• KPMG Peat Marwick , chartered accountants - 19th-20th cent: records of predecessor firms in Birmingham (MS 1732). (icaew.com)
  • The pioneering days of the Portuguese slave traders of the 15th and 16th centuries we read about at school were doomed by Portugal's narrow home economic base. (marxist.com)
  • With the decline of the local Berber dynasties in the 15th and 16th centuries, the valuable coastal strip of north Africa (known because of the Berbers as the Barbary coast) attracts the attention of the two most powerful Mediterranean states of the time - Spain in the west, Turkey in the east. (historyworld.net)
  • The introduction of smallpox to the New World in the 15th and 16th centuries decimated Native American populations. (medscape.com)
  • We pass from 15 000 000 printed books in Europe at the dawn of the invention of Gutenberg to more than 200 000 000 books a century later, and 1 000 000 000 printed books in the 18th century (that makes a lot of zero). (grapheine.com)
  • Up until the 18th century, local villages hired a monk to live up on the summit and guard the region from evil witches. (francetoday.com)
  • The Casa de Carta was built in the early years of the 18th century. (spanish-town-guides.com)
  • In the later 18th Century the town had a cotton and worsted trade. (lymm.com)
  • The visible place belongs to book assembly (of 16th-20th centuries), including unique specimens o the hand-written book published in Russia before 18th century, the museum stores historical relics of national value - fetters of boyar of M. of N.Romanov (the uncle of the first tsar from Romanov's dynasty), military armour of 10th -15th centuries. (russianmuseums.info)
  • Variola major was the predominant endemic strain throughout the world, and by the end of the 18th century, it was responsible for approximately 400,000 deaths a year in Europe. (medscape.com)
  • The 15th Amendment - the third and final amendment to the U.S. Constitution during the Reconstruction Era - was adopted to protect the freedoms outlined in the 13th and 14th Amendments. (zinnedproject.org)
  • In 1857, when Judge Roger Taney announced the Dred Scott decision and dismissed the very notion of legal and even human rights for African Americans, who could have imagined that in a little more than a decade the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments would change the U.S. Constitution? (zinnedproject.org)
  • A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the abbey was built between the 11th and 13th centuries, but now stands open to the elements. (holidayautos.com)
  • The 14th and 15th Amendments - sporadically enforced until 1876 (the end of Reconstruction), then rarely enforced until 1954 (the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision by the Supreme Court) - provided the legal foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. (zinnedproject.org)
  • A brilliant lawyer with a commitment to racial equality far in advance of his time, he would be the father of two amendments to the Constitution-the 14th, guaranteeing all citizens equal protection before the law, and the 15th, granting freedmen the right to vote-and also an architect of Reconstruction. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • and Granham's Road, known in the 19th century as Hollow Willow Balk, was perhaps Hornings way recorded in the 14th and 18th centuries. (british-history.ac.uk)
  • Since the 50s of the 20th century, historians of science endeavored to document the connection between Copernicus and his Islamic predecessors from the 11th century to the 15th century. (muslimheritage.com)
  • Throughout the nation's history, there have been significant expansions of voting rights, including amendments to the Constitution (such as the 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments) and civil rights legislation in the 20th century. (socialstudies.com)
  • As early as the 3rd century, papyrus rolls (volumen) from antiquity are now folded and assembled in codex. (grapheine.com)
  • In the early 20th century many prolific artists ended up in Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales. (francetoday.com)
  • Paperback, another form factor advance, took place in the early 20th century (see paperback history ). (silvertonconsulting.com)
  • After the Romans retreated from Britain in the early 5th century, the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain. (lymm.com)
  • The Broadheath area boomed in the early 20th century as a major industrial complex. (lymm.com)
  • The first mass-produced metal prints and woodcut prints on paper originated in the 15th century in Germany, and the process was considered a reproductive art form to bring art to the widest possible audience through early devotional woodcuts, playing cards, books, and engraved plates that were collected and shared among the masses," said Rachel Sadvary Zebro, assistant curator at Phoenix Art Museum who curated Out of Print . (phxart.org)
  • The land along the river and that along Hobson's brook has since the Middle Ages been mostly meadow, the latter finally being built over in the early 20th century. (british-history.ac.uk)
  • Dating from the mid-15th to early 20th centuries, the materials in the Ottoman-Turkish collection include works of history, poetry, literature, Islamic law, medical texts, dictionaries, and hand-annotated account books. (yale.edu)
  • Tourism has been a big part of Vancouver's story since early into its history. (spacing.ca)
