Sentences with phrase «bicentennial of»

Jean - Noël Jeanneney, President of the Bibliothèque Nationale has a long record as a servant of the French state — chief executive of Radio - France, head of the Commission for the Bicentennial of the Revolution, and junior minister for foreign trade — but he also holds intellectual culture in high esteem, especially if it is French.

The last year with temperatures below the 20th century average was 1976, the bicentennial of the U.S., and the year that the first «Rocky» movie hit theaters.

This year is the bicentennial of the great New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 - 12, an anniversary marked by federal disaster agencies in May with an exercise responding to a simulated major quake in the region.

In 1970, Andrews began working on the Bicentennial Series as a response to the national celebrations planned for the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence.

Major commissions during the 1970s included a fifty - five - inch wooden wall for Temple Beth - El in Great Neck, New York (1970), and a sculpture commemorating the bicentennial of the United States for the federal courthouse in Philadelphia (1976).

She is currently working as the Commissaire for an exhibition entitled, The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, scheduled to open this December to coincide with the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

Inspired by the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, photographer Robert Adams's most recent work presents a new look at the territory these explorers covered and the results of their effort.

In 2002, a major international exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of George Romney's death, George Romney 1734 — 1802: British Art's Forgotten Genius, was organized by The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

The photographs in this exhibition were inspired by the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's journey across the Northwest Territory to the Pacific Ocean.

THOROUGHLY THOREAU The Concord Museum's celebration of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau's birth continues with «This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal,» opening Friday, Sept. 29, and running through Jan. 21.

Additional controversy has also arisen over recent talks about how to commemorate the bicentennial of Fort Snelling, which was established as a military base for U.S. forces in 1820 and served as the site of an internment camp for Dakota women, children, and elders after the Mankato executions.

Two Bicentennial Series masterworks to be exhibited in 2018 Andrews» Bicentennial Series was a six year project, begun in 1970 in anticipation of the American bicentennial of 1976.

This page is dedicated to one of his earliest and longest, The Bicentennial Series, which was a six year cycle, begun in 1970 in anticipation of the American bicentennial of 1976.

This exhibition in 2017 highlights the bicentennial of the arrival in Canada of some 200 paintings done by renowned artists in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Arthur was a regular contributor to «Audubon Magazine» and received the Audubon Society's first Hal Borland Award on the bicentennial of John James Audubon's birth.

1965 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 8, 1965 — January 30, 1966) A Contemporary Collection of Painting and Sculpture selected from the Collection of Eleanor Ward, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut (May 16 — September 16) Women Artists of America, 1707 — 1964, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (April 2 — May 16) Critics» Choice: Art Since World War II — 1965 — Kane Memorial Exhibition in Honor of the Bicentennial of Brown University, Providence Art Club, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (March 31 — April 24) Art: USA - The Johnson Collection, Whitney Museum, New York (March 23 - April 18, 1965).

The first recorded arrivals, however, began in 1802 and Garifuna communities in Punta Gorda, Dangriga and Belize City celebrated Nov. 19th 2002 as the Bicentennial of the arrival.

Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 This online exhibit was designed by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, to commemorate the bicentennial of Nathaniel Hawthorn's birth in 1804.

On a cold, crisp Sunday morning, amid the Colonial - and Federal - style halls and dormitories on the picturesque campus, the President addressed and later mingled with students, alumni, trustees, and other guests at a celebration marking the bicentennial of a visit by George Washington.

In honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, we've revisited John Ford's great portrait of the leader as a preheroic man, Young Mr. Lincoln, and picked this clip to mark the moment.

October 10, 2013 • On the bicentennial of the composer's birth, his music seems keenly suited to our triumphs and our failures.

October 7, 2013 • To mark the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi's birth, one of today's preeminent sopranos spins her favorite music by the master opera composer.

Booking.com This bell was given to the United States in 1976 by the Republic of Korea to celebrate the bicentennial of the US and as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.

The Musicians of Ma'alwyck will be presenting a special collaborative concert this Sunday with the Siena College Chorus and Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Timothy Reno celebrating the Suffragettes and the bicentennial of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

As a member of the Exhibit Committee preparing for the Bicentennial of his birth (1807), she chose to research the events surrounding the Centennial, or 100th anniversary, in 1907.

