Old English Colour Engravings
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Old English Colour Engravings
Bartolozzi and other Engravers in XVIII century England :
F. Bartolozzi, J. Jones, C. Wilkin, G. Keating, L. Schiavonetti, C. Knight, J. Ogborne, P.W. Tomkins, S.W. Reynolds, B. Duterreau, W. Ward, F.D. Soiron, T. Gaugain, J.R. Smith, J.S. Agar, W.W. Ryland, T. Burke, T. Cheesman, G. Vendramini, T. Watson, W. Nutter, C. Turner, M. Bovi.
- Francis Bartolozzi - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1784
- Agostino Carlini, Francesco Bartolozzi, Giovanni Battista Cipriani by John Francis Rigaud
- Ceres - Francis Bartolozzi
- Market of Love - Francis Bartolozzi
- Jane, Countess of Harrington, Lord Viscount Petersham and the Hon. Lincoln Stanhope - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1789
- Simplicity - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1788
- Robinetta - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1787
- Lord Burghersh - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1788
- Master Henry Hoare - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1789
- Hon. Mr. Leicester Stanhope - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1789
- The Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Georgiana Cavendish - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1787
- The Mask - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1790
- The Girl and Kitten - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1790
- Bacchante (Lady Hamilton) - George Romney 1797
- Mrs. Jordan in the character of 'The Country Girl' (The Romp) - George Romney 1788
- Hobbinol and Ganderetta - Thos. Gainsborough 1790
- Countess of Oxford - J. Hoppner 1799
- Viscountess Andover - J. Hoppner 1797
- The Squire's Door - George Morland 1790
- The Farmer's Door - George Morland 1790
- A Visit to the Boarding School - George Morland 1789
- St. Jame's Park - George Morland 1790
- A Tea Garden - George Morland 1790
- The Lass of Livingstone - George Morland 1785
- Rustic Employment - George Morland 1788
- The Soliloquy - William Ward 1787
- Harriet, Lady Cockerell as a Gipsy Woman - Richard Cosway 1810
- Lady Duncannon - John Downman 1797
- A Saint James's Beauty - John Hodges Benwell 1783
- Cupid bound by Nymps - Angelica Kauffman 1777
- Rinaldo and Armida - Angelica Kauffman 1795
- Angelica Kauffman in the character of Design listening to the Inspiration of Poetry - Angelica Kauffman 1787
- Love and Beauty (Marchioness of Townshend) - Angelica Kauffman 1792
- Two Bunches a Penny, Primroses (Cries of London) - F. Wheatley 1793
- The Fair - F. Wheatley 1793
- Knives, Scissors and Razors to Grind (Cries of London) - F. Wheatley 1795
- Spring - F. Wheatley 1794
- Summer - F. Wheatley 1794
- Autumn - F. Wheatley 1794
- Winter - F. Wheatley 1794
- Mrs. Crewe - Daniel Gardner 1780
- The Dance - H. W. Bunbury 1782
- The Mouse's Petition - H. W. Bunbury 1786
- Morning Employments - H. W. Bunbury 1789
- The Farm-Yard - Henry Singleton 1790
- The Vicar of the Parish receiving his Tithes - Henry Singleton 1793
- The English Dressing Room - Chas. Ansell 1789
- The French Dressing Room - Chas. Ansell 1789
- January - Wm. Hamilton 1788
- Virtuous Love (from Thomson's Seasons) - Wm. Hamilton 1793
- The Chanters - Rev. Matthew W. Peters 1787
- Mdlle. Parisot - J. J. Masquerier 1799
- Maria - J. Russell 1791
- Commerce - J. B. Cipriani and F. Bartolozzi 1795
- The Love Letter -- Probably by Thos. Cheesman
- The Four Seasons: April - Possibly G. Zocchi (Francesco Bartolozzi RA)
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The US-Canada Border Splits This Road Down The Middle
Rue Canusa (or Canusa Avenue) is a street that's split in two by a border: the northern part is in Stanstead, Canada, and the southern part is in Derby Line, USA — and border crossings here aren't as easy as they used to be.
