Maine, Sinking of the USS
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Maine, Sinking of the USS a U.S. battleship sent to protect American lives and property that exploded and sank in Havana on February 15, 1898, killing 260 men. Encouraged by the sensationalist press, the American public largely believed that Spanish forces mined the ship. In March, the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry found that an external explosion caused the sinking, rejecting viable alternative explanations. The true cause remains unknown, despite further official inquiries in 1911 and 1975. While many see the sinking as the final step to the
Spanish-American War (1898), this argument ignores President
William McKinley's attempts to avoid war for a month after the initial court's finding.
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Buddhist Reliquaries from Ancient India.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of this book is the Buddhist reliquaries which were found at Sanchi...much scholarly attention, the reliquaries and reliquary inscriptions have never been...revisited. In addition, the reliquaries have never been published as...
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The Change-up Artist.(Baseball Reliquary, baseball memorabilia exhibits)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...EXHIBITS AREN'T ALL REAL? THE BASEBALL RELIQUARY SEEKS TO BUST THE GAME'S MYTHS AND CELEBRATE ITS HIDDEN HISTORTY THE BASEBALL RELIQUARY doesn't really exist. It has no building...s forgotten history. Indeed, the reliquary presents baseball as a form of conceptual...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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SAINTLY VISIT; RELIQUARY EXHIBITION DRAWING THOUSANDS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 12/27/1999; 700+ words
; ...expected to visit the church before the reliquary is taken away on Tuesday. ``This is...Visitors will be allowed to see the reliquary between Masses at the church and all...after some friends told her about the reliquary tour. ``She was a very holy woman...
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Prelacy Publishes New Book on Reliquary of Skevra
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 1/1/1994; ; 545 words
; ...Prelacy Publishes New Book on Reliquary of Skevra. NEW YORK, NY...phenomena of medieval life and reliquaries are one of the most unique...without its portraits, the reliquary is quintessentially an embodiment...containers. "The Skevra Reliquary, for those of you who are...
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Eternal Ancestors: the Art of the Central African Reliquary.(exhibition preview)
Magazine article from: African Arts; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...designed to accompany reliquary ensembles come from...significance as elements of reliquaries in equatorial Africa...FIGURE 3 OMITTED] Reliquary figures constitute...aesthetic. ART OF THE RELIQUARY The works of African...Christian and Buddhist reliquaries from the Metropolitans...
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NUNS' ALL-NIGHT VIGIL WELCOMES RELIQUARY OF ST. THERESE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/24/1999; ; 677 words
; ...clock to celebrate the arrival of the reliquary of St. Therese, the Little Flower...popular saints of the 20th century. The reliquary, which contains bones from St. Therese...second of three New England stops for the reliquary, which is visiting the United States...
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 "The Arbroath Herald Guide and Gazette (Arbroath, Scotland)")
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'ENCOURAGIN RESPONSE' TO RELIQUARY REQUEST.
Newspaper article from: The Arbroath Herald Guide and Gazette (Arbroath, Scotland); 5/21/2008; 616 words
; ...Arbroath has taken the next step. The reliquary, thought to have been made in the 8th...King William the Lion, entrusted the reliquary into the care of the Abbey's monks...would be possible to bring the Monymusk Reliquary to Arbroath, preferably in the Abbey...
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Arts Minister places temporary export bars on two late gothic silver reliquary statuettes and a major painting by William Blake.
M2 Presswire; 10/23/2000; 700+ words
; ...export bars on two late gothic silver reliquary statuettes and a major painting by William...fifteenth-century silver and silver-gilt reliquary figures of Saint Sebastian and St Christopher...aesthetic value and technical quality of the reliquary statuettes and the watercolour's importance...
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Cyclops 2000.(1) A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; WUORINEN Cyclops 2000.1 A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky * Oliver Knussen...relics," Wuorinen composed the Reliquary, an orchestral work in six linked...may be because I already knew the Reliquary, but I found Cyclops 2000 a tougher...
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ARBROATH COULD BORROW MONYMUSK RELIQUARY.
Newspaper article from: The Arbroath Herald Guide and Gazette (Arbroath, Scotland); 3/7/2008; 558 words
; ...National Museum of Scotland for a loan of the Monymusk Reliquary. The reliquary, also known as the Breccbennach, is currently...explore the possibility of securing a loan of the Reliquary if it I is financially feasible to do so."
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reliquary
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
reliquary. Receptacle in which the Relics...erected to house shrines or reliquaries, and so may be regarded, by extension, as reliquaries themselves (e.g. Cologne...which contains the lovely reliquary of the Magi).
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Arts: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...is readily apparent if we compare the reliquary effigy of St. Foy at Conques in France...was contained in this elaborate jeweled reliquary, which stood in the choir of the church...that circles the space. The head of the reliquary was salvaged from a late Roman face guard...
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metalwork
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...precious metal. Bigger objects, such as reliquaries, often consisted of a wooden core with...and creation of a number of important reliquaries. Several showed the influence of Viking...7th and 8th centuries. Some of the reliquaries made during this period, such as the...
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chase
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...contemp. with synon. enchase , of which it may be an aphetic deriv.; perh. — (O)F. enchâsser enclose in a reliquary, put a gem in a setting, f. EN- 1 + châsse casket, reliquary :- L. capsa CASE 2 .
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goldwork
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...with a splendid display of color and inlaid jewels. In the later Middle Ages a wealth of golden ecclesiastical crosses, reliquaries, sacred vessels, and altar fronts were produced throughout Europe in a diversity of styles and techniques but consistently...
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