Sentences with phrase «turn of the century california»

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After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

As one of a handful of female physicians in California at the turn of the 20th century, Peters occupied a tenuous role as a health authority.

This has contributed to California enjoying its highest credit rating since the turn of the century, Bloomberg reports, and caused demand for its municipal debt to climb.

Interesting enough, olive oil crops up often in some of the early recipes, including those from turn - of - the - century California.

Helen Mirren, taking a paycheck role but incapable of slumming (or, at least, incapable of doing so without giving it her all), plays the real - life historical character Sarah Winchester, the turn - of - the - century California widow whose late husband, William Wirt Winchester, left her a 50 percent stake in the Winchester Repeating Arms Co..

Rockstar San Diego's physical locale might be in the right ball park, geographically, but the present day California is nothing like America at the turn of the twentieth century.

Turns out California is a century overdue for a major seismic shake - up, the kind that requires a lot of horrified staring at computer - generated wave patterns and flashing red dots on maps beforehand, and a lot of Roland Emmerich - style just - in - the - nick - of - time - except - occasionally - not fleeing afterward.

, Upton Sinclair's classic, 1927 novel, a turn of the 20th Century epic chronicling the life of a self - made, California oil tycoon.

It was the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair set in California at the turn of the century among oil prospectors scrambling to buy up the fields.

The most critically acclaimed film of 2007 is described as a sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, set on the incendiary frontier of California's turn - of - the - century petroleum boom.

Prowling turn - of - the - 20th - Century California looking for drilling prospects, he pitches up in dirt - poor Little Boston, where he swipes the rights to the liquid fortune bubbling below the rubes» feet.

The «whole language» California framework was blamed for the failure of many California children to learn to read, fueling a nationwide resurgence of the phonics vs. nonphonics «reading wars» which have surfaced every 10 or 20 years since the turn of the century (e.g. Chall, 1967; Flesch, 1955).

By the turn of the century, Santa Barbara was home to one of California's most successful fishing enterprises.

Nestled in stunning seaside towns like Pismo Beach, Avila Beach and Paso Robles, home to California wine county, Martin Resorts offer a unique array of venues, including a turn - of - the - century Grand Ballroom, charming gardens, modern conference rooms steps from the sand, and many other options.

Balboa Pavilion The Balboa Pavilion is one of California's last surviving waterfront recreational pavilions from the turn of the century.

Rockstar San Diego's physical locale might be in the right ball park, geographically, but the present day California is nothing like America at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Dutch artist's journey is a 20th Century story, while Lee journeying across the Pacific, first to California, is most certainly a forerunner and standard bearer for artists of the turn of the 20th to the 21st Century — an immigrant artist from Asia whose extensive oeuvre of ahead - of - the - curve artworks has changed the cultural landscape from one hemisphere to the next.

2003 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY American Art and Artifacts Featuring the Chris Webber Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA My Mother's an Artist, The Educational Alliance Art School and Gallery, New York, NY Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the late 20th Century, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA An American Legacy: Art from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY African American Masters: Highlights of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical Society, New York, NY; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; The Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT Turning Corners, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion, Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Washington, DC Twenty - Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Focus on the Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

His work has been included in group exhibitions such as Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2013); The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2012); 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (2008); 16th Biennale of Sydney: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia (2008); 8 Bienal de Arte de Panamá, Panama (2008); Freedom, Hague Sculpture Center, the Netherlands (2008); Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2007); 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2004); and the Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2003).

In addition to his instruction of East Coast artists like George Bellows, Louise Upton Brumback, Kate Freeman Clark, Mariette Leslie Cotton, Charles Demuth, Silas Dustin, Lydia Field Emmet, George Pearse Ennis, Marsden Hartley, Annie Traquair Lang, John Marin, M. Jean McLane, Frances Miller Mumaugh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leopold Seyffert, Elizabeth Sparhawk - Jones, Joseph Stella and Edward Charles Volkert, he had an important role in influencing California art at the turn of the century, especially in interactions with Arthur Frank Mathews, Xavier Martinez and Percy Gray.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

California used to be a kind of catalyst for real estate markets, but since the turn of this century, Florida has been the spark plug for booms and busts.

I grew up going to Disneyland in California and was mesmerized by the beautiful Turn - Of - The - Century gingerbread architecture on Main Street.