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Documentary - ES CASTELL un pueblo con 500 años de historia - Carlo Cestra
Es castell, a small town in Menorca. Located at the entrance of the port of Mahon, because of its geographical position is the first city in Spain watching the sun rise. Es Castell owes its name to the castle of S.Felipe, near which arose the first settlement. The castle is of vital importance to Menorca as within its walls was forged much of the history of the island. This castle, one of the first fortification with defensive bastions built in Spain, was built to defend the island from attacks by Turkish pirates which became more intense during the sixteenth century.
Es Castell es una pequeño pueblo de Menorca. Situado en la boca del puerto de Mahón, debido a su posición geográfica, es el primer pueblo de España que ve salir el sol.
Es Castell debe su nombre al castillo de S.Felipe, cerca del cual surgiò el primer asentamiento. El castillo es de particular importancia para Menorca. Dentro de sus muros se forjó efectivamente gran parte de la historia de la isla. Este castillo, una de las primeras fortificaciones baluardatas realizadas en España, fue construida para defenderse de los ataques de los piratas turcos durante el siglo XVI.
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John C. Breckinridge | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:50 1 Early life
00:06:39 2 Early legal career
00:09:04 3 Mexican–American War
00:11:47 4 Political career
00:11:56 4.1 Early political career
00:13:19 4.2 Kentucky House of Representatives
00:17:00 4.3 U.S. Representative
00:17:05 4.3.1 First term (1851–1853)
00:21:03 4.3.2 Second term (1853–1855)
00:24:34 4.3.3 Retirement from the House
00:26:24 4.4 Vice Presidency
00:32:55 4.5 Presidential campaign of 1860
00:39:24 4.6 U.S. Senator
00:44:15 5 Civil War
00:44:24 5.1 Service in the Western Theater
00:52:41 5.2 Service in the Eastern Theater
00:58:10 5.3 Confederate Secretary of War
01:02:31 6 Escape and exile
01:07:53 7 Return to the U.S. and death
01:12:13 8 Legacy
01:12:22 8.1 Historical reputation
01:13:18 8.2 Monuments and memorials
01:15:05 9 See also
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John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. He represented Kentucky in both houses of Congress and became the 14th and youngest-ever Vice President of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He was a member of the Democratic party. He served in the U.S. Senate during the outbreak of the American Civil War, but was expelled after joining the Confederate Army. He was appointed Confederate Secretary of War in 1865.
Breckinridge was born near Lexington, Kentucky to a prominent local family. After non-combat service during the Mexican–American War, he was elected as a Democrat to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1849, where he took a states' rights position against interference with slavery. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1850, he allied with Stephen A. Douglas in support of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. After reapportionment in 1854 made his re-election unlikely, he declined to run for another term. He was nominated for vice-president at the 1856 Democratic National Convention to balance a ticket headed by James Buchanan. The Democrats won the election, but Breckinridge had little influence with Buchanan and, as presiding officer of the Senate, could not express his opinions in debates. In 1859, he was elected to succeed Senator John J. Crittenden at the end of Crittenden's term in 1861. As vice president, Breckinridge joined Buchanan in supporting the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution for Kansas, which led to a split in the Democratic Party.
After Southern Democrats walked out of the 1860 Democratic National Convention, the party's northern and southern factions held rival conventions in Baltimore that nominated Douglas and Breckinridge, respectively, for president. A third party, the Constitutional Union Party, nominated John Bell. These three men split the Southern vote, while more anti-slavery Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all but three electoral votes in the North, allowing him to win the election. Breckinridge carried most of the Southern states. Taking his seat in the Senate, Breckinridge urged compromise to preserve the Union. Unionists were in control of the state legislature, and gained more support when Confederate forces moved into Kentucky.
Breckinridge fled behind Confederate lines. He was commissioned a brigadier general and then expelled from the Senate. Following the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, he was promoted to major general, and in October he was assigned to the Army of Mississippi under Braxton Bragg. After Bragg charged that Breckinridge's drunkenness had contributed to defeats at Stone River and Missionary Ridge, and after Breckinridge joined many other high-ranking officers in criticizing Bragg, he was transferred to the Trans-Allegheny Department, where he won his most significant victory in the 1864 Battle of New Market. After participating in Jubal Early's campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley, Breckinridge was charged with defending supplies in Tennessee and Virginia. In February 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him Secretary of War. Concludi ...
