Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the Arab League countries are so engrossed with their quarrels with Israel and with Great Britain or France that they pay little heed to the menace of Soviet Communism. However, there is more concern where the Soviet Union is near, and in general, the northern tier of countries have an awareness of the danger. There is ... a vague desire to have a collective security system. -John Foster Dulles, June...
...marimo is a plant, a kind of alga (Aegagropila sauteri), found in three small patches of water in Lake Akan on the northern island of Hokkaido. Their name means "ball of fur," and fair-sized specimens look like green, fuzzy tennis balls. What makes them so dearly beloved is their quaint behavior...
...returned with his eyes aglow. Back home in Niirnberg, young Dürer began turning out drawings and prints that combined the high skills of medieval German craftsmanship with the new techniques and ideas he had discovered in Venice. The result was the opening of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer's prints and drawings became sought-after collectors' items and elevated graphic art into a recognized art form in its own right. Even in his preliminary drawings, such as the one he did for a now destroyed Frankfurt altarpiece (see cut). Dürer revealed the caliber...
...success of Dürer's work led the way for other German artists-Matthias Grünewald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Holbein the Younger and Martin Luther's great friend, Lucas Cranach-whose work made Germany for half a century the leader of the Northern Renaissance. The level of excellence achieved in this brief period is shown by Cranach's son and pupil, Lucas Cranach the Younger. Starting with a piece of paper tinted slightly pink, the young Cranach sketched the head and shoulders of the young Princess Elizabeth of Saxony (see color page) with quick brush...
...constant tinkering with the rules. It was struck a staggering blow in the last century when a group of losers in Toledo devised "Jack-Pots," which called for an ante before the deal, and jacks or better to open. A Southern gentleman named John Blackbridge fought back against this Northern plot to ruin the game. In 1879 he wrote: "[It is] as if one should be obliged every few minutes to stop playing poker and waste some chips purchasing tickets in a turkey raffle...