Word: 1860s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the first view of the elaborately decorated set to the final glimpse of the jeweled costumes, The King and I at the Wang is an absolute treat for the eyes. Director Christopher Renshaw and scenic designer Brian Thompson use many beautiful details to create Thailand in the 1860s, including 14 30-foot tall bejeweled golden elephants, exquisite replications of Thai furniture and red and gold attired servants in traditional gold Thai headdresses. The muted crimson and violet lighting and the goldtiled altars and thrones add perfectly to the overall effect of opulent elegance. One could easily...
...research with primary sources on a topic of their choosing; the paper is worth 25 percent of the final grade; several workshops are offered and handouts distributed on how to write a strong history paper. Still, although students spend countless hours in Gov Docs scanning hundreds of pages of 1860s newspapers, after the 10-15 page paper was done, the process was over. I argued that Jews in Cincinnati were both Americanized and solidified as a group as a result of the Civil War. What did William write about? Or Miriam...
...State, famous for potatoes, continuous snow in winter, and Ruby Ridge, sometimes seems like two states in one: the southern section, with its flourishing high-tech industries and conservative Republican politics, influenced by the substantial Mormon population that migrated north from Utah in the 1860s, and the more remote northern areas, filled with Idaho's notorious militias and survivalists. At some level, resentment of government seems to unite the Idaho population, probably because the Feds own 65% of the state's land, including national forest and wilderness areas; and this year's hot-button issue is the huge Idaho National...
When questioned on the relevance of his own party to the American political process, Stowe cites the gains made by the new Republican party in the 1850s and 1860s as an example worthy of emulation...
...crimes of the Nazi state were perhaps more shocking than those of the Confederacy because the Germans regressed from modernity to primitive cruelty. In the 1860s, the South had not yet progressed to a modern mindset. Even a century later, it was painfully obvious that the South had made few steps away from its abject backwardness. Just a generation ago, the South shocked the entire world with its inhuman brutality-footage of redneck goons attacking peaceable black men, women and children with pressurized fire hoses and police dogs was broad-cast to millions...