Cornwall
Cornwall is a ceremonial county and unitary authority of England, within the United Kingdom. Cornwall is a peninsula bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of 536,000 and covers an area of 3,563 km2 . The administrative centre, and only city in Cornwall, is Truro, although the town of St Austell has the largest population.
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Samuel Johnson | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican and a generous philanthropist. Politically, he was a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history. He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature.Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, Johnson attended Pembroke College, Oxford, for just over a year, but a lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher, he moved to London, where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography Life of Mr Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, and the play Irene.
After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755. It had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been acclaimed as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship. This work brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later, Johnson's was the pre-eminent British dictionary. His later works included essays, an influential annotated edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, and the widely read tale The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763, he befriended James Boswell, with whom he later travelled to Scotland; Johnson described their travels in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Towards the end of his life, he produced the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, a collection of biographies and evaluations of 17th- and 18th-century poets.
Johnson was a tall and robust man. His odd gestures and tics were disconcerting to some on first meeting him. Boswell's Life, along with other biographies, documented Johnson's behaviour and mannerisms in such detail that they have informed the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome, a condition not defined or diagnosed in the 18th century. After a series of illnesses, he died on the evening of 13 December 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In the years following his death, Johnson began to be recognised as having had a lasting effect on literary criticism, and he was claimed by some to be the only truly great critic of English literature.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | Audiobook with Subtitles
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.
The book contains an interesting discussion of slavery in West Africa and illustrates how the experience differs from the dehumanising slavery of the Americas. The Intereresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is also one of the first widely read slave narratives. It was generally reviewed favorably. (Wikipedia)
This work was produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah EQUIANO
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1:45:00 | Chapter 4
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3:07:58 | Chapter 6
3:50:58 | Chapter 7
4:27:23 | Chapter 8
5:03:36 | Chapter 9
5:47:46 | Chapter 10
6:29:58 | Chapter 11
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Timeline of women in science | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:46 1 Ancient history
00:02:15 2 Middle Ages
00:04:05 3 16th century
00:05:21 4 17th century
00:08:32 5 18th century
00:15:16 6 Early 19th century
00:20:49 7 Late 19th century
00:30:49 8 Early 20th century
00:30:59 8.1 1900s
00:36:28 8.2 1910s
00:41:27 8.3 1920s
00:44:41 8.4 1930s
00:48:44 8.5 1940s
00:52:58 9 Late 20th century
00:53:09 9.1 1950s
00:58:32 9.2 1960s
01:03:35 9.3 1970s
01:07:35 9.4 1980s
01:10:29 9.5 1990s
01:13:56 10 21st century
01:24:14 11 See also
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This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics, computer science), as well as notable science educators and medical scientists. The chronological events listed in the timeline relate to both scientific achievements and gender equality within the sciences.
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Cornwall | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:37 1 spanName and emblems
00:05:31 2 History
00:05:40 2.1 Prehistory, Roman and post-Roman periods
00:09:25 2.2 Conflict with Wessex
00:11:56 2.3 Breton–Norman period
00:13:31 2.4 Later medieval administration and society
00:14:19 2.4.1 Stannary parliaments
00:15:16 2.4.2 Piracy and smuggling
00:15:44 2.5 Heraldry
00:16:35 3 Physical geography
00:17:15 3.1 Coastal areas
00:19:04 3.2 Inland areas
00:21:05 3.3 Lizard Peninsula
00:21:55 3.4 Hills and high points
00:22:04 4 Settlements and transport
00:25:03 5 Ecology
00:25:13 5.1 Flora and fauna
00:26:05 5.2 Climate
00:28:15 6 Culture
00:28:24 6.1 Languages
00:28:32 6.1.1 Cornish language
00:30:39 6.1.2 English dialect
00:31:18 6.2 Flag
00:32:03 6.3 Arts
00:33:33 6.4 Music
00:35:19 6.5 Literature
00:35:34 6.5.1 Fiction
00:37:50 6.5.2 Poetry
00:39:20 6.5.3 Other literary works
00:41:48 6.6 Sports
00:42:48 6.6.1 Rugby
00:44:21 6.6.2 Surfing and watersports
00:45:22 6.6.3 Fencing
00:45:54 6.7 Cuisine
00:48:50 7 Politics and administration
00:49:01 7.1 Cornish national identity
00:51:16 7.2 Local politics
00:53:32 7.3 Parliament and national politics
00:54:49 7.4 Devolution movement
00:56:14 8 Emergency services
00:56:29 9 Economy
00:59:29 9.1 Tourism
01:01:28 9.2 Fishing
01:01:52 9.3 Agriculture
01:02:16 9.4 Mining
01:03:14 9.5 Internet
01:03:54 9.6 Aerospace
01:04:28 10 Demographics
01:05:56 10.1 Education system
01:07:16 11 See also
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Cornwall (; Cornish: Kernow [ˈkɛrnɔʊ]) is a county in South West England, bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by Devon, the River Tamar forming the border between them. Cornwall is the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula of the island of Great Britain. The southwesternmost point is Land's End and the southernmost Lizard Point. Cornwall has a population of 563,600 and an area of 3,563 km2 (1,376 sq mi). It is administered by Cornwall Council, apart from the Isles of Scilly, which are administered separately. The county town is Truro, Cornwall's only city.
