Sentences with phrase «historical marker»

Some who claimed the biblical equivalent of celebrity become little more than historical markers for the real players.

A commission created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property has recommended that most be kept where they are with historical markers added to give additional context, with just one moved from its high - profile location.

For the Columbus statue, the city would add historical markers and commission a new monument to honor indigenous people.

Though labels like Abstract Expressionism, Pop, modernism, and postmodernism serve as historical markers, providing a way of accounting for the broad range of artistic practices of the past century, the history of art is constantly changing with the influx of new ideas and scholarship.

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Criss - crossing woodlands throughout New England, stone walls are centuries - old historical markers indicating that land was previously cleared for agricultural use.

I know IGF - 1 is not a direct GH measurement, but most consider it a sort of historical marker for GH.

Cuomo's comments came a day after Mayor de Blasio's monuments commission decided that the statue of Columbus in Columbus Circle and other monuments around the city should remain where they are but be adorned with new historical markers.

Key historical markers are addressed head - on, briefly and often without dialogue, such as Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

The media sensation resulted in a culturally acknowledged terror reflected in the cinema for decades to come, and one may recall a slew of 1980s titles that cashed in on these cultural fears, with titles like Ticket to Heaven (1981) and Bad Dreams (1988) now languishing in obscurity, despite a variety of notable historical markers, from the Jim Jones» led mass suicide in 1978 Jonestown, Guyana, to the Branch Davidian and Heaven's Gate episodes of the 1990s.

As in Cane River, Tademy populates her tale with archival material from the period - letters, newspaper articles, photos of her ancestors and of historical sites such as the extraordinarily tactless historical marker that still stands outside the court house in Colfax which reads, «On this site occurred the Colfax Riot in which three white men and 150 negroes were slain.

Of the many national historical markers installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in the many parts of the country, only 6 can be found in Davao region.

Its aesthetic bearing reveals the relations that underlie the various and differing interpretive axes, as it disassembles and scrabbles the underlying historical markers.

Scully's gestural brushstrokes are personal historical markers, too, and intimate the emotional content of these abstractions.

This work, which was shown again to the public in 2013 after being rediscovered by gallerist Maxwell Graham, among a few others, is familiar to those who know his graphic image and text pairings within a contemporary context, though not as historical markers.

For the Columbus statue, the city wants to add historical markers and commission a new monument to honor indigenous people.

According to its Indiegogo page, the Satanists have raised more than $ 16,000 toward their goal of $ 20,000 for the monument, which Greaves said would «be a historical marker commemorating the scapegoats, the marginalized, the demonized minority and the unjustly outcast.»

The $ 44,000 in grants will leverage an additional $ 165,000 in private funds to create teachers guides, murals, and historical markers.

At 3 p.m. the Jamestown Historical Marker Committee will dedicate the City's 69th historical marker by the Boys & Girls Club at 62 Allen... [Read more...]

Initially the guided tour has a festive tone, but the closer people get to the historical marker at the point of detonation, the more subdued the chatter becomes.

While in Cambridge City a few weeks ago I found this old farm which I discovered is actually a historical marker.

Given Russia's rich literary heritage, you could hardly walk a block without coming across a sign or historical marker that had a connection to some famous novelist or other.

En route, stop at a historical marker and use it as a launch pad for finding out more.

Today, a historical marker still in the area describes its history:

Tour the landmarks like the Tower of London, ride the London Eye for an incredible view over the Thames, visit the Geffrye Museum to admire the history of home decorations, or rent a bike for a DIY tour of all the city's blue plaques and historical markers.

The park grounds include the original barracks, where the soldiers slept, and also the grave site of Peter Lebeck, which is indicated with a historical marker.

The Manzanar Committee's efforts resulted in the State of California naming Manzanar as California Historical Landmark # 850 in 1972, with an historical marker being placed at the sentry post on April 14, 1973.

Other exciting attractions include the Wandke House Historical Marker, the Pochmann House Historical Marker, the Early Texas Hotels and Inns Historical Marker, the Bernard Scherrer Historical Marker, and the historic stone Bethlehem Lutheran Church.

ROSALIND KRAUSS: The informe is a historical marker, like using terribilità if you're talking about Michelangelo.

With loose, soft segments of color, his rectangles do not quite touch, allowing for glimpses of pigment underneath; his gestural brushstrokes work as historical markers, tracking his own emotional content of the abstractions.

They spend weeks learning the terrain, local ecology and plant life and historical markers.