Wallace Aaron Battle, a graduate of Berea College in 1901 and a school administrator and educational leader in the Deep South, will be honored at the college's Founders' Day Convocation at 3 p.m. Thursday in Phelps Stokes Chapel.
Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Robert Avila, Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Susan Gerhard, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Jonathan L. Knapp, Laurie Koh, Lynn Rapoport, Jason Shamai, and Chuck Stephens. The film intern is Sara Schieron.
The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel has left visitors in awe of the work's original majesty -- notably the brilliance of the blue that graces the Last Judgment's sky. Recent investigations into this shade of blue -- ultramarine blue -- have brought to light the pigment's tendency to fade. Researchers at New York University and Pratt Institute now have
Marie Antoinette became queen of France in 1774 and died under the guillotine in 1793. More than 200 years later, this much-mythologized woman is as much a celebrity as she was during her lifetime.
Wallace Aaron Battle, an African American graduate of Berea College in 1901 and a school administrator and educational leader in the Deep South, will be honored at the College’s Founders’ Day Convocation Thursday, Oct. 12. The annual event is scheduled for 3 p.m. in Phelps Stokes Chapel.
THE iron grip with which Republicans have held the House of Representatives for the past 12 years appears looser by the day with each fresh disclosure in the sex scandal involving Congressman Mark Foley and teenage boys working on Capitol Hill.
Franconia Minerals Corporation(OFEX: FRA) announces that it has signed the final documentation with the State of Minnesota, which will provide a loan of up to US$2.5 million towards the development of Franconia's copper-nickel-PGM resource project at Birch Lake in the Duluth Complex of northeastern Minnesota.
