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With an initial grant in 1979, the Hunt Manufacturing Co. began a collection atthe Philadelphia Museum of Art containing adventurous and innovative works on paper by emerging artists. This catalogue marks the second installment of works acquired by the Museumsince 1988, when the Museum first exhibited printmaking, drawing, and photographyfrom the collection. Featured in this volume are acquisitions that stretch the establishedboundaries of composition or imagery, either through the use of centuries-old techniques or newtechnologies of the camera and the computer. Discussions of each work, contributed by Museumcurators, and color reproductions are supplemented by brief biographies of thethirty-five artists featured in this most recent look at a unique collection ofcontemporary art. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Howe was built as a 121-gun screw First rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister HMS Victoria were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, but the Howe was never completed for sea service (and never served under her original name) as she had already been made obsolete by the first ironclad battleships. ... Read more

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The Plume and the Palette is dedicated to Josephine von Henneberg. A scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, Dr. von Henneberg's distinguished career spanned nearly four decades. The essays in this volume, ranging from Antiquity to the present, touch on many of Dr. von Henneberg's interests, especially architecture and art in Italy. They treat issues as diverse as Medievalism in modern architecture, Michelangelo's poetry, and political meaning in Italian cinema. Artists contributed drawings, paintings, and photographs whose connections to Italian themes are elucidated by the artists themselves. It is with profound gratitude and in acknowledgment of the inspiration Josephine von Henneberg has provided that this volume has been prepared by her friends and colleagues. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The lack of financial support meant that Tan had to pay out of his own pocket to finance his training and expenses. At that time, Tan was working as a clerk at Cathay Organisation. He also worked as a mechanic. However, he plodded on, after promising his late father that "One day, I will be the strongest man in the world".In 1956, Tan failed at his first attempt in the Olympics at Melbourne where he blacked out. However, in 1958, Tan established a world record with a lift of 347 pounds in the jerk for the lightweight division at the 6th British Empire and Commonwealth Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games, in Cardiff. He also won a gold at the 3rd Asian Games in Tokyo that year. In 1959, Tan won a gold medal at the inaugural Southeast Asian Peninsular Games in Bangkok ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Howe (born 1892 in Wolverhampton, England) was a footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke. He made fifty six appearances for Stoke.Tommy Howe was signed as a reserve to Bob McGrory, Howe was at the Victoria Ground for five years and had a couple of decent runs in the first-team, the best being in the 1923-24 season. After his release in 1925 he spent eight months out of the game before joining Featherstone Rovers.The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football. It was the top level football league in England from its foundation in the 19th century until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split away to form the Premier League. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lord Howe Currawong (Strepera graculina crissalis), Lord Howe Island Currawong or Lord Howe Pied Currawong, is a large and mainly black passerine bird in the Artamidae family. It is endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, part of New South Wales, Australia, and is a threatened subspecies of the Pied Currawong. The currawong is similar to the other subspecies of the Pied Currawong. It is generally a black bird with yellow eyes, white on the wing, undertail coverts, the base of the tail and tip of the tail. Compared with the nominate subspecies of eastern Australia it has a longer and more slender bill, less white on the wings and tail, and a paler iris. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Philadelphia campaign (1777?1778) was a British initiative in the American Revolutionary War. The campaign was controversial because, although British General William Howe successfully captured the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia, he proceeded slowly and did not aid the concurrent campaign of John Burgoyne further north, which ended in disaster at Saratoga for the British. General Howe resigned during the occupation of Philadelphia and was replaced by his second-in-command, General Sir Henry Clinton, who evacuated the troops from Philadelphia back to New York City in 1778 following France's entry into the war. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Wolf Rock, or sometimes spelt Wolfe Rock in the past, is a rock and reef east of Lord Howe Island. The rock is named after the Wolf, an ex-Royal Navy gun brig built in 1814, which was working as a whaling ship when on 6 August 1837 it struck an outer reef near Lord Howe Island. She escaped the reef and was thought to be undamaged, but the vessel sank in deep water about 10 miles off the island, taking with it a valuable cargo of sperm whale oil. In 2002 the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Nottingham struck the rock itself while airlifting a sick crewman onto Lord Howe Island. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Howe (1732 - December 14, 1786) was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. His great-grandfather was James Moore, colonial governor of South Carolina. He owned "Howe's Point" plantation at the mouth of the Cape Fear River and "Clarendon" in Bladen County, North Carolina. Born to a prominent planter in Brunswick County, North Carolina, Howe was educated in England and, upon his return, was elected to the colonial assembly in 1764. Serving in the provincial North Carolina militia, Howe accepted a commission as a captain in 1766. He was first stationed at Fort Johnston (at the entrance of the Cape Fear River, (at the site of present-day, Southport, NC. He was later promoted to colonel of artillery during Colonial Governor Tyron's expeditions against the Regulators in April-July 1768 and April-May 1771. ... Read more