Sentences with phrase «american pioneer days»

They are known as buckwheat blinis in Russia, galettes in France, ployes in Acadia, boûketes in Wallonia and similar pancakes were a common food in American pioneer days.

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But free will is an essential ingredient of the quintessential American hero archetype - the explorer, the pioneer - the lone individual who rises to the challenge and saves the day through skill, grit, and initiative - Cooper.

In the American West of pioneer days, mothers made all their children's diapers from available materials.

Ms. Duong noted that «The Cannon is named for Annie Jump Cannon, a pioneering American astronomer who classified the spectra of around 340,000 stars by eye over several decades a century ago — our code analyses that many stars in far greater detail in less than a day.»

She is, she says, continuing work pioneered by other African - American physical anthropologists such as William Montague Cobb and Caroline Bond Day.

A quick review of grain recipes from around the world will prove our point: In India, rice and lentils are fermented for at least two days before they are prepared as idli and dosas; in Africa the natives soak coarsely ground corn overnight before adding it to soups and stews and they ferment corn or millet for several days to produce a sour porridge called ogi; a similar dish made from oats was traditional among the Welsh; in some Oriental and Latin American countries rice receives a long fermentation before it is prepared; Ethiopians make their distinctive injera bread by fermenting a grain called teff for several days; Mexican corn cakes, called pozol, are fermented for several days and for as long as two weeks in banana leaves; before the introduction of commercial brewers yeast, Europeans made slow - rise breads from fermented starters; in America the pioneers were famous for their sourdough breads, pancakes and biscuits; and throughout Europe grains were soaked overnight, and for as long as several days, in water or soured milk before they were cooked and served as porridge or gruel.

Perhaps fittingly, the Anglo - Irish Day - Lewis has come to represent the schizoid heart of American history: as pioneer Hawkeye in The Last Of The Mohicans; wicked, flag - draped hood Butcher Bill in Gangs Of New York; soulless tycoon Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood; and now tin - voiced emancipator Lincoln.

It's a biopic about modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller that follows her from her days as a teenager living with her French father in the American Midwest to her journey to France, where her unusual dance style, utilizing silks and colored lights to help create arresting visual displays, made her the toast of the town during the days of La Belle Epoque and the mentor and eventual rival of Isadora Duncan (Depp).

That's apparently important in Americans these days when we still like to believe we're pioneers heading someplace — with all the comforts of home.

Readers follow three different men through three different time periods: Jack, a young Jewish - American captain in the war; Amitai, an Israeli - born art dealer in the current day who deals with repatriated items; and Dr. Zobel, a pioneering psychiatrist at the turn of the 20th century in Budapest.

A pioneer in super premium credit cards, the Platinum card has earned a reputation for being one of the most spoiling cards you can get these days, short of an American Express Centurion card.

The number of travel frontiers is dwindling quicker than you can say «eight days in a collapsible canoe in the South American rain forest,» yet the Tunisian desert fulfills the promise of a pioneer experience.

Old Spanish Days Fiesta, August 2 through August 6 Santa Barbarans have long been proud of their city's heritage, from Spanish founders to Mexican and North American pioneers who first settled here and built the city.

Both the Japanese and European eShops offer a number of titles that aren't available in the North American eShop, including SNK classics and New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers.

This Tate Modern retrospective of octogenarian American performance art, film and video pioneer Joan Jonas is the largest showing of her work in the UK to date, including films and installations from the 1960s to the present day.

For the 2005 Whitney Biennial of American Art, Jackson contributed Chariot, The Day After the End of Days (2005 - 2006), a pioneer covered wagon floating above a bed of fluorescent tubes.

Probably taking advice from the pioneering photographer and New York gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, who was instrumental in promoting modernism to American audiences, Henderson acquired work by the most avant - garde artists of the day from both sides of the Atlantic — Picasso and Braque, Matisse and Derain, Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley, among others.

Propositional Music is a three - day concert series presented by ISSUE Project Room in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, celebrating fifty years of pioneering work by composer, performer, conductor, author and educator David Rosenboom.

