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The Destruction of the Children of Niobe is a painting by Richard Wilson, created in 1760. It depicts the Greek myth of the murder of Niobe's daughters by the goddess Artemis and her sons by Apollo. The painting won acclaim for Wilson, who obtained many commissions from British landowners seeking classical portrayals of their estates.
Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons. According to some versions, at least two of Niobe's children (usually Meliboea, along with her brother Amyclas in other renderings) was spared. Their father, Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo for having sworn revenge.
Maria Williams-Cole is an American woman who became the first African-American in Prince George's County, Maryland to be inducted into the Daughters of the American Revolution. In July 1969, when she was thirteen years old, Williams-Cole and her grandmother recorded the names of her father's ancestors on a family tree chart purchased from ...
Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children is a 1772 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David, now in the Dallas Museum of Art. He produced it to compete for the Prix de Rome . In the Rococo style which marked his early period, it was emblematic of the conflict between David and the Académie royale de peinture et de ...
In the American comedy-drama television series Gilmore Girls, the character Emily Gilmore is a regent of a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her granddaughter, Rory Gilmore , is presented to society at a DAR debutante ball and later joins the organization.
The organization was founded in 1890, shortly before the founding of two similar societies, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution. In April 1890, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer (Maria Denning Van Rensselaer), Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, and Mrs. Archibald Gracie King decided to found a ...
She joined the Emigrant Trail Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Auburn, California, on April 17, 1971. [1] She served as the State Regent of California DAR from 1984 to 1986 and as Recording Secretary General of the national society from 1986 to 1989.
As part of the DAR's mission of Patriotism, they authorized Certificates of Honor to be presented to the families of servicemen killed in the war. [3] As President General Sullivan before her had done, [8] Seimes spoke out against the burning of draft cards. She called it "near treason," and advocated for strong punishment. [9]