Admiral Dewey leading land parade, no. 2
SUMMARY
From Edison films catalog: Showing Central Park in back-ground. 200 feet. $30.00.
One of 20 films advertised in Edison films catalog under the category Dewey Doings. From the catalog: We equipped eight parties on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's arrival in New York Harbor, Wednesday, September 27th, 1899, and secured the following excellent moving pictures of the Admiral and his great ship, together with the stirring events of Dewey Day, September 29th, the day of the Naval Parade, and Dewey Day, September 30th, the day of the Land Parade. Ours was the only photographic apparatus on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia on this memorable occasion. The Admiral posed especially for our camera.
NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 7Oct1899; 65369.
Filmed Sept. 30, 1899, during the Dewey land parade in New York City.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 545; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; Edison films catalog, no. 94, March 1900, p. 8 [MI].
SUBJECTS
Dewey, George,--1837-1917.
Van Wyck, Robert Anderson,--1849-1918.
Miles, Nelson Appleton,--1839-1925.
Sampson, William Thomas,--1840-1902.
Schley, Winfield Scott,--1839-1911.
Naval ceremonies, honors, and salutes--New York (State)--New York.
Parades--New York (State)--New York.
Spanish-American War, 1898--Veterans.
Sailors--United States.
United States.--Navy--Officers.
United States.--Army--Officers.
New York (N.Y.)--History, Military--19th century.
Horses.
Carriages and carts--New York (State)--New York.
Actuality
War (Nonfiction)
RELATED NAMES
Dewey, George, 1837-1917.
White, James H. (James Henry), production.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
CALL NUMBER
FEC 2997 (ref print)
LC 1941 (paper pos)
DIGITAL ID
sawmp 1941
Fox Valley Technical College Winter 2018 Commencement Ceremony
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Admiral Dewey receiving the Washington and New York committees
SUMMARY
From Edison films catalog: Showing Committee of Arrangements' visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia. 100 feet. $15.00
NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 2Oct1899; 63830.
Original main title lacking.
Materials listed originate from the print chosen best copy for digitization; for other holdings on this title, contact M/B/RS reference staff.
According to Edison film historian C. Musser, committee members seen in this film include General Nelson Appleton Miles, Admiral William T. Sampson, and President McKinley's clerk Octavius [sic] L. Pruden. (Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 536-537)
One of 20 films advertised in Edison films catalog no. 94, under the category Dewey Doings. From the catalog: We equipped eight parties on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's arrival in New York Harbor, Wednesday, September 27th, 1899, and secured the following excellent moving pictures of the Admiral and his great ship, together with the stirring events of Dewey Day, September 29th, the day of the Naval Parade, and Dewey Day, September 30th, the day of the Land Parade. Ours was the only photographic apparatus on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia on this memorable occasion. The Admiral posed especially for our camera.
Edison code name (for telegraphic orders): Uncalled.
Filmed Sept. 28, 1899, on board the U.S. Olympia in New York Harbor, New York.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; Edison films catalog, no. 94, March 1900, p. 7 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 32 [MI].
SUBJECTS
Dewey, George,--1837-1917.
Olympia (Cruiser)
Miles, Nelson Appleton,--1839-1925.
Sampson, William Thomas,--1840-1902.
Pruden, Octavius Longworth,--1842-1902.
Naval ceremonies, honors, and salutes--New York (State)--New York--Planning.
Admirals--United States.
United States.--Navy--Officers.
Warships--New York (State)--New York.
Spanish-American War, 1898--Naval operations, American.
Sailors--United States.
Parades--New York (State)--New York.
Harbors--New York (State)
New York (N.Y.)--History, Naval--19th century.
Actuality--Short.
War (Nonfiction)--Short.
RELATED NAMES
Dewey, George, 1837-1917.
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925.
Sampson, William Thomas, 1840-1902.
Pruden, Octavius Longworth, 1842-1902.
White, James H. (James Henry), production.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Brook Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
CALL NUMBER
FEA 4660 (ref print)
FPA 0491 (dupe neg)
LC 1449 (paper pos)
DIGITAL ID
sawmp 1449
Leonardo da Vinci | Wikipedia audio article
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi] (listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.
Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the Universal Genius or Renaissance Man, an individual of unquenchable curiosity and feverishly inventive imagination, and he is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history, and his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote. Marco Rosci notes that while there is much speculation regarding his life and personality, his view of the world was logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unorthodox for his time.Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I of France.
Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts.
A painting by Leonardo, Salvator Mundi, sold for a world record $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York, 15 November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.
Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised flying machines, a type of armoured fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime, as the modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance. Some of his smaller inventions, however, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. A number of Leonardo's most practical inventions are nowadays displayed as working models at the Museum of Vinci. He made substantial discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, geology, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.
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Harry Houdini was an Austro-Hungarian-born American stage magician and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and then as Harry Handcuff Houdini on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from and hold his breath inside a sealed milk can with water in it. In 1904, thousands watched as he tried to escape from special handcuffs commissioned by London's Daily Mirror, keeping them in suspense for an hour. Another stunt saw him buried alive and only just able to claw himself to the surface, emerging in a state of near-breakdown. While many suspected that these escapes were faked, Houdini presented himself as the scourge of fake spiritualists. As President of the Society of American Magicians, he was keen to uphold professional standards and expose fraudulent...
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00:02:30 1 Biography
00:02:39 1.1 Early years
00:11:54 1.2 Religious conversion
00:15:37 1.3 Penn in Ireland (1669–1670)
00:16:08 1.4 Penn in Germany (1671–1677)
00:17:17 1.5 Persecutions and imprisonments
00:23:48 1.6 Founding of Pennsylvania
00:30:12 1.7 Back to England
00:32:58 1.8 Return to America
00:36:02 1.9 Later years
00:38:49 1.10 Family
00:41:04 2 Legacy
00:43:28 3 Posthumous honors
00:46:36 4 See also
00:46:49 5 Notes
00:46:58 6 Further reading
00:48:18 6.1 Primary sources
00:48:48 7 External links
00:50:03 7.1 Penn's works
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William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania. He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed.
In 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his American land holdings to Penn to pay the debts the king owed to Penn's father. This land included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware. Penn immediately set sail and took his first step on American soil in New Castle in 1682 after his trans-Atlantic journey. On this occasion, the colonists pledged allegiance to Penn as their new proprietor, and the first general assembly was held in the colony. Afterwards, Penn journeyed up the Delaware River and founded Philadelphia. However, Penn's Quaker government was not viewed favourably by the Dutch, Swedish, and English settlers in what is now Delaware. They had no historical allegiance to Pennsylvania, so they almost immediately began petitioning for their own assembly. In 1704 they achieved their goal when the three southernmost counties of Pennsylvania were permitted to split off and become the new semi-autonomous colony of Lower Delaware. As the most prominent, prosperous and influential city in the new colony, New Castle became the capital.
As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution.
As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply. He developed a forward-looking project for a United States of Europe through the creation of a European Assembly made of deputies that could discuss and adjudicate controversies peacefully. He is therefore considered the very first thinker to suggest the creation of a European Parliament.A man of extreme religious convictions, Penn wrote numerous works in which he exhorted believers to adhere to the spirit of Primitive Christianity. He was imprisoned several times in the Tower of London due to his faith, and his book No Cross, No Crown (1669), which he wrote while in prison, has become a Christian classic.
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The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States. It consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifically as the union) bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America, and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and became the first states in the U.S. Nicknames for the flag include the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, and the Star-Spangled Banner.
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The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States. It consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifically as the union) bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America, and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and became the first states in the U.S. Nicknames for the flag include the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, and the Star-Spangled Banner.
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The flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the American flag, is the national flag of the United States. It consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifically as the union) bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America, and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and became the first states in the U.S. Nicknames for the flag include the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, and the Star-Spangled Banner.
Anderson, South Carolina
Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 26,686 at the 2010 census, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 75,702. It is one of the principal cities in the Greenville-Mauldin-Anderson Metropolitan Statistical Area, contiguous with Anderson County, which had a population of 187,126 at the 2010 census. It is further included in the larger Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Combined Statistical Area, with a total population of 1,266,995, at the 2010 census. Anderson is just off Interstate 85 and is 120 miles (190 km) from Atlanta and 140 miles (230 km) from Charlotte.
