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Apprentice seaman training - Merchant Marines
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Apprentice seaman training
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May 25, 2009 09:17 AM Link Comments (0)
This war will be over some day - don't get caught with your pants down.
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
This war will be over some day - don't get caught with your pants down. Buy G.I. bonds. $7.50
May 7, 2009 08:07 PM Link Comments (0)
The Valmadonna Trust Library
Join Sotheby's experts and Jack Lunzer, custodian of the Valmadonna Trust Library, for an intimate tour of this fabled collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts.
Highly recommended.
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- The Valmadonna Trust Library - Wikipedia
- Valmadonna photos and comments
- The Valmadonna Trust Library at Sotheby’s
- The Valmadonna Trust Library - photos from the NYT
April 11, 2009 02:47 PM Link Comments (0)
Your victory garden counts more than ever!
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Your victory garden counts more than ever!
April 5, 2009 01:47 PM Link Comments (0)
The United States Army. Then - Now - Forever
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
The United States Army. Then - Now - Forever
March 21, 2009 10:17 AM Link Comments (0)
Navy Day, October 27th
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Navy Day, October 27th
October 27, 2008 07:37 AM Link Comments (0)
Buy bonds the G.I. way
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Buy bonds the G.I. way
October 4, 2008 02:57 PM Link Comments (0)
Freshmen! sophomores! Stay in college and become a naval officer.
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Freshmen! sophomores! Stay in college and become a naval officer.
September 7, 2008 09:37 PM Link Comments (0)
Every child needs a good school lunch
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Every child needs a good school lunch
September 3, 2008 11:07 AM Link Comments (0)
Smokey says - care will prevent 9 of 10 forest fires!
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Smokey says - Care will prevent 9 of 10 forest fires!
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- SmokeyBear.com
- Smokey Bear and Fire Prevention - from the US Forest Service
- Smokey Bear - wikipedia
August 6, 2008 10:17 AM Link Comments (0)
Grow your own. Be sure!
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Grow your own. Be sure!
August 3, 2008 11:07 AM Link Comments (0)
O'er the ramparts we watch
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
O'er the ramparts we watch
September 13, 2007 07:27 AM Link Comments (0)
I'm counting on you!
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
I'm counting on you!
August 18, 2007 08:37 PM Link Comments (0)
Keep America rolling!
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Keep America rolling!
July 17, 2007 07:07 AM Link Comments (0)
1778 - 1943 : Americans will always fight for liberty
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
1778 - 1943 : Americans will always fight for liberty
July 12, 2007 06:47 AM Link Comments (0)
Save freedom of speech. Buy war bonds
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Save freedom of speech. Buy war bonds
July 2, 2007 11:47 AM Link Comments (0)
Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy
May 19, 2007 09:17 AM Link Comments (0)
Careless talk ... got there first
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Careless talk ... got there first
May 3, 2007 10:57 AM Link Comments (0)
United we win
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
United we win
April 25, 2007 06:17 AM Link Comments (0)
Give us lumber for more PT's
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Give us lumber for more PT's
April 18, 2007 11:17 AM Link Comments (0)
The more women at work, the sooner we win!
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
The more women at work, the sooner we win!
March 25, 2007 08:27 AM Link Comments (0)
Work on a farm this summer - join the U.S. crop corps
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Work on a farm this summer - join the U.S. crop corps
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- World War II - Crop Corps - from the Nebraska State Historical Society
- Crop Harvests at Home in America during World War II
- Farm Labor Programs Work to Bring In the Crops - from the Oregon State Archives
- 2007 Farm Bill
March 22, 2007 12:57 PM Link Comments (0)
Fuel is scarce
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
All fuel is scarce. Plan for winter now!
March 16, 2007 08:27 PM Link Comments (0)
This world cannot exist half slave and half free
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
This world cannot exist half slave and half free
March 13, 2007 09:27 AM Link Comments (0)
Schubert's productivity
A company president was given a ticket for a performance of Schubert's unfinished symphony. Since she had previous plans and was unable to go, she passed the tickets along to the Company's Quality Assurance Manager. The next morning, the president asked the QA Manager how he enjoyed the symphony, and, instead of a few pleasant observations, she was handed a memorandum that read as follows:
1. For a considerable period, the oboe players had nothing to do. Their number should be reduced, and their work spread over the whole orchestra, thus avoiding peaks of inactivity.
