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William Faden. Composite Mediterranean. 1785
- (Composite of) A map of the Mediterranean Sea with the adjacent regions and seas in Europe, Asia and Africa. By William Faden, Geographer to the King. London, printed for Wm. Faden, Charing Cross, March 1st, 1785.
1785
Interview with Serena Coates, Co-Chair, Posters and Demos
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2014
Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
- One of the most influential medical treatises handed down to Muslims was De Materia Medica, by a first-century b.c. Greek physician in Cilicia (southern Anatolia). The left page concerns making medicine from honey and water, prescribed to cure weakness and loss of appetite. A doctor holds a gold cup while stirring the boiling honey and water in a cauldron as he prepares to scoop it up for the seated patient. The architectural setting suggests that the drugs are being produced in a pharmacy like those attached to hospitals in the Seljuq lands. In the illustration on the right, a doctor and his assistant or patient stand on either side of a sieve through which grapes are pressed and then combined with brine and an onion-like herb to produce a medicine to cure digestive disorders.
1224
Guernica
- The government of the Spanish Republic acquired the mural "Guernica" from Picasso in 1937. When World War II broke out, the artist decided that the painting should remain in the custody of New York's Museum of Modern Art for safekeeping until the conflict ended. In 1958 Picasso extended the loan of the painting to MoMA for an indefinite period, until such time that democracy had been restored in Spain. The work finally returned to this country in 1981.
1937
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2014
City Lights 2012 - Flat map
- Composite view of Earth at night from the Suomi NPP satellite in polar orbit 512 miles above the surface, from April 18, over nine days and for 13 days ending October 23, 2012. בהוד
2012
Interview with Joseph Tyler Gayheart, May 28, 2010
- Tyler Gayheart joined the Marine Corps after graduating from high school. In this interview, Gayheart discusses growing up, his decision to become a Marine, and his experiences in boot camp. Gayheart also describes his time in Hawaii before being deployed to Afghanistan and his experiences in preparing for combat overseas. He discusses being in Afghanistan itself, including engaging in combat and the downtimes between missions. In addition, Gayheart discusses his time after leaving the Marine Corps, returning to civilian life, and the shortcomings of the military in preparing him for the transition.
2010
Symphony No. 40 (Molto allegro)
- The date of completion of this symphony is known exactly, since Mozart in his mature years kept a full catalog of his completed works; he entered the 40th Symphony into it on 25 July 1788. Work on the symphony occupied an exceptionally productive period of just a few weeks during which time he also completed the 39th and 41st symphonies (26 June and 10 August, respectively). Nikolaus Harnoncourt conjectured that Mozart composed the three symphonies as a unified work, pointing, among other things, to the fact that the Symphony No. 40, as the middle work, has no introduction (unlike No. 39) and does not have a finale of the scale of No. 41's. The 40th symphony exists in two versions, differing primarily in that one includes parts for a pair of clarinets (with suitable adjustments made in the other wind parts). Most likely, the clarinet parts were added in a revised version. The autograph scores of both versions were acquired in the 1860s by Johannes Brahms, who later donated the manuscripts to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, where they reside today.
1788
Winsor McCay - Dream of the Rarebit Fiend 1910-08-21
- Dream of the Rarebit Fiend comic strip by Winsor McCay for August 21, 1910.
1910