Anderson is the smallest of the three primary cities that makes up the Upstate region and is nicknamed The Electric City and The Friendliest City in South Carolina. Anderson's spirit and quality of life have earned national recognition as Anderson County was named an All-America City in 2000.
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King's College London | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:33 1 History
00:03:42 1.1 Foundation
00:05:23 1.1.1 Duel in Battersea Fields, 21 March 1829
00:07:40 1.2 19th century
00:12:37 1.3 20th century
00:15:47 1.4 2001 to present
00:18:14 2 Campus
00:18:22 2.1 Strand Campus
00:20:01 2.2 Guy's Campus
00:20:52 2.3 Waterloo Campus
00:22:30 2.4 St Thomas's Campus
00:23:24 2.5 Denmark Hill Campus
00:24:35 2.6 Redevelopment programme
00:26:48 3 Organisation and administration
00:26:58 3.1 Governance
00:29:16 3.2 Faculties and departments
00:30:14 3.2.1 Faculty of Arts and Humanities
00:30:59 3.2.2 Dental Institute
00:33:24 3.2.3 Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine
00:34:13 3.2.4 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
00:35:03 3.2.5 The Dickson Poon School of Law
00:35:55 3.2.6 Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
00:37:25 3.2.7 Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
00:38:15 3.2.8 Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
00:39:40 3.2.9 King's Business School
00:40:08 3.3 Finances
00:42:14 3.4 Coat of arms
00:43:43 3.4.1 Coat of arms of the medical schools
00:45:01 3.5 Affiliations and partnerships
00:47:35 4 Academics
00:47:44 4.1 Admissions
00:49:16 4.2 Teaching
00:49:41 4.3 Graduation
00:50:29 4.4 Research
00:52:16 4.5 Medicine
00:53:57 4.6 Libraries
00:54:17 4.6.1 Maughan Library
00:55:08 4.6.2 Other libraries
00:59:31 4.7 Museums, galleries and collections
01:03:35 4.8 Rankings and reputation
01:08:39 4.9 Associateship of King's College
01:09:42 4.10 Fellowship of King's College
01:10:56 5 Student life
01:11:04 5.1 Students' union
01:13:23 5.2 Student media
01:14:45 5.3 Sports
01:16:01 5.4 Societies and organisations
01:16:28 5.5 Student-led think tank
01:17:12 5.6 Music
01:18:12 5.7 Rivalry with University College London
01:19:48 5.8 Rivalry with the London School of Economics
01:20:46 5.9 Student residences
01:20:54 5.9.1 Halls of residence
01:22:13 5.9.2 Intercollegiate halls of residence
01:23:01 6 Notable people
01:23:10 6.1 Notable alumni
01:29:32 6.2 Nobel laureates
01:29:47 6.3 Notable academics and staff
01:30:48 7 In popular culture
01:30:57 7.1 Film and television settings
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King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London. King's was established in 1829 by King George IV and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, when it received its first royal charter (as a university college), and claims to be the fourth oldest university institution in England. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998).
King's has five campuses: its historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames-side campuses (Guy's, St Thomas' and Waterloo) and one in Denmark Hill in south London. In 2017/18, King's had a total income of £841.1 million, of which £194.4 million was from research grants and contracts. It is the 12th largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment. It has the fifth largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom, and the largest of any in London. Its academic activities are organised into nine faculties, which are subdivided into numerous departments, centres, and research divisions.
King's is generally considered part of the 'golden triangle' of research-intensive English universities alongside the University of Oxford, Un ...
