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museum's collection. The most treasured of their gifts to the collection is an outstanding Greek vase, or Hydria (470–460 BC) by the Painter of the Yale Oinochoe. This lovely black |
vase depicts scenes of daily life painted in red. General Hirsch died while on a trip to Hong Kong on August 5, 1983, after a lifetime of work as a |
lawyer and philanthropist. Mrs. Hirsch continued to actively support the Hirsch Library until her death in 1990 aboard her yacht, Athena. Mrs. Hirsch bequeathed her jewelry collection to the Hirsch |
Library, and its sale at Christie's, New York, on April 25, 1991, added significantly to the library's endowment. Hirsch Library Renovation and Expansion By 1989, the library's stacks were overflowing. |
A renovation in September of that year added high-density compact shelving and reduced the number of periodicals in storage, enabling the library collection to double in size. This was a |
temporary measure, however, with a plan for an expansion of the library scheduled to coincide with the opening of the new Audrey Jones Beck building in 2000. In 1991, the |
library subscribed to its first online periodical index, Art Index, which greatly simplified searching for citations to art periodicals. Meanwhile, a plan for the library’s own online system was in |
the works. By 1998, the library established its first fully automated online catalog, which provided access to the library's holdings at your fingertips—both within the library and via the Internet. |
In the fall of 2000, a renovation of the Hirsch Library began that would significantly increase its physical size from 3,900 to 8,400 square feet. The library opened to the |
public in May of 2001 with an elegantly enlarged reading room on the main floor of the museum overlooking the Alice Pratt Brown Garden, and a downstairs area housing the |
main stacks, vertical files, rare book collection, and cataloging offices. The original space on the main floor was redesigned to incorporate an online resources room, an expanded current periodicals area, |
and work space for the library staff. Kitty King Powell Library and Study Center at Bayou Bend Shortly after the completion of Hirsch Library’s new facility in 2001, Tropical Storm |
Allison caused significant damage to the Bayou Bend Visitor Center, necessitating the temporary relocation of 5,000 books and periodicals from the Bayou Bend Library to the Hirsch Library at the |
MFAH, where it received full-time supervision and maintenance by library staff. In September of 2010, the completion of the Lora Jean Kilroy Visitor and Education Center and the establishment of |
the newly named Kitty King Powell Library and Study Center at Bayou Bend enabled the return of the Bayou Bend Library and Hogg Family Collections to their proper home. Now |
staffed with its own librarian and library assistant, the Powell Library and Study Center is available to the general public, docents, and staff in a location only a short walk |
from the actual artworks and artifacts on display at Bayou Bend. Kitty King Powell’s support of this new library facility reflects her love of libraries and her years of service |
as a Bayou Bend docent. Today, more than 7,000 patrons visit the Hirsch and Powell Libraries annually. The libraries provide reference assistance and bibliographic instruction to museum professional staff, docents, |
and members, as well as to college and university art history students, teachers, and the general public. Please contact us to arrange a tour of one of the libraries, or |
Up: Main article New Two polygons, PP Class 11, [cmm,d2,d1], IH Class 26. Statistics on this tiling: - Tiling has symmetry - Tiling has 2 polygons and 10 edges. - |
Edges are completely connected. - Tiling is edge-to-edge. - Tiling satisfies the two-polygon condition. - Contains 2 pointed star with vertex angle of 60°. - Contains one non-regular polygon which |
Featured in Exhibitions More about Environmentally Concerned Photography Environmentally Concerned Photography is a photographic examination of how the landscape has been altered by human incursion and the forces of nature. The course includes readings, research techniques, presentation forms, as well |
By Allen C. Guelzo What's in a name? A great deal, if it happens to be Stephen A. Douglas. A hundred and fifty years ago, Stephen Arnold Douglas was the most powerful politician in America. He had begun his political |
career as a hyper-loyal Andrew Jackson Democrat, snatched up one of Illinois' U.S. Senate seats in 1846, and rose from there to the heights of Congressional stardom by helping the great Henry Clay cobble together the Compromise of 1850 - |
