![]() ![]() The national government used military conscription to support frontier warfare with native peoples. ![]() ![]() Private ranches increasingly took over the vast, flat grasslands they inhabited. Benson Latin American Collection.Īt the time of the poem’s publication, Argentina’s gauchos, the nomadic horsemen and cowherds that roamed the Pampas of central Argentina, were a maligned and disappearing group. From left: Editions of Martín Fierro in Arabic, Guaraní, Spanish, and German. In spring 2022, graduate research assistants Melissa Aslo de la Torre and Janette Núñez organized an exhibition in honor of the poem’s sesquicentennial in the Rare Books Reading Room of the Benson Latin American Collection. IT HAS BEEN 150 YEARS since the publication of Argentina’s renowned epic poem, El gaucho Martín Fierro, by José Hernández. Courtesy Benson Latin American Collection. Color lithograph by Carlos Alonso depicting the unnamed Black characters who later face violence at the hands of Martín Fierro, from a 1960 edition of El gaucho Martín Fierro y La vuelta de Martín Fierro. ![]()
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Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history. ![]() #WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() For the first time, American flags were mass-produced rather than individually stitched, and even so, manufacturers could not keep up with demand.” “Suddenly,” Goodheart narrates, “the Stars and Stripes flew - as it does today, and especially as it did after September 11 - from houses, from storefronts, from churches above village greens and college quads. Anderson’s raising of the flag above Fort Sumter inspired thousands of ordinary Americans to do the same wherever their hands could reach. At a time when most federal installations in the South were being surrendered either by weak-willed local commanders or by treasonable officials in the War Department in Washington, and months before Abraham Lincoln took office, the Kentucky-born Anderson gave the first hope that secession would be resisted. The event that precipitated the new flag craze was Major Robert Anderson’s transfer of his Charleston garrison from the (indefensible) Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. ![]() When did Americans start flying flags on town greens?Īccording to Adam Goodheart in his widely (and justly) praised new history, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, the custom erupted in December 1860. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Stegner Fellow at Stanford, from 2008-2010, she has been named the 2010-11 Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won five Hopwood awards for essays, drama, and fiction. Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.Īs the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family-motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day.Ī big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. 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Sam is described as having disheveled sandy blond hair, hazel eyes and a small and skinny frame that according to John can't weigh more than a hundred pounds. ![]() "He's somewhat lanky, even though he's short." - John 4.2 I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Search for Sam.4.1 I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Guard. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Idris and Sabrina Elba are producing an anime series, Ariana Grande has a Spirited Away tattoo, Megan Fox is a fellow Moonie ( Sailor Moon fan), and John Boyega has a list of recommendations. Michael B Jordan practically lives in the Leaf Village. So yeah, Megan’s not the first weeb to livetweet their feelings about Attack on Titan’s Mikasa or proclaim that Ban from Seven Deadly Sins is her husband, and honestly, she’s not the only celebrity to reveal that they are in the know when it comes to anime. Even if that weren’t the case, Megan’s got a well-documented passion for anime, so why not show her love? As a Crunchyroll spokesperson said to Billboard back in 2019, “We’re finding that more and more celebrities and athletes are professing their love for anime, and it’s been great to see such prominent artists showing off pieces of art inspired by their favorite series.” After all, they collaborated on a clothing collection back in 2020. It’s no surprise that Crunchyroll gave her a shoutout. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most pleasure is to be obtained by living a simple life. Pleasure means freedom from pain in the body and trouble in the mind. Pleasure that leads to pain shoul be avoided and pain that leads to pleasure should not be avoided. Its key teachings included: Study science in order to rid yourself of unneccesary fears, especially of the gods and death. Epicureanism was a missionary philospohy, aiming to give man happiness by making him self-sufficient. Lucretius regarded him as the spiritual savior of mankind. Most of his writings have perished, particularly On Nature. Epicurus was born in Samos 341 BC, after Athens had been defeated by Philip II of Macedon. He faithfully reproduces the doctrines or Epicurus. 59 BC, possibly incomplete and lacking final revision. Notes mostly extracted from the text: Lucretius' only extant work, written in dactylic hexameter, addressed to Gaius Memmius (who became praetor in 58 BC and failed to be converted), written c. Promoting understanding of classical Epicureanism. ![]() Overall Impression: This is an interesting work to read, useful for Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 1997Īcknowledgement: Prepared from the Sphere Library book, translated Martin Ferguson Smith 1969. Titus Lucretius Carus: On the Nature of Things ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Queen that was promised" delivers big time. This is an awesome finale to the most awesome series, after reading that all other game of thrones are secondary. I love that quote and I honestly do not think it can be applied better to any other character. 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