" November 2, 2017: H.R.183 - Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act This law creates the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission to "plan, develop, and carry out programs and activities to honor Frederick Douglass for the bicentennial anniversary of his birth" and "recommend the federal government entities appropriate to carry out such programs and activities.
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This year is the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 1817.
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He is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, not president.
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But efforts to honour the bicentennial have fallen on deaf ears.
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In 1975, a new fair was planned to commemorate the bicentennial.
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The gift by the British Parliament to Congress commemorated America's Bicentennial.
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Then there's the Bicentennial [in 1976], which is all about that, too.
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In 1989, the Coast Guard commissioned a painting from him for its bicentennial.
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Voinovich Bicentennial Park in Cleveland, where Pitts conducted reconnaissance in the past week.
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They were put up in celebration of the university's bicentennial this past year.
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In its bicentennial year, America was a country afflicted and profoundly at odds.
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Now in the bike's bicentennial year, travel operators are, ahem, peddling new routes.
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In this, the bicentennial of her death, it's time we tossed them out.
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Its inauguration was one of three major cultural events celebrating the state's bicentennial.
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Designed for the United States Bicentennial in 1976, they've remained in use ever since.
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Last year, we celebrated our bicentennial and marked a turning point for our state.
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Created for the institution's bicentennial in 2000, the award was initially given in abundance.
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Maine is celebrating its bicentennial in 2020 with a series of events and festivals.
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In 22000 I was 211 years old and our country was celebrating the bicentennial.
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At the same time, this bicentennial moment is not the moment for uncritical hero worship.
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The bicentennial of New York's most celebrated literary son is being commemorated with three exhibitions.
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The president nominated King's niece, Alveda King, to the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission in February.
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The University of Virginia is hosting the slavery symposium as part of its bicentennial celebration.
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The shuttle was originally going to be named the Constitution to celebrate the bicentennial in 1976.
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The Darwin Police Station is on a beautiful peninsula, and a short walk from Bicentennial Park.
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In 1949 Walter Paepcke, a Chicago businessman, planned a bicentennial celebration of the life of Goethe.
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"The American Economic System … and Your Part in It" was launched alongside the bicentennial national celebrations.
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Now the country is tackling a far larger issue for its bicentennial in 2021: global climate change.
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"The Bill of Rights, we only showed at the Bicentennial for a couple of days" in 1976.
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At neighborhood meetings centered on the city's 2018 bicentennial, residents talked about recognizing the community's growing diversity.
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Now in its bicentennial year, the band celebrated its 13-year anniversary with a very modern feat.
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In 2017, five years after Feinstein headlined the Fort Ross bicentennial dinner, another powerful California politician, Democratic Gov.
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Love speaks at an event honoring the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birth on Capitol Hill on Feb. 14.
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The lesson here is clear: You should've hung onto those VHS tapes of Bicentennial Man and Joe Dirt.
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Late Wednesday, Jon Jones was pulled off the UFC's historic bicentennial event for a potential anti-doping violation.
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Mr. McRobbie said the 3-D models would be "freely available online" by the university's bicentennial in 2020.
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In the 1970s there was this thing that happened as part of the bicentennial called the Freedom Train.
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Viewed from 2018, that's a chilling moment — one burned on celluloid from the dizzying bicentennial year of 1976.
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But her bicentennial came at a transitional moment in Brontë studies, because the consensus on Anne is changing.
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" Laura Brown, editor in chief of InStyle "When I was 14 years old, in 1988, Australia celebrated its bicentennial.
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The Belle Fourche leak occurred on a 6-inch line that is part of the company's Bicentennial Pipeline system.
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In 1976, Percy Sutton, the Manhattan borough president, was seeking a display of civic promotion for the nation's bicentennial.
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Also on the list: Memphis, Tennessee, which will celebrate its bicentennial with concerts and historical exhibits, and New York state.
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Prince Harry's visit to the mountainous republic comes during the bicentennial year of formal bilateral relations between Britain and Nepal.
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In 1956, the bicentennial year of Mozart's birth, Mr. Demus won the prestigious Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy.
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And so the city, a year shy of its bicentennial, feels like a place with little luster left to lose.