which effectively averted civil war over the expansion of slavery into the West for another decade. No man was a more obvious presidential candidate than Douglas, and in 1860, he won his party's nomination to the presidency. That, unhappily for |
Douglas, was when the cheering stopped. He made the magnificent mistake, when running for re-election to the Senate in 1858, of agreeing to debate the new Republican party's anti-slavery candidate, Abraham Lincoln. Although Douglas managed to win the election, Lincoln |
handled him so relentlessly, exposing the failure of Douglas's policies on slavery during the duo's seven open-air debates, that Lincoln emerged as a national contender, while Douglas lost legions of disappointed supporters. When Douglas faced Lincoln again in the presidential |
campaign of 1860, Douglas's party fractured into three pieces and guaranteed Lincoln's election by default. Douglas died only eight months later. Still, Douglas's name was revered by Illinois Democrats for a generation afterward. In the 1920s, Progressive Democrats adopted Douglas |
as a model of moderate statesmanship, trying to hold off the destructive fanaticism of both pro- and anti-slavery radicals. Biographers of Lincoln and Douglas alike - Albert Beveridge on the Lincoln side, Robert Johannsen on Douglas's side - praised Douglas |
for taking the practical road to compromise, unlike the ideologues whose fervor eventually triggered the Civil War. In 1963, Illinois governor Otto Kerner, who would later chair the famous National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, praised Douglas for creating the |
Illinois Central railroad and the University of Chicago, and in 1975, Chicago mayor Richard Daley, a life-long admirer of Douglas, founded a Stephen A. Douglas Association to promote the observation of Douglas's birthday. And, on top of it all, a |
residence hall - one of three named for famous Illinois politicians - was built at Eastern Illinois University with Douglas's name on it. Douglas Hall, a 200-bed residence hall built in the 1950s, may have been the most innocuous of |
all the memorializations of Stephen A. Douglas. But not after November 9th. That's when the EIU Faculty Senate, acting on a proposal from Associate Professor of English Christopher Hanlon, voted to remove Douglas's name from the residence hall. This was |
not the first time the "Douglas" in Douglas Hall had been challenged, but this time, Hanlon cast his objections as a statement on race. Stephen A. Douglas, Hanlon argued, "gave voice to a contemptuous view of African Americans, a view |
that has long since been recognized as incompatible with modern American democracy." And it is true that Douglas supported the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (it was part of the Compromise), backed legislation which tore up laws banning the expansion |
of slavery into the Western territories, and in his debates with Lincoln, spoke of blacks in terms so demeaning they would make a Klansman blush. Douglas addressed Illinoisans in 1858 with the ringing affirmation that "this government of ours is |
founded on the white basis." During the debates with Lincoln Douglas made a specialty of race-baiting in the most foul-mouthed fashion: I ask you, are you in favor of conferring upon the negro the rights and privileges of citizenship? Do |
you desire to strike out of our state's constitution that clause which keeps slaves and free negroes out of the state, and allow the free negroes to flow in, and cover your prairies with black settlements? Do you desire to |
turn this beautiful state into a free negro colony in order that when Missouri abolishes slavery, she can send one hundred thousand emancipated slaves into Illinois to become citizens and voters on an equality with yourselves? If you desire negro |
citizenship, if you desire to allow them to come into the state and settle with the white man, if you desire them to vote on an equality with yourselves, and to make them eligible to office, to serve on juries, |
and to judge your rights, then support Mr. Lincoln and the Black Republican party, who are in favor of the citizenship of the negro. And although he tried to distract notice from it, Douglas was even the legal owner of |
slaves, which had come to him through the estate of his father-in-law and which he managed as a trust for his two under-age sons. It is easy to read Hanlon's charge that Douglas "bears a dishonorable record of public service |
