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Mayans. The Natural Recovery Plan. Causes of the Civil War. The issues that caused the Civil War had been brewing since the United States was formed.

Causes of the Civil War

The most important causes Southerners listed for the war were unfair taxation, states' rights, and the slavery issue. Here are some primary sources that show how heated these issues had become by the late 1850s. Unfair Taxation. The American Civil War Homepage. U.S. Civil War 1861-1865. Jump To: Fort Sumter Attacked - First Bull Run - Shiloh - Second Bull Run - Antietam - Fredericksburg - Chancellorsville - Gettysburg - Chickamauga - Chattanooga - Cold Harbor - March to the Sea - Lee Surrenders - Lincoln Shot November 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln, who had declared "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free...

U.S. Civil War 1861-1865

" is elected president, the first Republican, receiving 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote. December 20, 1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Auction and Negro sales, Atlanta, Georgia. 1861 February 9, 1861 - The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president. Civil War. U.S. Civil War Effects on People: Primary Sources. The Civil War Home Page.

American Civil War — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. Inventing the Skyline - The Architecture of Cass Gilbert. Published by Columbia University Press, Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert is a hefty, picture-packed hardback edited by Margaret Heilbrun, library director for the New-York Historical Society.

Inventing the Skyline - The Architecture of Cass Gilbert

Who Was Cass Gilbert? Cass Gilbert was a craftsman and a visionary who combined historic forms with modern technologies. Great Buildings Online - Master Buildings List 2011.0227. 30 St Mary Axe, "Swiss Re", by Norman Foster, at London, England, UK, 2000 to 2004 - "the Gherkin". 88 Wood Street, by Richard Rogers, at London, England, 1993 to 2001.

Great Buildings Online - Master Buildings List 2011.0227

A. E. G. On Art Nouveau. John Singer Sargent Online. Architecture Design Architectural Images History Models and More - ArchitectureWeek Great Buildings. American Impressionism: Reminiscences and Reflections on Collecting - NGA. Reminiscences and Reflections on Collecting Raymond Horowitz These remarks, slightly revised and edited, are taken from a talk delivered at the conference "Expanding Horizons: American Painting 1865 - 1930," held at New York University on 25 April 1996. page 1 of 5 A collector, when talking about his or her collection, runs the risk of appearing either immodest or falsely modest, as well as of repeating the usual tiresome clichés about art collecting.

American Impressionism: Reminiscences and Reflections on Collecting - NGA

Yet by looking back and reconstructing the story of our collection, some light may be cast on the development of interest in turn-of-the-century American painting. Since our college days, both Margaret and I have had a lively interest in painting and the history of art. We did not set out in any deliberate way to assemble a collection. Cass Gilbert. Cass Gilbert moved to New York in 1899 after a successful career in St.

Cass Gilbert

Paul, Minnesota, that included the design of the Minnesota State Capital. His earliest building in New York was the Broadway-Chambers Building (1899–1900), a skyscraper with significant polychromatic terra-cotta, which still stands on the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street. Gilbert designed several other major skyscrapers, including two major buildings clad in Gothic-inspired terra-cotta, the West Street Building (1905–07; seriously damaged by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers) and the Woolworth Building (1910–13).

For many years, the Woolworth was the world's tallest building and remains one of the most prominent features on the city's skyline. Gilbert also designed one of the city's great Beaux-Arts public buildings, the U.S. (b. Cass Gilbert was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1859. Cass Gilbert Buildings. The Endicott Building143 East Fourth, Saint Paul The Endicott family of Boston owned a chain of drygoods stores.

Cass Gilbert Buildings

They needed to build a new store in Saint Paul, and they wanted a signature building to be built at a high profile location. It is amazing that young Cass Gilbert received this commission despite no previous experience building this kind of building. Victorian Architecture. Oh, those amazing Victorian builders!

Victorian Architecture

Born during the Industrial Revolution, they embraced new materials and technologies to create houses like no one had ever seen before. Mass-production and mass-transit made ornamental parts affordable. Victorian architects and builders applied decoration liberally, combining features borrowed from many different eras with flourishes from their own imaginations. When you look at a house built during the Victorian era, you might see Greek Revival pediments, Federalist Style balustrades, and other Colonial Revival details.

You may also see medieval ideas such as Gothic windows and exposed trusses. So it happens that there's not just one Victorian style, but many, each with its own unique array of features. 1. Photo © 2005 Jupiterimages Corporation. Los Angeles Modern Architecture + Building History. Classical Orders of Architecture. Of the three columns found in Greece, Doric columns are the simplest.

