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51 matches to Vimy Ridge
Lake Poets. 19C. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey of English Lake District.
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.
Milvian Bridge. 109BC. Over Tiber R. Constantine defeats Maxentius 312.
Muybridge, Eadweard. 1830-1904. English/US Photographic studies of motion 1872.
Op art. 20C style incorporating optical illusion of movement. Vasarely. Riley.
Palladio, Andrea. 1508-80. Italian architect. Reintroduced Roman symmetry and proportion to Venetian villas. Suspension Bridge 1550. Architecture 1570.
Peterhouse. 1284. First Cambridge college.
Petit Pont. 1852. Bridge across Seine at site of original Roman crossing.
Pont Neuf. 1578-1607. Oldest surviving Paris bridge.
Pont Notre-Dame. Originally the Great Bridge in Roman Paris. Rebuilt in 1413 by Normans. First numbered houses in Paris.
Ponte Vecchio. 1345. Florence. First segmented arch bridge in West.
Rennie John. 1761-1821. British architect of Waterloo Bridge, 1811.
Rialto. 1588. Venice bridge.
Riley, Bridget. 1931-. British Kinetic Op artist.
Roebling, John. 1806-69. US civil enginerer. First steel cable suspension bridges. Began Brooklyn Bridge.
Seguin, Marc. 1786-1875. French inventor of the suspension bridge.
Seurat, Georges. 1859-91. French Neo-impressionist originator of Pointillist style of painting. The Bridge at Courbevoie.
Sighs, Bridge of. c1600. Venice. Connects Doge Palace court to prison.
Strauss, Joseph. 1870-1938. Golden Gate Bridge 1937.
Telford, Thomas. 1757-1834. Menai Bridge 1826.
Trajan. 53-117. Spanish Roman Emperor 98-. First bridge across Danube. Column 106. Aqueduct 109. Extended Suez Canal.
Universities. 968 Cordova. 9C Salerno. 1116 Bologna. 12C Oxford. 1209 Cambridge. 1215 Paris. 1636 Harvard.
Wheatstone, Charles. 1802-75. English physicist: microphone. Telegraph 1836. Resistance bridge 1843. Concertina 1829. Stereoscope.