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Durham spoon carver Vanessa Hernandez finds her craft meditative and stress relieving

Edit The News & Observer 27 May 2016
I love to read – almost as much as I like to garden for wildlife – and among the things I enjoy reading are stories from American history. Understandably, I am eager to score tickets to “Hamilton” on Broadway ... Only partway into the narrative, I’m getting a pretty clear picture of Hamilton’s life in Manhattan in the 1770s, where the West Indies immigrant settled before becoming Washington’s right-hand man ... Wulf writes ... Related content. ....

Explosions in the sky: why Mount Etna erupting is as pretty as a painting

Edit The Guardian 24 May 2016
Turi Caggegi’s recent volcanic YouTube footage is uncannily similar to Joseph Wright’s 18th-century art of Vesuvius – both capture an Italian night on fire. Images of Mount Etna spewing molten rock and fire in its latest eruption reveal once again the astonishing and dangerous beauty of volcanoes ... The Georgian artist Joseph Wright of Derby loved to paint volcanos erupting ... Twitter ... In the 1770s, Vesuvius had a similarly active period ... ....

Why are some protesters admired, others declared rabble-rousers?

Edit The Times Picayune 24 May 2016
For a country born out of protest, we sure have a difficult time dealing with dissent. One day we admire those peacefully standing up for their beliefs; the next we're scorning those who dare buck the status quo ... Do "blind obedience" supporters suggest non-loyalists living in the colonies during the 1770s were wrong to protest rules imposed by King George III? To a friend of the crown, the rules made perfect sense ... Wade decision ... ***** ... ....

Looking forward through Yorkshire’s past with archive’s new home (University of Leeds)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. University of Leeds). Aunique collection of manuscripts, archives and books relating to Yorkshire's history has a new home at the University of Leeds ... The 670 rolls provide records of society and industry in the West Riding from 1274 to 1925 ... • Many records of manorial courts, including those of Skelton, in North Yorkshire, with bizarre offences from the 1770s including a £1 fine for 'throwing a seal calf into the town street'....

Donald Trump and the Invention of Charismatic Finance

Edit The Atlantic 10 May 2016
There’s finance, and then there’s everything else ... They use a two-by-two matrix. Product Innovation No Product Innovation. Financial Innovation Venture capital and leveraged buyouts, 1980s Credit expansion, credit rating, and crowd funding, 1980s to present. No financial innovation British industrial revolution, 1770s Most business ventures in most times and places ... Their analytical point is a broader one ... M ... M ... G ... ....

TV guide: what's on Monday, May 9

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 03 May 2016
Movie. The Patriot (2000). ONE, 8.30pm. A key issue throughout human history is whether one should put individual beliefs above the interests of one's country. For Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), a man of standing in the American South of the 1770s, the issue is whether his desire to avoid war with occupying Great Britain takes precedence over a mounting passion for independence ... Scott Murray. Pay. Coast New Zealand Advertisement ... Salem ... ....

A Dweller in Peace: the Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan

Edit CounterPunch 03 May 2016
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S ... *** ... quite simply ... Berrigan published an account about the making of the film, the Jesuit missions in Latin America of 1770s, and their relevance to contemporary efforts against war today, in his book, “” In 1988, he published his autobiography, “To Dwell In Peace.” ... ....

Captain Cook's Ship Likely Found 230 Years Later

Edit Opposing Views 02 May 2016
Experts reveal they may have finally found Captain James Cook’s famous ship off the coast of Rhode Island 230 years after it sunk. One of the most famous ships in naval history, Cook sailed The Endeavor in the 1770s to discover the East Coast of Australia, the Daily Mail reports ... The Endeavor was later renamed Lord Sandwich and used to transport British troops during the American Revolution in 1778....

Benjamin Franklin in London by George Goodwin review – demolishing a legend

Edit The Guardian 29 Apr 2016
When, during the 1770s, the colonists threw off the tyranny of George III, they not only won independence from British imperial rule, but also achieved a kind of self-realisation; Americans-in-waiting became fully fledged Americans....

English Professor Chairs Presentation (Saint Vincent College)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
'Digital Humanities and other recovery tools have provided new texts and evidence of material culture that suggest that the Picturesque in its time was not bounded on one end by the touring of the 1770s and on the other by Romanticism in the 1790s; subject to competing aesthetic criteria as articulated by various theorists and practitioners; and ......

Middle School Trips Open Eyes—and Hearts (The Principia Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016
(Source. The Principia Corporation). Every year, Middle School Trip Week is a time of making new discoveries, overcoming doubts and fears, realizing the power of gratitude and teamwork, and developing new insights into history, culture, and the wider world. This year was no exception! ... 'We got to see how people did things way back then in the 1770s and compare it to now, almost 250 years later,' enthused one student ... ... Wow!' ... (noodl....

Racial Segregation Was Invented by the Very Same Liberals Who Sought to Abolish Slavery

Edit Alternet 27 Apr 2016
In 1816, a group of politicians, clergymen and antislavery activists founded the American Colonization Society (ACS), a charity to encourage the resettlement of African-Americans in West Africa ... He had criticized the institution of slavery since his time in the Virginia governor’s mansion in the 1770s, and as president of the United States he’d signed the bill that ended American participation in the international slave trade ... St....

The Complex Links Between Science and Magic

Edit Huffington Post 22 Apr 2016
*Nikolas Oktaba is a Gates Cambridge Scholar doing an MPhil in Classics at the University of Cambridge. Picture credit of Johann Gassner c/o. It is tempting to suppose that 'science' or 'reason' have unseated the rule of 'myth' or 'magic' ... Johann Joseph Gassner ... After all, the 1770s were the decade of Adam Smith, the final volume of Diderot's Encyclop�die, and the American Revolution. How, then, could an exorcist command such attention? ... ....
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