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Jan And Jędrzej Śniadecki Street, Bydgoszcz
Śniadecki Street is a street in downtown of Bydgoszcz, Poland. It has an important mercantile concentration. Location Śniadecki Street is oriented east–west and provides a link between Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz in the east and Dworcowa Street in Bydgoszcz to the west. It crosses an important city plaza, '' Piastowski Square'' ( pl, Plac Piastowski). The presence of the ''Brda'' hotel practically closes the western tip of Śniadeckich Street to traffic with a final very narrow section. Naming Through history, this street had the following names: * Until 1920, Elisabethstraße, from Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, wife of King Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795–1861); * 1920–1939, Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki; * 1939–1945, Dr Goebbels Straße; * since 1945, Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki. Current patrons of the street are brothers Śniadecki: Jan Śniadecki, an astronomer, and Jędrzej Śniadecki, a doctor, biologist and chemist. They were born in Żnin and bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Śniadecki
Jan Śniadecki (29 August 1756 – 9 November 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Life Born in Żnin, Śniadecki studied at Kraków Jagellonian University and in Paris. He was rector of the Imperial University of Vilnius, a member of the Commission of National Education, and director of astronomical observatories at Kraków () and Vilnius. He died at Jašiūnai Manor near Vilnius. Śniadecki published many works, including his observations on recently discovered planetoids. His ''O rachunku losów'' (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a work in probability. He was brother to Jędrzej Śniadecki. Honours The lunar crater '' Sniadecki'' and the main-belt asteroid 1262 Sniadeckia were named in his honour. Works * "Rachunku algebraicznego teoria" (1783) * "Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi" (1804) * "Rozprawa o Koperniku" (''Discourse on Nicolaus Copernicus'', biography, 1802 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Turing Memorial
The ''Alan Turing Memorial'', situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have taken his own life in 1954, two years after being convicted of gross indecency (i.e. homosexual acts). As such, he is as much a gay icon as an icon of computing, and the memorial is situated near to Canal Street, Manchester's gay village. Turing is depicted sitting on a bench situated in a central position in the park. On Turing's left is the University of Manchester and on his right is Canal Street. The statue was unveiled on 23 June, Turing's birthday, in 2001. It was conceived by Richard Humphry, a barrister from Stockport, who set up the Alan Turing Memorial Fund in order to raise the necessary funds. Humphry had come up with the idea of a statue after seeing Hugh Whitemore's play ''Breaking the Code'', starring Sir Derek Jacobi. Jacobi became the patron of the Fund. Glyn Hughes, an industr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclecticism In Architecture
Eclecticism is a 19th and 20th century architectural style in which a single piece of work incorporates a mixture of elements from previous historical styles to create something that is new and original. In architecture and interior design, these elements may include structural features, furniture, decorative motives, distinct historical ornament, traditional cultural motifs or styles from other countries, with the mixture usually chosen based on its suitability to the project and overall aesthetic value. The term is also used of the many architects of the 19th and early 20th centuries who designed buildings in a variety of styles according to the wishes of their clients, or their own. The styles were typically revivalist, and each building might be mostly or entirely consistent within the style selected, or itself an eclectic mixture. Gothic Revival architecture, especially in churches, was most likely to strive for a relatively "pure" revival style from a particular medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pediment
Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pediment is sometimes the top element of a portico. For symmetric designs, it provides a center point and is often used to add grandness to entrances. The tympanum, the triangular area within the pediment, is often decorated with a pedimental sculpture which may be freestanding or a relief sculpture. The tympanum may hold an inscription, or in modern times, a clock face. Pediments are found in ancient Greek architecture as early as 600 BC (e.g. the archaic Temple of Artemis). Variations of the pediment occur in later architectural styles such as Classical, Neoclassical and Baroque. Gable roofs were common in ancient Greek temples with a low pitch (angle of 12.5° to 16°). History The pediment is found in classical Greek temples, Et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Leistikow
Walter Rudolf Leistikow (1865–1908) was a German landscape painter, graphic artist, designer and art critic. Biography His father was a pharmacist who owned a Kräuterlikör manufacturing plant in Kujawien that provided much of the family's income. In 1883, aged seventeen, he moved to Berlin to attend the Prussian Academy of Art, but after barely one year, he was dismissed by Anton von Werner for lack of talent. He then took private lessons from Hermann Eschke and Hans Gude from 1885 to 1887. Leistikow's first exhibition was at the Berliner Salon in 1886 and, in 1892 he became a member of an artists' association known as Die-XI ''()'', which was opposed to the teaching methods at the Academy. From 1892 to 1895, he taught at the private academy, Akademie Fehr, run by artist Conrad Fehr and located on Lützowstrasse 82 in Berlin. He also designed furniture, carpets and wallpapers. In 1902, he was chosen to create trading cards for the Stollwerck chocolate company of Cologne and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Sommerfeld's Piano Factory, Bydgoszcz
The Bruno Sommerfeld Piano Factory ( pl, Fabryka Pianin i Fortepianów Brunona Sommerfelda) operated in Bydgoszcz from 1905 to 1945. It was the largest piano factory in interwar Poland. History Prussian period Bruno Sommerfeld was born in Orneta on June 13, 1878, as the oldest of 9 children. His mother was Anna Barbara née Wagner (born 1854) and his father Joseph Sommerfeld (born October 27, 1845) was carpenter by trade. In 1905, Sommerfeld established a small locksmith's shop which soon started repairing keyboards (german: link=no, Reparaturwerkstatt), under the name ''Pianoforte-Magazin'' at then ''47a Elisabeth straße'', today's 30 Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki Street, Bydgoszcz, Śniadeckich street. In 1913, the piano workshop moved to 92 Jagiellońska Street, Bydgoszcz, Jagiellońska Street and the showroom to ''47a Elisabeth straße'' (2 Śniadeckich street). Otto Sommerfeld, one of Bruno's younger brothers, died during World War I on March 7, 1915. The factory produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
