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Stubbs and the Wild review – a radical world vision seen through animal eyes

Edit The Guardian 23 Jun 2016
5 / 5 stars. Terrified horses, playful leopards, anxious lemurs … the 18th-century painter’s acute observation and compassion are vividly present in this impactful show ... As Horace Walpole, author of the Gothic horror story The Castle of Otranto, observed when Horse Frightened by a Lion was first exhibited in the 1760s, this poor, suffering animal expresses more with a fetlock than a poet with verse ... A lioness glares warningly ... Twitter ... ....

​Nellie’s Southern Kitchen to make Belmont debut (PHOTOS)

Edit Business Journal 10 Jun 2016
The wait for Nellie’s Southern Kitchen is almost over. The Belmont restaurant owned by Kevin Jonas Sr. — father to the Jonas Brothers pop trio — will open for lunch service on Monday. The restaurant is at 36 N. Main St. in the Gaston County town. That’s about a 20-minute drive from uptown Charlotte ... It also represents the family’s roots in North Carolina, which date to the 1760s. “We have taken great… ... ....

Exhibition on 'insanity epidemic' (University of Leicester)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Leicester). University of Leicester historian curates multimedia event looking at impact of epidemic in Italy. Issued by University of Leicester Press Office on 1 June 2016 ... From the 1760s, pellagra was understood to be related to a maize subsistence diet, but the exact link between polenta and pellagra remained the source of much dispute, until this aetiological puzzle was finally resolved in the 1930s ... ENDS....

“Liberty To Go To See” Dramatic Event Returns June 16 – 18 (Cliveden Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
(Source. Cliveden Inc). The 2016 presentations of the award-winning interactive dramatic event,'Liberty to Go to See,' will be held Thu., June 16 at 7.00pm; Fri., June 17 at 7.00pm; and Sat., June 18 at Noon and 3.00pm. Audiences are limited to 20 people. Admission is $12/person ... Teenagers researched the thousands of documents in the Chew Family Papers to life the people who lived and worked at Cliveden from the 1760s through the 1860s....

The decline of faith

Edit The Malta Independent 29 May 2016
A recent poll in a local newspaper confirmed the decline in church attendance in Malta, and revealed the cafeteria-style faith of contemporary Catholics ... From England, Deism spread to France through the writings of Voltaire. The historian Henri Martin described the people of France in the 1760s as “a generation which had no belief in Christianity” ... A.N ...  . John Guillaumier. St Julian’s ....

Samantha Morton stars in brothel-based Georgian drama Harlots

Edit Belfast Telegraph 26 May 2016
Samantha Morton, Lesley Manville and Jessica Brown Findlay will star in a new brothel-based period drama titled Harlots. The drama will focus on Georgian London's most valuable commercial activity - sex - and is set to reveal the hidden history of the city's brothels. Share Go To ... "In 1760s London there were brothels on every corner run by women who were both enterprising and tenacious ... ....

'Downton Abbey,' 'Fantastic Beasts' stars cast in new Hulu, ITV brothel drama

Edit Mashable 26 May 2016
LOS ANGELES — Hulu is partnering up with UK's ITV Encore to bring brothel drama Harlots to viewers ... SEE ALSO ... “Written and produced by an award-winning creative team with an all-star cast, Harlots offers a unique perspective of life on the streets of 1760s London with fast-moving and action-packed storylines and strong lead characters," Maria Kyriacou, president of international for ITV Studios, said in a statement ... ....

First Fleet piano's new home in WA (Edith Cowan University)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
(Source. Edith Cowan University). Australia's first piano, which arrived on board the Sirius as part of the First Fleet in 1788, has found a new home at ECU's Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) ... a musician's view. 'This is an extraordinary gift to WAAPA and one that we are very excited about,' Professor Lancaster said ... The First Fleet piano is an English square piano, an instrument invented in the 1760s ... (noodl....

‘Roots’ star’s DNA revelation

Edit New York Post 26 May 2016
British-born actor Malachi Kirby is largely unknown in the US. That’s about to change. Kirby, 26, stars as Kunta Kinte in “Roots,” a four-part reboot of the landmark ABC miniseries premiering Monday night on History. Like its predecessor, “Roots” is based on Alex Haley’s sprawling novel chronicling his ancestor Kunta Kinte’s journey from West African warrior to being sold into slavery in 1760s Virginia ... Tell me about your DNA test ... No ... ....

Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege & the Cajun Country Revival

Edit Skiddle 24 May 2016
In true TalkingGigs style the band will explore and demonstrate the roots and history of Cajun music and culture with long-term afficionado and expert in Cajun culture Graham Breakwell - from the 1760s when up to 70 French families from the Pitou region set off across the Atlantic in search of a better life, washing up in Nova Scotia before being ......

Rare Music Collection on display at University (University of Sydney)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. University of Sydney) ... First and early editions of works by G. F. Handel dating from the 1720s to 1760s are on display, as well as a first edition vocal score of Mozart's Clemenza di Tito (c ... 1800-1806) ... Public permalinkhttp.//www.publicnow.com/view/B8BBF8AADCF0AC739000EC28F820A58650C0A695. (noodl....

The Awful Diseases on the Way

Edit The New York Review of Books 22 May 2016
Hosam Katan/Reuters. A health worker marking a child who has been given a polio vaccination, Aleppo, Syria, May 2014. Pandemics—the uncontrolled spread of highly contagious diseases across countries and continents—are a modern phenomenon ... major smallpox ... minor. Rahima and Ali survived ... A ... For centuries, cholera lived undisturbed in tiny crustaceans in the Bay of Bengal, until the arrival of the East India Company in the 1760s ... H....

WATCH: Radar probes for Burnside Plantation link to Revolutionary War

Edit Lehigh Valley 21 May 2016
George Washington stored here. That's the claim the stewards of Burnside Plantation in Bethlehem are hoping they can make ... "We've been looking to see if we can establish where the brick kiln was."  ... (Kurt Bresswein ... But recent studies by 90-year-old local historian Ralph Schwarz suggest Washington may have used a newer kiln, built in the 1760s on the Burnside property to be closer to a good source of clay ... MORE ... ....
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