Classical Orders of Architecture

They have a capital (the top, or crown) made of a circle topped by a square. The shaft (the tall part of the column) is plain and has 20 sides. There is no base in the Doric order. 17th Century American Architure - 2. History of architecture. The Architect's Dream by Thomas Cole (1840) shows a vision of buildings in the historical styles of the Western tradition, from Ancient Egypt through to Classical Revival A view of Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan showing buildings of a modern Asian city, ranging from the medieval Osaka Castle to skyscrapers The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regiões, overarching stylistic trends, and dates.

History of architecture

The branches of architecture are civil, sacred, naval, military,[1] and landscape architecture. Neolithic architecture[edit] Historic. Historic Buildings Pictures.  Resources for Authors and Writers. How I drew my Mind Maps - www.mindmapinspiration.co.uk. Creative Writing Program. Write Better, Get Published, Be Creative. Creative writing prompts . com ideas for writers. Creative Writing Advice. Creative Writing 101. RJ Great article. Morning is definitely the time where I am most creative. I think it’s because my mind is the freshest and the least cluttered at this time of day. Doug Rosbury When I write, it is with an emphasis on the sharing of wisdom arising from my life experience. Wether one could reasonably term such writing as being creative or not I don’t necessarily concern myself with.

The creative aspect which I believe is part of a writing nevertheless may be found in how I address people with careful consideration regarding how I may come across to them. Start writing fiction - Start writing fiction. Online Creative Writing Courses Offered Free by Top Universities and Educational Websites. Getting Educated for Free 1. Introductory Courses Introduction to Creative Writing - University of Utah Course Creative Writing 101 - Eight Lesson Suite101 Course Intro to Creative Writing - Eight Week Course from the Crafty Writer Creative Writing Workshop - Four Lesson Suite 101 Course Writing What You Know - Introductory Course from the UK's Open University 2.

Fiction Writing. Erik Erikson Stages of Development. What are the most important stages in a person's life? It all depends. Using Erik Erikson stages of development as a model for the stages of thinking and learning for children, you will notice in each stage there are opportunities for positive ego development as well as deficits in one's character, not only before a child reaches his 20's, but throughout life. The Erikson stages of development discussed below are combined with another approach to development in Affirmations Your Children Need . It is human to have a long childhood; it is civilized to have an even longer childhood.

Long childhood makes a technical and mental virtuoso out of man, but it also leaves a life-long residue of emotional immaturity in him. Psychology History. Compiled by Charles Cowgil (May1997) Biography Theory Time Line Bibliography .......................................Jung's Handprint Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the school of analytical psychology.

Carl Jung. David Hawkins - Power vs Force - A Critique. With the recent popularity of books like Power vs Force by Dr. Myths-Dreams-Symbols Carl Jung. Carl Jung - Theory. Carl Jung - Collective Unconscious. Concept of Collective Unconscious at Jung Jung concept of collective unconscious is based on his experiences with schizophrenic persons since he worked in the Burgholzli psychiatric hospital.

Learning Styles Assessment. Printer-Friendly Version Learning styles refer to the ways you prefer to approach new information. The Secret Life of the Brain : History of the Brain. Brain Fitness Games. Brain Atlas - Introduction. The Memory Exhibition: Memory Games & More.

Carl Jung Psychotherapy. Review: Power vs Force, The Eye of the I, and I: Reality and Subjectivity. Power vs Force In Power vs Force, Dr. Hawkins describes how he used kinesiology (aka, "muscle testing") to investigate consciousness. He determined that the human experience can be placed on a scale that he labeled from 1 to 1000.

Dr David Hawkins. Spiritual Life. Gliffy. Text 2 Mind Map – The text-to-mind-map converter. Brainstorming & mindmapping. Wireframes. Mindmapping. Mind Mapping. Mindmapping. Mind mapping. Mind Maps/ Thinking. Exploratree by FutureLab. Time Study. Mind Maps/Thinking Maps/Graphic Organizers. Planetary Grid Study. Atlantis and Paleogeography.

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Help. Diagram software. Anomalous History, Conspiracy Events. The origins of King Arthur. Was the original Arthur Roman or Welsh? The popular literary King Arthur is thought by some historians to originate with a real but little-known figure called Riothamus who existed in post-Roman Britain in the 5th century AD, and who may also have been called Arturius. Other academics dispute this theory and believe Arthur may have early Welsh origins in the poem 'Y Gododdin' which commemorates British warriors who died in a battle at Catraeth during the 5th or 6th centuries when the native Britons fought against Germanic Saxon invaders. The Welsh King Arthur There is also an early Welsh poem - 'Historia Brittonum' - from around 800, which records that "at that time the Saxons increased in numbers and grew in Britain.