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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [ 1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...
The National Arts Festival (NAF) is an annual festival of performing arts in Makhanda, South Africa. It is the largest arts festival on the African continent [2] and one of the largest performing arts festivals in the world by visitor numbers. [3] The festival runs for 11 days, from the last week of June to the first week of July every year.
University Seal, 1932-1949 National Sun Yat-sen University Wenming Road Campus, 1924-1935 Bell Tower, Hosting space of the 1st National Congress of Kuomintang (KMT).. In the beginning each the Sun Yat-sen Universities were adopted a statism educational model (中山大學模式) [5] and based on Sun Yat-sen's political philosophy, [6] present-day Sun Yat-sen University is the result of ...
Central Luzon State University is in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. It started as a farm school and in 1907 became Central Luzon Agricultural School (CLAS) with the intention of promoting agriculture and mechanics arts. Later, it included the promotion of homemaking arts among its commitments.
West is the lead author of a new study recently published in the journal BMJ Public Health that found that getting between 7 and 9 hours of sleep each night was optimal for brain health. The ...
Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku) or Tokyogeidai (東京芸大) is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, sculpture ...
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( Hungarian: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its main responsibilities are the cultivation of science, dissemination of scientific findings ...
Palace of Fine Arts. / 37.80278°N 122.44833°W / 37.80278; -122.44833. The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental structure located in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, originally built for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition to exhibit works of art. It was constructed from concrete and steel, and the ...