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Head to a (free) festival

Edit Newsday 29 May 2016
(Credit. Alessandro Vecchi). Save your money to spend on food, rides and other fun at these big free summer festivals that don't charge admission or parking fees ... Glen Cove's venerable Feast of St ... (Credit. Richard Heiles). Long Beach has sun, surf and serious beach volleyball ... 24 ... (Credit. Newsday/J ... Grant) ... The 243-acre farm, now a public charity, dates back to the 1650s, when the island's first European settlers arrived -- with their slaves....

‘Light Beating’ Of Wives Recommended For Offenses Like ‘Speaking To Strangers’

Edit Inquisitr 27 May 2016
Feminism in the Middle East has progressed more slowly than many other regions in the world, and a new recommendation in Pakistan by the country’s Islamic Council illustrates just how strongly these gender roles still shape women’s lives there ... Prior to that, however, the Massachusetts Bay colonist also denied the right of husbands to inflict “bodilie correction or stripes” as early as the 1650s....

Public lecture: Francesco Noletti e i Pittori di Tappeti a Roma nel Seicento

Edit The Malta Independent 23 May 2016
Gianluca Bocchi entitled Francesco Noletti e i Pittori di Tappeti a Roma nel Seicento ... His work encapsulates the spirit of the "baroque still-life", primarily through a typology of "carpet paintings" that he popularised in Rome during the 1640s and early 1650s ... https.//www.facebook.com/events/1617222681930263/. ....

‘Aurangzeb is a severely misunderstood figure’

Edit The Hindu 19 May 2016
In an email interview, Audrey Truschke, Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University, shares with Anuradha Raman the experiences of writing her book, Culture of Encounters ... The present Bharatiya Janata Party government believes Mughals are not part of India’s history ... Dara Shikoh had been engaged in a series of cross-cultural exchanges involving Sanskrit during the 1640s and 1650s ... No....

13 haunted N.J. spots to visit on Friday the 13th

Edit NJ dot com 13 May 2016
Use this list of 13 haunted locations in New Jersey to plan your own spooky Friday the 13th ghost tour. Watch video. Some say if you cut your hair on Friday the 13th, someone in your family will die. Wow. Harsh. Others claim that if a funeral procession passes you on Friday the 13th, the death will be yours ... 3 ... The Seabrook-Wilson Homestead, aka The Spy House, was built on the shore of Sandy Hook Bay in the 1650s ... daily ... 4 ... Hangar No ... 5 ... ....

Sounds and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer review – the forgotten women of classical music

Edit The Guardian 26 Apr 2016
Both Mendelssohns were composers, yet it is Felix not Fanny who is remembered. Why have so many female artists remained unheard? ... In two volumes, it contained around 5,000 entries ... This is not a story of direct progress ... Beer writes too of Barbara Strozzi, who came of age as a composer in the 1650s in Venice, and produced alluringly beautiful and clever songs that subtly undermined their sexist lyrics ... Twitter ... ....

Five historic hotels you have to visit in Ireland

Edit Huffington Post 11 Apr 2016
The Emerald Isle is known for its beautiful scenery and as a place where myths and legends date back to the dawn of time, but Ireland's history is also written in its hotels which are a very special part of the travel experience ... Viewmount House, Longford ... bliss. Enniscoe House, Castlehill. Its history dates back to the 1650s when Francis Jackson, an officer in Cromwell's army received a grant of land in North Mayo ... Cyril Lord ... ....

The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change

Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
Coffee shops take flak for being markers of gentrification. But they might not be so different now from the social and intellectual hubs of 350 years ago. Cities is supported by. Rockefeller Foundation ... “There are a lot of coffee shops opening up around there” has become a precursor for ... meaningful interaction ... Even going back to 1650s they were a sign of a rising tide of economic prosperity, because that’s when there was a trade boom.” ... ....

copy hereScotland’s ‘oldest’ windmill to be restored

Edit Scotsman 31 Mar 2016
The Dysart Windmill, in Kirkcaldy, which dates back to the 1650s, and is believed to be probably the oldest structure of its kind north of the Border, could be fitted with an internal spiral staircase, and a glass-covered viewing platform ... The “vaulted tower” windmill was built in the 1650s, predating a similar structure at St Monans by more than a ......

Archbishop Joseph Mercieca: Personal Recollections

Edit The Malta Independent 25 Mar 2016
Catholic believers would not consider it a coincidence that their Bishop Emeritus went to meet the risen Lord during Holy Week. His life was an up-hill struggle. Before referring to a few unknown anecdotes about his public life, I wish to share some of my personal recollections ... Mgr ... Most probably, the late bishop also originated from this clan, as the name Joseph was common within this family from at least as far back as the 1650s ... Mgr....

Black Lives Matter and the 'Irish slave' myth

Edit Al Jazeera 17 Mar 2016
This year, as acting Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny meets Barack Obama at the annual St Patrick's Day dinner, talk of slavery will be far from the agenda ... It has been shared nearly one million times ... "Historically, the majority of Irish prisoners of war, vagrants and other victims of kidnapping and deception - thought to have numbered around 10,000 people - were forcibly sent to the West Indies in the 1650s ... Source. Al Jazeera. Related ... ....

Surviving the 17th century: the widowed and the fatherless (The National Archives)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Mar 2016
(Source. The National Archives). Widowed and Fatherless, Illustrated London News (catalogue reference. ZPER 34/93 p351). March is Women's History Month, which aims to highlight the lives and achievements of women throughout history ... The same was true of the English Civil Wars and the Anglo-Dutch wars ... In the 1650s they also allowed a one-off grant of up to ten pounds for the widows of those who had died at sea in the Anglo-Dutch wars ... 9r)....

Dark Cloud of Unknowing Engulfs the New Met Breuer

Edit Huffington Post 03 Mar 2016
All photos by Lee Rosenbaum. What a disappointment!. The debut installation at the Met Breuer, unveiled to the press on Tuesday (and to the general public on Mar. 18), fell short of the expectations raised by the Metropolitan Museum itself ... Instead, what could have been an exhilarating exploration turned out to be a dispiriting letdown ... Unfinished ... Rembrandt, "Hendrickje Stoffels," mid-1650s, Metropolitan Museum ... The Met Breuer's lobby ... ....
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