petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | people, politics, russia, world, history
Quoted: Elizabeth tried to adopt and adhere to many of her father's public policies. Unlike some of her predecessors, she preferred to appoint Russians and not foreigners to the highest positions in the country and being a patron of the arts and sciences, she established the Russian Academy of Arts. As well as a conscientious leader, Elizabeth was also a very lively and social personality and organised regular balls, receptions, masquerades and firework displays.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - 5 days ago | photography, history, books, people
Quoted: "In 1984, after an absence of twelve years, I returned to the Lower West Side of Buffalo, NY to rephotograph the individuals and families who continued to live in that area. Then, eight years later, after overcoming heart surgery and cancer treatment, I again returned to the Lower West Side to complete a series of Triptychs. The photographs in this series document the lives of the people over a 20 year span." Milton Rogovin
Quoted: Included in this series are photos taken both indoors or outside the homes. There are photographs of changes of homes and storefronts over time as well. Milton and Anne were able to reconnect with 60 families.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 23 2008 | video, music, people, history
click to playQuoted: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right1965 Don't Look Back outtake
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 07 2008 | science, politics, people, environment
Quoted: Welcome to Bruno Latour's Web site. Bienvenu au Site web de Bruno Latour.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2008 | music, people, art, architecture, ideas
Quoted: The musician’s latest project: turning a building into a gargantuan cast-iron orchestra.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 27 2008 | people, art, literature, music
Quoted: Tagore wrote novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays on political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are among his best-known works. His verse, short stories, and novels, which often exhibited rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation, received worldwide acclaim. Tagore was also a cultural reformer and polymath who modernised Bengali art by rejecting strictures binding it to classical Indian forms. Two songs from his canon are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: the Amar Shonar Bangla and the Jana Gana Mana respectively.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 26 2008 | news, people, politics, india, medicine, public health, development
Quoted: A profile of India's jailed human rights activist Binayak Sen.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2008 | news, people, china
Quoted: Chen is a self-appointed lifeguard on the so-called Chinese bridge of death. His record so far, he says: 144 lives saved.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2008 | interesting, people, world, cities, development, writing, culture
Great commentary by Brendan Crain.
Quoted: A national magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders. Next American City observes, documents and conceives realistic solutions about how to make cities better.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 05 2008 | music, people, history
click to playOld photos and clips of Eddie K and the Temptations set to "Intimate Friends."
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