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Smiley operates a Web site, efsmaps.com, which offers for sale several maps, mostly of U.S. locations and drawn in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries...
Bois said that the department still seeks to fill endowed chairs in Spanish and South and Southeast Asian art, and to hire for positions in seventeenth-century European and pre-Columbian art and modern architecture...
...While seventeenth-century records attest to Iacoomes’ academic prowess—he impressed then-Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop in a 1663 Latin oral examination—he was shipwrecked off the coast of Nantucket as he returned to Cambridge from Martha’s Vineyard. He died sometime in the summer of 1665—before Commencement, which in the seventeenth century took place at the end of the summer...
According to historians, only Wampanoag Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck graduated from the College before the building fell into disuse and was ultimately demolished during the late seventeenth century. Native Americans did not attend Harvard University again until the 1970s...
...Petting Zoo follows “a hotshot painter” who has a nervous breakdown after viewing the work of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Carroll explains, “he thinks he sees in Velazquez’s work a spiritual element…and he thinks his paintings and those of his contemporaries are spiritually bereft.” The young painter then spends 72 hours in a psychological observation unit–“because they can do that if they think you?...