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To celebrate the bicentennial, the small, artistically vibrant Albany Symphony commissioned new works inspired by each stop on its tour.
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In February, 1987, to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, he set out to book a Supreme Court Justice.
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Yet Blackburn's design, chosen by the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, conveyed an idealistic, if not entirely accurate, image of national unity.
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A Pepsi spokesman confirmed that the company donated to the 2000 bicentennial dinner, where its former CEO was among the honorees.
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Faust said she hoped the law school would introduce a new seal in time for the law school's bicentennial in 2017.
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Litterst said the donations will make the upcoming firework celebration considerably larger than the Bicentennial celebration held on July 4, 1976.
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Mini-Vows Meera Hemant Patel and Trevor Logan Burbank were married April 12 at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in Nashville.
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But just in time for the bicentennial, the Trump administration is considering stripping Katahdin Woods and Waters of its new designation.
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In 1976, President Gerald Ford made the month-long celebration official when he recognized it as part of the U.S. Bicentennial.
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Reed is the co-founder of Standards Manual, the publishing imprint that's revived the visual guidelines for NASA, MTA, and America's bicentennial.
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Butts recalled Bloomberg offering his economic development operation a handsome check in 2008, timed to the bicentennial of his Abyssinian Baptist Church.
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That paved the way for the company's pathbreaking production of "Porgy and Bess," which it staged for the American bicentennial in 1976.
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During his final year as mayor, Nashville had its bicentennial, and Purcell commemorated it by creating the Music City Hot Chicken Festival.
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The Bicentennial was a turning point that forced the nation to acknowledge Indigenous dissent, as protests and marches literally demonstrated their demands.
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I first experienced this in 18693 with a drive east from Kansas City in a Ford LTD to celebrate the country's bicentennial.
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To prepare for our bicentennial trip, my siblings and I spent weeks in advance cracking the spines of the World Book encyclopedia.
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Last week, the Tennessee legislature withheld $250,000 from Memphis's bicentennial celebration budget, punishing the majority-black city for removing three Confederate monuments.
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As a nod to that accolade, Lagavulin, on the occasion of its bicentennial in 2016, reintroduced an eight-year-old single malt.
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Dr. Reich's death coincided with the beginning of a yearlong festival in Leipzig, Germany, for the bicentennial of Clara Schumann's birth there.
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Firefighters responded to North Lauderdale's Bicentennial Park after receiving calls about the fully engulfed car, which Butler had only purchased a month ago.
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Blackburn had just won a competition for the job of devising a symbol for the bicentennial celebration of the American Revolution in 1976.
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With music by Richard Auldon Clark and a libretto by the writer himself, the opera premieres on September 16 during Indiana's bicentennial celebrations.
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Rudolf Serkin was 67 when he performed Beethoven's colossal "Hammerklavier" Sonata at Carnegie Hall on the very day of that composer's bicentennial: Dec.
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His approach led to an invitation to organize the traveling exhibition "The European Vision of America" for the United States Bicentennial in 1976.
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Mr. Weinberg went on to take the stamp to Philadelphia in 1976 for the nation's bicentennial, and also to Japan, India and Australia.
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"Breakout" was a bicentennial video game — it arrived in arcade form in 1976 and was ported to the Atari 2600 two years later.
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Early this year, I discovered that the bicentennial of Queen Victoria's birth was coming up, and that it would fall on a Friday.
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Was there an American alive who, by the time the bicentennial actually arrived, was not already glassy-eyed from all the premature puffery?
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It's behind a paywall but worth the investment: The Portland Press Herald's history of Maine on the occasion of the state's bicentennial year.
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Whitman has been honored with countless tributes during his bicentennial year, including a United States Postal Service stamp with his portrait on it.
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It was Gerald Ford, who governed during our nation's bicentennial celebration, who best captured what the phrase should mean to all of us.
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One week later, on the same day the United States celebrated its bicentennial, Israeli forces executed a mission rescuing most of the hostages.
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As the president of the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation, which promoted minority involvement in the 1976 bicentennial, and later as a special assistant to the director of the National Park Service, he helped put the cemetery and dozens of other sites of importance to African-Americans on the National Register of Historic Places, at a time when there were virtually none.
