Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located within a large estate, around two miles west of Cumnock. Noted for being one of the few such houses with much of its original 18th-century furniture still present, including specially commissioned Thomas Chippendale pieces, the house and estate is now owned by The Prince's Foundation, a charity which maintains it as a visitor attraction and hospitality and wedding venue. Both the house and the gardens are listed as significant aspects of Scottish heritage. The estate and an earlier house were originally called Lefnoreis or Lochnorris, owned by a branch of the Craufurds of Loudoun. The present house was built in the 1750s for William Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries, by John Adam and Robert Adam. Having been inherited by the 2nd Marquess of Bute in 1814, it remained in his family until 2007 when the 7th Marquess sold it to the nation for £45 million due to the cost of upkeep.Due to its significance and the risk of the furniture collection being distributed and auctioned, after three years of uncertainty, in 2007 the estate and its entire contents was purchased for £45m for the country by a consortium headed by Charles, Prince of Wales, including a £20m loan from the Prince's charitable trust. The intention was to renovate the estate to become self-sufficient, both to preserve it and regenerate the local economy. As well as donors and sponsorship, funding was also intended to come from constructing the nearby housing development of Knockroon, a planned community along the lines of the Prince's similar venture, Poundbury in Dorset. The house duly reopened in 2008, equipped for public tours. Since then various other parts of the estate have been reopened for various uses, to provide both education and employment, as well as funding the trust's running costs.
Dorman Museum is a local and social history museum located in Linthorpe within the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. From its official opening on 1 July 1904 initial thematical leanings were towards the natural sciences, although galleries of the local Linthorpe Pottery, work by eminent Victorian industrial designer Christopher Dresser and the history of Middlesbrough, have largely replaced this emphasis. The remains of the original Victorian/Edwardian collection of stuffed and mounted animals is now in a single room, the Nelson Room, and consists of various taxidermied birds in their original cases with painted decorative backgrounds, and a variety of birds' eggs. The museum was founded by Sir Arthur Dorman of the Dorman Long engineering company in honour of his son George Lockwood Dorman, who died of enteric fever at Kroonstad in the Second Boer War.It is one of two cultural institutions run by Middlesbrough Borough Council along with the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum. Having undergone major refurbishment and extension it reopened in 2003 and is home to a wide variety of collections.
El Museo del Interior es un museo gestionado por el Departamento del Interior de los Estados Unidos y se encuentra alojado en el primer piso de la sede principal, en Washington D. C..[1] Inaugurado en 1938, las exposiciones permanentes del museo se dividen en galerías que se centran en el trabajo de las agencias del departamento, incluyendo el Servicio de Parques Nacionales, la Oficina de Asuntos Indígenas de la Oficina de Administración de Tierras, el Servicio de Vida Silvestre, entre otros. Una característica especial son los dioramas que muestran el trabajo de estos organismos, tales como explosiones en Minas de Carbón y el invierno de los Parques Nacionales. Un diorama representa una vista aérea de la planta del centro de Washington, DC desde 1939. Otras exhibiciones incluyen minerales y especímenes fósiles de tierras federales. Debido a la ubicación del museo, todos los visitantes deben presentar una identificación con foto para entrar. La entrada es gratuita.
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education is a department within the University of Oxford that provides continuing education mainly for part-time and mature students. It is located at Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford, England. Some 15,000 students comprise the department, of which roughly 5,000 study for an Oxford University award or credit-bearing course. Other types of course offered by the department include online courses, short courses, weekly classes, day and weekend courses and summer schools.
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. First formed around 1731, the department incorporates the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
Dean Castle is situated in the Dean Castle Country Park in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the stronghold for the Boyd Family, who were lords of Kilmarnock for over 400 years. The Castle takes its name from ‘The Dean’ or wooded valley, a common place name in Scotland. However, until about 1700 it was called Kilmarnock Castle. Owned originally by the Boyd family, it has strong historical connections with many people and events famous in Scottish history. Robert the Bruce who gave the Boyds these lands; James III of Scotland whose sister married a Boyd; the Covenanters, some of whom were imprisoned here; Bonnie Prince Charlie, whose rebellion was joined by the 4th Earl of Kilmarnock and Robert Burns who was encouraged to publish his poetry by the Earl of Glencairn who owned the Castle at that time.
