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Porter Explores Artists' Creative Tensions
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Wabash College issued the following news release:
Professor Porter plays 'the greatest piece of American music" in Salter Hall on Sunday, October 26. Click here for details.
The Roman poet Horace was the subject of David Porter's lecture Thursday night, but the best quote of the evening came from a cellist.
"Pablo Casals was a teenager and already a world-famous cellist when he had a skiing accident in which his fingering hand was crushed," Porter, the Williams College Professor of the Liberal Arts explained. "Casals wrote, 'My friends were aghast, but when I looked at my mangled, bloody ...
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Prince Henry 'The Navigator': A Life. (Geographical Reviews).
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review
; PRINCE HENRY 'THE NAVIGATOR': A Life. By PETER RUSSELL. xvi and...biography the familiar face of Prince Henry greets us in a portrait that can claim...quotation marks in the title, Prince Henry 'The Navigator': A Life, announce...
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An explorer's leap of faith There must be something out there, thought Henry the Navigator as he gazed out to sea from the tip of Portugal in the 15th century. His determination to discover new lands led to the birth of a great empire, says JEREMY ATIYAH
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...that drove Henry the Navigator to look for new worlds...seated, inquisitive Henry, wrapped in a turban...the Fim do Mundo that Henry, nearly 600 years ago...and geographers and navigators and cartographers...the appended title of Navigator. Henry was no traveller. But...
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Prince Henry "the Navigator": a Life.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of World History
; ...the fifteenth century: Prince Henry, Infante de Portugal, the Navigator. Revisiting a subject that...of his first studies, Prince Henry, the Navigator (London, circa...Crusade from John of Gaunt to Henry the Navigator--Peter Russell...
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Prince Henry `the Navigator'.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History Today
; Prince Henry `the Navigator' A Life Peter Russell Yale university...legendary figure of Portugal's Prince Henry `the Navigator'. Russell's quotation...Russell uses this background to position Henry's role in what was to become a primary...
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Prince Henry `the Navigator': A Life.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; Peter Russell, Prince Henry `the Navigator': A Life (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University...figure are his succinct and tantalizing Prince Henry the Navigator (1960), and his 1983 lecture Prince Henry the Navigator. The Rise and Fall of a Culture...
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Book review: To the end of the world and beyond Prince Henry "the Navigator": A Life By Peter Russell YALE pounds 20
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...expedition's sponsor, Henry, younger son of the...Known to history as "the Navigator", Henry never went anywhere much...metamorphosed into the Navigator. Henry's geography...In practice, it seems Henry's crews sailed on sheer...
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Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life. By Peter Russell. New Haven...balanced portrayal of the life of Prince Henry (1394-1460). And balanced also in...prevent him from presenting Prince Henry's life in terms of a single argument...
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Prince Henry "The Navigator": a Life.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...the heavy debt load accumulated by Prince Henry which remained unpaid at his death. Henry the Navigator can also be considered as an exemplar of...Portuguese missions abroad. The tomb of Prince Henry at Batalha was made on his instructions during...
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PRINCE HENRY 'THE NAVIGATOR' - A LIFE.(Review)
Magazine article from: African Business
; ...Joao I, the king of Portugal. His name was Henry, later to be known as Henry the Navigator, and he would make a mark in history as a pioneer...common with most European Christian rulers, Henry was motivated by the desire to win his God...
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What lurked below.(the story of how Portugese prince Henry the Navigator launched the Age of Exploration in Europe)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...all: their dread of the unknown. Henry the Navigator, the 15th-century Portuguese...ship with one hand. "I marvel," Henry complained, "at the imaginings...marvel equally at what possessed Henry. Even as he scorned the superstitions...
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