2. All twelve violins were playing identical notes. This seems unnecessary duplication, and the staff of this section should be dramatically cut. If a large volume of sound is really required, an amplifier should be used.
3. Much effort was involved in playing the demi-semiquavers. This seems an excessive refinement, and it is recommended that all notes should be rounded up to the nearest semiquaver. If this were done, it would be possible to use trainees instead of craftsmen.
4. No useful purpose is served by repeating with the horns the passage that has already been handled by the strings. If all such redundant passages were eliminated, the concert could be reduced from two hours to twenty minutes, with attendant savings.
In light of the above, one can only conclude that had Schubert given attention to these matters, he probably would have had time to finish his symphony. And the finished symphony would have been of a much higher quality and able to be produced at a much lower cost.
Source unknown
- Symphony No. 8 (Schubert) - Wikipedia
- Franz Schubert - Wikipedia
- Franz Schubert - Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music, edited by Stanley Sadie
- Franz Peter Schubert - Classical Net
- "Franz Peter Schubert: Master of Song," by Charles K. Moss
- Schubert Society of the USA
March 7, 2007 06:17 AM Link Comments (0)
Women in the war - we can't win without them
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Women in the war - we can't win without them
March 2, 2007 08:37 AM Link Comments (0)
Saving gasoline
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
Have you really tried to save gas by getting into a car club?
February 21, 2007 11:57 AM Link Comments (0)
Thelonious Monk
Blue Monk
Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (recorded in 1958). Thelonious Monk - piano. According to comments: Ahmed Abdul-Malik - bass. Osie Johnson - drums.
Hat tip: Orin Kerr
More
- The Monk Zone
- Thelonious Monk - Wikipedia
- Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk - on last.fm
- Thelonious Monk, Biography - from YahooMusic
February 20, 2007 06:17 AM Link Comments (0)
Scrap rubber
This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.
America needs your scrap rubber
February 16, 2007 09:27 AM Link Comments (0)
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
Titian, Pastoral Concert ("Concert Champêtre"), c. 1510, oil on canvas
This show was 13 years in the making. Visually seductive and rich with exciting ideas, it is one that visitors will long savor.
"Show reveals relationships," by Sheila Wickouski, The (Fredericksburg) Free-Lance Star, July 27, 2006
A major new international exhibition, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, will present more than 50 masterpieces from the most exciting period of the Renaissance in Venice. Premiering June 18 through September 17 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the exhibition explores the relationships between these and other artists, emphasizes their innovative treatments of new pictorial themes such as the pastoral landscape, and reveals what modern conservation science has discovered about the Venetian painters’ techniques.
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The time span covered by the exhibition represents, visually and intellectually, the most exciting phase of the Renaissance in Venice, when the old Giovanni Bellini (d. 1516), Giorgione (d. 1510), and the young Titian, among others, were all working side by side. The exhibition will present approximately 60 paintings that best exemplify the new ideas and ideals: music, the pastoral landscape, the female nude, and the romantic portrait. It will include Bellini and Titian's Feast of the Gods (1514 and 1529), Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1500), Laura (1506), and Three Philosophers (c. 1506).
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, June 18 - September 17, 2006, West Building, Main Floor. Mondays through Saturdays, 10 am - 5 pm, Sundays 11 am - 6 pm.
The National Gallery of Art is located on the National Mall between Third and Seventh Streets at Constitution Avenue, NW. The West Building is at 6th Street NW at Constitution Avenue NW , Washington, DC. The nearest Metro stops are Judiciary Square on the Red Line, Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Square on the Yellow and Green Lines, and Smithsonian on the Blue and Orange Lines.
Also see
- "Venetian art," The Economist, July 29, 2006 ($)
- "The Titian that Moved a Nation," CultureGrrl, July 7, 2006
- "When Venice Shook the World," by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, July 7, 2006
August 5, 2006 11:17 AM Link Comments (1)