and is hence undeserving of public acclaim and honor" as simply another sanctimonious exercise in air-brushing the racially-insensitive and diversity-intolerant out of college and university histories. And this has provoked some equally-predictable push-back from historians like EIU's Mark Summers, who |
argues that "trying to find historical actors who fully abided my own moral judgments was a fruitless exercise... because our world today is too different from the world occupied by predecessors who spoke and acted in the past." Douglas was, |
in other words, a man of his time, when white supremacist attitudes were actually mainstream, and should not be judged by "presentist" attitudes. In the case of Stephen A. Douglas, however, I'm on the side of removing the name, and |
not just because of race. Douglas's entire policy toward race and slavery arose from an even more toxic assumption, which Douglas deified as the principle of "popular sovereignty." In Douglas's dictionary, democracy is an end in itself, and democratic process |
amounts entirely to consulting what a majority of the people want at any given time. If the voters wanted to legalize slavery, so be it; if not, that was up to them, too, so long as they did not attempt |
to force this conviction on others. "The principle of self-government is, that each community shall settle this question for itself... and we have no right to complain, either in the North or the South, whichever they do." Douglas liked to |
speak of this as an example of what he called "diversity;" but in the context of the crisis over slavery in the 1850s, what it meant in practical terms was that "If Kansas wants a slave-State constitution she has a |
right to it.... I do not care whether it is voted down or voted up." Lincoln, by contrast, believed that democracy was a means, not an end in itself, and that it was a means toward realizing in the fullest |
fashion the natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which Nature and Nature's God had hard-wired into every human being. There was a line, drawn by natural right, beyond which no majority and no democracy could or |
should go, and on the far side of that line was slavery. Douglas's politics were the politics of the pitchfork, devoid of moral principle and respecting nothing except force. Lincoln believed that "moral principle is all that unites us," and |
that Douglas's popular sovereignty was merely a kind face on mob rule. Wed that notion to white supremacy, and you get the real offense of Stephen A. Douglas. In the long run, the EIU resolution is little more than pin-prick. |
It would have been far better if they had gone to the root of Douglas's problem, which was his utter political amorality. That's what needs banishing, not only from the addresses of residence halls, but from our halls of representatives, |
The genus Solenopsis includes both the "fire ants", known for their aggressive nature and potent sting, and the minute "thief ants", many of which are lestobiotic subterranaen or arboreal species that are rarely collected. Many species may be polygynous. Generic |
level identification of Solenopsis is relatively straight forward, although sizes are greatly variable ranging from approximately 1.0 mm to over 4.0 mm. The genus can be basically characterized by the following: mandible with four teeth (usually), bicarinate clypeus with 0-5 |
teeth, median part of clypeus with a pair of longitudinal carinae medially or at lateral edges, 10-segmented antennae that terminates in a distinctive 2-segmented club, overall shiny appearance and general lack of or reduced sculpture (when present usually restricted to |
rugulae or striae on the head, alitrunk, petiole, and postpetiole), lack of propodeal spines or other protuberances on the alitrunk, well developed petiole and postpetiole, and a well developed sting. Workers are either polymorphic (especially in the fire ant group) |
or monomorphic (especially thief ants). The thief ant group shares these characteristics, but workers are minute (usually under 2.0 mm in total length), usually have minute eyes (usually with only 1-5 ommatidia (rarely more than 18, except for S. globularia |
The second generation Titans Prometheus (the son of Iapetus and a cousin of Zeus) and Epimetheus were initially not punished, as their relatives such as Atlas who participated in the Titanomachy, a fight with the father of all Gods Zeus. |
Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus (“gifted with afterthought”) were asked of forming man from water and earth (Prometheus formed the shape while Athena breathed life into the figure), which he did, but in the process, became fonder of men than |
