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Vilnius, Lithuania. Postal code. LT-01128. Coordinates. 54°40′44″N 25°17′16″E / 54.67889°N 25.28778°E / 54.67889; 25.28778. Didžioji Street (literally: the Great Street; Lithuanian: Didžioji gatvė) is a street in the Old Town of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. [2] It currently connects Pilies Street and Aušros ...
The discovery of the Great Dover Street woman was announced in 2000 following excavations in 1996 at the site by Museum of London Archaeology. [1] The grave was a cremation dating from the early 2nd- to mid-3rd-century AD, from a bustum funeral over a pit into which the remains eventually fell and were covered. This sort of burial is rare in ...
Jessie Mary Grey Street (née Lillingston; 18 April 1889 – 2 July 1970) was an Australian diplomat, suffragette and campaigner for Indigenous Australian rights, commonly referred to as Mrs Kenneth Street, [1] but later dubbed "Red Jessie" by the media.
French sculptor Camille Claudel's La Vague (1897) replaced the boats in Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa with three women dancing in a circle. [75] William Pye's sculpture "Kanagawa" was inspired by the work of Hokusai, who Pye says was influenced by "the immense power of nature as manifested in great waves on the sea". He suggests that ...
V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Alfred Eisenstaedt signing a copy of his famous V-J Day in Times Square photograph during the afternoon of August 23, 1995, while sitting in his Menemsha ...
Dominikańska, Sw. Duska, Blagoveshchenskaya (Russian: Благовещенская) Length. 290 m (950 ft) Location. Vilnius, Lithuania. Postal code. LT-01131, LT-01517. Dominikonų Street (literally, "Dominican Street"; Lithuanian: Dominikonų gatvė) is one of the oldest and central streets in the Vilnius Old Town, connecting Trakų Street ...
First woman to successfully climb K2. Wanda Rutkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [/ˈvanda rutˈkʲevitʂ/] 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. [1] She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Everest. [2][3]
Antanas Rimvydas Čaplinskas (28 March 1939 – 13 December 2011) was a Lithuanian energy engineer, historian and prominent author of books about history of Vilnius. [1] He was a Member of the First Council of the Vilnius city Sąjūdis, later from 1990 to 1995 he worked in the Vilnius City Council. [2] In 2008, Čaplinskas was awarded the ...