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'Sicily - Culture and Conquest' at the British Museum: How a little kingdom made a ...

Edit The Independent 08 Mar 2016
Too few people visit La Zisa. This pleasure-palace built in the 1160s by the Norman kings of Sicily sits behind a clumsily landscaped park – until recently, a rubbish-dump – in a scruffy neighbourhood of Palermo. One tourist who did make it was the English artist Lord Leighton, who copied the design of one room for the famous “Arab Hall” in his show-off home in Kensington ... The date of her death is marked in four calendars ... 6 show all ....

Bring back the joust: a modest proposal

Edit The Examiner 11 Oct 2015
Every election season, people complain about the ineffectiveness of democratic voting as a means of achieving meaningful change ... Voting also serves to sanitize statism and hide some of its inherent violence from the population ... To improve the future, let us consider something from the past. the joust ... 1066) ... By the 1160s, the sport of jousting had developed into the form it would maintain into the 14th century ... Bring back the joust! ....

Power and Pathos review – once-in-a-lifetime look at Greek bronze sculptures

Edit The Guardian 01 Aug 2015
With loans from 34 museums in 12 countries, this exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles includes ancient treasures never before assembled in one place ... The show stops in three cities only ... Facebook Twitter ... Related ... Related ... Aside from the near totemic number of reproductions, the Spinario might be the only bronze to survive 2,300 years above ground, noted first in the 1160s atop a column outside the Lateran Palace in Rome ... ....

Magna Carta: where to visit the four surviving originals

Edit The Independent 26 Jan 2015
How astonishingly neat. If utilitarian. Given the importance of the document in front of me, I had expected some ornamentation – a flamboyant drop capital letter at least ... London ... Built by the Knights Templar in the 1160s (although much reconstructed after Second World War bombing), it is the oldest Gothic church in the country, and in the 13th century was one of the two London bases for King John – the Tower of London being the other ... ....

'Glamping' pod plans at Byron's Newstead Abbey criticised

Edit BBC News 07 Dec 2014
He said ... Byron at Newstead Newstead Abbey, originally an Augustinian Priory, was founded in the 1160s The Byrons lived there for nearly 300 years before it was inherited by George Gordon in 1798 Byron loved his ancestral home, once saying he and the house "would stand or fall together" However, he was forced to sell it for £94,500 to help pay off his debts. ....

Global Warming Isn’t the Same for Everyone

Edit CounterPunch 31 Oct 2014
Uh-Oh! Global Warming? ... 3, 2014 ... “The dryness in California is only part of a longer-term, 15-year drought across most of the Western USA, one that bioclimatologist Park Williams said is notable because ‘more area in the West has persistently been in drought during the past 15 years than in any other 15-year period since the 1150s and 1160s’ — that’s more than 850 years ago,” California’s 100-Year Drought, USA Today, Sept ... (See. )....

Water-law cops accused of letting spigots run

Edit WorldNetDaily 06 Oct 2014
There were just 375 such complaints last year. Vargas said the surge is because of water conservation consciousness ... “The point is they were very clearly wasting water ... After California Gov ... “More area in the West has persistently been in drought during the past 15 years than in any other 15-year period since the 1150s and 1160s,” stressed Columbia University Professor Park Williams, according to USA Today ... More Wells. ... ....

Rain dampens California fires, but more drought in the forecast

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Sep 2014
But the relief may be short-lived. The 2014 fire season is not over ... Recommended ... “The dryness in California is only part of a longer-term, 15-year drought across most of the Western USA, one that bioclimatologist Park Williams said is notable because ‘more area in the West has persistently been in drought during the past 15 years than in any other 15-year period since the 1150s and 1160s’ – that's more than 850 years ago....

Global fund backs bid to save Lord Byron's crumbling Newstead Abbey

Edit BBC News 08 Jul 2014
The 12th Century abbey was given to the Byron family in 1540 ... Newstead Abbey, originally an Augustinian Priory, was founded in the 1160s The Byrons lived there for nearly 300 years before it was inherited by the poet George Gordon (the 6th Baron Byron) in 1798 Byron loved his ancestral home, once saying that he and the house 'would stand or fall together' He was forced to sell it for £94,500 to help pay off debts Byron ... ....

Byron international festival begins in Nottinghamshire

Edit BBC News 29 Jun 2014
Newstead Abbey was founded in the 1160s and stayed with the family for nearly 300 years before it was inherited by George Gordon in 1798 ... ....

St. Louis University archeology team is unearthing Irish history

Edit STL Today 02 Jan 2014
What college student doesn’t want to go to Europe in the summer?. Thomas J. Finan, a history professor at St. Louis University, has been taking students to Ireland for archaeological work since 2004 ... “This is a gold mine; it’s virgin territory,” he said ... In 1230, the unrest caught the attention of the English, who hadn’t seemed terribly interested in this corner of Ireland since they arrived in the 1160s, Finan said....
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