Sentences with phrase «historical oddities»

The big wheel, little wheel rides may look like historical oddities brought out for a laugh, but this surprisingly intense video proves that they're still dead serious.

Historical oddities or Okinawa makes up only percent of the nation's land area; yet, approximately 62 % of.

«It's a historical oddity.

If the bible were a scientific text, it would have been relegated as a historical oddity long ago.

The U.S. Olympic win was passed off as a historical oddity: a blip of achievement brought about by a unique combination of great goaltending and home - ice advantage.

Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson draw inspiration from this art historical oddity, creating sublimated print tiles that both reference the «Unswept Floor» as well figurative tile works which «remove the trappings of mythologizing human behavior and return to a place of rational accounting and purification.»

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Cultural heavyweights such as boxer Joe Louis are treated as historical catalysts rather than extraordinary oddities.

Tansey's paintings normally depict everyday or historical occurrences, though they typically reveal certain oddities under closer scrutinization.

Beginning in the early nineties, McCollum expanded his interests in quantity production to include explorations into the ways regional communities give meaning to local landmarks and geological oddities in establishing community identity, and collaborated with a number of small towns and small historical museums in Europe and throughout the United States, bringing attention to the way local narratives develop around objects peculiar to geographic regions, and drawing comparisons to the way artworks develop meaning in a parallel manner.