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3 days ago · Myron Hunt attended Northwestern University in Evanston, then studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, traveled in Europe for a few years, and finally returned to Evanston to work for the Boston-based firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. In 1899 he designed this Georgian Revival style six-unit apartment building on Clark Street.
5 days ago · Founded in 1768, The Encyclopedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language encyclopedia. It is written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors, including 110 Nobel Prize winners and five American presidents. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, which spans 32 volumes and 32,640 pages, was the last printed ...
2 days ago · Myron Hunt: San Marino: Former residence of Henry E. Huntington, now an art gallery. more images: Hearst Castle: Between 1919 and 1947: Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival: Julia Morgan: San Simeon: Built by William Randolph Hearst: more images: Filoli: 1915: Georgian Revival: Willis Polk: Woodside
3 days ago · Headwaters of the Missouri River, detail from Lewis and Clark Expedition map by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, 1804–06. On June 2, 1805, the expedition party arrived at a fork in the river. Not knowing which waterway was the principal stream, they sent out reconnaissance parties up both forks.
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6 days ago · European witchcraft is a multifaceted historical and cultural phenomenon that unfolded over centuries, leaving a mark on the continent's social, religious, and legal landscapes. The roots of European witchcraft trace back to classical antiquity when concepts of magic and religion were closely related, and society closely integrated magic and ...
3 days ago · Concept The Witches by Hans Baldung (woodcut), 1508. The concept of witchcraft and the belief in its existence have persisted throughout recorded history. According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions there is "difficulty of defining 'witches' and 'witchcraft' across cultures—terms that, quite apart from their connotations in popular ...
1 day ago · The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661–1662, The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 20, No, 1. (Autumn, 1980), pp. 90–108. Levack, Brian P. The witch hunt in early modern Europe, 3rd ed., London and New York: Longman, 2006. Macfarlane, Alan. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A regional and Comparative Study. New York and Evanston: Harper ...
