TURK MUSEUM
TURK MUSEUM Daniel Gottlob Turk (1750-1813) is commemorated by his adopted city of Halle because of the nurturing role he played in the musical life of the city, as …
LUDENDORFF BRIDGE MAP
LUDENDORFF BRIDGE MAP Everyone knew the bridge would be destroyedthe only question was when. The physical structure of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen no longer survives, but the bridge …
Hera & the Argive Heraion
The Argolid (the region of the northeast Peloponnese named from Argos) did not hold entirely happy associations for Hera. True, it was here that she was first wooed by …
ZUYLEN MUSEUM
ZUYLEN MUSEUM Visitors to the Utrecht area often go to the small 13th-century castle at Oud-Zuilen, now part of the northern suburb of Maarssen. Moated and turreted, Slot Zuylen …
TARTINI MUSEUM
TARTINI MUSEUM Giuseppe Tartini, the greatest violinist-composer and violin pedagogue of the mid-18th century and pioneer student of acoustics, spent all his working life in Italy. His home was …
SALGINATOBEL BRIDGE MAP
SALGINATOBEL BRIDGE MAP Crossing Salgina Gorge, near Schiers, Switzerland Designer/Engineer Robert Maillart Completed 1930 Span 295 feet (90 meters) Material Reinforced concrete Type Arch By eliminating everything but structure …
Iolcus in History & Today
The Mycenaean site at Dimini near \blos was first excavated at the end of the twentieth century. As a town and palace – the only Mycenaean palace in Thessaly …
WALTON MUSEUM
WALTON MUSEUM No composer could have chosen a home more idyllic than did William Walton when he settled in Ischia, in the Bay of Naples. And accordingly no composer …
TOSTI MUSEUM
TOSTI MUSEUM The title ‘Tosti’s Goodbye’ will have some resonances for older readers of this book. But the name of Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti is less familiar now than …
TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE MAP
TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE MAP The bridge’s explosive collapse was deemed “the Pearl Harbor of engineering.” On the morning of November 7, 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in 42-mile-an-hour …