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Here are N.J.'s 10 most endangered historic sites for 2016
Edit NJ dot com 12 May 2016
Preservation New Jersey released its annual list Thursday ... Preservation New Jersey released its annual list Thursday in hopes of encouraging people to try to save the sites ... Each year, 10 sites are chosen based on three criteria ... -PNJ ... Dr ... Built in stages between the 1720s and 1764, the Hugg-Harrison-Glover House is notable for the 1764 date visible in its patterned brickwork and for its association with the War of Independence....
Explore Bristol’s hidden horticultural gems (University of Bristol)
Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Bristol). A rare glimpse into the city's horticultural history and beautiful biodiversity is being offered through a series of guided tours and events, launched today ... Among the gardens featured are Goldney Garden in Clifton, Royal Fort Garden and the landscape as part of the Stoke Bishop campus ... Sunday, 24 April ... He later bought the property in 1705 before rebuilding the house and adding to the garden in the 1720s....
From Grimsby to Kristin Scott Thomas, bad-taste Britain has had a splendid week
Edit The Independent 26 Feb 2016
In 1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart scored his first big hit as a writer of comic opera. In fact, with its spoken dialogue punctuated by formal numbers, Die Entführung aus dem Serail is more of what we would call a musical ... Blonde is English ... “Girls are not goods that can be given away as presents,” she insists ... Voltaire, who had lived in England in the 1720s and championed its religious tolerance, first had kind words for the Bard....
Bonaparte and Josephine tie the knot at n°3 rue d’Antin (BNP Paribas SA)
Edit Public Technologies 17 Feb 2016
(Source. BNP Paribas SA). Official hashtag.. The BNP Paribas headquarters at 3 rue d'Antin in Paris was the scene of a historic event, the civil wedding of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais. This came about because the mansion, which was built in the 1720s and originally known as the Hôtel de Mondragon, was confiscated and declared national property during the French Revolution ... Original Document ... (noodl. 32158270) ....
18th Century Mi'kmaw-French Alliance (Embassy of Canada in France)
Edit Public Technologies 15 Feb 2016
(Source. Embassy of Canada in France) ... the British ... Beginning in the 1720s, the annual renewal ceremonies took place at Port-la-Joye on Île Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island) and Port Toulouse on Île-Royale (now Cape Breton Island), and included the distribution of weapons to the Mi'kmaq and an agreement to fight the British together ... Both partners required the help of the other ... - 30 -. Title of the Image. Mi'kmaq Chief c ... (noodl....
18th Century Mi'kmaw-French Alliance (Parks Canada)
Edit Public Technologies 15 Feb 2016
(Source. Parks Canada) ... Within this increasingly hostile environment, the Mi'kmaq and French joined forces against their mutual adversary. the British ... Beginning in the 1720s, the annual renewal ceremonies took place at Port-la-Joye on Île Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island) and Port Toulouse on Île-Royale (now Cape Breton Island), and included the distribution of weapons to the Mi'kmaq and an agreement to fight the British together....
usitalo (Northern State University)
Edit Public Technologies 10 Feb 2016
(Source. Northern State University) ABERDEEN, S.D. - Northern State University's Dr. Steven Usitalo has published a chapter in a book titled 'A Century Mad and Wise. Russia in the Age of Enlightenment.'. The book was issued in 2015 by Groningen University Press, a major university press in the Netherlands ... Known as the Kunstkamera, it was established in the 1720s, and remains active ... Usitalo is working on two monographs....
Clandon Park House to be partly restored after fire
Edit BBC News 18 Jan 2016
Parts of Clandon Park House, which was reduced to a shell by a fire in April, are to be restored to their "original glory", the National Trust (NT) says. The most important ground floor rooms in the stately home are to be restored, while the upper floors are to be used for exhibitions and events ... The 8th Earl of Onslow, whose family rebuilt the house in the 1720s, has said it should remain a ruin ... A spokesman said ... Source. National Trust....
The World's Oldest Secret Society Let A Photographer Behind Its Closed Doors
Edit Huffington Post 13 Jan 2016
Freemasons are members of a fraternal organization originally founded in America by stonemasons in the 1720s. Today, there remain around six million Freemasons around the world -- an estimated 350,000 in the United States -- organized around regional independent lodges. These spaces are caught between past and present, housing an archaic and mysterious tradition outside of public view ... "Initially it took some time to gain access ... ....
The Captivating Imagery Of America's Oldest Secret Societies
Edit Huffington Post 11 Jan 2016
"The Templars and the Freemasons believed that the treasure was too great for any one man to have, not even a king," FBI special agent Sadusky proclaims in the film "National Treasure." "That's why they went to such lengths to keep it hidden." ... Hollander curated the show along with Aimee E ... The oldest and most well-known fraternal society in American history is the Freemasons, which has been in existence since the 1720s ... ....
Patriotic Assimilation Is an Indispensable Condition in a Land of Immigrants (The Heritage Foundation)
Edit Public Technologies 08 Jan 2016
(Source. The Heritage Foundation). January 8, 2016 . Special Report on Immigration ... In one of the first partisan divisions in the colonies, they sided in the 1720s with the Quaker party, with whom they shared social tenets, against the Gentleman's party, 'composed principally of Anglican merchants, seamen and Scots-Irish immigrants'[5] -giving the Quakers prohibitive electoral majorities in the Provincial Assembly until the 1750s ... K....
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