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I first saw that photograph in a popular historical account published for the American bicentennial celebrations in 1976, when I was 5 years old.
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The 104-metre (341-foot) tower, built from panels of quartz, was supposed to celebrate the bicentennial of Mexico's independence from Spain in 2010.
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This instilled the museum with legitimacy, and the $90 million project was slated to open on Saturday, in time for the state's bicentennial celebration.
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More sculptures followed, including one on Philadelphia's JFK Plaza, which was installed in 1976 for the Pennsylvania city's bicentennial, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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I was in the middle of a rainy 22-mile run in Far North Bicentennial Park on the outskirts of Anchorage, where I live.
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Removing the Weston Mill Dam is a fitting tribute to Thoreau's bicentennial and the awareness he raised about the unintended destruction caused by dams.
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Chief Justice Warren Burger officially retired in 1986 but enthusiastically led the Bicentennial Commission to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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I decided to celebrate the bicentennial by renewing my knowledge of the entire museum — every gallery, vestibule and passageway in which art is displayed.
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The Poe Toaster has failed to appear since 2009, the bicentennial of the poet's birth, ending a tradition that began at least 60 years earlier.
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A young girl suffered minor injuries after the balloon crashed through some tree limbs and struck spectators at the Hannibal Bicentennial Celebration on Saturday evening.
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The original "Roots," which aired in 1977 to record audiences still flushed from America's bicentennial, seared slavery into the American consciousness in an unprecedented way.
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This first show in a new gallery—designed by the architect David Chipperfield and opening in the summer of 2019—will mark the workshop's bicentennial.
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And should Clinton decide on a third presidential run, Brown one-ups her: A 2020 bid would be his fourth, dating back to America's bicentennial.
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I was a Bicentennial baby, born in 1976; "Star Wars" was the first movie I saw, strapped in a car seat at the drive-in.
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Unfortunately, the House found another way to "punish" Memphis -- by amending its budget to remove $250,9013 earmarked for the city's upcoming bicentennial celebration in 2019.
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One was carrying an American flag, a not-unfamiliar sight during the bicentennial year, which he unfurled in shallow left-center like a picnic blanket.
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Now, with corrupt political leaders no longer enjoying impunity, who knows, perhaps all past presidents will gather together to watch the bicentennial fireworks behind bars.
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The town of Sleepy Hollow (and neighboring Tarrytown and Irvington) is currently observing an 18-month celebration of the story's bicentennial, but make no mistake.
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Created for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the work celebrated the Haitian who led a slave revolt in Haiti in the late 18th century.
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Maine, once part of Massachusetts, became independent 200 years ago, and is celebrating its bicentennial in 2020 with festivals, parades, and events across the state.
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In 2016, García ran for President one last time, hoping to serve an unprecedented third term and preside over the country's bicentennial celebrations, in 2021.
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In the last week, Pitts then went downtown to conduct reconnaissance at Voinovich Bicentennial Park and the Coast Guard station, among other locations, according to officials.
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The proposal received funding from PCUSA's Bicentennial Fund, and Reverend Sally Abrahams Hill, then Director of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Church Commission, took on the organizing.
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Yet, as the promotion approaches its bicentennial celebration this weekend for UFC 200, the legendary former heavyweight champ has asked to be released from his contract.
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The Prado: As Spain's national art museum celebrates its bicentennial, our writer — who has visited more than 200 times — returned to every gallery, vestibule and passageway.
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PHILADELPHIA — The new Museum of the American Revolution, which opens here on Wednesday, stands on the site of a defunct welcome center built for the Bicentennial.
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In other bicycle-related coverage, if, like most people, you accept that Karl von Drais invented the bicycle, then the device marks its bicentennial this year.
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It's original purpose, upon opening in 1938, was to store silver, and would go on to produce pennies, bicentennial quarters, and American Eagle Platinum Bullion Coins.
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"Meb is the premiere American distance runner of this generation," said George Hirsch, who with Fred Lebow started the NYC Marathon in 1976 to celebrate the bicentennial.
