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H is for Hegemony: share your artwork now

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
Contribute with Guardian Witness ... Semu writes ... “My new body of work comes in two parts and is a restaging and digitally capture of two epic 19th-century European history paintings that heroicise survival at sea; Théodore Géricault’s, The Raft of the Medusa (1819) and Louis John Steele and Charles F Goldie’s The Arrival of the Māoris in New Zealand (1898), which is based directly on Géricault’s work ... Contribute with Guardian Witness. ....

Story of cities #27: Singapore – the most meticulously planned city in the world

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
Lee Kuan Yew’s vice-like grip on power helped create a byword for cleanliness, efficiency and safety. What lies beneath this ‘Disneyland with the death penalty’?. Cities is supported by. Rockefeller Foundation ... “On the surface, he seemed quite successful,” says Yee in the video ... Twitter ... Singapore, which the colony’s founder, Sir Stamford Raffles, envisioned in 1819 as a “Manchester of the east”, had become a boomtown under British rule ... ....

LA Animal Services’ Brenda Barnette Wants to Know What YOU Think (DONE - Department of Neighborhood Empowerment of Los Angeles)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. DONE - Department of Neighborhood Empowerment of Los Angeles). Written by Phyllis M. Daugherty for CityWatch. Read the full article here. Here's the current schedule for Strategic Plan meetings.. Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 6 p.m ... 2130 E ... 1819 South Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90066 ... (noodl....

Postal Service Previews 13th of 16 Stamps Celebrating National Park Service’s Centennial: Stamp Highlights Mount Rainier National Park (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. NPS - National Park Service) Postal Service Previews 13th of 16 Stamps Celebrating National Park Service's Centennial. Stamp Highlights Mount Rainier National Park ... Mount Rainier National Park, WA. Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape ... Wildlife abounds in the park's ecosystems. A lifetime of discovery awaits ... https.//www.nps.gov/aboutus/news/release.htm?id=1819....

Paws below zero (Eielson Air Force Base)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. Eielson Air Force Base) EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska --. Every paw press into powder dry snow produces a sharp shriek in to the dark frigid air only heard in negative temperatures. Not a breath through the wet, black nostrils isn't without effort inhaling painful sniffs intent on detecting deadly explosives, drugs or intruders ... Sgt ... http.//www.eielson.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/1819/Article/723370/paws-below-zero.aspx....

Postage Stamp Series Famous Croats (Croatian Post Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. Croatian Post Inc) Stamps that spread knowledge around the world about important personalities from Croatian history. Zagreb, 18 April 2016. - New commemorative stamps from one of the most long-lived series of stamps of the Republic of Croatia, Famous Croats, will be in circulation from 20 April 2016 ... · Mirko Bogović (1816 - 1893) ... - 2002.) ... · Sidonija Erdödy Rubido (1819 - 1884), is the most famous woman of the Illyrian Movement....

Military brass to gather in Vermont to highlight ROTC origin

Edit Stars and Stripes 18 Apr 2016
NORTHFIELD, Vt ... On Thursday, some of the nation's top military officers will be at Vermont's Norwich University, the descendant of the school created by Partridge in 1819 in Norwich, Vermont, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Reserve Officer Training Corps, now known as ROTC, which produces about 70 percent of the nation's military officers ... Now about 275 colleges and universities across the country host ROTC programs ... Gen ... ....

The Mask of Anarchy - Paul Wager

Edit Huffington Post 18 Apr 2016
The title of Paul Wager's new exhibition at London's Dadiani Gallery, The Mask of Anarchy, is taken from a poem by Shelley written in response to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 when a cavalry charge at a mass demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform killed 15 and injured several hundred. The poem ends with the lines,. "Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep had fallen on you-. Ye are many, they are few." ... ....

Vermont college marks one century of training officers

Edit Denver Post 17 Apr 2016
ROTC cadet Jacob Jasewicz kneels Tuesday next to an unloaded rifle that was used as part of a training exercise at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt. (Wilson Ring, AP). NORTHFIELD, Vt ... Norwich University was founded in 1819 in Northfield, Vt ... Now about 275 colleges and universities across the country host ROTC programs ... ....

IPL 2016: KKR beat SRH by eight wicket, Gambhir smashes unbeaten 90

Edit Yahoo Daily News 16 Apr 2016
Chasing a modest total, KKR put the innings on track with a fluent 92-run stand. After Robin Uthappa's departure, Gautam Gambhir powered the chase and remained unbeaten on 90. Earlier, Umesh Yadav rocked SRH with a fine spell, picking three wickets. Scorecard. KKR vs SRH, IPL 2016 (CLICK HERE). AS IT HAPPENED!. 1920 hrs IST. Gautam Gambhir's unbeaten 90 powers KKR to eight-wicket win over SRH. 1912 hrs IST ... 1904 hrs IST ... 1819 hrs IST ... ....

Iceman in Action: Staff Sgt. Jacob Maldonado (Eielson Air Force Base)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
(Source. Eielson Air Force Base) EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska --. Rank and Name. Staff Sgt. Jacob Maldonado. Duty Title. Weapons expediter, 354th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. Hometown. San Antonio, Texas. Why is serving in the Air Force important to you? I have always strived to be part of something bigger than myself ... http.//www.eielson.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/1819/Article/722576/iceman-in-action-staff-sgt-jacob-maldonado.aspx....

No evidence in history to back Gurugram

Edit The Times of India 15 Apr 2016
~ by KC Yadav. People are now taking a keener interest in their history. This is a development that must be appreciated ... As for the name change of Gurgaon to Gurugram, I do not know the historical evidence on which this decision has been based ... It didn't have even an administrative unit until 1819 when R Cavendish — called 'Ghamandi Saheb' by the locals — became the first deputy commissioner of the district ... ....

The First Lady Who Made Her Own Contraband Makeup

Edit New York Magazine 14 Apr 2016
At the very end of a leather-bound composition book — after the journal she kept from 1819 until early 1824; after the memoir sketch, “Record of a Life,” which she wrote in the White House; after the anguished lament she wrote about the death of her son — Louisa Catherine ... More » ... ....
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