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William MacDonald, the obituaries editor of The New York Times, said that the obituaries in that newspaper are not intended to eulogize the deceased person. [3] Nigel Farndale, the obituaries editor of The Times, said that he aims for obituaries that are "balanced accounts" and "deadpan in style", and which do not read like a hagiography. [4]
New York State Historical Association: Reported assets of $53.237 million on June 30, 2005, and took in revenues of $6.216 million in FY 2005 [2] American Irish Historical Society: located on Fifth Avenue in New York City, opposite Metropolitan Museum of Art [3] American Jewish Historical Society: 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Figuratively, patina can refer to any fading, darkening, or other signs of age, which are felt to be natural or unavoidable (or both). The chemical process by which a patina forms or is deliberately induced is called patination, and a work of art coated by a patina is said to be patinated. Copper weather vane with verdigris patina
Interior of the Nott Memorial, with the Mandeville Gallery on the second floor. The Mandeville Gallery is an art gallery, located on the second floor of the Nott Memorial at Union College, Schenectady, New York, United States. The gallery opened in 1995 and is dedicated to exhibiting work by nationally recognized, contemporary artists exploring ...
The New York Times maintains a "deep reservoir" of advance obituaries, estimated to stand at roughly 1,850 as of 2021. [9] [10] The paper often interviews notables specifically for their obituaries, a practice begun by Alden Whitman in 1966. [10]
In North America, copper mining began with marginal workings by Native Americans. Native copper is known to have been extracted from sites on Isle Royale with primitive stone tools between 800 and 1600. [12] Copper metallurgy was flourishing in South America, particularly in Peru around 1000 AD; it proceeded at a much slower rate on other ...
Derveni krater, bronze, 350 BC, height: 90.5 cm (35 1 ⁄ 2 in.), Inv. B1, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, after cleaning and conservation. Conservation and restoration of metals is the activity devoted to the protection and preservation of historical (religious, artistic, technical and ethnographic) and archaeological objects made partly or entirely of metal.
The preexisting interior coatings on both the secondary wrought iron framework and the wrought iron central pylon would be removed along with the multiple layers of coal tar and paint that had been applied to the internal copper sheathing. An article in The New York Times of February 8, 1984, mentioned that the interior copper which was at that ...