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In Argentina, however, the commemorations of the nation's bicentennial in July chafed, seeming to confirm suspicions among native peoples that their culture and history were being ignored.
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In its 10th anniversary season, this festival, run by the pianist Melinda Lee Masur and the conductor Ken-David Masur, celebrates the bicentennial of Clara Schumann's birth.
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When "A Book of Common Prayer" came out, the country was still drunk on Bicentennial patriotism; 1976 had given us a big dose of pomp and ceremony.
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The Tennessee House of Representatives voted to strip the city of the sum that had been earmarked to go toward planning for Memphis' bicentennial celebrations next year.
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To honor its bicentennial, the museum has organized a yearlong celebration, starting last November with three days of "puertas abiertas" (free admission) that drew nearly 30,000 people.
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They had sent me to Haiti during the bicentennial crisis, and then Jean-Bertrand Aristide ended up being pushed out of the country, so I covered that.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves from the popemobile wearing a Mexican sombrero as he arrives to give a Mass in Bicentennial Park near Silao, Mexico, Sunday March 25, 2012.
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She directed a 1975-76 Bicentennial program for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington and oversaw New York City's Fourth of July Land Festival in 1977.
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Tuesday's bicentennial festivities for the Battle of San Felix included a military parade and the inauguration of a new public square, which filled the streets of Ciudad Guayana.
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In October, New York University hosted "On Your Marx" — a two week long jubilee to celebrate this bicentennial with a broad, eccentric slate of panel discussions and performances.
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On the Fourth that year, Hansen was in his house in the more liberal Grove section of Fire Island celebrating the bicentennial with two women and seven men.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Streaming down from hilltop slums in the dead of night, hundreds of Venezuelans join an ever-growing line that circles the vast "Bicentennial" state-run supermarket.
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"If there had been an alternative I would have taken it, but there was no alternative," Macri said in a speech marking the country's bicentennial independence day celebration.
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The wood was salvaged from a European copper beech tree that was brought to America in 1820 to honor the bicentennial of the pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock.
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On the year of the Madrid museum's bicentennial, our writer visited every gallery, vestibule and passageway to see if he had missed anything on his previous 200 visits.
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With the aid of $216 million in state, city and private funds, Baltimore's Washington Monument reopened on July 4, 2015, the bicentennial of the laying of its cornerstone.
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BERLIN — The bicentennial of the birth of Karl Marx was supposed to bring his hometown, Trier, Germany, an important exhibition about his life and an increase in tourism.
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I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.
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On the year of the Madrid museum's bicentennial, our writer visits every gallery, vestibule and passageway to see if he had missed anything on his previous 200 visits.
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File photo - Performers take part in the re-enactment of the battle of Ligny, during the bicentennial celebrations for the Battle of Waterloo, in Ligny, Belgium, June 14, 2015.
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The bicentennial of his birth on May 31 is being celebrated with events around town, including a marathon reading of "Song of Myself" in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Sunday.
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If there is a certain disjunction at the idea of a storied American label choosing the ancient seat of Renaissance power to begin its bicentennial, that is easily explained.
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He's also been honored with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, recognizing his lifetime contributions as a great American and his leadership role in the preservation of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Airing on ABC in January 1977, this generational saga of slavery was a kind of answer song to the 1976 Bicentennial celebration of the (white, often slave-owning) founding fathers.
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Ten percent of survivors suffer a recurrence within ten years, but mine happened the year before the bicentennial ('twas my own personal Y2K), and it's been 18 years and counting.
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In the rear of the gallery, one entire wall is filled by the monumental "Circle (The Bicentennial Series)" (1973) by Benny Andrews, a huge, searing indictment of racism in America.
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When you say you don't want a bicentennial, do you mean that in an ideal world we wouldn't need Planned Parenthood because we'd have adequate coverage for the services it provides?
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During the nation's bicentennial, scientists determined that the giant hooded tortoise was a discrete species in need of saving, and Diego was returned to his native land, ready to get busy.
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Personal tribute to Gurkhas Last year marked the bicentennial of the first recruitment of Nepalese soldiers known as Gurkhas, renowned for their fighting prowess and bravery, into the British armed forces.