2015 Current Location, Waiting Room, Minneapolis 10th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Szczecin Aquí hay dragones (Here be Dragons), La Casa Encendida, Madrid Regular Expressions, 221A, Vancouver Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, at MoMA, New York Bunting, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbay Transparencies, Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Nürnberg Triple Canopy presents Pattern Masters, Performance at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York HPSCHD 1969 > 2015 / Live Arts Week IV, Mambo, Bologna, Italy The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Im Inneren der Stadt, Künstlerhaus Bremen When we share more than ever, MKG Museum, Hamburg Cool / As a state of mind, MAMO, Marseille Group presentation at Art Cologne, with Chert, Berlin Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, Crac Alsace, Altkirsch Mijn Vlakke Land, FoMu, Antwerp more Konzeption, Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen Tongue Stones, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York 2014 Requiem for the Bibliophile, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA Scars of Our Revolution, Yvon Lambert, Paris Kochi - Muziris Biennal, Fort Kochi, India Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Ways of Working, According to an Office Desk, Upominki, Rotterdam AGITATIONISM, EVA International 2014, curated by Bassam El Baroni, Ireland's Biennial, Limerick City Unseen Presence, IMMA, Dublin #nostalgia, Glasgow International 2014, CCA, Glasgow To Meggy Weiss Lo Surdo, Happy Hours, CO2 gallery, Turin Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, The Orseman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Simultáneo, La Tallera, Cuernavaca, México And I laid Traps for the Troubadours who get killed before they reached Bombay, Clark House Initiative, Bombay Flag Stavanger, curated by Randi Grov Berger and co-presented by Entrée, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway video screening 25, ZERO, Milan 2013 Only to Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach, curated by Tevz Logar, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana Editionshow, Chert, Berlin I've Lost My Marbles, Totàl, Athens And So On And So Forth, curated by Margit Sade Lehni, Centre for Contemporary Art Riga, Latvia The Space Between Us, Courtesy, St - Ouen Please Come to the Show: Part II (1980 — Now), organised by David Senior, MoMA Library, New York Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA Stranded Travelers, Atelier 35, Bucharest Just what is it that makes today so familiar, so uneasy?

But just because this Central American country has been a pioneer in the so called eco-tourism industry for over 25 years, they seem to be ahead of the curve, and the talks from the Planet, People, Peace conference TreeHugger has been invited to cover have actually been quite good.A conclusion from the first day of the event, yesterday, was that the tourism industry seems to be maturing along with other segments of the «green» movement.

Justice Quince has received the following honors and awards: 2017, National Bar Association Hall of Fame; 2017, Women Lawyers Division Jurist of the Year; 2017 Sharon Press Excellence in ADR; 2008, Lifetime Achievement Award by The Florida Bar's Government Lawyer Section; Florida Commission on the Status of Women, 2007 Florida Women's Hall of Fame award; American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession; 2007 Justice Quince was inducted into Florida Blue Key as an honorary member; 2006 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award; 2006 Rickards High School Outstanding School Volunteer Award; 2005 Key to the City of Winter Haven; 2005 Richard W. Ervin Equal Justice Award; 2004 Key to the City of Panama City, Florida; 2004 Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Black Law Student Association Alumni Achievement Award; 2004 Lee County Association for Women Lawyers and the Lee County Bar Association Award for dedication to the promotion of equality in law and outstanding service as a distinguished member of the Florida judiciary; 2002 Florida Bar Equal Opportunities in the Profession Award; 2002 Florida Girls State Award; 2003 Helping Hand Award; 2003 Southern Women in Public Service Pacesetter Award; 2003 Florida Girls State Award; 2003 Pioneering the Future in our Community Award; 2003 Outstanding Jurist and Howard University Alumna Award; 2001 William H. Hastie Award from the National Bar Association Judicial Council; National Bar Association Presidential Achievement Award; Girl Scouts, Woman of Distinction Award, 2001; National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division Jurist Award for Outstanding Leadership Achievements and Dedicated Service to the Community At Large; Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association for Service on the Bench; Virgil Hawkins Bar Association Award for Community Service and Advancement of Equal Justice Under Law; the Virgil Hawkins Bar Association Certificate for Achievement in Jurisprudence; the Fort Lauderdale High School Award for participating in the School Law Magnet Program; the Broward County School Board Appreciation Award for Inspiration and Devotion to Our Youth; Award of Distinguished Service and Continuing Commitment to the People of Florida from the Fort Lauderdale B'nai B'rith; Proclamation from the Broward Board of County Commissioners stating that February 28, 1999, as «The Honorable Peggy A. Quince Appreciation Day»; Hillsborough County Sheriff's Black Advisory Council Appreciation Award; Lakeland NAACP Award for Contribution to Civil Rights; the African - American Production Company Personal Achievement Award; Paul C. Perkins Bar Association Appreciation Award; Florida State University College of Law Appreciation Certificate for Contributions made to Summer Law Program For Undergraduate Students; Certificate from the Office of the Attorney General, Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute for Exemplary Contributions to Crime Prevention in the State of Florida; and 2016, inducted into Stetson University College of Law Hall of fame.