Community Centre. Both races share some of the race route for the Flatline Athlone Half held annually in September (www.athlonehalfmarathon.com/) which makes the race routes very fast and flat.
Location Map: This is the start/finish area on Google StreetView [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Some Useful Links
Pictures from 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644370027053/
Pictures from 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157633350511183/
Garmin Connect GPS Trace of the 2013 10KM Route: connect.garmin.com/activity/306782605
The Clonown area on Google Streetview [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Facebook Page for the Athlone 10KM Race 2015 www.facebook.com/Athlone10krun?fref=ts
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
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►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are written documents that date from the 3rd century BC to the 1st AD. They contain some of the oldest-known copies of biblical books, as well as hymns, prayers, and other important writings. Most of the writings are in old Hebrew but there are also Aramaic, Greek and Nabataean texts among them.
The majority of the scrolls are of leather parchment, some of papyrus, and only one is an inscribed copper sheet. This one and only Copper Scroll is made of 99% copper metal and dates from the 1st century AD. It now has its own special climate controlled display at The Jordan Museum.
All of the Dead Sea Scrolls on display in the special room at The Jordan Museum come from archaeological excavations, which were carried out at a time when the West Bank (including the site) was part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
© From a text in The Jordan Museum
Three tier square buttercream cake. Two tiers are chocolate italian buttercream and one is vanilla italian buttercream. Top and bottom have vanilla cornelli lace and middle tier has scrolls and pearl dragees.
Public Domain Book: Stand Scroll Book
Standard scroll book
Published 1876 by J. Haney & co. in New York .
Written in English.
Little cake for a darling bride. She was supposed to pick it up but I said I would deliver it so I could have more time and I was going by the venue anyway. She was such a joy to work with...such a sweetie. 6, 9" and 12" single layer butterpecan cakes. Royal icing scrolls, lustered pearls and push flowers, hand modeled little people and little butterflies.
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The Scroll of Isildur was a scroll made by Isildur himself during his short time in Minas Tirith after the War of the Last Alliance between T.A. 1 and 2. The scroll held Isildur's account of the gaining of the Ring from Sauron and described the appearance of an inscription around the Ring while it was still hot. The Scroll was stored for millennia in the vaults of that city. Gandalf started to believe that Bilbo Baggins' Magic Ring was the One. In T.A. 3017 he visited Minas Tirith and studied the scroll. Isildur's description was vital in helping Gandalf identify the Ring. He visited Frodo Baggins in Bag End and testing his ring in the fireplace, confirmed it as the One Ring of Sauron.
The Scroll of Isildur was a scroll made by Isildur himself during his short time in Minas Tirith after the War of the Last Alliance between T.A. 1 and 2. The scroll held Isildur's account of the gaining of the Ring from Sauron and described the appearance of an inscription around the Ring while it was still hot. The Scroll was stored for millennia in the vaults of that city. Gandalf started to believe that Bilbo Baggins' Magic Ring was the One. In T.A. 3017 he visited Minas Tirith and studied the scroll. Isildur's description was vital in helping Gandalf identify the Ring. He visited Frodo Baggins in Bag End and testing his ring in the fireplace, confirmed it as the One Ring of Sauron.
Caption: November, 1953. Scroll made in a Words of Cheer contest.
Citation: Mennonite Community Photograph Collection, 1947-1953. Children's Hobbies. HM4-134 Box 2 Photo 239.0-12. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.
