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Topic: Tudor


In the News (Mon 6 Oct 08)

  
  Tudor dress: portfolio of images
However, the Tudor painters, particularly Holbein, exhibit a wonderful eye for detail that, until someone publishes examples of actual garments, I'll decide to trust.
Tudor Bonnets, Men and Women: A Portfolio of Images.
Tudor dress but with a 17th century vertical/conical silouhette.
www.uvm.edu /~hag/sca/tudor   (1668 words)

  
  Tudor Furniture, English Tudor Style Furniture
The tudor period in English history begins with the ascent to the throne of King Henry VII in 1485, this event signifying the end of the Middle Ages in Britain and supposedly the historic beginning of the English Renaissance.
Tudor interiors, in contrast to the lack of grace and quantity in furniture, were often beautifully decorated with tapestries, embroidery, carpets, and fabrics.
To summarise, the early tudor period in England before the Elizabethan age was, in matters of furniture and interior design, mostly part of the gothic tradition only changed somewhat by incipient continental ideas flowing across the channel in very small waves and by new wood crafting knowledge.
www.furniturestyles.net /european/english/tudor.html   (507 words)

  
 newsobserver.com | Columns by Caulton Tudor
Tudor: In Year 3 of a 12-team Atlantic Coast Conference in football, familiar powerhouses are expected again to rule -- with a few surprises possible.
Tudor: t if the message of Michael Vick's mess goes in one ear and out the other across the athletic spectrum, sports are in a lot more trouble than I can imagine.
Tudor: New N.C. State football coach Tom O'Brien met with the news media on Friday to discuss the Wolfpack's football situation entering the final few weeks before the start of preseason drills.
www.newsobserver.com /sports/tudor   (705 words)

  
 David Tudor's realization of John Cage's Variations II
Tudor was clearly thinking of the amplified piano as something greater than the sum of its parts (piano and electronics).
Tudor's own characterization of it was that he "could only hope to influence" the instrument -- he could not predict the nature of the sounds that would result from a particular action.
Tudor's adaptation of a system designed to create measurements of continuous variables into a system to generate binary choices is certainly not within the realm of what Cage had in mind.
www.music.princeton.edu /~jwp/texts/Var2.html   (4085 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD . Romania - My Old Haunts . Reporter's Notebook: House of Tudor | PBS
In March 2002, Tudor was chosen as the presidential candidate of choice by 17.0 percent of respondents in a national poll, with 43.0 percent preferring current prime minister Adrian Nastase, a member of the ruling Social Democratic Party.
Tudor, who longs to be the country's next strongman, doesn't resist being compared with the man the outside world knows better as a maniacal, bloodthirsty fiend.
Tudor often appears in public in an all-white suit -- he says white is the color of purity and the color of Jesus' vestments.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/romania/tudor.html   (2137 words)

  
 John Tudor | BaseballLibrary.com
Tudor's brief stint in the baseball spotlight was somewhat dimmed because of his unwillingness to cooperate with the press.
Tudor experienced his greatest season in 1985, despite a 1-7 start after coming from the Pirates with Brian Harper in return for George Hendrick and a minor leaguer.
Tudor, at 12—11, was the ace of the Bucs' staff, which set a record by having the National League's best ERA, though the team finished last.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/T/Tudor_John.stm   (1235 words)

  
 History of the Monarchy > The Tudors
The five sovereigns of the Tudor dynasty are among the most well-known figures in Royal history.
The Tudor court played a prominent part in the cultural Renaissance taking place in Europe, nurturing all-round individuals such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser and Cardinal Wolsey.
The Tudor period also saw the turbulence of two changes of official religion, resulting in the martyrdom of many innocent believers of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page11.asp   (219 words)

  
 Tudor Ventures
Tudor Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Tudor Investment Corp., an internationally recognized, diversified investment management firm.
Tudor Ventures is focused on providing capital to mid- and late-stage technology and growth companies.
Tudor has a proven record of providing entrepreneurs with the capital, relationships, and experience necessary to develop successful companies.
www.tudorventures.com   (72 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - English Royal History - The Tudor Monarchs
The Tudor Age and Beyond: England From the Black Death to the End of the Age of Elizabeth by Arthur J. Slavin.
The tapestry of Tudor life, including its costumes, travel, food and medicine, sports and pastimes, the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, the intrigues and machinations at the court, and the miseries of the plague.
Tudor Rebellions by Anthony Fletcher and Diarmaid Macculloch.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/England/Tudor/index.html   (1478 words)

  
 David Tudor
These composers often wrote works expressly for Tudor and a number of them stated that Tudor's unerring ability to find his own imaginative and virtuoso solutions to the often puzzling and sometimes deliberately difficult problems of notation and performance was essential to the actual composition of their music.
Instead, Tudor created electronic sounds directly during performances, thus pioneering what was later to be called "live electronic music." By the mid-1960s, Tudor's ideas and performances had inspired a new trend in electronic music.
Tudor's several collaborations with visual artist Jacqueline Monnier included the development of a kite environment installed at the Whitney Museum (Philip Morris) in 1986, at the exhibition "Klangraume" in Dusseldorf in 1988, and at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City in 1990.
www.lovely.com /bios/tudor.html   (880 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor (born William John Cook) was born in London on April 4, 1908.
At 19 Tudor took ballet classes with Dame Marie Rambert, cofounder of the modern British ballet movement.
Tudor will be remembered for his influence in contemporary ballet that stemmed from his psychological probing of his characters.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3816&source_type=A   (359 words)

  
 tudor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Tudor Batiste Valance 74 X 17 Traditional Curtains Curtains
Tudor Batiste Valance 56 X 12 Traditional Curtains Curtains
Tudor Batiste Valance 56 X 15 Traditional Curtains Curtains
shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?text=tudor,bcatId=5119,edt=1,ptnrId=178,ptnrData=14008517   (739 words)

  
 The Tudor Choir
In a now annual event, The Tudor Choir combines forces with members of The Tallis Scholars to sing renaissance polyphony under the direction of Peter Phillips.
The Tudor Choir is a professional a cappella ensemble directed by Doug Fullington.
Tudor Choir recordings have been hailed in Gramophone and The New York Times.
www.tudorchoir.org   (142 words)

  
 The David Tudor Pages
Check out the interesting story behind Robert Hauk's recent "chance" aquisition of David Tudor's bandoneon in the stories and anecdotes page.
The David Tudor Symposium, "The Art of David Tudor: Indeterminacy and Performance in Postwar Culture" held from May 17-20, 2001 was a success.
Tudor's infamous installation piece, Rainforest IV has been revived and is alive and kicking.
www.emf.org /tudor   (326 words)

  
 Tudor Style: artsparx home improvement style archive
The unmistakable "fl-and-white" Tudor house, with its massive dark timbers, reinforcing diagonal beams, and whitewashed plaster, is the period's design archetype.
Tudor furniture, in keeping with the new aesthetic of permanence, is heavy, carved wood.
Built-in cupboards were essential to the Tudor home, along with hinged storage benches, canopied bedsteads with curtains and carved headboards.
www.artsparx.com /tudorstyle.asp   (627 words)

  
 Southern Accents: Tudor Revival
In America, during the roaring '20s, it was known as "Stockbroker's Tudor" because of its popularity among the new-monied set as a statement of conservative good taste.
And a new 15,000-square-foot Tudor Revival house designed near Annapolis, Maryland, by architect Wayne Good for Bob and Mary Roggio attests to the enduring popularity of the style.
Newfound prosperity gave birth to the original English Tudor architecture, which spans the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.
www.southernaccents.com /accents/homes/architecture/article/0,14743,697799,00.html   (579 words)

  
 Tudor Re-Creations at Kentwell | Kentwell
The Re-Creations of Tudor Life are designed to portray everyday 16th C. life in as authentic a way as possible.
Persons of all ages from babes to the elderly; of all stations from the Gentle Family who lived at the Hall to the humblest workers and very poor folk dressed in rags; from skilled artisans fashioning items of quality or use to mere labourers; from the learned to the ignorant.
Tudor Year Being Re-Created - Learn about the year that will be being re-created from this June to June next year.
www.kentwell.co.uk /Re-Creations/Tudor   (518 words)

  
 The Tudors Homework Help
The Tudors were a Welsh-English family that ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603 - one of the most exciting periods of British history.
Tudor England had two of the strongest monarchs ever to sit on the English throne: Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I.
The Tudors ruled England from 1485 to 1603.
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /Homework/Tudors.html   (324 words)

  
 Worksheets - Tudor and Stuart
An illustrated information sheet about the things that the Tudors did in their leisure time.
An information sheet with details about the clothing worn during the early and late Tudor period by both men and women.
Tudor family tree showing how James I succeeded to the throne after Elizabeth.
www.historyonthenet.com /Lessons/worksheets/tudor_stuart.htm   (619 words)

  
 Tudor City - AM New York
Bill Baltz, a resident of Tudor City since 1958 and the president of Tudor City Greens Inc., noted that 1988 marked a turning point for the neighborhood, when it was designated a historic district.
Tudor City sits atop an elevated platform between 41st and 43rd streets and First and Second avenues.
They're privately owned and tended to by the nonprofit group Tudor City Greens, Inc., but these well-tended paths, fountains and benches are open to all.
www.amny.com /news/local/am-city0914,0,6808642.story   (517 words)

  
 The Art of David Tudor (Research at the Getty)
It documents and complements the Getty Research Institute symposium "The Art of David Tudor: Indeterminacy and Performance in Postwar Culture," organized in collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts School of Music, which took place in May 2001 at the Getty Center.
This third phase opens new avenues for research on Tudor and his contemporaries by providing a scholarly biography based on little-known sources in Tudor's archive, a glossary, biographies of artists and collaborators, and a list of citations for further reading — including references to outside repositories and Web sites.
The resource is illustrated with musical scores (in excerpt), Tudor's schematic diagrams for his electronic works, programs for performances, and documentary photographs of Tudor's life.
www.getty.edu /research/tools/digital/davidtudor   (416 words)

  
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The drosophila tudor protein is encoded by a 'posterior group' gene, which when mutated disrupt normal abdominal segmentation and pole cell formation.
The tudor protein contains multiple repeats of a domain which is also found in homeless [1].
The tudor domain is found in many proteins that colocalize with ribonucleoprotein or single-strand DNA-associated complexes in the nucleus, in the mitochondrial membrane, or at kinetochores.
www.ebi.ac.uk /interpro/IEntry?ac=IPR002999   (369 words)

  
 Tudor England 1485 to 1603: Table of Contents
Tudor England: Images to view portraits of the Tudors and their contemporaries.
Test your knowledge of Tudor England at the Quizzes page.
Some information is available, including a graphic image of the Tudor family tree.
www.englishhistory.net /tudor.html   (180 words)

  
 Who is?
Tasha Tudor, who turned 91 in the year 2006, is one of America’s best-known and beloved illustrators.
Seth Tudor, one of Tasha's four children, built her home using hand tools when Tasha moved to Vermont in the 1970's.
Once summer arrives, Tasha Tudor leaves her art table to spend the season tending her large, beautiful garden which surrounds her home.
www.tashatudorandfamily.com /who_is.htm   (345 words)

  
 London History
The first monarch of the Tudor dynasty had a great impact on London architecture in the form of 'Henry VII's Chapel,' the addition he made to the eastern end of Westminster Abbey.
In social and economic, as well as architectural terms, the Reformation was to be the defining event of the Tudor period in the capital.
Though the Inns of Chancery were in decline, the Inns of Court continued their educational role in the city and their great halls are a magnificent survival from the Tudor age.
www.britannia.com /history/londonhistory/tudlon.html   (1351 words)

  
 ...hop - Silverplate Flatware & Hollowware Patterns > Tudor by Rogers & Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Tudor by Rogers & Hamilton: Dinner Knife, Blunt Plated
Tudor by Rogers & Hamilton: Grapefruit Spoons, Set of 6
gallery.bcentral.com /GID5129062DD469281-Silverplate-Flatware-Patterns/Tudor-by-Rogers-Hamilton.aspx   (209 words)

  
 Tudor Times - Primary - SchoolHistory.co.uk
From Wickham primary school, an overview of the Tudors, with a detailed paragraphs accompanied by some splendid images.
From Historyonthenet, accessible information on the Tudors, covers many aspects of life.
A well organised website with links to materials for use in school, in particular the 'learning city' an incredible look at the Mary Rose - including a still under construction 3D viewable model (requiring Visiscape plugin).
www.schoolhistory.co.uk /primarylinks/Tudortimes.html   (407 words)

  
 TUDOR
Notes: a Welsh soldier and courtier, directly descended from the Lord Rhys but remembered only because of his role in founding the Tudor dynasty and for his relationship with Catherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V of England.
He was assigned to her service after the King's death, when Catherine, being French and therefore distrusted, was removed from court and denied any part in the upbringing of her son, the infant King Henry VI.
She and Owen are sometimes said to have been secretly married, though there is no documentary evidence of this.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /TUDOR.htm   (723 words)

  
 Tudor Chronology
Margaret Tudor gives birth to James (later James V of Scotland) in Linlithgow.
Margaret Tudor, older sister of Henry VIII, died at Methven Castle.
a Tudor History scholar at the University of California San Diego is co-author of this extensive chronology.
tudors.crispen.org /chronology   (4386 words)

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