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...forgotten. When Zheng He's ships first called on Champa, the powerful Hindu kingdom had dominated central Vietnam for more than 1,000 years. The haven described by the fleet's Chinese chronicler Ma Huan was the rough port town of Qui Nhon, where sarong-wearing, wiry-haired Cham ivory merchants and slave traders plied their wares. Yet in 1471, less than 70 years later, the northern Annam kingdom of ethnic Vietnamese conquered the Chams, driving them south and scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient...
...Sire, do not talk to me of small projects," said the Great Cham of baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris. Foster is too much of a democrat to echo that sentiment, but it's a fact that his imagination runs naturally on the epic scale and that, more surprisingly, large size doesn't diminish the humanistic and spiritual qualities of his buildings...
SUNDAY W. HOCKEY 9, Yale 0 INDIANA 7, W. Water Polo 4 SOUTHWEST MO. 1, Softball 0 SOFTBALL 1, Northern Iowa 0 SOUTHEAST MO. 5, Softball 1 Fencing at NCAA Regionals (NYU) Wyant at NISRA Indiv. Cham...
FRIDAY M. HOCKEY 5, Vermont 3 Wrestling at EIWAs (3rd) Squash at NISRA Indiv. Cham. (Penn...
...Pupil of David, history-painter." So he identified himself: heir to the Great Cham of French neoclassicism, Jacques-Louis David, and practitioner of the most exalted kind of art, the art that interpreted myth and history to an educated audience. (He never painted a still life and rarely did landscapes except as background to human figures.) But classicism means different things to different artists, and we need an idea of what it meant to him. It had very little to do with the rendition of abstractly idealized form, derived from Greco-Roman statuary. Other and lesser artists who had been...