Sentences with phrase «different war periods»

The Conquest mode allows you to choose from several empires based on different war periods.

Not exact matches

«I really enjoyed this fast - paced novel that focuses on strong but flawed female protagonists set in two different time periods: World War I and post-World War II,» says «pricing geek» Casey Brown.

The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.

He added, «some look only at costs while some actually care about how our veterans, who have passionately served during different periods of war and peace, are being treated, especially with all that has happened at the federal level.»

If the development of mass communication technologies during this period made the war seem more real to civilians, a very different stream of technological innovation reflected the grim actualities of war during the years afterward.

She must now travel to different time periods during the «console wars» and stop the evil group, the Seven Sages, from eliminating all the goddesses.

Two very different, very British films cover a specific period in World War II: the evacuation of British soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.

Specific historic events that help us understand why Athens and Sparta developed uniquely different cultures within the same area during the same time period (e.g., Messenian Wars, Peisistratos grants rights to the poor, Thermopylae, Salamis, etc.).

Lesson plans and other resources are grouped according to different periods, including the Jim Crow era, the Twenties and Great Migration, and the World Wars.

But a new period of hardening ensues, at different times for particular segments of American life, and in his conclusion Barone is enthusiastic about the performance of American business and entrepreneurship and American military might in Iraq (both wars) and Afghanistan.

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.

I can only guess they're sticking with the story thematic from BF1, having 5 different stories from 5 different wars / events from similar time periods.

Meanwhile the modern day side of the narrative feels like it is being slowly abandoned, barely getting a look in this time around, although at least the developers have thrown in some fun platforming sections that send you to different time periods, including a breathtaking clamber up the Eiffel Tower during World War II.

It features key examples of the technique by artists from various periods and regions, from historical figures like the Czech surrealists Jindřich Štýrský and Toyen, to post — World War II artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein, to contemporary artists of different generations, including Anna Barriball, Jennifer Bornstein, Morgan Fisher, Simryn Gill, Matt Mullican, Ruben Ochoa, Gabriel Orozco, and Jack Whitten.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

It begins with the formative period following World War II, when Herrera lived in Paris and experimented with different modes of abstraction before establishing the visual language that she would explore with great nuance for the succeeding five decades.

The war time period is different for a number of reasons.

A number of different analyses suggest that a simple correction to the war - time period (as was used before the creation of the Hadley Centre) provides a more coherent and credible result.

found to exist among these different factors, the international (Chinese, French, German, Norwegian) team of researchers concluded that «food production during the last two millennia has been more unstable during cooler periods, resulting in more social conflicts,» while specifically noting that «cooling shows direct positive association with the frequency of external aggression war to the Chinese dynasties mostly from the northern pastoral nomadic societies, and indirect positive association with the frequency of internal war within the Chinese dynasties through drought and locust plagues,» which have typically been more pronounced during cooler as opposed to warmer times.»

«In analyzing the linkages they [Zhang et al.] found to exist among these different factors, the international (Chinese, French, German, Norwegian) team of researchers concluded that «food production during the last two millennia has been more unstable during cooler periods, resulting in more social conflicts,» while specifically noting that «cooling shows direct positive association with the frequency of external aggression war to the Chinese dynasties mostly from the northern pastoral nomadic societies, and indirect positive association with the frequency of internal war within the Chinese dynasties through drought and locust plagues,» which have typically been more pronounced during cooler as opposed to warmer times.»