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Statue Of Mary Anning
The Statue of Mary Anning is a bronze sculpture of the paleontologist Mary Anning in Lyme Regis. Inception and campaign In August 2018, a campaign called "''Mary Anning Rocks''" was formed by an 11-year-old school girl from Dorset, Evie Swire, supported by her mother Anya Pearson. The campaign, in promoting a monument to a 19th century women scientist, aimed to highlight the bias in the number of UK statues of men rather than women (more than 85% men). Prior to the erection of Mary's statue in May 2022, there were three other statues to a woman in the Southwest of England; the 2019 statue of Nancy Astor in Plymouth, and the 1888 Statue of Queen Victoria in Bristol and the 1902 Statue of Queen Victoria in Weymouth. Plans for launching the crowdfunding part of the campaign in May 2020 were placed on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, with the Mary Anning Rocks group selling t-shirts instead. In November 2020 the delayed public crowdfunding campaign was launched to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such as arsenic or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as ultimate tensile strength, strength, ductility, or machinability. The three-age system, archaeological period in which bronze was the hardest metal in widespread use is known as the Bronze Age. The beginning of the Bronze Age in western Eurasia and India is conventionally dated to the mid-4th millennium BCE (~3500 BCE), and to the early 2nd millennium BCE in China; elsewhere it gradually spread across regions. The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age starting from about 1300 BCE and reaching most of Eurasia by about 500 BCE, although bronze continued to be much more widely used than it is in mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Dutton , a given name
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Denise may refer to: * Denise (given name), people with the given name ''Denise'' * Denise (computer chip), a video graphics chip from the Amiga computer * "Denise" (song), a 1963 song by Randy & the Rainbows * Denise, Mato Grosso, a municipality in Brazil * ''Denise'', an 1885 play by Alexander Dumas ''fils'' * SP-350 Denise, a small submarine also known as the "Diving saucer" * A brand name of desogestrel See also * Hurricane Denise, a list of tropical cyclones named Denise * Saint Denise (other) *Denice (other) *Denyse Denyse is a feminine given name, and may be seen as a variant of Denise. Notable people with the name include: *Denyse Alexander (born 1931), British actress *Denyse Benoit, Canadian actress, director and screenwriter *Denyse Floreano (born 1976) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monuments And Memorials In England
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance. Some of the first monuments were dolmens or menhirs, megalithic constructions built for religious or funerary purposes. Examples of monuments include statues, (war) memorials, historical buildings, archaeological sites, and cultural assets. If there is a public interest in its preservation, a monument can for example be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Etymology It is believed that the origin of the word "monument" comes from the Greek ''mnemosynon'' and the Latin ''moneo'', ''monere'', which means 'to remind', 'to advise' or 'to warn', however, it is also believed that the word monument originates from an Albanian word 'mani men' which in Albanian language means 'remember ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Dorset
Dorset is a rural county in south west England. Its archaeology documents much of the history of southern England. Pre-Roman The first known settlement of Dorset was by Mesolithic hunters, who returned to Britain at a time when it was still attached to Europe by a land-bridge, around 12,500 BC. The population was very small, maybe only a few thousand across the whole of Britain, and concentrated along the coast: in Dorset, such places as the Isle of Purbeck, Weymouth, Chesil Beach and Hengistbury Head, and along the Stour valley. These populations used stone tools and fire to clear some of the native oak forest for herding prey. Genetic experiments carried out on a Mesolithic skeleton from Cheddar Gorge (in the neighbouring county of Somerset) have shown that a significant part of the contemporary population of Dorset is descended from these original inhabitants of the British Isles. This suggests that when a wave of immigrant farmers arrived from the continent in the Neolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze Sculptures In England
