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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Horsemen"”.
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Nuance, Encounter and Restorative Justice: How the Black Horsemen of Philadelphia reshape mythic narratives and reclaim spatial agency
If woven together, the three stories I have told within the three dissertation articles produce a historical, cultural and personal product for the Black horse riding community and for the city of Philadelphia. Throughout the research process, I documented and also helped create community. As a …
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The production of light horses
… superior horses; through the efforts of Virginia horsemen has been evolved a type of animal adapted to pleasure, to work, and to general-purpose functions. Although mechanical power is utilized on some farms, the motor has not usurped, and cannot usurp, the place of the light horse for purposes …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… the Roman legions. The tapestry displays rushing horsemen mounted on vigorous horses, marching spearmen, and supine warriors, imagery common to Flemish battle tapestries from the last quarter of the sixteenth century. Framing the battle scene is a grotesque style border composed of gods placed …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… the Roman legions. The tapestry displays rushing horsemen mounted on vigorous horses, marching spearmen, and supine warriors, imagery common to Flemish battle tapestries from the last quarter of the sixteenth century. Framing the battle scene is a grotesque style border composed of gods placed …
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The horse in European history, 1550-1900
… schools and equestrian academies as evidence of horsemen’s power, which held firm until at least the end of the eighteenth century. But the thesis argues that, during the course of the nineteenth century, the driving classes, who favoured the breeding of draught horses and whose views were …
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Seeds of Passage
… the Nobel Prize winning play, Death and the Horsemen, by Wole Soyinka. The play is based on the incident that took place in 1946 in the western region of Nigeria, when the cosmological traditions of a colonizing power clashed with those of the indigenous culture. I use found (repurposed) …
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A Safe House for Orphan Parts an Architectural Proposal for a US Center for Illicit Antiquities
… “a huge stone Buddha from India, terra-cotta horsemen from China, reliefs from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen” Unlike the carefully curated collections at institutions like the Met, these pieces are a wildly varying group of rescues. These looted “parts” become displaced from their site or museum …
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The shepherd of the hills
… the Spring." Daniel encounters a group of hooded horsemen, the Baldknobbers, on the trail, luckily off the road when they pass him, and a young girl, Sammy Lane, who befriends him and becomes his contact with the closed-world of the Ozark Hills. Sammy has a need for Daniel's friendship, too, …
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Esoterika
… two tales that are hard to quantify: "The Three Horsemen," a fantasy with a heavy theological influence and "One Nation under Ground," a hard to label epistolary/historical fiction/sci fi/ thriller. Although it seems an astronomical improbability that these varied stories could fit well into a …
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The Conflict Between Thomas Becket and Henry II
… spire of Harrow. Guided by this landmark, two horsemen in the year 1143 or thereabouts made their way from London to the Court of Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, which was at the archiepiscopal manor of Harrow-on-the-Hill.|The one was a plain serving-man, whose name was Ralph of London. The …
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Poetry and Performance: Listening to a Multi-vocal Canada
… of Canadian poets and performances: The Four Horsemen (Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, and bpNichol), dance adaptations of Michael Ondaatje’s poems, George Elliott Clarke’s poetic libretti, and Robert Bringhurst’s polyphonic poetry. Following the Introduction’s outlining …
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The evolution and development of the Australian Light Horse, 1860-1945
… Influenced by social ideas about citizen soldier horsemen and a senior officer with firm views, this model continued to be used by the new Light Horse until well into the First World War. During that war it was gradually discovered that this military model had its limitations and by the end of the …
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Wie man ein 'Weltfest des Pferdesports' erfindet - Das Aachener Spring-, Reit- und Fahrturnier 1924 bis 1939
… of Aachen, prominent officials and outstanding horsemen. The Aachen horse riding championship is in a cursory manner used as a model to identify changes in the mentality of the middle classes, their bourgeois self-confidence, values and goals in the 20th century. The tournament can be seen as a …