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- Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: The dating of the Industrial Revolution is not exact, bu...
10: ... institutional changes wrought by the end of [[feudalism]] in [[Great Britain]] after the [[English Ci...
22: ...able as there was privilege and monopoly. The abundant supply of coal and iron ore made the making of ...
30: ...udy tour, gathering information where he could. Today this is called [[industrial espionage]], with mo...
57: ...d at this time, it was not developed as a serious workshop tool until during the Second Industrial Revolutui... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...ileschi''' ([[July 8]], [[1593]] - [[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[...
7: ...emisia was introduced to painting in her father's workshop, showing much more talent than her brothers, who ...
10: ...elden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Carava...
12: ..., so Orazio hired the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that ...
14: ...apped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularly cruel torture to a painter. Bot... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: '''Julia Child''' ([[August 15]], [[1912]] – [[August 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWill...
28: ...spired a character on the [[Children's Television Workshop]] program, [[The Electric Company]] (1971-1977).
30: ...and Food]] in California with vintner [[Robert Mondavi]] and others to "advance the understanding, app...
36: ...igned by her husband with high counters to accommodate her height and which served as the set for thre...
38: ... of Honor]] in 1991 and the U.S. [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 2003. - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
9: ...saxophone-like sound). Sax worked in his father's workshop for many years, and both clarinets and ophicleide...
20: The majority of saxophones produced today are made from [[brass]]. Manufacturers usually a...
25: ... tip opening and a rather large chamber, giving a darker, more stable sound. Many classical players p...
28: ...ctrum). Unfortunately, this scale is far from standardized, and a Rico 3 is decidedly softer than a Va...
33: ...ophone is written on the [[treble clef]]. The standard written range extends from a Bb below the staff... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
6: ...s [[Han Chinese]] groups and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in [[1368]], establishing...
12: ...self-supporting agricultural communities. Neo-feudal land-tenure developments of late [[Sung Dynasty|...
14: ... of literature and philosophy was revamped. Candidates for posts in the civil service or the officer ...
16: ...wu attempted to, and largely succeeded in, consolidating control over all aspects of government, so th...
18: ...insisting that they remained illiterate, and liquidating those who commented on state affairs. Hongwu... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...to the custom of the period, in a [[goldsmith]]'s workshop, and that he worked for a short time in [[Lorenzo...
10: ...asm, however, when placed in situ, and at a later date received [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo...
13: ...e (Donatello).jpg|right|thumb|100px|[[Donatello's David]] ]]
14: ...panile and the cathedral, though from this period dates the bronze figure of the Baptist for the chris...
18: ...el off which [[Bernardo Rossellino]], [[Desiderio da Settignano|Desiderio]], and other sculptors of th... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
3: '''Jan van Eyck''' (c. [[1385]]–[[1441]]) was a [[15th century]] [[Flanders|Fle...
7: The date of his birth is not more accurately known than ...
9: ... in [[1421]], Jan became his own master, left the workshop of Hubert, and took an engagement as painter to [...
13: ...Bruges, where he married, and his wife bore him a daughter, known in after years as a nun in the conve...
17: ...nd may now be seen at [[Chatsworth]], bearing the date of 1421; no doubt this picture would give a fai... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpeg|thumb|Leonardo da Vinci]]
2: '''Leonardo da Vinci''' ([[April 15]], [[1452]] – [[May 2]], [[1519]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] ...
7: ...an [[illegitimate child]]. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci was a young [[lawyer]] and his mother, Cate...
9: ...therefore refer to his works as "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's n...
12: ... the greatest of all Andrea's pupils was Leonardo da Vinci, in whom, besides a beauty of person never ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: '''Gerardus Mercator''' ([[March 5]], [[1512]] – [[December 2]], [[1594]]) was a [[Flanders|Fle...
12: ...ed to [[Duisburg]] where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map of Europe ([[1554]]... - Drama (12658 bytes)
17: Drama has many uses in today's world. It is already used by therapists, and i...
23: ...st, with a leader, singing a song about some legendary [[hero]]; in later years the leader, rather tha...
38: ...help from the audience the hero/heroine saves the day. This kind of play uses stock characters seen in...
40: ...subject matter through the use of Drama and Drama workshops. Sometimes this kind of work may lead to the cre...
42: ==Workshops== - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: '''Charles Babbage''' ([[December 26]] [[1791]] – [[October 18]] [[1871]]) was an [[United Kingd...
8: ...n, a thriving comprehensive school still extant today, but his health forced him back to private tutor...
29: ... calculating engine in a letter to Sir [[Humphrey Davy]] in [[1822]].
38: ...bbage converted one of the rooms in his home to a workshop and hired [[Joseph Clement]] to oversee the const...
46: ...Clement refused to move his operations to the new workshop and demanded more money for the difficulty of tra... - Lorenzo de' Medici (6381 bytes)
2: ...di Piero de' Medici''' ([[January 1]], [[1449]] – [[8 April]], [[1492]]) was an Italian statesma...
14: ...who personally travelled to [[Naples]], saved the day. This further increased his popularity with the ...
20: ...ourt the leading artists and intellectuals of his day.
22: ...tello]], [[Sandro Botticelli]], [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]], [[Andrea del Verrocchio]] and [[Michelangelo...
24: ... unknown classical works, and he employed a large workshop to copy his books and diffuse their content acros... - Christmas (35108 bytes)
2: ...hany, when the Magi visited baby Jesus. The exact date of his birth was determined centuries later.
10: ...h in Bethlehem of Judea, the home of the house of David from which Joseph was descended, fulfilled the...
18: ==Dates of celebration==
19: ...g on the civil ([[Gregorian calendar|Gregorian]]) date of [[January 7]] from [[1900]] to [[2099]]. The...
21: ...man world was the Natalis Solis Invicti, the Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun. - Louis Braille (1319 bytes)
3: ...e Louis injured his left eye with an awl from the workshop. This caused an infection in his left eye which a... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
28: ... 1980s, led by artists like [[Sandi Patti]] and [[Dallas Holm]], but it had largely been replaced by p...
39: The art form today is a widely varied one, using influences from al...
41: ...nce on [[Rhythm and blues]], and therefore a secondary influence on most later genres of popular music...
57: ...ic]] is usually used to refer to [[honky tonk]] today. Emerging in the [[1930s]] in the [[United State...
60: ...recording electronic music in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] - Music of the United States (1940s and 50s) (18910 bytes)
14: ...nd]] led a wave of [[country rock]] bands while [[David Bowie]] and other British performers saw [[gla...
20: ... southern California, where musicians like [[Dick Dale]] (''[[Surfer's Choice]]'') invented [[surf roc...
36: ...d the gritty realities of ghetto life with funky, danceable beats and led to the dominant sounds of so...
38: ...d across the world. [[Edwin Hawkins]] ("Oh Happy Day") was another major artist of the period. Begin...
42: ...album)|The Nice]]'') and [[The Moody Blues]] (''[[Days of Future Passed]]'') (both British) began rele... - Santa Claus (16146 bytes)
3: ...esents given to children on [[Christmas|Christmas Day.]] He forms part of the [[Christmas]] tradition ...
5: ...[Saint Basil]] whose memory is celebrated on that day.
8: ...Finland|Finnish]] [[Lapland, Finland|Lapland]], [[Dalecarlia]] in [[Sweden]], [[Greenland]], or [[Caes...
17: ..., in particular presenting the three impoverished daughters of a pious Christian with dowries so that ...
19: ...] who traditionally comes to Greece on New Year's Day riding on a donkey. Recently though, Greek tradi...
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