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such as arsenic or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as strength, ductility, or machinability. The archaeological period in which bronze was the hardest metal in widespread use is known as the Bronze Age. The beginning of the Bronze Age in western Eurasia and India is conventionally dated to the mid-4th millennium BCE (~3500 BCE), and to the early 2nd millennium BCE in China; elsewhere it gradually spread across regions. The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age starting from about 1300 BCE and reaching most of Eurasia by about 500 BCE, although bronze continued to be much more widely used than it is in modern times. Because historical artworks w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Hopley
Elizabeth Hopley is a British actress and writer. She has appeared in several audio plays based on the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Her first appearance was as the Eighth Doctor’s companion Gemma Griffin in ''Terror Firma''. She also portrayed Yarvell, the sister of Davros, in the ''I, Davros'' mini-series and Dorothea Waddingham in the 2005 film '' Pierrepoint''. Hopley was born in Liverpool and trained at RADA. Her film and television work includes the recent TV adaptation of Andrea Levy's ''The Long Song'' and ITV's 2017 drama series ''Little Boy Blue'', the film adaptation of ''Jane Eyre'' directed by '' Sin Nombres Cary Fukunaga, '' The Last Hangman'', Channel 4's adaptation of ''Any Human Heart'', '' Randall and Hopkirk'', the BBC's ''The Day of the Triffids'' with Joely Richardson and Eddie Izzard, ITV's adaptation of ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' starring Paddy Considine and ''The Thirteenth Tale'' for the BBC. Notable theatre work includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tori Herridge
Victoria Louise "Tori" Herridge, born 1980, is a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and one of the founders of TrowelBlazers, which celebrates women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists. Career Herridge graduated with a first class degree in biology from University College London in 2002. After a master's degree at Imperial College London, she returned to University College London to gain a doctorate with a thesis titled "Dwarf Elephants on Mediterranean Islands: A Natural Experiment in Parallel Evolution". Her research addressed evolution of island mammals during the Pleistocene period and their responses to extreme climate change. She is a founding editor-in-chief at the open access journal '' Open Quaternary''. Science communication Herridge delivered the 2012 Charles Lyell Award lecture at the British Science Festival and co-wrote ''Who Do You Think You Really Are?'' for the Natural History Museum. The film was a Premier Award Winner in 2011. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Lomax
Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * Dean (Christianity), persons in certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy * Dean (education), persons in certain positions of authority in some educational establishments * Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, most senior ambassador in a country's diplomatic corps * Dean of the House, the most senior member of a country's legislature Places * Dean, Victoria, Australia * Dean, Nova Scotia, Canada * De'an County, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China United Kingdom * Lower Dean, Bedfordshire, England * Upper Dean, Bedfordshire, England * Dean, Cumbria, England * Dean, Oxfordshire, England * Dean, a hamlet in Cranmore, Somerset, England * Dean Village, Midlothian, Scotland * Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England * Dene (valley) common topo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjana Khatwa
Anjana may refer to: *Añjanā, the mother of Hanuman in the Indian epic, the ''Ramayana'' *Anjana (Cantabrian mythology), a witch in Cantabrian mythology *Anjana, Faizabad Anjana is a village in the Pura Bazar block in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-la ..., a village in Faizabad District, Uttar Pradesh, India * Añjana, a king of the Koliya dynasty of ancient India * Anjana Jat, a Jat people sub-caste {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Torrens
Hugh Simon Torrens (born 1940) is a British historian of geology and paleontology, and Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology at Keele University. Torrens received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He was president of the Society for the History of Natural History from 2012 to 2015, when he was succeeded by Arthur MacGregor. He was awarded the Sue Tyler Friedman Medal The Sue Tyler Friedman Medal is awarded by the Geological Society of London for work on the history of geology. Established in 1987, it is named after the wife of academic journal editor and publisher Gerald M. Friedman, and was funded by a gift t ... by the Geological Society in 1991. References External linksPublications by H.S. Torrens 1964-2017 1940 births Living people Alumni of the University of Leicester Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of Keele University British paleoanthropologists British geologists [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