Those who have known the renowned Basel professor only as the re-creator or a vast system of orthodox and dogmatic theology have no doubt been amazed at his active contribution to the bicentennial of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Then, in words which call on the central motifs of the civil religious tradition, Reston thanked the Charlottesville citizen committee for suggesting «that a responsible society must have a common center to which the loyalty and trust of the people are bound, and that these fundamentals must be defined and discussed among the people and put right before the bicentennial of the Declaration in 1976.»

In late June of 1988, Pace travelled to St. Louis to appear at the climax of an ABC - TV three - hour special celebrating the Fourth of July, the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and literacy.

For American Catholics, 1989 is a year crowded with anniversaries, including the centennial of the founding of the Catholic University of America and the bicentennial of both the establishment of Georgetown University (and, by extension, of Jesuit education) and the erection of the American hierarchy.

In describing the situation in America, John Carroll, the first bishop of Baltimore, the bicentennial of whose episcopal election and consecration is also observed this year, told Rome that «our Religious system has undergone a revolution... more extraordinary, than our political one.»

It's worth noting that today is also the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth especially since the two have enjoyed, or suffered, very different fates at the hands of modern historical scholarship and the popular consciousness it helps fashion.

Legendary retailer Macy's is a mere 12 years from celebrating the bicentennial of its founding and six years from celebrating the 100th anniversary of its famous Thanksgiving Day Parade — originally known as the Christmas Parade — in New York City.

Between 2010 and 2016, Maryland's standard - issue license plate commemorated the War of 1812 in honor of the bicentennial of the conflict.

In New York state, a multiyear celebration marking the bicentennial of the construction of the Erie Canal is underway along the canal corridor, which includes major cities like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.

To celebrate the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal and the 150th anniversary of glassmaking in the city of Corning, the Corning Museum of Glass in May will launch GlassBarge, a canal barge outfitted with glassmaking equipment.

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The test of vigilance which faces the American public comes in the year of our bicentennial when most of all we should, in the words of Tom Paine, «refresh our patriotism by reference to first principles.»

More than a few pundits have recently bemoaned the absence of breakthroughs or excitement in the observations of the Constitution's bicentennial.

The bicentennial celebration of the United States Constitution has naturally produced a flurry of books on the subject.

In 1973 I gave the lectures (at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati) that would be published as The Broken Covenant in 1975, and would in turn project me into an intensive year of public speaking during the 1976 Bicentennial.

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Here is a short excerpt of an address I'll be delivering at Geneseo College devoted to Lincoln's Bicentennial:

As America embarks upon its bicentennial celebration, it should be remembered that there are millions of citizens who have been excluded from the American dream.

In the spring of 1976, I took my New Hampshire youth group to Philadelphia for the bicentennial celebrations.

Thus Ferdinand Mount, in an otherwise astute essay on America's bicentennial, comments on the shock effect of Watergate: What Europeans are bewildered by is the American's affectation of pained surprise on receiving a specific proof of the corruption he knows to be endemic to his political system.

Both the First Amendment bicentennial and the current travails of Christian ecumenism have brought into focus the question of how the dual ideals of unity and diversity can coexist.

This condition is one factor behind the steady decay of purpose and the decline in identity among mainline denominations: The second volume of the United Methodist Church's «Into Our Third Century» series argues that the denomination's most pressing need as it approaches its bicentennial in 1984 is «to develop a clear sense of purpose and identity for its life and work.»

Yet from constitutional centennial to bicentennial, successive generations of American Jews had been taught to believe that the fondness for «Old Testament» metaphors in American public discourse displayed the fundamental continuity between ancient Jewish and modern American values — when, in fact, these metaphors expressed a flourishing Christian triumphalism.

Some evidence of these changes is given by W. Richie Hogg in «The Role of American Protestantism in World Missions,» in American Missions in Bicentennial Perspective, ed.

One could travel in this bicentennial year to a thousand American communities, and in each of them see instances of human tragedy directly based upon failures of justice and the breakdown of moral ideas — this in the face of operative legal systems.