  • The parks and infrastructure established in the early part of the 20th century set the tone for how the city would develop and many of those early attractions, such as Stanley Park and Attractions Greenville SC , are still our most popular destinations. (spacing.ca)
  • We are offering a week of events that celebrate the early history and historic locations that have made Vancouver the special place it is to visit and stay. (spacing.ca)
  • The practice of vaccination with vaccinia virus began in the early 20th century. (medscape.com)
  • Other known early prosthetics include artificial feet from Switzerland and Germany, crafted between the 5th and 8th centuries. (medlineplus.gov)
  • International traders spread smallpox throughout the Old World during the 4th-15th centuries CE, while European explorers and conquerors brought the disease to the Western Hemisphere in the early 16th century. (medscape.com)
  • Stevens' reputation, even in his hometown, is dwarfed by that of his neighbor and bitter rival, James Buchanan, the nation's 15th president and arguably its worst. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Teaching materials and guides on the 15th Amendment's significance in 2020 - its 150th anniversary and an election year. (zinnedproject.org)
  • On the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment in 2020, we compiled this collection of resources. (zinnedproject.org)
  • PHOENIX (December 16, 2020) - From January 2 through April 25, 2021, Phoenix Art Museum will present a new selection of long-term loans in the exhibition Out of Print: Innovations of 19th- and 20th-Century Printmaking from the Collection of Phoenix Art Museum and the Schorr Collection . (phxart.org)
  • But enslavement by governments through the prison system in America is still legal in the 21st century. (khanacademy.org)
  • At least four pandemics of influenza occurred in the 19th century, three in the 20th century, and one thus far in the 21st century. (cdc.gov)
  • This course is a survey of the history of art from approximately the 15th through the 20th century with emphasis on art historical theory and interpretation as well as relationships between art history and other academic disciplines. (ccp.edu)
  • Smallpox continued to be a major worldwide problem well into the 20th century, accounting for up to a half million deaths per year in Europe. (medscape.com)
  • In the 20th century, through an intense program of vaccination , naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated. (medscape.com)
  • The origins of immunization are grounded in the history of smallpox. (medscape.com)
  • In the 19th century, Jenner observed that inoculation with cowpox virus, a close relative of smallpox, conferred smallpox immunity. (medscape.com)
  • Crusades further contribute to the spread of smallpox in Europe with the European Christians moving to and from the Middle East during the next two centuries. (cdc.gov)
  • The history of smallpox is remarkable not only because of the spectacular devastation it wreaked upon civilization since the dawn of humankind, but also for the astounding achievement of modern medicine, which eradicated this plague through the concerted efforts of global vaccination (see the image below). (medscape.com)
  • Smallpox directly and profoundly influenced the course of human history. (medscape.com)
  • What the specimens at the opening of the Center for PostNatural History had in common is that they were all tinkered with somewhere along in their histories by humans. (essentialpublicradio.org)
  • Featuring more than 50 individual works spanning 200 years by both European and American artists, the exhibition will feature some of the most revered names in art history, including Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch, Paul Klee, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, and many others. (phxart.org)
  • The exhibition will also showcase works from the Museum's own American and European art collections to reveal the 19th-century rebirth of printmaking as an art form, while underscoring the important contributions and role of women artists in that history. (phxart.org)
  • We are excited to present works on paper from the renowned Schorr Collection-all of which will be on view in Arizona for the first time-to our audiences in the upcoming exhibition Out of Print: Innovations of 19th- and 20th-Century Printmaking from the Collection of Phoenix Art Museum and the Schorr Collection ," said Tim Rodgers, PhD, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. (phxart.org)
  • Our museum consists of three exhibition halls in which the History of Chile and the Chilean Army from the 15th century to the 20th century. (mhm.cl)
  • The exhibition will start with anonymous late medieval artists, such as for instance the fascinating 'Master W and the Key', and continues via the sensational drawings by Hendrik Goltzius and Bartholomeus Spranger, its way through art history well into the 20th century. (codart.nl)
  • Beginning May 15th, the Center for PostNatural History , located in the Penn Avenue Arts Corridor in Pittsburgh, hosts an exhibition about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. (essentialpublicradio.org)
  • His magnum opus book of mechanics, the famous Al-Jami' bayn al-'ilm wa 'l-'amal al-nafi' fi sina'at al-hiyal (A Compendium on the Theory and Useful Practice of the Mechanical Arts) was the most significant treatise of the Islamic tradition of mechanical engineering and a ground breaking work in the history of mechanics. (muslimheritage.com)