La Colección David es un museo de arte en Copenhague, Dinamarca, que contiene arte y artesanías de Europa del siglo XVIII, de la Edad de Oro Danesa, arte moderno danés, y una de las más importantes colecciones de arte islámico en Europa del norte. El origen del museo es la colección privada del jurista Christian Ludvig David; se encuentra en un edificio neoclásico de la calle Kronprinsessegade, frente a los jardines del castillo de Rosenborg.
Palazzo Davia Bargellini, Bologna
The Palazzo Davìa Bargellini is a Baroque style palace located on Strada Maggiore in central Bologna, Italy. It presently hosts the Civic Museum of Industrial art and Davìa Bargellini Gallery, which is an eclectic collection of paintings as well as applied arts and functional ornamentation, described as curiosities of the old Bologna. The diverse applied art collection includes ceramics, liturgical robes, keys, ornamental door knobs, marionettes from street theaters, furniture, iron grille work, elaborately carved wooden frame, and a gilded carriage.
Darwen is a market town and civil parish located in Lancashire, England. Along with its northerly neighbour, Blackburn, it forms the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen — a unitary authority area. Its residents are known as "Darreners". The main road through Darwen is the A666 towards Blackburn to the north and Bolton to the south, and ultimately at the Pendlebury boundary with Irlams o' th' Height where it joins the A6, about 18 miles north-west of Manchester. Darwen's population decreased to 28,046 in 2011 and is made up of five wards. The town stands on the River Darwen, which flows from south to north and is visible only in the outskirts of the town, as within the town centre it runs underground.
The Borough of Dartford is a local government district in the north-west of the county of Kent, England. Its council is based in the town of Dartford. It is part of the contiguous London urban area. It borders the borough of Gravesham to the east, Sevenoaks District to the south, the London Borough of Bexley to the west, and the Thurrock unitary authority in Essex to the north, across the River Thames. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Dartford, the Swanscombe Urban District, and part of the Dartford Rural District. According to the 2011 Census, its population was 97,365.
Cusworth Hall is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in Cusworth, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the north of England. Set in the landscaped parklands of Cusworth Park, Cusworth Hall is a good example of a Georgian country house. It is now a country house museum. The house is constructed of ashlar with slate roofs. The rectangular 6 x 5 bay plan main block is linked to 5 x 2 bay service wings.
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John Michael Crichton was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres, and heavily feature technology. His novels often explore that technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and scientific background. Crichton received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1969 but did not practice medicine, choosing to focus on his writing instead. Initially writing under a pseudonym, he eventually wrote 26 novels, including The Andromeda Strain , The Terminal Man , The Great Train Robbery , Congo , Sphere , Jurassic Park , Rising Sun , Disclosure , The Lost World , Airframe , Timeline , Prey , State of Fear , and Next . Several novels, in various states of completion, were published after his death in 2008. Crichton was also involved in the film and television industry. In 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, the first film to utilize 2D computer-generated imagery. He also directed Coma , The First Great Train Robbery , Looker , and Runaway . He was the creator of the television series ER and several of his novels were adapted into movies, most notably the Jurassic Park franchise.
The County Hall in Matlock, Derbyshire, is the offices and meeting place of Derbyshire County Council. It is a Grade II listed building.
The County Hall is a municipal facility at Colliton Park in Dorchester, Dorset.