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A Quality World Map
Adriana Preset For RaceMenu and ECE
Alternate Start - Live Another Life
amb landscape with terrain parallax 2k
aMidianBorn Book of Silence - Armors + Weapons
aMidianBorn Textures For Immersive Armors and Lore-Friendly Armor Pack
Audio Overhaul for Skyrim 2 (NLA)
Bandolier - Bags and Pouches
Beards
Better MessageBox Controls
Bijin NPCs
Bijin Warmaidens
Bijin Wives
Brows
Campfire
Coverkhajiits
DIMONIZED UNP female body
Enhanced Blood Textures dark
Enhanced Lights and FX
Equipping Overhaul
EZ2C DIALOGUE MENU - FULLY CONFIGURABLE -
Face Masks of Skyrim
Female Facial Animation
Fluffy Travel Attire
FNIS Behavior V6_0_2
Footprints
Fuz Ro Doh
HDT Equipment - Craftable Weapon Sling
HDT Physics Extensions
High Quality 3D Map
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Improved closefaced helmets
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KS Hairdos - HDT Physics
Lantern Caretakers
Lanterns of Skyrim - All In One
Mfg Console
moreHUD
NLA 2.0 esp
No Boring Sleep-Wait Menu
No NPC Greetings
No Spinning Death Animation
Northborn Scars
OH GOD BEES - More Bees--More Hives--HD Textures
Populated Cities Towns Villages
Populated Dungeons Caves Ruins v.1.07
Populated Forts Towers Places
Populated Lands Roads Paths
Pretty Female Idles
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Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon
•Designer: Pierre-Adrien Paris (French, 1747-1819)
•Date: ca. 1777-1780
•Culture: French, Paris
•Medium: Oak, painted and gilded
•Dimensions:
oOverall: 9 ft. 3½ in. × 15 ft. 5½ in. × 14 ft. 3 in. (283.2 × 471.2 × 435.6 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork
•Credit Line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944
•Accession Number: 44.128
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
[Arabesques] are an inexhaustible source of ways to decorate in a beautiful style the interior and exterior of modern buildings, furniture, and even clothes.
—Charles-Louis Clérisseau, 1779
Delightful arabesques painted in pastel colors on a soft blue ground form the chief decoration of this paneling, which once lined the walls of a boudoir located next to the bedroom of Louis-Marie-Augustin, fifth duc d’Aumont (1709-1782), one of the four First Gentlemen of the King’s Bedchamber. In 1776 he rented an unfinished town house that had been constructed for the builder and entrepreneur Louis-François Trouard (1729-1794). It was one of several private mansions erected behind a facade built in a grand Neoclassical style by Jacques-Ange Gabriel (1698-1782) on the place Louis XV, now the place de la Concorde.
A man of taste as well as a significant art collector, the duc d’Aumont engaged the architect Pierre-Adrien Pâris to design the interior decoration for his new abode. Having studied in Rome, partly at the duke’s expense, Pâris would have been familiar with the early sixteenth-century decorative wall paintings executed by Raphael and his assistants in the Vatican loggias. Raphael’s work clearly served as inspiration for the embellishment of the Museum’s paneling, as it shows similar charming and lighthearted motifs, such as small animals balancing on garlands and rolling acanthus scrolls. The exterior windows of this intimate polyhedral boudoir, which was painted by an unknown artist, gave access to a balcony with views toward the rue des Champs-Élysées (now the rue Boissy d’Anglas). Set into the wall paneling are four mirrors angled to reflect the arabesque decoration. (The mirror inside the niche is a replacement for the original pane of clear glass that allowed light to shine into the stairwell behind the room.) According to the 1782 inventory drawn up after the duke’s death, the boudoir was furnished with four stools, two armchairs, and an ottomane, or comfortable sofa, described as having three backs. Each stool was most likely placed under one of the mirrors, and the ottomane, complete with cushions, pillows, and bolsters, must have stood inside the niche. All the seat furniture was upholstered in blue moiré silk, the same color as that of the gros de Tours (ribbed silk) curtains. Although most of the furnishings and collections of the duc d’Aumont were sold at a celebrated auction that took place in the house in 1782, the woodwork of this room stayed in the building. The hôtel was acquired six years later by François-Félix-Dorothée des Balbes de Berton, comte de Crillon (1748-1820), and it remained the property of his descendants until the early twentieth century.
Epigraph. Quoted in Hautecoeur 1912, p. 46.
Provenance
Hôtel de Crillon, 10, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France; Louis Trouard (by 1776); Félix François Dorothée Berton des Balbes, Comte de Crillon (1788-d. 1827); Marie Louise Amélie Berton des Balbes (duchesse de Polignac) (until d. 1904); Duc(s) de Polignac (until 1906; sold to Bliss, through Mme Gaëton Désache (née Flandin), January 13, 1906); Mrs. George T. Bliss (from 1906); Susan Dwight Bliss , New York (until 1944; to MMA)
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
Carpet
•Manufactory: Beauvais
•Date: ca. 1787-1790
•Culture: French, Beauvais
•Medium: Wool
•Dimensions:
oOverall (Confirmed): 102¾ × 66½ in. (261 × 168.9 cm)
•Classification: Textiles-Rugs
•Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976
•Accession Number: 1976.155.102
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (until 1976; to MMA).
