Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut. Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,235 students. Trinity offers 41 majors and 28 interdisciplinary minors. The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference .
La bataille de Mohács voit s’opposer, le 29 août 1526, les forces de l’Empire ottoman, menées par Soliman le Magnifique, et celles du royaume de Hongrie, commandées par le roi Louis II. La victoire des Ottomans entraîne par la suite la partition de la Hongrie entre l’Empire ottoman, les souverains Habsbourg d’Autriche et la principauté de Transylvanie.
Le palais royal d'Amsterdam est un palais royal qui se trouve à Amsterdam, la capitale des Pays-Bas, sur le Dam, la principale place de la ville. Il est également connu sous le nom de Paleis op de Dam Il a été construit entre 1648 et 1665 par l'architecte Jacob van Campen afin de servir comme hôtel de ville. Il est utilisé comme palais royal depuis 1808.
La tour des vents ou la tour Grégorienne est une tour carrée située au nord de la basilique Saint-Pierre au-dessus de l'aile ouest qui borde la Cour de la Bibliothèque, c'est-à-dire juste au-dessus des Salles Paulines et de la Galerie des Tapisseries , dans l'immense parcours des Musées du Vatican. La tour Grégorienne est construite entre 1578 et 1580, conçue par l'architecte bolonais Ottaviano Mascherino , sur ordre du pape Grégoire XIII pour promouvoir principalement l'étude scientifique de l'astronomie, pape qui a également décrété la réforme historique du calendrier Grégorien, promulguée en 1582 et qui est aujourd'hui le calendrier civil universel suivi par l'ensemble de la planète. L'origine française du nom de la tour est incertaine : elle peut prendre son nom de l'Anémoscope qui y est installé, un instrument qui mesure la direction du vent, conçu par Ignazio Danti mais aussi être une référence à la tour ou l'observatoire antique situé à Athènes, également appelée la Tour des Vents. Son nom en italien, , est évidemment en hommage au pape Grégoire XIII, l'instaurateur du calendrier grégorien. La tour est également appelée, en italien, Specola Astronomica Vaticana, en français : observatoire astronomique du Vatican. L'édifice actuel a subi quatre étapes progressives de transformation depuis sa création. La tour était, à l'origine, un édifice de grande valeur pour les observations astronomiques, qui se faisaient notamment au moyen de cadrans solaires : ce sont ces observations qui ont fourni au Pape la confirmation essentielle de la nécessaire réforme du calendrier julien. Depuis l'installation de l'Observatoire du Vatican au-dessus du Palais Apostolique de Castel Gandolfo et dans les jardins de celui-ci, la tour Gregorienne, qui comporte des salles dotées de fresques splendides, sert de nos jours au stockage des archives de l'Observatoire. Elle n'est pas ouverte au public et ne fait donc pas partie du circuit des Musées du Vatican.
Thomas John Thomson was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century. During his short career he produced roughly 400 oil sketches on small wood panels along with around 50 larger works on canvas. His works consist almost entirely of landscapes depicting trees, skies, lakes, and rivers. His paintings use broad brush strokes and a liberal application of paint to capture the beauty and colour of the Ontario landscape. Thomson's accidental death at 39 by drowning came shortly before the founding of the Group of Seven and is seen as a tragedy for Canadian art. Raised in rural Ontario, Thomson was born into a large family of farmers and displayed no immediate artistic talent. He worked several jobs before attending a business college, eventually developing skills in penmanship and copperplate writing. At the turn of the 20th century, he was employed in Seattle and Toronto as a pen artist at several different photoengraving firms, including Grip Ltd. There he met those who eventually formed the Group of Seven, including J. E. H. MacDonald, Lawren Harris, Frederick Varley, Franklin Carmichael and Arthur Lismer. In May 1912, he visited Algonquin Park—a major public park and forest reservation in Central Ontario—for the first time. It was there that he acquired his first sketching equipment and, following MacDonald's advice, began to capture nature scenes. He became enraptured with the area and repeatedly returned, typically spending his winters in Toronto and the rest of the year in the Park. His earliest paintings were not outstanding technically, but showed a good grasp of composition and colour handling. His later paintings vary in composition and contain vivid colours and thickly applied paint. His later work has had a great influence on Canadian art—paintings such as The Jack Pine and The West Wind have taken a prominent place in the culture of Canada and are some of the country's most iconic works. Thomson developed a reputation during his lifetime as a veritable outdoorsman, talented in both fishing and canoeing, although his skills in the latter have been contested. The circumstances of his drowning on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park, linked with his image as a master canoeist, led to unsubstantiated but persistent rumours that he had been murdered or committed suicide. Although he died before the formal establishment of the Group of Seven, Thomson is often considered an unofficial member. His art is typically exhibited with the rest of the Group's, nearly all of which remains in Canada—mainly at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound.
The Tolsey Museum is a local museum in the town of Burford, west Oxfordshire, England.The Tolsey Museum is located on Burford's main street in a Tudor market/court house. It is a black and white timber-fronted building on stone pillars. In medieval times, the building was a meeting point for wool merchants. Tolls and taxes were also paid here. The building was included in the BBC Domesday Project.The collection covers local history, culture, and industry. Exhibits at the museum include the town maces, charters and seals of guilds, a doll's house, and objects related to brewing, rope-making, and stone quarrying.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who, in 1834, were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. They were arrested on a legal technicality during a labour dispute against cutting wages before being convicted in R v Lovelass and Others and sentenced to penal transportation to Australia. They were pardoned in 1836 after mass protests by sympathisers and support from Lord John Russell and returned to England between 1837 and 1839. The Tolpuddle Martyrs became a popular cause for the early union and workers' rights movements.
Inauguré en 1872, le musée national de Tokyo , ou TNM, est le plus ancien et le plus grand musée du Japon. Il se situe à l'intérieur du parc d'Ueno dans l'arrondissement de Taitō à Tokyo. Ce musée possède et préserve une collection complète d'œuvres d'arts et d'objets archéologiques du Japon et d'autres pays de l'Asie de l'Est. Il détient 113 897 objets, incluant 87 objets classés trésor national japonais et 631 objets classés bien culturel important ; il conserve de plus 2689 objets privés, dont 50 trésors nationaux et 252 biens culturels importants. Le musée mène aussi des recherches et organise des événements ayant trait à sa collection.
Le großer Tiergarten [ˈɡʀoːsɐ ˈtiːɐ̯ˌɡaʁtn̩] est un parc du centre de Berlin , situé dans le quartier auquel il a donné son nom Berlin-Tiergarten dans l’arrondissement de Mitte. Avec ses 210 hectares, ses 3 kilomètres de long sur 1 kilomètre de large, c’est le deuxième espace vert de la ville en superficie, après la Tempelhofer Freiheit, situé à l'emplacement de l'ancien aéroport de Berlin-Tempelhof, et le troisième d’Allemagne . C'est le plus ancien parc de la ville. Créé au XVIe siècle, et malgré les aménagements du XIXe siècle, il a conservé son aspect sauvage, alternant pelouses, petits étangs et longues zones boisées. Il est traversé par plusieurs avenues dont une des plus célèbres artères de la capitale qui le parcourt d'est en ouest, la rue du 17 juin à mi-parcours de laquelle se trouve la Großer Stern, avec en son centre, la colonne de la victoire. Ancienne réserve de chasse, le großer Tiergarten abrite de nombreux animaux sauvages et la municipalité a mandaté trente-cinq « chasseurs urbains » dont l'objectif est de lutter contre la prolifération du gibier, notamment les sangliers. On trouve dans le parc d'autres monuments célèbres tels que : le château de Bellevue , au nord-ouest, la Siegessäule, au centre-ouest, le Mémorial soviétique, à l'est, le palais du Reichstag , au nord-est.
La Theresienwiese est une vaste place bétonnée de 42 hectares se trouvant dans le quartier de Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt à Munich. Une statue de 18,52 m, nommée Bavaria trône sur la place accompagnée de son hall de la gloire. L'histoire de la Theresienwiese est intimement liée à celle de l'Oktoberfest qui s'y déroule chaque année en septembre. Toutefois d'autres événements s'y déroulent tout au long de l'année, on citera : la Frühlingsfest fin avril/début mai et Tollwood en décembre. Elle accueille aussi diverses braderies.
The Sherwood Foresters was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, which in 2007 was amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire Regiment to form the present Mercian Regiment. The lineage of the Sherwood Foresters is now continued by The Mercian Regiment.
L'université de Portsmouth est une université publique anglaise située à Portsmouth.
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is a Department within the University of Oxford. Its research programme includes the cellular and molecular biology of pathogens, the immune response, cancer and cardiovascular disease. It teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the medical sciences. The school is named for Sir William Dunn, 1st Baronet, of Lakenheath, whose will provided the initial funding. It is located towards the east end of South Parks Road, to the north of the city centre.
The Ruskin Museum is a small local museum in Coniston, Cumbria, northern England. It was established in 1901 by W. G. Collingwood, an artist and antiquarian who had worked as secretary to art critic John Ruskin. The museum is both a memorial to Ruskin and a local museum covering the history and heritage of Coniston Water and the Lake District. The museum is a registered charity in England & Wales, constituted as The Coniston Institute and Ruskin Museum.
The Royal Yeomanry is the senior reserve light cavalry regiment of the British Army. Equipped with Supacat Jackal variants and the Land Rover RWMIK, their role is to conduct mounted and dismounted formation reconnaissance. The Regimental Headquarters is located in Leicester, with squadrons in Fulham, Nottingham, Dudley, Croydon , Telford and Leicester.The regiment is part of the Royal Armoured Corps and is paired with and supports the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards . QDG and RY together form the light cavalry reconnaissance component of 7th Infantry Brigade , serving alongside six infantry battalions . The RY is one of three light cavalry reserve regiments in 1st Division. The Royal Yeomanry is the only British Army Reserve unit to have been awarded a battle honour since the Second World War.
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and the senior Scottish regiment. The regiment, through the Royal Scots Greys, is the oldest surviving Cavalry Regiment of the Line in the British Army. The regiment is currently based at Leuchars Station, as part of the Scottish 51st Infantry Brigade.
Le Royal Berkshire Hospital est un hôpital du National Health Service situé à Reading, dans le comté du Berkshire en Angleterre. L'hôpital dispose de plus de 1 000 lits d'hospitalisation et emploie plus de 4 000 personnes pour un budget annuel de 228 millions de livres sterling.