Zeus had anticipated. Zeus didn't share Prometheus' feelings and wanted to keep men from having power, especially of fire. The fire symbolizes knowledge and knowledge and intelligence together with arrogance (“Blessed are the poor in spirit”) would probably make Zeus |
and the other gods obsolete. Prometheus cared more for man than for the wrath of the increasingly powerful and autocratic Zeus, so he stole fire from Zeus' lightning, concealed it in a hollow stalk of fennel, and brought it to |
man. He also stole skills from Hephaestus and Athena to gave to man. Zeus reacted by presenting to man Pandora (also called Anesidora “sender up of gifts” ), the first woman. While Prometheus may have crafted man, woman was a |
different sort of creature. She came from the forge of Hephaestus, beautiful as a goddess and beguiling. Note that she is not like her Jewish counterpart: Eve was created to soothe Adam's loneliness, and to help him as a partner. |
Pandora, the first woman in Greek myth, was created as a punishment to mankind. Her name does not mean "giver of all gifts" - rather "she to whom all gifts were given" - the gods gave her beauty (Aphrodite), skill |
(Athena), while Hermes gave her a doglike (bitch-like?) mind and a thieving nature. "All (pantes) the gods gave her gifts (dora), a sorrow to men who live on bread." Zeus wanted to punish mankind for Prometheus' theft of fire - |
he decided to give them a "beautiful evil" (kalon kakon) "to pay for fire" (anti pyros). Hephaestus makes the woman out of earth and water, to look like a goddess. Thus Pandora - and through her all women, who are |
her descendants - has a beautiful exterior, but is worthless inside. Prometheus, whose name means “forethought,” or “he who thinks ahead,” is a figure whom Steiner refers to as the Greek Lucifer. Prometheus awakened a consciousness in humans that was |
too dangerous in the eyes of Zeus, so Zeus had Prometheus chained to a rock in the Caucasus mountains. But Prometheus is patient, for he knows a secret that is not known to Zeus. In the future, Zeus will lie |
with a mortal woman, Io, and she will give birth to a son, who will start a line of descent leading to the birth of Hercules or Heracles, meaning “he who is called by Hera.” This great hero, whom Steiner |
indicates is a portent of Christ Jesus, will grow up to succeed Zeus in his position of authority as Law-giver in the heavens. Heracles will also kill the vulture that eats Prometheus' liver, and then liberate the great Greek Lucifer. |
Tom Mellett ALBERT EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY AS RUDOLF STEINER'S FINAL “RIDDLE OF Philosophy, Journal for Anthroposophy, Number 60, Spring 1995 issue, pp. 51-63) Zeus presented her as a bride to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus (whom Prometheus, expecting retribution for his |
audacity, had warned against accepting gifts from Zeus), along with a box that they were instructed to keep closed. Epimetheus was dazzled by Pandora and forgot the advice of his prescient brother. Unfortunately, one day while her husband was away, |
Pandora opened the box. In the process, she unleashed all the evils now known to man, but retaining Hope . No longer could man loll about all day, but he would have to work and would succumb to illnesses. So |
for the Greeks the woman was crated as a punishment for man. What is the reason of the creation of the woman according to the Bible? Why did God produce male and female versions of all animals but only a |
man Adam initially. Why did he not create also Eve separately and why did he use material from Adam? Both stories, the Greek and the Christian version are mythological stories to explain the superiority of mens over women. The Greek |
version says that people were created by throwing stones, in the Bible Eve and Adam had two sons but how were their children produced? Her act ends the Golden Age. She serves the same mythic function as Eve in Genesis. |
In both the Bible and Greek myth, humanity pays a price for knowledge: loss of innocence, peace and loss of paradise. “While saving him from mental darkness, Prometheus brought to man all the tortures which accompany self-consciousness: the knowledge of |
his responsibility to the whole of nature; the painful results of all wrong choices made in the past, since free-will and the power of choice go hand in hand with self-consciousness; all of the sorrows and sufferings -- physical, mental |
and moral -- to which thinking man is heir. Prometheus accepted these tortures as inevitable under the Law, knowing that the soul can develop only through its own experience, willing to pay the price for every experience gained”. THEOSOPHY, Vol. |