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
•A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Side Chair
•Maker: Bovo
•Date: ca. 1780-1785
•Culture: French
•Medium: Carved and Gilded Beechwood, Covered in 18th-Century Cream-Colored Silk Tabby Upholstery
•Dimensions: 34⅝ × 21 × 19 in. (87.9 × 53.3 × 48.3 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1977
•Accession Number: 1977.213
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Inscription:
oStamped Under Front Seat Rail: BOVO
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (until 1977; to MMA).
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
Armchair (Bergère) (Part of a Set)
•Maker(s): Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748-1803); Painted and Gilded by Louis-François Chatard (ca. 1749-1819)
•Date: ca. 1788
•Culture: French, Paris
•Medium: Carved, painted and gilded walnut; modern cotton twill embroidered in silk
•Dimensions:
oOverall: 39 × 27¼ × 25¼ in. (99.1 × 69.2 × 64.1 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1941
•Accession Number: 41.205.2
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Made for Marie-Antoinette’s dressing room at the château de Saint Cloud. The queen’s initials are carved on the top rail.
Provenance
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Cabinet de Toilette, Palace of Saint-Cloud, France (by 1788); Marquis de Casaux (until 1923; sale, Hôtel Drout, Paris, December 21, 1923, No. A); George and Florence Blumenthal (from 1923); Ann Payne Blumenthal (until 1941; to MMA).
Timeline of Art History
•Essays
oFrench Furniture in the Eighteenth Century: Seat Furniture
oThe Golden Age of French Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•“French Royal Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 63, no. 3 (Winter, 2006)
•European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Highlights of the Collection
•Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
Candelstand and Worktable (Table à Ouvrage en Guéridon)
•Maker: Attributed to Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix (French, 1727-1799)
•Factory: Porcelain plaques by Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740-Present)
•Decorator: Porcelain plaques decorated by Charles Vandé (French, active 1785-91)
•Date: ca. 1785
•Culture: French, Sèvres
•Medium: Oak veneered with tulipwood, boxwood, holly and ebonized holly, sycamore, and other woods; soft-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, silk
•Dimensions:
oHeight: 31⅛ in. (79.1 cm)
oDiameter of Top: 14⅝ in. (37.1 cm)
•Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976
•Accession Number: 1976.155.106
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
The top of this elegant worktable was meant to be used as a guéridon, to support a candelstick offering light when the owner, most likely an aristocratic woman, was working on her needlepoint or sewing at night.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Marking:
oGlazed on Back of Plaque and Painted in Gold: interlaced Ls enclosing GG with letter V below [Sèvres factory mark with date-letters for 1784]
Provenance
The Lords Hillingdon, London; Edith Chester Beatty, London; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (until 1976; to MMA)
Timeline of Art History
•Timelines
oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
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•The Wrightsman Collection. Vols. 1 and 2, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets
Nine-Light Chandelier
•Date: ca. 1785
•Culture: French
•Medium: Gilt and patinated bronze
•Dimensions:
oHeight: 36⅝ in. (93 cm)
•Classification: Metalwork-Gilt Bronze
•Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1977
•Accession Number: 1977.83
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 546.
Provenance
[Michel Meyer, Paris, until 1977; sold to MMA]
Timeline of Art History
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oFrance, 1600-1800 A.D.
Exhibition of contemporary scroll art, community center in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture
A rubbing made from a stele later mounted decoratively on a scroll. It gives the various names, place of origin, and virtues of the military official Li Wei, who lived during the Former Qin (351-394). Thanks to Bruce Carpenter for the information.
An elongated shot - showing off the size of the "temple" at Hardy-Ivy Park - with the human characters from Elder Scrolls On-Line.
Ancient Egyptian scroll from the exhibit "Inside Ancient Egypt" at the Field Museum, Chicago Illinois. This may be an excerpt from a copy of "The Book of the Dead."
Exhibit web site:
www.fieldmuseum.org/happening/exhibits/inside-ancient-egypt
Main Field Museum web site: