Sentences with phrase «old piece of history»

I hope I have inspired you to redo an old piece of history you might have.

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A small country church in England finds an old book and some people's response to this important piece of history is «burn it»?

The short episode is just another piece of the 171 - year - old brewery's history.

As a kid, I fantasized about brushing the dust off a little chip of pottery and turning to my colleagues, a look of sophisticated pleasure on face as I informed them that I'd found the last remaining piece of the oldest pot in the history of the world.

The 25 - year - old may have hit four for the day, but he'd already made a small piece of Liverpool history when he netted his first two.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

For the first time, NASA is finally venturing out, visiting one of the oldest objects in the solar system — older than the planets themselves — and returning home with a piece of that ancient history.

It's old and occasionally clunky, but this is a little piece of history that definitely holds up.

This film really is a piece of history, an old iconic pop culture movie that has inspired so many other ideas in various formats.

If you close older accounts, you're letting a big piece of your credit history slip away.

Both old and closed accounts can help your score because the length of your credit history is another, if smaller, piece of the formula.

Grab the card you've had for a while — your oldest piece of plastic shows you're a long time customer with an established credit history.

I was really happy to see some nods to older songs in secret levels, as well as the collectible puzzle pieces that formed guest art (ala the 3DS» Streetpass Puzzle Swap) to celebrate the history of the franchise.

Each piece seems to flirt with and riff on the others, joking, teasing, and seductively winking like old friends with complicated histories in the sharp first hour of a cocktail party.

The artist's piece reminds us that, like so many old buildings in Chicago, Shane Campbell Gallery has a really beautifully molded ceiling, one that carries the unique history of the space.

Creative Director Adrienne Eberhardt described the process as «devising ways to honour both the old and new within the presentation» and «showing the investors that they weren't just buying a home, but a piece of history.

Therefore, the encounter will survey works with either a complex exhibition history or with limited exposure; for instance, the assemblages and pieces the artist made at the end of his life, after officially retiring, in which he revisited, reformulated and refined old materials, such as his «90s punk collages or his «60s and «70s films, which he transferred to a digital format.

In recent years Museion has consciously decided to «activate» its collection by means of themed exhibitions that address different topics in art history and forge new dialogues with existing works, and between older pieces and «new entries».

In partnership with Harlem Needle Arts, this exhibition interprets New York's African - American material history through contemporary pieces of needle and fiber arts which draw on centuries - old traditions.

The most grown up of all is 63 - year old Lubaina Himid, a Zanzibar - born painter and academic who produces flat looking tableaux, collages, canvasses and pottery pieces, all of which share the same central subject: the representation of black culture in art history and the media.

Viewing topographies from another angle, Paranyu Pithayarungsarit's featured Landscape and Nature piece, The Great Wall of Namib, explores the history of the oldest desert in the world, highlighting the surprising visual symmetry and sublimity of the locale.

He also hinted that the old piece «is a classic subject in art history,» and divulged one other detail: it has fur and is «sort of new in a serious but funny way.»

A featured piece, «The Old Apple Tree», measures 48 x 72 inches and is full of character and history - having stood for over 100 years in an over-grown lot.

«Those who seek to interpret collages not only keep in mind the effects a particular work might have on a viewer (surreal and uncanny are old sawhorses) but also that they must record the respective histories of the individual pieces of the whole, relaying how images and text can be repurposed, retooled, and resignified.

Scientists have pieced together the climate history from 3000 year old stalagmites and discovered a record of climate changes that may have influenced major historical events, including the fall of the Roman Empire and the Viking Age of expansion....

The world, however, is old, and war and theft are as endemic to our race as property, so only a very few pieces of land have not changed hands by war or theft at least once in that long history.

While this abridged list might actually have been extracted verbatim from a bygone piece of legislative history, it's being re-purposed just as handily as any old umbrella stand, razor strop or kerosene caboose lantern.

The six - page booklet, developed by the cocurators of «Within These Walls...,» gives you the scoop on how they pieced together the history of their 240 - year - old house from Ipswich, Mass., and how you can do the same thing with homes in your area.

OWN A PIECE OF HISTORY IN SAN JOSE: The old historic William Wehner Mansion, located in the Villages Golf and Country Club area!

There's something to be said for the history and character of older pieces.

Such a lovely old piece of furniture with a rich family history!