Museo Nacional de Diseño Cooper-Hewitt
El Museo Nacional de Diseño Cooper-Hewitt es el museo de Estados Unidos dedicado a la historia del diseño y el diseño contemporáneo. Es el único museo en EE. UU. cuya colección está únicamente enfocada al diseño. El museo está localizado en Nueva York, en la Quinta Avenida y la Calle 91 Este , y es una parte del Instituto Smithsonian. El museo entrega el Premio Nacional del Diseño, en más de diez categorías, celebrando lo mejor del diseño estadounidense. Fundado en 1897 por Amy, Eleanor, y Sarah Hewitt, las nietas del industrial Peter Cooper, y las hijas de Abram Stevens Hewitt, alcalde de Nueva York en 1887-88, el Museo era al principio parte de la Unión Cooper para el Avance de Ciencia y Arte. El edificio principal del museo, diseñado por la firma arquitectónica Babb, Cook y Willard, era anteriormente la mansión del filántropo y magnate del acero estadounidense Andrew Carnegie, que vivió allí hasta su muerte en 1919; la vecindad en la que el museo se encuentra localizado es Carnegie Hill. El Instituto Carnegie dio la casa y la propiedad al Smithsonian en 1972, y la encarnación moderna del Museo abrió allí en 1976. El interior fue diseñado por la firma arquitectónica, Polshek y Asociados, encabezado por James Polshek en 2001. El Museo contiene más de 250,000 objetos que van desde la Dinastía Han China al presente, organizado en cuatro departamentos comisariados: Artes aplicadas y Diseño Industrial, Dibujos y Copias, Textil, y Papel mural. El museo también tiene una biblioteca de investigación que contiene más de 80,000 volúmenes, incluyendo 7,000 libros raros.[1]
Tercera Orden de San Francisco
Tercera Orden de San Francisco o Venerable Orden Tercera es el antiguo nombre de lo que hoy es la Orden Franciscana Seglar. Está conformada por laicos consagrados con una Regla, por lo que poseen una forma de vida particular. Fundada por san Francisco de Asís. El nombre de tercera se refiere al orden cronológico de fundación . La Tercera Orden, llamada en sus orígenes Orden de los hermanos de la Penitencia nació del empeño de Francisco de Asís por abrir nuevas rutas para los hombres y las mujeres que querían “hacer penitencia” movidos por su predicación y ejemplo de vida. Ciertamente, no se puede decir que Francisco haya instituido o fundado la Orden de los Penitentes, puesto que ésta estaba presente en la Iglesia desde sus inicios; pero sí se afanó en dar indicaciones a quienes, tocados por su mensaje, querían “hacer penitencia”. Fueron surgiendo así grupos de hermanos de la penitencia que se inspiraban en su experiencia de vida evangélica. Francisco continuó estando cercano a ellos y en cierto modo se sintió responsable de confirmar su elección y de asociarlos en su vocación de restaurar la Iglesia. Ya en 1221 el Memoriale Propositi formula reglas precisas para la vida y la organización de grupos de penitentes, surgidos en su mayoría en el ámbito franciscano. De este modo, Francisco constituyó las tres Órdenes, institucionalmente autónomas e independientes, por lo que su existencia autónoma no está condicionada a la subsistencia de las tres juntas. Su vitalidad espiritual, sin embargo, necesita del mutuo apoyo “en comunión vital recíproca”. Pablo VI aprobó la última Reforma de la Regla con el Breve Apostólico Seraphicus Patriarcha de 1978, en el cual la llama Orden Franciscana Seglar.
The Church of Corpus Domini, also known as the Chiesa della Santa is a Roman Catholic church in Bologna. It is part of an active monastery complex of the order of Clarissan nuns, that is nuns of the contemplative Second Order of St. Francis. The monastery is semi-cloistered. The complex hosts a museum dedicated to nurses and nursing, inaugurated by Cardinal Giorgio Gusmini in 1919. The museum has written and perhaps painted works of Saint Caterina de' Vigri, also known as Saint Catherine of Bologna . The church structure was built in 1478 and decorated in the 17th-century, among the works are: Frescoes of a "Glory of Angels" in apse and "Evangelists" in medallions by Marcantonio Franceschini Floral decoration by Enrico Haffner Quadratura by Luigi Quaini Stucco work by Giuseppe Maria MazzaThe church allows visitors to enter an adjacent site to see and pray to the enthroned mummified corpse of the 15th-century Clarisse nun and saint, canonized in the 18th-century.
Connecticut Historical Society
The Connecticut Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the official statewide historical society of Connecticut. Established in Hartford in 1825, the CHS is one of the oldest historical societies in the US.The Connecticut Historical Society is a non-profit museum, library, archive and education center that is open to the public. The CHS houses a research center containing 270,000 artifacts and graphics and over 100,000 books and pamphlets. It has one of the largest costume and textile collections in New England.
