King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table | History, Legend and Everything in Between Legendary Women of Antiquity; Zenobia, Helen of Troy &Cleopatra: Paintings of Ancient History &articles by Howard DavidJohnson; Great Women of Ancient Greek, Roman &Middle Eastern History This Art Gallery has been honored by more than 25 million Unique Visitors from the Four Corners of the Earth: My Friends from around the world thus far : If your home is not listed here please e-mail and tell us where you're from... info@howarddavidjohnson.com We love hearing from you! Thank You For Visiting the Legendary Women art page of Howard David Johnson... All images copyright 1993-2014 Howard David Johnson all rights reserved. STYLE and TECHNIQUE "Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty where he is going. Bonus Section: Personal Opinion Essays on Realistic Art yesterday and today by the artist. In addition to his mastery of traditional media, Howard David Johnson now combines drawing, painting, photography, and digital media with more than thirty years of experience in these fields to create his Realistic Art Numérica in 21st century paintings and pictures. ~Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The Oscar Schindler Story Goddess Will the "Great Goddess" Resurface?: Reflections in Neolithic Europe Many enthusiasts of the recent "Great Goddess" movement are looking to archaeology in the hopes that it will provide validation to their theories of what they would consider a former religious and societal utopia. This was allegedly a peace-loving, egalitarian society spread across the whole of Europe, wherein the Mother Goddess was worshipped as the center of religion. As evidence from archaeology, thousands of artifacts from Neolithic Europe have been discovered, mostly in the form of female figurines. The leading pioneer of the goddess movement is the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, who has spent thirty years studying patterns and symbols of cult objects and also developed the field she refers to as "archeomythology," which embodies the fields of archaeology, comparative mythology, and folklore. She believes that the key to discovering the meaning of prehistory is through interdisciplinary research.
1901 to World War II Knights Templar - StumbleUpon rotten > Library > Conspiracy > Knights Templar According to legend, the Knights Templar was founded in 1118 to protect tourists headed for Jerusalem. There the small band of warrior monks established a headquarters. In due course, they somehow managed to gain possession of the Ark of the Covenant, which they hid for safekeeping. Even though the Templars swore allegiance to the Pope, their beliefs were not exactly orthodox. But when they weren't busy doing that, they managed to amass a financial empire with vast holdings. By the dawn of the 14th century, the Knights Templar had become Europe's dominant religious order. In France, King Philip IV owed the Templars a lot of money, which he didn't really feel like repaying. Some of the Templars escaped to Portugal, where (for a few years) they enjoyed the protection of its king. In March 1314, Jacques de Molay was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Inquisition. "I confess that I am indeed guilty of the greatest infamy.
Holocaust Timeline Jump to: 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1933 January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000. February 22, 1933 - 40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police. February 27, 1933 - Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere. Terms of use: Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed of any text, graphics, photos, audio clips, other electronic files or materials from The History Place.
Magic rotten > Library > The Occult > Magic "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That quote from Arthur C. Clarke is probably as good a place to begin this discussion as any. What is magic? Magic is manipulating nature through apparently impossible means. It's probably best to break the topic down into bite-sized chunks. Manipulating Nature The original and still best use of magic is as a tool to get what you want. The major schools of magic are: Traditional Magic: Traditional usually refers to longstanding schools of knowledge passed down orally over the ages, often within families. Religion and Magic No matter how much they would prefer to deny it, all Religion has an element of magic to it, whether it's Christianity, Islam, Judaism or Buddhism. Religious magic comes in a number of flavors, the most common of which involves invoking the name of a supernatural entity and petitioning said entity for favors, usually in a very stylized format. Magic and Satan Spells
maps home page Down to: 6th to 15th Centuries | 16th and 19th Centuries | 1901 to World War Two | 1946 to 21st Century The Ancient World ... index of places Aegean Region, to 300 BCE Aegean Region, 185 BCE Africa, 2500 to 1500 BCE Africa to 500 CE African Language Families Alexander in the East (334 to 323 BCE) Ashoka, Empire of (269 to 232 BCE) Athenian Empire (431 BCE) China, Korea and Japan (1st to 5th century CE) China's Warring States (245 to 235 BCE) Cyrus II, Empire of (559 to 530 BCE) Delian League, 431 BCE Egyptian and Hittite Empires, 1279 BCE Europe Fertile Crescent, 9000-4500 BCE Germania (120 CE) Greece (600s to 400s BCE) Gupta Empire (320 to 550 CE) Han China, circa 100 BCE Hellespont (Battle of Granicus River, 334 BCE) India to 500 BCE Israel and Judah to 733 BCE Italy and Sicily (400 to 200 BCE) Judea, Galilee, Idumea (1st Century BCE) Mesopotamia to 2500 BCE Mesoamerica and the Maya (250 to 500 CE) Oceania Power divisions across Eurasia, 301 BCE Roman Empire, CE 12 Roman Empire, CE 150 Roman Empire, CE 500
The 1938 Radio Broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds' On the evening of October 30th, 1938, radio listeners were treated to a dramatic production of HG Wells' The War of the Worlds that was so original, and so convincing, that it apparently led some to believe that beings from the Red Planet had invaded America. The notorious broadcast, performed by the Mercury Theatre, a company run by a 23-year old ingenue named Orson Welles, took the 1898 science fiction novel and turned it into an ingenious radio play. Welles' conceit was to dress the broadcast up as a regular musical programme, and have it interrupted by reports of the extraterrestrial invasion fleet touching down in New Jersey. The absence of commercial breaks added to the versimilitude. Despite regular announcements throughout that the programme was a dramatic adaptation of the novel, some listeners were apparently convinced that it was the real deal. You can listen to the entire 60-minute broadcast in the player above. From The Archive: The Martian Century Citizen Kane
Early Documentary Photography Harold Greengard, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, 1917 Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976) Silver-platinum print; 10 x 13 in. (24.5 x 33 cm) Ford Motor Company Collection, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, and Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, by exchange, 1997 (1997.25) © 1997 Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive By the beginning of the twentieth century, photography was well on its way to becoming the visual language it is today, the pervasive agent of democratic communication. Photographers used its growing influence to expose society's evils, which the prosperous, self-indulgent Belle Époque chose to ignore: the degrading conditions of workers in big-city slums, the barbarism of child labor, the terrorism of lynching, the devastation of war. Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was a police reporter for the New York Tribune newspaper. Ernest J.