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  Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A century later, Paris was the centre stage for the French Revolution, with the Storming of the Bastille in 1789 and the overthrow of the monarchy in 1792.
Three of the most famous Parisian landmarks are the twelfth century cathedral Notre Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité, the nineteenth century Eiffel Tower, and the Napoleonic Arc de Triomphe.
Two of Paris's oldest and famous gardens are the Tuileries Garden, created from the 16th century for a palace on the banks of the Seine near the Louvre, and the Left bank Luxembourg Garden, another formerly private garden belonging to a château built for the Marie de' Medici in 1612.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris   (7923 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Anthropology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In the late 1980s and 1990s authors such as George Marcus and James Clifford pondered ethnographic authority, particularly how and why anthropological knowledge was possible and authoritative.
Since it studies how people lived in the past, these people are not available for us to visit and talk to...or at least, not people who are currently living in the same way that their ancestors did in the past.
We are also interested in how a people's cultures is connected to their environment; again, without high technology, you are not going to see farming or cities in the middle of the desert or the arctic.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/anthropology   (5343 words)

  
 how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan?
From the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, in the techniques of optical art - ranging from the scenographic perspective and the camera obscura to the basic structure of the photographic camera - the luminous origin of projection was always displayed as unique and privileged.
As I sketched at the beginning, toward the end of the nineteenth century the alteration of the origin-projection relationship was articulated in the shape of the diverse symptoms of science, technology, and art and thus rose into the foreground of historical reality.
In his essay on Surrealism in Japan, Yoshio Abe argues that during the years from the late 1910s to the early 1930s, "it was a sort of optimistic gaiety that set the Futuristic orientation in the avant-garde or modernist atmosphere."[23] Hence the heroic tone of the poem of Hagiwara at the beginning of this article.
www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-supp/text/ishii.html   (11467 words)

  
 Christianity
At the turn of the 21st century, though secular society tends to consider the more accommodating liberals as the representatives and spokesmen of Christianity, the "mainline" liberal churches are shrinking.
That is why people from that part of the world who have converted to Christianity have left to Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, because their native third world countries have laws against Christian conversions.
In the second half of the 20th century the violent conflict between armed political groups among the Unionist and Nationalist communities in Northern Ireland carried a strong element of sectarianism between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
christianity.ask.dyndns.dk   (5128 words)

  
 Medieval List
From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the thirteenth Century with Illustrations from contemporary Monuments.
Keegan's famous book has a chapter on what it was like to fight at Agincourt that is worth the whole book itself.
A 16th Century two handed sword with an open ring pommel in the collection of the Royal Armouries, Leeds is illustrated and described along with contemporary illustrations of the type.
www.thehaca.com /MedievalList.htm   (4462 words)

  
 MagicWeek - Magic News in the UK - Magic Shop Tricks
The show follows people with an ambition from their early beginnings to their final "Test." Martyn Moore is the magician.
Richard Leigh in association with The Jermyn Street Theatre is presenting a season of magic and illusion cabaret shows at the theatre entitled Late Night Magic in the West End every Friday and Saturday evening from March 26th to June 12th.
The key was obtained from the estate of famous key and lock collector Paul Harter who originally purchased Houdini's locks and keys from Houdini's brother Hardeen.
www.magicweek.co.uk   (5484 words)

  
 Notebook
Scores of artifacts were added throughout the next two centuries and the collections were eventually reorganized under Benedict XIV (1740-1758) and Clement XIII (1758-1769).
Ambrosiana - "Some of the many private art collections established throughout the centuries in Milan still preserve their 'private' character, although they do have a profound social role and are usually open to the public.
The good people at the Northwestern University's Library have created this lovely online exhibit to highlight all of the 27 Hans Christian Andersen Award nominees, and to complement their ongoing in situ exhibit at their own Main Library.
www.noteaccess.com /DIRECTORIES/Collections.htm   (4094 words)

  
 The Little Professor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Griesemer further underlines this point by frequently having various characters accidentally run into either each other or famous people (as in the initially comical appearance by Karl Marx).
One reviewer in the list of pull quotes trots out the infamous adjective "Dickensian" to describe the characters, but there is something deliberately cod-Dickensian about the coincidences, which reveal neither a providential pattern nor the interlocking of social strata--just the "noise" of the universe, as it were.
A controversial work by one of the most famous theologians and educators of the Victorian period.
littleprofessor.typepad.com   (4322 words)

  
 Ann Castle: Books/Reports
Women's Periodicals and Newspapers from the 18th Century to 1981.
A history, in which more than one thousand people of Cleveland's past and present are mentioned as participants.
"Philanthropy and Reform: A Victorian Perspective." (Archives of the Shaftesbury Society and the Charity Organization Society from industrialized Britain in the late 19th and early 20th century.
www.women-philanthropy.umich.edu /booksreports   (1945 words)

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