This is the description of de l la idiotidiots. These were rebound, published later in the nineteenth century. But what they document is Napoleons Campaign in egypt and artists rendering of the landscape of egypt, pyramids, architecture, architectural elements, elements of the hieroglyphs, egyptian pottery, maps, diagrams of the layouts of pyramids, different historical sites around egypt. This is an era where there was no photography. This was a way to document and detailed the things napoleon and his army were capturing and a way to account for the riches of egypt that napoleon was hoping to bring back into france to the empire and also used as points of study for french architects and artists. This piece was another in a set from 1792 published during the french republic. About the history of louis the sixteenth. This is talking about the history of king louis and the start of the revolution. This kind of material gives us a perspective how the contemporaries, people who lived durin
We sat down with several local authors and took a tour of a local bookbinder. And coming up sunday, well be live for in depth. Bing west joins us for three hours to answer your questions. Mr. West will talk about the many books hes written on the vietnam, iraq and afghanistan wars as well as his experience during the vietnam war and his time as assistant secretary of defense for International Security affairs during the reagan administration. Visit us at booktv. Org. Sean strub talks his about life and aids diagnosis in the 1980s. He became the first openly gay hiv positive person to run for congress. This is about an hour. [applause] very lovely, thank you so much. Thank you. I, you know, i tell people about this tour that im going on, we have 40 some events, they say, oh, my god, youre going to be so exhausted. But i love it. I really enjoy getting out and talking to people, having the kind of conversations that have been arising at some of these events already. So im going to read j
Sean strub talks about his life and efforts to bring awareness to the a. I. D. S. Epidemic in the 1980s. In 1990, mr. Strub, who him has lived with a. I. D. S. For over three decades was the first h. I. V. Positive person to run for congress. This about an hour. Very lovely. Thank you so much. And thank you. I i tell people about the tours im going on. 40some events, going to be so exhausted. But i love it. I enjoy talking to people and having the kind of conversations that have been arising at some of these events already. So, im going to read just for a few minutes, five or six minutes, the prologue from the book, and then we can go into questions and answers, and okay. Theres so many people in this room i could go around thanking. Steve and carol, and the photography ive enjoyed for years and years, and angus and thomas and mark and ted, and i go over here and lauren, or managinged it for at poz. The reason we never missed a deadline the terms of delivering the magazine. Despite our
TOOMEY, Dr. Laura C. Dr. Laura C. Toomey, 79, of Bolton, passed away Saturday (July 26, 2008), after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Laura was born in Manchester, daughter of Olive and David Toomey and was a lifelong Bolton resident. She leaves her brothers, David C. Toomey, Jr. and his wife, Mae, Paul […]
The 35-year-old Cray, who competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics, clocked 50.31 seconds to beat Yeral Nunez (50.32sec) of Dominican Republic and Senegalese Ousmane Sidibe (50.63sec) and secure the gold medal of the six-men event.