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Military crisis Åland Islands dispute

in december 1917, fearing effects of russian october revolution, finnish parliament proclaimed finland sovereign state, calling on principles of national self-determination. same autumn, Ålanders had organized own self-determination, fearing saw excessive expressions of pro-finnishness , anti-swedishness in finland. time, above 90% of islands inhabitants considered swedish, stationed military personnel excluded, in contrast mainland finland, less 15% swedish-speaking. unlike in Åland, in previous twenty years social tensions had worsened considerably in finland. Ålanders answer wish secession grand duchy of finland , russian empire, felt little affiliation, , request annexation sweden. sweden s power elite was, however, preoccupied sweden s democratization commenced conservative cabinet in order quench revolutionary currents among swedish workers. effect, sweden got new liberal prime minister, , first time socialists in cabinet. although activist circles close royal court enthusiasti...

Places of interest Pereira, Colombia

bears @ ukumarí biopark. technological university of pereira, (planetarium , botanical garden of pereira technological university , guaducto, bamboo bridge). cathedral of our lady of poverty. lucy tejada, cultural centre. pereira museum of art jaime mejia archaeological museum sanctuary of our lady of fatima. consota recreational park: noah s farm eco-park, water park olympic venues: village, pools, tennis courts, basketball courts , velodrome. los nevados national natural park botanical garden of marseille plaza de bolívar , naked bolívar statue. circunvalar avenue, high end shopping boulevard victoria s city square parque arboleda shopping mall unicentro or unicenter, largest mall in coffee axis ^ cite error: named reference green invoked never defined (see page). ^ duncan r. j. ceramics of ráquira, colombia: gender, work, , economic change. university press of florida, 1998. p93. accessed @ google books 29 december 2013.

Paintings Sesshū Tōyō

view of ama-no-hashidate (c. 1502–1505), kyoto national museum although numerous works period bear sesshū s signature, name, or seal, few can securely attributed him. many either copies or works artist s pupils; , several painters, including hasegawa tōhaku, used sesshū s name artistic reasons. artists influenced sesshū s approach painting referred belonging school of sesshū (unkoku-rin school). perhaps important surviving work master so-called long scroll of landscapes (sansui chokan): 50-feet (15 meters) scroll depicting 4 seasons in sequence spring—summer—autumn—winter. usual period , work of sesshū s teacher tenshō shūbun, style , technique heavily influenced song-dynasty chinese paintings, in particular works of xia gui. however, sesshū alters chinese model introducing more pronounced contrast between light , shadow, thicker, heavier lines, , flatter effect of space. there 2 other large landscape scrolls attributed sesshū. smaller 4 seasons scroll (short scroll of landscapes) ...

Biography Sesshū Tōyō

shōkoku-ji, zen temple sesshū studied painting under shūbun around 1440 sesshū left bitchū kyoto, large city capital of japan. lived monk @ shōkoku-ji, famous zen temple. there, sesshū studied zen under shunrin suto (春林周藤), famous zen master, , painting under tenshō shūbun, highly regarded japanese painter of time. shūbun s style, of japanese zen painters, inspired chinese song dynasty painters such ma yuan, xia gui, guo xi, , others. there no surviving works sesshū period, late work shows similar influences. sesshū spent 20 years in kyoto, , left yamaguchi prefecture become chief priest of unkoku temple. around time started calling himself sesshū ( snow boat ). yamaguchi many japanese expeditions china started, , perhaps sesshū s choice of city dictated wish visit country. secured invitation Ōuchi clan, lords of yamaguchi , 1 of powerful families in japan, , joined trading trip; in 1468 landed in southern china. duties buy chinese works of art wealthy japanese patrons, , visit , study...

Venezuela 1799–1800 Alexander von Humboldt

humboldt , bonpland in amazon rainforest casiquiare river, scientific instruments, enabled them take many types of accurate measurements throughout five-year journey. oil painting eduard ender, 1856. map of cassiquiare canal based on humboldt s 1799 observations armed authorization king of spain, humboldt , bonpland made haste sail, taking ship pizarro coruña, on 5 june 1799. ship stopped 6 days on island of tenerife, humboldt climbed volcano teide, , sailed on new world, landing @ cumaná, venezuela, on 16 july. the ship s destination not cumaná, outbreak of typhoid on board captain changed course havana land in northern south america. humboldt had not mapped out specific plan of exploration, change did not upend fixed itinerary. later wrote diversion venezuela made possible explorations along orinoco river border of portuguese brazil. diversion, pizarro encountered 2 large dugout canoes each carrying 18 guayaqui indians. pizarro s, captain accepted offer of 1 of them serve pilot. humb...

AlphaSmart AlphaSmart

1 alphasmart 1.1 alphasmart pro 1.2 alphasmart 2000 1.3 alphasmart 3000 alphasmart the original alphasmart computer companion shipped in august 1993, , worked apple macintosh computers, plugging apple desktop bus (adb) port. model provided customers 16 pages of memory (32,000 bytes) 8 separate files (2 pages per file), accessed pressing corresponding function key. alphasmart took on aesthetics of computer intended partnered — had boxy, durable beige plastic case macintoshes of era. had 4 line lcd character display similar 1 find on appliances. each character displayed in own lcd box, making point size , font type fixed. alphasmart not display graphics, except ascii art. ran on 2 aa batteries, , used days @ time due clever power saving technique, sleeping in between keystrokes. there rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery (nicad) pack add-on customer purchase separately. the alphasmart models included couple of jokes, including reference hitchhiker s guide galaxy. if, while using cal...

Cray House Stevensville Historic District

the cray house the cray house, located on cockey lane, complete example of post-and-plank construction known exist. john denny purchased lot j. stevens in 1809. denny, ship carpenter, used construction method in walls formed tenoning horizontal planks slots cut vertical corner posts. after series of owners, sold @ auction in 1914 nora cray, widow lived there 3 children. nora cray s heirs deeded property kent island heritage society in 1976, , house restored in 2004. predates town of stevensville, , listed individually on national register of historic places.