Cornwall is the homeland of the Cornish people and the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cornish diaspora. It retains a distinct cultural identity that reflects its history, and is recognised as one of the Celtic nations. It was formerly a Brythonic kingdom and subsequently a royal duchy. The Cornish nationalist movement contests the present constitutional status of Cornwall and seeks greater autonomy within the United Kingdom in the form of a devolved legislative Cornish Assembly with powers similar to those in Wales and Scotland. In 2014, Cornish people were granted minority status under the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, giving them recognition as a distinct ethnic group.First inhabited in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods, Cornwall continued to be occupied by Neolithic and then Bronze Age peoples, and later (in the Iron Age) by Brythons with strong ethnic, linguistic, trade and cultural links to Wales and Brittany the latter of which was settled by Britons from the region. Mining in Cornwall and Devon in the south-west of England began in the early Bronze Age.
Few Roman remains have been found in Cornwall, and there is little evidence that the Romans settled or had much military presence there. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Cornwall (along with Devon, parts of Dorset and Somerset, and the Scilly Isles) was a part of the Brittonic kingdom of Dumnonia, ruled by chieftains of the Cornovii who may have included figures regarded as semi-historical or legendary, such as King Mark of Cornwall and King Arthur, evidenced by folklore traditions derived from the Historia Regum Britanniae. The Cornovii division of the ...
John Witherspoon
John Knox Witherspoon (February 5, 1723 – November 15, 1794) was a Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. As president of the College of New Jersey (1768–94; now Princeton University), he trained many leaders of the early nation and was an active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration.
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Edward VI of England | Wikipedia audio article
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Edward VI of England
00:02:06 1 Early life
00:02:15 1.1 Birth
00:03:35 1.2 Upbringing and education
00:08:27 1.3 The Rough Wooing
00:09:39 2 Accession
00:11:59 3 Somerset Protectorate
00:12:09 3.1 Council of Regency
00:16:03 3.2 Thomas Seymour
00:18:01 3.3 War
00:19:08 3.4 Rebellion
00:21:23 3.5 Fall of Somerset
00:23:35 4 Northumberland's leadership
00:28:25 5 Reformation
00:33:46 6 Succession crisis
00:33:56 6.1 Devise for the succession
00:40:24 6.2 Illness and death
00:44:12 6.3 Queen Jane and Queen Mary
00:46:56 7 Protestant legacy
00:49:39 8 Family tree
00:49:48 9 See also
00:50:00 10 Notes
00:50:09 11 Bibliography
00:50:18 12 Further reading
00:50:27 12.1 Historiography
00:50:47 13 External links
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Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because he never reached his majority. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick (1550–1553), from 1551 Duke of Northumberland.
Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that in 1549 erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland and Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church of England into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious matters. Although his father, Henry VIII, had severed the link between the Church and Rome, Henry VIII had never permitted the renunciation of Catholic doctrine or ceremony. It was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was established for the first time in England with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the Mass, and the imposition of compulsory services in English.
In February 1553, at age 15, Edward fell ill. When his sickness was discovered to be terminal, he and his Council drew up a Devise for the Succession, to prevent the country's return to Catholicism. Edward named his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey, as his heir, excluding his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. This decision was disputed following Edward's death, and Jane was deposed by Mary nine days after becoming queen. During her reign, Mary reversed Edward's Protestant reforms, which nonetheless became the basis of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559.