  • Considered one of the most important collections of Old-Master and 19th-century paintings in the world, the Schorr Collection was established by U.K.-based collectors David and Hannah Lewis and includes more than 400 works, including tender 15th-century devotional images, 19th-century French Impressionist landscapes, works by 20th-century Modern Masters, and a wide selection of prints. (phxart.org)
  • Approximately 90 objects spanning the 15th through 20th centuries - paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, rare books, historical documents, political posters, historical costumes and even a surgical amputation kit - will be on display. (drexel.edu)
  • Her current research focuses on crypto-Jewish memory practices in New Mexico and Mexico from the late 15th century to the 20th century. (ucla.edu)
  • The Stamfords remained influential until the late 20th century. (lymm.com)
  • Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. (buecher.de)
  • From the late 15th century to the 19th century, France and Switzerland were making artificial limbs that could rotate and bend using cables, gears, cranks, and springs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • since the late 19th century, five antigenic shifts have led to pandemics in 1889-1891, 1918-1920, 1957-1958, 1968-1969, and 2009-2010. (cdc.gov)
  • When, in 2002, archaeologists Mary Ann Levine and James Delle's crew of student excavators broke through the roof of an old cistern in the courtyard of a house belonging to one of 19th-century America's most important politicians, they discovered something totally unexpected: a secret hiding place for runaway slaves. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The Hudson Bay Trading Company was an organized group of explorers who operated during the 19th century. (wanderingbull.com)
  • In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses original documents, archaeology and histories of myth and witchcraft to create the first-ever biography of the young duchess who was to survive two reigns and two wars to become the first lady at two rival courts. (audible.com)
  • According to Katherine Ott, Ph.D., curator for the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, this is partly because different cultures have their own ideas about what makes a person whole. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection dedicated to the history of exploration. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • The focus on collecting Dutch art on paper of the second half of the past century is new for the Rijksmuseum, leading to the possibility of literally looking back on five centuries art on paper, whilst standing in front of Constant, Karel Visser and Ger van Elk. (codart.nl)
  • The digital archive of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which holds one of the outstanding collections on American History. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • The dialogue between these collections will help to broaden viewers' understanding of the history of printmaking, highlighting its transformation from a utilitarian process into a form of artistic expression. (phxart.org)
  • For the first time in Drexel University's history, the most treasured works of art and archival artifacts from around the University will be exhibited together during "A Legacy of Art, Science & Industry: Highlights from the Collections of Drexel University. (drexel.edu)
  • This conical tower dates back to the 15th century and the tower's name was as a result of the structure being used as a harbor lighthouse. (cruiseweb.com)
  • The museum is housed in a beautiful neoclassical building and boasts exhibits of a collection of art that dates back to the 15th-20th century. (cruiseweb.com)
  • In the United States, Election Day has a rich history dating back to the founding of the nation. (socialstudies.com)
  • The use of headrests in southern Africa is ancient and has been traced as far back as the twelfth-century archaeological site of Mapungubwe, an urban center along the Limpopo River. (metmuseum.org)
  • This is also a time for reflection and looking back at our history. (cdc.gov)
  • The Bruceton Research Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a long and storied history going back more than a century. (cdc.gov)
  • The 15th Amendment declared that the right of U.S. citizens to vote could "not be abridged or denied" by any state" on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. (zinnedproject.org)
  • Rachel is a PhD student in History at UCLA, where she works on Latin American and Jewish history. (ucla.edu)
  • Our specialists have over 250 years of experience in between them, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, works of Russian interest, and Islamica. (abebooks.com)
  • Presented in the Museum's Harnett Gallery, Out of Print presents prints from the Schorr Collection, on view in Arizona for the first time, alongside works on paper from the Museum's own collection of more than 20,000 objects to explore the history of printmaking in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on the 19th- and 20th-centuries. (phxart.org)
  • The following set of references is a selection of these ground breaking scholarly works that may be useful for the readers willing to have a glance on first hand scholarship in the history of Islamic astronomy, especially in what regards its influence on Copernicus. (muslimheritage.com)
  • If we move up to the codex or book form- which in my view is a form factor advance - this took place around 400AD (see history of scroll and codex ). (silvertonconsulting.com)
