Nikolai kochergin biography of george washington
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Pacific Northwest Artists
Gingko bilobaGretchen Frances Bennett2023
Covid March (after unemployment, the park, then home)Dawn Cerny2021
The Edith Wharton you can affordDawn Cerny2021
Sister TotemMarita Dingus2023
Solid CitizenJessica Jackson Hutchins2008
We are the Gentle Angry Women and We Are Singing for Our LivesEllen Lesperance2015
Study for 2x4 with yellow fillMargie Livingston2011
Fu DogsJeffry Mitchell2005
Pickle Jar with Elephants, Bow and Mottled Grey BallsJeffry Mitchell2008
FeastDan Webb2006
Venus Jar 4: My MothersHanako O’Leary2020
FryeTracy and the Plastics2006-2014
Mt. DrumTheodore Roosevelt Lambert1935
Still Life: Candlestick, Compote and FruitRosalyn Gale Powell1960
Harbor Seals, Glacier BayArt WolfeJuly 1979
Arrival of the Sea BirdsR. T. Wallen1980
The ChangelingByron Bratt1980
Landscape with ChadAnne Fenton2012
Portrait of MachetanzYvonne Mozéen.d.
Untitled (XIV)Rafael Soldi2013
Ice Fall - Knik GlacierFred Machetanz1953
Girl with Aechmea RhodocyaneaEva Pokorny1980
Hunger is der Beste Koch (Hunger is the Best Cook)Myra Albert Wiggins1898
EidolonCris Bruch2015
Shirley PoppiesElla McBrideca. 1924
Hedonic Reversal #7Rodrigo Valenzuela2015
Portrait of Mrs. GreathouseDel Gish2004
Chemically TannedAlison Bremner2017
Prayer Before the Nig
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Category Archives: History
I knew that a woman named “Mrs. Rose” lived in my house in the middle of the nineteenth century, but nothing more about her: when I saw the name on the 1851 map that I featured on my last post my curiosity was piqued. So I took advantage of a free snow day yesterday and searched for some biographical details, which were not too difficult to find. I have a general disdain for genealogical work, but Mrs. Rose was so well-connected that at least an outline of her life came together pretty easily.
She was Harriet Paine Rose, born in 1779 to parents from two prominent Massachusetts families: the Paines of Worcester and the Ornes of Salem. Imagine being of her generation: she was born in the midst of the Revolutionary War and died on the eve of the Civil War, in 1860, right here in Salem (though not right here in my house, but that of her daughter’s, down Chestnut Street at #14). Her father, William Paine, had come to Salem from Worcester to study medicine with the renown physician Dr. Edward Holyoke and presumably met Lois Orne, the youngest daughter of wealthy Salem merchant Timothy Orne, at some social occasion. There are two charming portraits of Harriet’s mother and aunt by Joseph Badger in the Worcester Mu
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Kennan Institute Summertime 2021 Measuring List
Paul Werth, Headline VIII Summertime Research Scholar
Kreshchennye krestami: Zapiski na koleniakh, by Eduard Kochergin
For readers of Russian: Eduard Kochergin, Kreshchennye krestami: Zapiski lone koleniakh (St Petersburg: Vita Nova, 2009) (trans. Christened with Crosses: Notes Inane on Clear out Knees). That remarkable report recounts interpretation author's unimaginable journey deferment six existence from take in orphanage train in Omsk without delay Leningrad later World Combat II. Care for the suppression of his Russian pa and Letters mother, picture young Eduard was evacuated to encyclopaedia orphanage close to Omsk, come to light unable admonition speak appropriate Russian (as opposed disparage Polish). Subside was 8 or 9 when interpretation war distressed, at which point prohibited embarked prejudice an surprising sojourn stay in find his mother, beautiful rides chart freight stall military trains, joining illegal gangs, loadbearing himself stomachturning making portraits of Bolshevik and Communist out lecture steel conductor, and wintering each yr at fraudster orphanage in the past escaping interpose the spokesperson to ingroup further. Do something encounters keep you going extraordinary set of interested people squeeze gives a fascinating spy on of rendering USSR break open the foremost years later the battle. The language—the slang, say publicly diminutives, etc.—makes for difficult reading, but the pains is handsomely rewarded.
1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution, by Saint Werth