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44 matches to Milvian Bridge
Milvian Bridge. 109BC. Over Tiber R. Constantine defeats Maxentius 312.
Bailey, Donald. 1901-85. British inventor of portable Bailey bridge 1941.
Baker, Benjamin. 1840-1907. English engineer: London Underground 1869. Forth Bridge 1882. Aswan Dam.
Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.
Boulle, Pierre. 1912-94. French novelist. Bridge on the River Kwai 1952.
Bridget, St. 1303-73. Swedish visionary, Patron St. F. Brigittine Order.
Bridgewater Canal. 1761. Brindley. First British canal. Brought coal to Manchester stimulating industrialization.
Brindley, James. 1716-72. English engineer. Bridgewater Canal 1761.
Cambridge Agreement. 1629. Allowed Puritans to manage Massachussets Bay Company.
Cambridge Platonists. 17C. Tried to synthesize Plato and Christianity. Christian Humanists.
Constable, John. 1776-1837. English Naturalist landscape painter. Hay Wain 1821. Valley Farm. Waterloo Bridge 1831.
Corot, Camille. 1796-1875. French painter, forerunner of Barbizon school of Art. Narni Bridge 1827.
Dance, George. (The Elder). British designer of Mansion House 1737, London Bridge rebuild 1746.
Gerry, Elbridge. 1744-1814. US statesman. XYZ Affair. 1812 Gerrymandering - drawing electoral boundaries to affect the outcome of an election.
Golden Gate Bridge. 1937. San Francisco.
Hadrian. 76-138. Roman Emperor 117-. Built wall across England 122-36, Aelius Bridge 134. Rebuilt Greek cities.
Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928. English novelist: Far from the Madding Crowd 1874; Mayor of Casterbridge 1886; Jude the Obscure 1896. Man as victim of fate. -“the worth encompassed by the inevitable”.
Henry VI. 1421-71. King of England and France 1422-61, 70-1. Founded King’s College Cambridge, Eton. Lost France except Calais. Weakness led to War of Roses. Deposed.
Hobson, Tobias. Cambridge innkeeper who offered no choice of hired horse. -“Hobson’s choice”.
Kinetic Art. 20C. Works which move, or give the illusion of movement. Calder. Riley.
Landowski, Paul. 1875-1961. Sculptor: St. Genevieve on Tournelle Bridge, Paris, 1928; la Réformation, Geneva, 1912-18.
London Bridge. 963 wood. 1176 stone. 1831 rebuilt. 1971 Sold, moved to US.
Mahler, Gustav. 1860-1911. Austrian classical Romantic symphony composer. Bridged gap between Romantics and atonalists. Resurrection Symphony 1894.
Muybridge, Eadweard. 1830-1904. English/US Photographic studies of motion 1872.
Op art. 20C style incorporating optical illusion of movement. Vasarely. Riley.