  • After all, it's where large scale polio vaccinations of kids first took place in the 20th century, and is increasingly a home for the biochemical industry in the 21st. (essentialpublicradio.org)
  • This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the 15th year of the Wholesale and Retail Trade (WRT) Sector Program. (cdc.gov)
  • The course will present iconic moments of the history of the arts in Europe by drawing a special attention to episodes of cultural exchanges and hybridization that arose from travelling artworks as well as from artists' travels in Europe and beyond. (fubis.org)
  • Venereal syphilis first emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, as a result of the sexual and social behavior of the time ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The study of the skeletal remains of Maria Salviati (1499-1543), wife of Giovanni de' Medici, which revealed lesions typical of third-stage syphilis, has enabled us to understand the dynamics of the infection in one of the most famous families of the Renaissance and to examine the perception of the illness in 16th century Europe. (cdc.gov)
  • Variola became endemic in India in the first millennium BC and spread to Asia and ultimately to Europe in the eighth century. (medscape.com)
  • A Volume of Studies on the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E.S. Kennedy. (muslimheritage.com)
  • Lead Seemed to be Everywhere From ancient civilizations to the mid-20th century, lead seemed to be a gift from the gods. (cdc.gov)
  • The stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artefacts and military records. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • There was little change in Altrincham from the turn of the 20th century to the start of World War II. (lymm.com)
  • From the 15th to the 20th century, traders carried European glass beads across the world. (wanderingbull.com)
  • The 15th Infantry Division was a military formation of the Korean People's Army during the 20th Century. (wikipedia.org)
  • United States Army Center of Military History. (wikipedia.org)
  • Comprised of original manuscripts, rare printed books, maps and ephemeral material from the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library in Chicago, American West is a source for the study of westward US expansion from the 18th to the 20th century. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • As 15th LDS president Gordon B. Hinckley explained, "It has had nothing to do with [this church] for a very long time" (September 8, 1998, Larry King Live ). (mrm.org)
  • At tourists the museum of history of the belief, being in the church of the assumption uses the big popularity. (russianmuseums.info)
  • Chartered accountants in England and Wales- a guide to historical records is an essential work for anyone interested in tracing the history of accounting firms and the profession in England And Wales. (icaew.com)
  • From the role of artists like Raphael and Michelangelo in 16th-century papal Rome to the rise of genre painting in the Flanders and the Dutch Republic of the Golden Age, from the 'painters of modern life' in 19th-century Paris to the German Avant-garde of the 1920s, we will analyze the artworks and their authors in relation to the different historical contexts and the places of their creation. (fubis.org)
  • The Spanish-Turkish rivalry lasts for much of the 16th century, but it is gradually won - in a somewhat unorthodox manner - by the Turks. (historyworld.net)
  • proposes a specific image of Breton history, culture, or identity. (lu.se)
  • Discover North American Indigenous journalism spanning two centuries with this major digital resource. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • The Zinn Education Project partnered with Color of Change on a campaign to teach about voting rights - in history and today. (zinnedproject.org)
  • Ayşe Çiçek Ünal, a graduate student in the Department of History, stepped in to help identify and describe the first 25 manuscripts Felek had selected as the most logical starting point for the project. (yale.edu)
  • A fine collection of costume books in the Gennadius Library date from the 15th to the 20th centuries. (edu.gr)
  • In Brittany, a region in France with a distinct history, culture and minority language, literature and tradition has been of great importance. (lu.se)
  • Learn more about the intriguing history of Ottoman costume books by watching a lecture by Professor Elisabeth Frazer . (edu.gr)
  • However, the history of this modest rectangle of paper is rich in lessons, moving from the conservation function of the first manuscripts to the object of great consumption, it animated generations of graphic designer. (grapheine.com)
  • Turning now to write performance, moveable type was a significant paper (write) performance improvement and started in the mid 15th century. (silvertonconsulting.com)
  • The printing press would go on to improve (paper write) performance for the next six centuries (see printing press history ) and continues today. (silvertonconsulting.com)
  • The aim is to analyze how the visual arts contributed through the centuries to shape local identities as well as European cultural traditions common to different countries and transcultural, global networks. (fubis.org)
  • As you would expect, this museum records the history of Tenerife and the Canaries from the 15th to 20th centuries. (spanish-town-guides.com)
  • The survey published included entries for 182 firms, with each entry providing a brief history, details of surviving records records and the location of the records at the time of publication. (icaew.com)