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Sights on the South: Driving from Atlanta to Charleston, South Carolina

Edit The National 07 Jul 2016
"There is no heroism in staying small so that other people don't feel insecure. Let divine light shine." ... In many ways, Atlanta - which grew up around and was named after a railroad - feels like the centre of everything ... Savannah is America's largest preserved historic city, designed as 24 squares by James Oglethorpe, an British member of parliament, social reformer, army general and founder of the colony of Georgia in the 1730s....

Just Another Sinner, Born Again

Edit The Atlantic 29 Jun 2016
Donald Trump met with hundreds of evangelical leaders in New York last Tuesday ... Dobson later issued a statement identifying the person who reportedly converted Trump as the prosperity-gospel televangelist Paula White. The Trump campaign refused to comment on the report ... While the term “born again” comes from the Bible, the idea of new birth came to prominence during the colonial revivals of the 1730s and 1740s ... Bush ... W ... ....

Serpentine pavilion and summer houses review – Dane’s design stacks up well

Edit The Guardian 12 Jun 2016
Bjarke Ingels creates the most successful pavilion yet with his heap of fibreglass boxes, while four new ‘summer houses’ join in the fun ... Twitter. Friedman’s work is one of four scattered around Queen Caroline’s Temple (1730s, attributed to William Kent and itself a style-making pavilion of its time), the others being by the Nigerian Kunlé Adeyemi, the American-German partnership Barkow Leibinger and the Londoner Asif Khan ... Twitter ... ....

Free Screening of "French-Canadian Heritage in North Dakota" at ND Heritage Center & State Museum (State Historical Society of North Dakota)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
(Source. State Historical Society of North Dakota). June 10, 2016 ... at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in Bismarck ... Researched, written, and narrated by Benoit and arranged by video producer Tim Oneal, the documentary traces the history of French Canadians in North Dakota from the 1730s to the present ... -30-. CONTACT. Erik Holland, 701.328.2792 ... (noodl. 34048610) ....

Four of the Earliest Views of Havana to be sold at Sotheby's London on 6 July (Sotheby's Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
(Source. Sotheby's Inc) f730f9f5-712f-41d7-87cb-02fe439a6ca4.pdf. Press Release. London . +44 (0) 207 293 6000 . Mitzi Mina . mitzi.mina@sothebys.com . Marie-Béatrice Morin . marie-beatrice.morin@sothebys.com. For Immediate Release. SOTHEBY'S LONDON EVENING SALE OF OLD MASTER & BRITISH PAINTINGS ... Unseen on the market for almost 250 years, ... Est ... Est ... The central building is the monastic church of San Francisco de Asís, dating from the 1730s....

First international tour of Museum treasures announced (Natural History Museum)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. Natural History Museum). The Museum's collections have delighted visitors for hundreds of years, and inspired thousands of scientists. Now some of its extraordinary treasures will tour the world ... For some treasures, the tour will be the first time they've been seen outside their Natural History Museum home ... Alongside these will be a pressed rice plant, prepared in the 1730s, from the collection of Dutch merchant George Clifford....

HOK-Designed Transformation of St Bartholomew’s Hospital Opens in London (HOK Sport Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. HOK Sport Inc). The project has created a specialist cancer and cardiac center with 700,000 square feet of new patient accommodation, consolidating all campus services ... The restored, seven-story King George V building reflects the site's rich history and is complemented by a landscape design that restores the neighboring square, designed by James Gibbs in the 1730s, to its former glory ... HOK Sport Inc ... (noodl. 33904465) ....

Skanska successfully completes 10-year Barts NHS Health Trust construction project

Edit Pressat 31 May 2016
Tuesday 31 May, 2016 ... Within the energy centre a fuel-saving combined cooling and heating power (CCHP) gas engine called ‘Pink Power’ has also been installed ... Terry Elphick, Skanska Managing Director, said ... The restored seven-storey King George V building also reflects the site’s rich history and is complemented by the neighbouring square, designed by James Gibbs in the 1730s, which has also been restored to its former glory....

Skanska successfully completes 10-year Barts NHS Health Trust construction project (Skanska UK plc)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
(Source. Skanska UK plc) ... Within the energy centre a fuel-saving combined cooling and heating power (CCHP) gas engine called 'Pink Power' has also been installed ... Terry Elphick, Skanska Managing Director, said ... The restored seven-storey King George V building also reflects the site's rich history and is complemented by the neighbouring square, designed by James Gibbs in the 1730s, which has also been restored to its former glory ... (noodl....

Deciding on whether or not to wallpaper

Edit Palm Beach Post 28 May 2016
Wallpaper is one of those touchy subjects in interior design — either you love it or hate it. We can all recall a dated or hideous installation that has made us fear it for life ... Scary? Yes!. On the other hand, wallpaper or the technologically accurate wall coverings have adorned the walls of the most beautiful and chic rooms around the world ... By the 12th Century, wallpaper had made its way to Europe, and to the Americas by the 1730s....

The Huntington and UC Riverside Name First Two Faculty Fellows for Program to Boost Humanities (University of California, Riverside)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. University of California, Riverside). New scholars in history and English selected from more than 350 applicants. By Bettye Miller on May 23, 2016 ... By Susan Turner-Lowe. RIVERSIDE, Calif ... M. Keck Foundation Director of Research ... The book explores how people in the colonial world got news in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. Wang is working on a book titled 'Romantic Disease Discourse....

Flirting With Humanity

Edit The New Republic 12 May 2016
There have been machines that move themselves for millennia. In the first century C.E., the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria designed dolls that could be used to act out miniature theatrical scenes. The original treatises he wrote about these automata were lost to history ... In the late 1730s, an inventor named Jacques de Vaucanson presented three automata at the Académie des Sciences in Paris ... ....

Broken Tulips at the Pier: The Archaeology of Whitehall Slip (Museum of City of New York Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 10 May 2016
(Source. Museum of City of New York Inc). Fragments of a bowl with brightly painted tulips and flowers from Whitehall Slip. The Archaeology Project Team at the Museum of the City of New York recently finished digitizing the artifacts from Whitehall Slip in partnership with the Landmarks Preservation Commission ... Built in the early 1730s, Whitehall Slip was one of the biggest and busiest of Manhattan's historical slips ... (noodl. 33488145) ....
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