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The Erskine Williams Collection
No full textThis archive article documents the career of lightning cartoonist Erskine Williams, known as 'Little Erskine', and follows on from my previous article that gave an historical overview of this stage act, which played a central role in the development of animation. This archive article begins with Daphne Jones' own account of her father’s career. There are then a number of reproductions of the most interesting visual items within the collection. It ends with a number of excerpts from Erskine’s diaries, presenting his experiences as recorded at the time and providing a unique insight into the lightning cartoon act, music hall in general, and the arrival of moving images
Nicholas John Jones
No full textNicholas John Jones was born in Ireland in 1825. He came to Savannah, Georgia, in 1870, after havinq been in this country for some time. He was a private in the Savannah Police Force from 1870 through 1884. He was married twice; his first wife, Mary, died in 1887, and he married his second wife, Annie, the next year. He had no children. Nicholas was by no means a flamboyant man, but he was active in buying and selling property and was quite good at turning a sizeable profit. From 1888 until his death, he lived at 402 East Liberty Street, on the corner of Habersham. He died on
June 21, 1910, of kidney disease and is buried in the Catholic Cemetary.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1089/thumbnail.jp
Nicholas John Jones & Mary Ann Jones
No full textNicholas .John Jones was born in Ireland in 1825, He came to America when he was young lad, However, he did not come o Savannah, Georgia, until 1870, From May 26, 1871 through 1884 he was a private in the Savannah Police Force. He was married twice, His first wife Mary died in 1887, He married Annie the next year. In 1882, Nicholas and Mary built a row of houses on East Liberty Street. They rented these houses, He was active in buying and selling property. He died on June 21, 1910, of kidney disease and is buried in the Catholic Cemetery.
Mary Ann ones was born in Dublin Ireland on October 20, 1842, She came to Savannah, Georgia, in 1870 with her husband Nicholas, They had been living somewhere else in the United States before coming to Savannah, Mary and Nicholas built a row of houses on East Liberty Street in 1882. They rented these houses, Mary opened a second-hand clothing store in 1880 and ran it until her d8ath, Mary died on June 20, 1887, of fatty infiltration o·f the heart, and is buried in Catholic Cemeteryhttps://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1088/thumbnail.jp
Ranging over the forest: a conversation with Anthony Powers
No full texthe following is an edited transcript of a conversation between Nicholas Jones and Anthony Powers in Lower Breinton, Hereford, on 28 April 2003. Square-bracketed dates and other parentheses are editorial
Landscape and place
No full textThis chapter explores the diverse ways in which specific landscapes and places were captured and conveyed in and through Peter Maxwell Davies’s own musical language. It considers, essentially, the compositional, stylistic and structural approaches employed by Davies to create connections to landscape, place and the soundscapes of nature. It examines the central role that Orkney and its land- and seascape played in Davies’s development as a composer, and also reflects on Davies’s affection for and engagement with specifically non-Orkney landscapes and places
Box 9, Neg. No. 3280: W.H. Jones and G. B. Nicholas with Their Wives
No full textThis black and white photograph features a portrait of W. H. Jones and his wife and G. B. Nicholas and his wife. The men wearing suits are sitting behind the two women who are wearing light blouses. W. H. Jones.; G. B. Nicholas ordered the photograph.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/stafford_county/1870/thumbnail.jp
Nicholas Boyer
No full textConfronting the Sins of Our Fathers: Black Women\u27s Speculative Fiction
Nicholas Boyer, Philosophy & English Faculty Mentor: Professor Lorna Perez, English
Nicholas is a double-major in Philosophy and English who expects to graduate in spring 2020. After six years of active duty in the USAF, Nicholas left military service in order to seek a more peaceful way of serving the world and those who occupy it, by decreasing violence and the oppression of Others. He will continue on to graduate school with plans of seeking his Ph.D.
As a fan of sci-fi and fantasy novels, Nicholas spent his fellowship researching Black Speculative Fiction. His work examines Octavia Butler’s Kindred alongside Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring. While Kindred uses devices of time travel to reveal the ways that the past always intrudes upon the present, Brown Girl in the Ring is set in a dystopic near future, in an urban Toronto devastated by poverty, white flight, addiction, and violence. In the midst of this, the characters use the powers of the spirituality, rooted in African diasporic experiences, to resist and survive in an urban wasteland. In both, young black female protagonists are forced to confront, literally and figuratively, the violence of their forefathers, and conquer them in order to ensure their own survival. Nicholas’s research examines these battles with the past, and with the patriarchal figures in the novel, using thinkers like Franz Fanon, Toni Morrison, Ytasha L. Womack, Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones, and André M. Carrington, among others.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/srcc-sp20-usrfp/1016/thumbnail.jp
The sound of Raasay: Birtwistle's Hebridean experience
No full textI was never going to write a Cuillin Rhapsody; I don't write that sort of music. The importance of landscape and place to the music of Harrison Birtwistle has long been acknowledged by a number of commentators. Jonathan Cross, for instance, has observed that: Specific locations form the starting-points for a number of his works, such as the story of his witnessing a carnival in the medieval Italian walled town of Lucca which generated his trumpet concerto, Endless Parade [1986–7], or the mysterious prehistoric Silbury Hill in Wiltshire which inspired Silbury Air [1977]. In Yan Tan Tethera [1983–4], another Wiltshire hill even has its own music … But perhaps more important for him is a general notion of landscape, and in particular the English landscape. Landscapes, real or imaginary, are ubiquitous in Birtwistle's work. However, the composer himself has been careful to point out on numerous occasions that the role landscape and place play in his music should not be understood on a sentimental level. In his programme note for Silbury Air, for example, Birtwistle firmly asserts that the music ‘is not in any way meant to be a romantic reflection of the hill's enigmatic location’. More recently, in an interview from 2009, he states that: The idea of modern music when I was a kid, particularly in England, was something which reflected landscape. In the case of Elgar, I think that that's something that has been imposed on it, it's English so this is what landscape sounds like – but in fact a landscape doesn't sound like anything. That sort of mystical thing never interested me
Developing the 3DMath dynamic geometry software: theoretical perspectives on design
No full textDesigning successful learning environments entails drawing on theoretical perspectives on learning while, at the same time, being cognisant of the affordances and constraints of the technology. This paper reports on the development of a software environment called 3DMath, a dynamic three-dimensional geometry microworld aimed at enabling learners to construct, observe and manipulate geometrical figures in a 3D-like space. During the development of 3DMath, the key elements of visualisation, including theoretical ideas of mental images, external representations, and the processes and abilities of visualisation, were taken into consideration. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how the design of this particular software was informed by these elements of visualisation, as well as by theories related to the philosophical basis of mathematical knowledge and by semiotics. The paper illustrates how the features of software can be designed to take account of relevant theoretical notions and to satisfy the characteristics of instructional techniques that are appropriate to theoretical perspectives on learning
The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy
No full textSt Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention
of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage
destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in
Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals.
This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a
process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions
and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the
saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice,
locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general
developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two,
did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile
of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas
became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four
show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity.
This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art,
which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a
profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in
the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and
altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic
Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources
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