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Spellbound Dance Company in Mauro Astolfi’s “downshifting”….

Originally posted on NYC Dance Stuff:

Spellbound Dance Companywas established between 1994 and 1995 by Director Mauro Astolfi in Rome.

downshifting

Choreography: Mauro Astolfi

Lighting: Marco Policastro

Music: “Innocent” by Pust

Dancers:

Maria Cossu, Marianna Ombrosi, Alessandra Chirulli, Giuliana Mele, Gaia Mattioli,

Sofia Barbiero, Marioenrico D’Angelo, Giacomo Todeschi, Michelangelo Puglisi

Created for Mittelfest 2009

“downshifting” Chorography by Mauro Astolfi Spellbound Dance Company

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Regency Personalities Series-Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope

Originally posted on The Things That Catch My Eye:

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.

Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope
3 August 1753 – 15 December 1816

Charles Stanhope

Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope was son of the 2nd Earl Stanhope, he was educated at Eton and the University of Geneva. While in Geneva, he devoted himself to the study of mathematics under Georges-Louis Le Sa...

John Dudley Speaks on the Scaffold

John Dudley Speaks on the Scaffold.

Lesser-known Dutch Golden Age artist no less magnificient

Originally posted on The Cotton Boll Conspiracy:

One is staggered by the quality and quantity of work produced during the Dutch Golden Age of art.

Lasting roughly the entire 17th century, the epoch produced such luminaries as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Franz Hals, Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch.

A testament to theexcellence of work created during this period is the fact that manygifted individuals have largely been neglected – except by those inside the art world – because of the glut of talented p...

The Saxon Shore Forts Of South-East England And East Anglia

Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:

Map of The Saxon Shore Forts (Wikipedia)

There were originally 10 or possibly even 11 ‘Saxon Shore Forts’ (Litus Saxonicum) commanded by an officer with the titleof ‘Comes litoris Saxonica per Britanniam’ or ‘Count of the Saxon Shore’. Most were built in the late third century though others have an earlier origin. Richborough incorporates older buildings, as does Reculver. Dover was already a militarised site. Nine are referred to in the No...

The World’s First Cartoon: Fantasmagorie

Originally posted on A R T LR K:

On the 17th of August 1908, Fantasmagorie, the first fully animated feature film was released in Paris by the Gaumont company. Created by Emile Cohl, Fantasmagorie is considered one of the masterpieces of animated cinema and of early cinema as a whole. Done in a white-on-black style, reminiscent of a film negative, the film broke with the realist traditionemerging in live action at the time. It was much more stylized and fantastic, in some ways anticipating t...

G Troop, 7th Cavalry Regiment Muster Roll

Originally posted on Army at Wounded Knee:

Muster Roll of CaptainWinfield S. Edgerly’s TroopG of the Seventh Regiment of Cavalry, Army of the United States, (Colonel James W. Forsyth,) from the 31st day of October, 1890 to the 31st day of December, 1890.[Names inboldare believed to have been present at the battle of Wounded Knee. Those annotated with§were killed in action or died of wounds, and those annotated withwere awarded the Medal of Honor or the Certificate of Merit.]

Captain Edgerly,...

Civil War, slavery, professors, and what the Army’s been teaching cadets since the 1970s

Civil War, slavery, professors, and what the Army’s been teaching cadets since the 1970s.

Sinking Into Oblivion

Originally posted on historywithatwist:

The SS Arabic sinking (Image: Illustrated London News [London, England] The captain was on the bridge of the ship when he saw the track of the torpedo about 300 ft away, but by then it was too late.

Captain William Finch was a portly man,but I imagine him moving faster than someone of his build would be expected. I can almost see those jowls quiver as he issued his final commands before the torpedo struck, sending a huge column of water into the air a...

The Ghost Blimp of Daly City: The mystery of the L-8.

myeagermind:

Fascinating

Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:

Seventy-three years ago today, on August 16, 1942, a bizarre mystery occurred in the air over California that has never been satisfactorily solved. It involved a dirigible–commonly known as a blimp–flown by the U.S. Navy, designated L-8. On that August morning two Navy pilots, Lt. Ernest Cody and Ensign Charles Adams, went aloft aboard the L-8 from the Navy’s air station at Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay. Their mission w...