27, No. 12, October, 1939 Deucalion and Pyrrha , Metamorphoses Bk I: 367-415 , Solis Eventually Hercules rescued Prometheus, and Zeus and the Titan were reconciled. Zeus became angry enough with conditions on earth that he summoned other gods to |
a conference at his heavenly palace. Zeus (like the Christian God) decided to destroy humankind and to provide the earth with a new race of mortals more worthy of life and more reverent to him. Zeus feared that the destruction |
of humankind by fire might set heaven itself aflame, so he called for assistance from a god of the sea, and humankind was instead swept away by a great flood. The great flood is a common mythological story in many |
cultures, for example the myth of Noah in the Old Testament, and probably there was once such a great flood in reality, an event that was incrorporated in various mythological stories. Meanwhile, Prometheus had sired the human Deucalion (some say |
as his son with Clymene or Celaeno) one of the noble couple whom Zeus had spared when he caused the creatures of the earth to be destroyed by a flood. Deucalion was married to his cousin Pyrrha, the daughter of |
Epimetheus and Pandora. During the flood, Deucalion and Pyrrha had stayed safe on a boat. When all the other evil humans had been destroyed Zeus caused the waters to recede so that Deucalion and Pyrrha could come to land on |
Mount Parnassus. While they had each other for company, and they could produce new children, they were lonely and sought help from the oracle of Themis. He was told to “toss the bones of his mighty mother over his shoulder”, |
that he and Pyrrha understood to be “Gaia” the mother of all living things and the bones to be rocks. Following the advice, they threw stones over their shoulders. From those thrown by Deucalion sprang men and from those thrown |
by Pyrrha came women. That is why people are called laoi, from laas, "a stone." [Apollodorus 1.7.2] "...I remember in Plutarch's works, what is worth relating that I read there, that by the Pigeon sent forth of the Ark, in |
Deucalions flood, was shown, that the waters were sunk down, and the storms past...." Then they had their own child, a boy whom they called Hellen and after whom the Greeks were named Hellenes... Other children were Thyia, and the |
Leleges all forming the various groups of Greeks (see Map below). For Greeks it is left as an exercise to find out the corresponding group they belong and their corresponding root! For others, i.e. barbarians :-) see their corresponding myth |
(Noah,....,etc). From myth back to history. Between 1900 and 1600 BC Greeks or Hellenes, a branch of the Indo-European speaking people, were simple nomadic herdsmen. They came from the east of the Caspian Sea and entered the Greek peninsula from |
the north in small groups. The first invaders were the fair-haired Achaeans of whom Homer wrote. The Dorians came 3-4 centuries later and subjugated their Achaean kinsmen. Other tribes, the Aeolians and the Ionians, found homes chiefly on the islands |
in the Aegean Sea and on the coast of Asia Minor. The land that these tribes invaded was the site of a well-developed civilization. The people who lived there had cities and palaces. They used gold and bronze and made |
pottery and paintings. The Greek invaders were still in the barbarian stage. They plundered and destroyed the Aegean cities. Gradually, as they settled and intermarried with the people they conquered, they absorbed some of the Aegean culture. About the etymology |
of Prometheus it could be derived from Pramanthas, a member of the Vedic family of fire-worshipping priests of the fire god Agni. Adam. In Greek this word is compounded of the four initial letters of the cardinal quarters: Arktos, [Greek: |
clay was collected by Azrael from the four quarters of the earth, and God, to show His approval of Azrael's choice, constituted him the angel of death.—Rabadan. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. After the fall Adam was placed on mount |
Vassem in the east; Eve was banished to Djidda (now Gedda, on the Arabian coast); and the Serpent was exiled to the coast of Eblehh. After the lapse of 100 years Adam rejoined Eve on mount Arafaith [place of Remembrance], |
near Mecca.—D'Ohsson. Death of Adam. Adam died on Friday, April 7, at the age of 930 years. Michael swathed his body, and Gabriel discharged the funeral rites. The body was buried at Ghar'ul-Kenz [the grotto of treasure], which overlooks Mecca. |
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