Miletus | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:35 1 Geography
00:03:55 1.1 Geology
00:05:07 2 History
00:05:16 2.1 Neolithic
00:06:13 2.2 Bronze Age
00:06:43 2.2.1 Minoan period
00:07:45 2.2.2 Mycenaean period
00:10:01 2.3 Dark Age
00:10:36 2.4 Archaic period
00:10:57 2.4.1 Ties with Megara
00:12:43 2.5 First Achaemenid period
00:13:34 2.6 Classical Greek period
00:14:09 2.7 Second Achaemenid period
00:14:50 2.8 Macedonian period
00:16:36 2.9 Seleucid period
00:17:19 2.10 Egyptian period
00:17:52 2.11 Roman period
00:19:22 2.12 Byzantine period
00:19:49 2.13 Turkish rule
00:20:45 2.14 Archaeological excavations
00:22:04 3 Colonies
00:23:02 4 Notable people
00:24:45 5 See also
00:25:02 6 References and sources
00:25:35 7 Further reading
00:26:01 8 External links
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Miletus (; Ancient Greek: Μίλητος, romanized: Milētos; Hittite transcription Millawanda or Milawata (exonyms); Latin: Miletus; Turkish: Milet) was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria. Its ruins are located near the modern village of Balat in Aydın Province, Turkey. Before the Persian invasion in the middle of the 6th century BC, Miletus was considered the greatest and wealthiest of Greek cities.Evidence of first settlement at the site has been made inaccessible by the rise of sea level and deposition of sediments from the Maeander. The first available evidence is of the Neolithic.
In the early and middle Bronze age the settlement came under Minoan influence. Legend has it that an influx of Cretans occurred displacing the indigenous Leleges. The site was renamed Miletus after a place in Crete.
The Late Bronze Age, 13th century BC, saw the arrival of Luwian language speakers from south central Anatolia calling themselves the Carians. Later in that century other Greeks arrived. The city at that time rebelled against the Hittite Empire. After the fall of that empire the city was destroyed in the 12th century BC and starting about 1000 BC was resettled extensively by the Ionian Greeks. Legend offers an Ionian foundation event sponsored by a founder named Neleus from the Peloponnesus.
The Greek Dark Ages were a time of Ionian settlement and consolidation in an alliance called the Ionian League. The Archaic Period of Greece began with a sudden and brilliant flash of art and philosophy on the coast of Anatolia. In the 6th century BC, Miletus was the site of origin of the Greek philosophical (and scientific) tradition, when Thales, followed by Anaximander and Anaximenes (known collectively, to modern scholars, as the Milesian School) began to speculate about the material constitution of the world, and to propose speculative naturalistic (as opposed to traditional, supernatural) explanations for various natural phenomena.
Miletus is the birthplace of the Hagia Sophia's architect (and inventor of the flying buttress) Isidore of Miletus and Thales, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (and one of the Seven Sages of Greece) in c. 624 BC.
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Miletus (; Ancient Greek: Μίλητος, translit. Milētos; Hittite transcription Millawanda or Milawata (exonyms); Latin: Miletus; Turkish: Milet) was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria. Its ruins are located near the modern village of Balat in Aydın Province, Turkey. Before the Persian invasion in the middle of the 6th century BC, Miletus was considered the greatest and wealthiest of Greek cities.Evidence of first settlement at the site has been made inaccessible by the rise of sea level and deposition of sediments from the Maeander. The first available evidence is of the Neolithic.
In the early and middle Bronze age the settlement came under Minoan influence. Legend has it that an influx of Cretans occurred displacing the indigenous Leleges. The site was renamed Miletus after a place in Crete.
The Late Bronze Age, 13th century BC, saw the arrival of Luwian language speakers from south central Anatolia calling themselves the Carians. Later in that century other Greeks arrived. The city at that time rebelled against the Hittite Empire. After the fall of that empire the city was destroyed in the 12th century BC and starting about 1000 BC was resettled extensively by the Ionian Greeks. Legend offers an Ionian foundation event sponsored by a founder named Neleus from the Peloponnesus.
The Greek Dark Ages were a time of Ionian settlement and consolidation in an alliance called the Ionian League. The Archaic Period of Greece began with a sudden and brilliant flash of art and philosophy on the coast of Anatolia. In the 6th century BC, Miletus was the site of origin of the Greek philosophical (and scientific) tradition, when Thales, followed by Anaximander and Anaximenes (known collectively, to modern scholars, as the Milesian School) began to speculate about the material constitution of the world, and to propose speculative naturalistic (as opposed to traditional, supernatural) explanations for various natural phenomena.
Miletus is the birthplace of the Hagia Sophia's architect (and inventor of the flying buttress) Isidore of Miletus and Thales, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (and one of the Seven Sages of Greece) in c. 624 BC.
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