VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MUSEUM
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MUSEUM Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in 1872 in rural Gloucestershire, in the southern Cotswolds. Those who hear the ancestral dialects of the West Country in his …
SATIE MUSEUM
SATIE MUSEUM Erik Satie began life in the Normandy fishing port of Honfleur. His parents lived near the esplanade at 90 rue Haute, where he was born on 17 …
PONTE SANT’ ANGELO BRIDGE MAP
PONTE SANT’ ANGELO BRIDGE MAP Crossing Tiber River, Rome Designer/Engineer Hadrian Completed c. a.d. 134 Span 60 feet (18 meters) Materials Masonry Type Arch Faced in travertine, a marble …
HOFFMANN MUSEUM
HOFFMANN MUSEUM If there is any composer whose commemoration demands imaginative treatment, it is surely E.T.A. Hoffmann. Hoffmann, poet, teller of tales, critic, illustrator and lawyer as well as …
PETRAUSKAS MUSEUM
PETRAUSKAS MUSEUM In 1930, the Petrauskas brothers, the composer of light opera Mikas (1873-1937) and the well-known operatic tenor Kipras (1885-1968), built a large, imposing house on a hill …
MEMORIAL BRIDGE MAP
MEMORIAL BRIDGE MAP Built in a key structural and economic location, the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge had to meet the kinds of challenges that the Hoover Dam (1936) …
Smoky Mountains Hiking Map
I’m informed that they have run out of Earl Grey but will English Breakfast suffice? “Of course,” I reply, laughing at the sheer preposterousness of drinking tea with the …
BROOKLYN BRIDGE MAP
BROOKLYN BRIDGE MAP LONGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE MAP 1883-1903 Crossing East River, Brooklyn-Manhattan, New York Designer/Engineer John A. Roebling Completed 1883 Span 1,595 feet (486 meters) Materials Steel, granite Type …