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Preservation Easement Protects Stafford Civil War Park for Future Generations (Stafford County, VA)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
... late Stafford Historian Al Conner, as the Union Troops' 'Valley Forge.' The park's 41.2 acres of land provides opportunities to explore a multitude of historical features such as the Civil War battery and winter hut site remains, a corduroy road, a late 18th and early 19th century sandstone quarry, and remnants of the 1660s Potomac Church Road bed....

Shakespeare’s will: a new interpretation (The National Archives)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
(Source. The National Archives). William Shakespeare's signature on his will. As head of legal records at The National Archives, I've been looking in detail at one of our treasures ... Handling the will ... Redating the will ... April 1613 ... New technical analysis ... The Stratford story about Shakespeare's death, current in the early 1660s, was that he died of a fever contracted after drinking with his fellow playwrights Michael Drayton and Ben Johnson....

Atlas made in Amsterdam in the 1660s set to sell for £270,000

Edit The Daily Mail 04 Apr 2016
Johannes Blaeu's Atlas Major was the most expensive publication of the seventeenth century - costing more than a Rembrandt painting. It is being auctioned by Sotherby's on April 26 ... ....

Story of cities #7: Philadelphia grid marks birth of America's urban dream

Edit The Guardian 22 Mar 2016
William Penn’s city was planned as a utopian ideal. a grid of broad streets to promote green urban living for settlers to this 17th-century colony. While Penn grew disillusioned, his design lives on in Philadelphia and around the world ... Twitter ... Troubled by the memory of fire and plague in London during the 1660s, and their frequent devastation of colonial ports, Penn wished his capital would “never be burnt, and always be wholesome” ... ....

A hotel-barge trip in France better than a cruise

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 20 Mar 2016
The captain and deckhand swiftly dismantle the roof and windows of the boat's boxy, raised wheelhouse as an ancient stone bridge comes into view ... With narrow cobblestone streets, a beautiful hillside park, and inviting little outdoor restaurants, Beziers is the birthplace of Pierre-Paul Riquet, the genius who conceived and headed the project to build the 150-mile-long canal, beginning in the 1660s ... Capt ... Uli and Ute are the owners ... ....

5 things you probably don’t know about Pi Day

Edit The Times of India 14 Mar 2016
NEW DELHI. The 14th of March -- or 3.14 in the US date format -- is celebrated as Pi Day in the honour of the irrational number Pi (3.14) whose never-ending decimal representation does not settle into a permanent repetitive pattern ... The formula for Pi was discovered in India ... German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the 1660s came to the same value independently; today, the infinite series are known as Madhava-Leibniz series ... ....

The Five Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: Ostrich, Camel and Carnival Rides, ...

Edit Houston Press 04 Mar 2016
It's a weekend of rarities in Houston, with the once-a-year camel and ostrich races at the horse track, a farewell performance from the Lord of the Dance himself, and the premiere of a new gender-bending opera ... “Absolutely, it's comical ... that of Edward Kynaston, a Restoration-era actor with androgynous looks that enabled him to play female roles in the 1660s — a time when women weren’t allowed on the London stage ... ....

12 Animals The Human Race Tragically Killed Off

Edit What Culture 28 Feb 2016
The phrase “dead as a dodo” didn’t just magic itself up out of nowhere – it was coined after the flightless bird became extinct during the 1660s ... And all of these things have been caused by human beings ... ....

Podcast: Connecting with Your Audience (Hedgerow Theatre)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Feb 2016
(Source. Hedgerow Theatre). Ralph Weeks started his career working with Marshall Mason and Rod Marriott at Circle Repertory Company in New York City. He was then hired to become the Director of Marketing at Playwrights Horizons with Andre Bishop as Artistic Director. He moved down to Wall Street and worked for the infamous Ivan F ... Related ... The play is set in Restoration England in the 1660s,…. January 21, 2016. In 'Aaron' ... September 16, 2015....

HGO Premieres Prince of Players: When Men Could No Longer Play Women on Stage

Edit Houston Press 19 Feb 2016
As a baritone in opera, Ben Edquist says he knows he won't get a lot of chances to do a deep emotional role. “You're usually the villain or the sidekick,” he says ... that of Edward Kynaston, a Restoration-era actor with androgynous looks that enabled him to play women's roles in the 1660s – a time when women weren't allowed on the London stage ... Three performances are scheduled for March 5-13 ... 8 p.m ... Sunday ... $25-$80. Contact....

Blog: Chickabiddy–Wait, What? (Hedgerow Theatre)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Feb 2016
(Source. Hedgerow Theatre) Director of Or, Aaron Cromie is a man of many talents. He's a designer, a puppeteer, actor, and when not confined to the theatre, he's on the stage as a musician. His band, Chickabiddy, has been gaining accolades lately in Philadelphia ... Emily and I are hoping that you'll come and see us perform in such a beautiful and storied venue ... Related ... The play is set in Restoration England in the 1660s,…. January 21, 2016....

Blog: Give Yourself In To Pleasure and See Or, (Hedgerow Theatre)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Feb 2016
(Source. Hedgerow Theatre). 'Pleasure,' is the one word actor Kittson O'Neill uses to describe the 'heart' of Liz Duffy Adams' Barrymore Recommended production of Or,in which O'Neill plays the pioneering female playwright Aphra Behn (1640-89) a wise-cracking poet with men and women under her thumb. Or,is the second Hedgerow winter show in a row to be Barrymore Recommended ... Behn (b ... The play is set in Restoration England in the 1660s,…....

Podcast: How did you do that? (Hedgerow Theatre)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Feb 2016
(Source. Hedgerow Theatre). We get the question all the time, 'How do you memorize all those lines?' In Or, by Liz Duffy Adams, Fellow Allison Bloechl takes the answer to another level ... We sit down today to talk to her about how she pulled off this impressive feat. Related ... The…. February 2, 2016 ... The play is set in Restoration England in the 1660s,… ... (noodl....
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