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For example, "The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro" (1976), an elegiac tableau of life-size dolls, was initially used in a performance communicating environmental issues through song and dance.
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On Tuesday, lawmakers in the Tennessee House passed an amendment to a state appropriations bill that strips $250,000 in funding that the city was to receive for its upcoming bicentennial celebration.
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On the year of the Prado's bicentennial, our writer visited every gallery, vestibule and passageway to see whether he had missed anything on his previous 200 visits to the Madrid museum.
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Dover's Fourth of July Celebration dates back to the 83 Bicentennial, but aims to celebrate the town's Revolutionary War history, too (soldiers met and marched off to fight from downtown Dover).
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Around the time of the Bicentennial, [the Hollywood system] began to reconsolidate with these new, let's call them "neo-Hollywood movies" — [Steven] Spielberg, [George] Lucas, but also Rocky and so on.
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Anchored off the shores of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the restored 1914 Hudson River barge has become a stage for Canal to Coast, a series of programs celebrating the Erie Canal's bicentennial.
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And he basically expressed those views some 217 years ago in six fantastically caustic groups of paintings and drawings called "The Bicentennial Series," excerpts from which are on view through Jan.
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In 23, as the city began preparing to celebrate its bicentennial in 2018, officials reached out to residents to better understand how to engage with the community, according to Mr. Wobser.
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In real-life, her name is Hallie Eisenberg, and she went on to star in the 1998 family comedy, Paulie, and appeared alongside the late Robin Williams in 1999's Bicentennial Man.
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Until Taflinger decided to add to the plan: his new idea was to surround The Ruins with a Constitution Mall, an allegory of American history, to be completed for the national bicentennial.
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In 1976, I ran at the Penn Relays—my first really big meet, to be honest—and that's when everything started to happen: the Bicentennial, the same year Dr. J joined the Sixers.
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But this war, which tends to flare up every Black History Month, seems to have gotten especially hot lately, thanks in part to the fact that 2018 is the bicentennial of Douglass's birth.
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In New York state, a multiyear celebration marking the bicentennial of the construction of the Erie Canal is underway along the canal corridor, which includes major cities like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.
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Public events commemorating the bicentennial include three summer shows in New York—at the Morgan Library, the New York Public Library, and the Grolier Club—that touch on the story of his life.
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A statue of him in Memphis, erected in 1905, was taken down in 2017 — and the state legislature punished the city by cutting funding for a bicentennial celebration after they took it down.
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AMSTERDAM, N.Y. — Water was always going to be a dominant theme when the intrepid Albany Symphony set off to celebrate the Erie Canal's bicentennial this week by touring the length of that waterway.
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Williams, at his sappy best, played Andrew Martin, a household android in "Bicentennial Man" trying to find his way in the world as he develops the use of emotion and increasingly desires freedom.
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Throughout Lauren's career he has also been honored with the Key to the City of New York from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the French Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal.
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With donations from fireworks manufacturers, the fireworks display has been expanded from 20 minutes to 35 and will be larger than the bicentennial celebration in 1976, a Park Service spokesman told the Washington Examiner.
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Rarely was this more evident than in October 20103, when Vekselberg chaired a $2,500 per person gala dinner held in San Francisco's City Hall to mark the bicentennial of Russian settlers' arrival in California.
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The Museum will also display a replica of the flag that traveled into space with astronaut John Glenn in 1998 as part of the buildup to the bicentennial commemoration of Washington's death in 1799.
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The city was celebrating when she arrived at Kennedy International Airport on July 4, 0003, with fireworks from celebrations of the nation's bicentennial lighting up the sky — a flash of frivolity that faded quickly.
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LONDON — A facsimile of Mary Shelley's manuscript of "Frankenstein," written when she was just 18, will be published in March by SP Books here to mark the bicentennial of the novel's publication in 1818.
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They first hand-built, as their bicentennial tribute, a 60-foot-long twin-hulled traditional sailing canoe, naming it Hokulea, for Arcturus, the bright "star of joy," the zenith star of the Hawaiian Islands.
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And he basically expressed those views some 2219 years ago in six fantastically caustic groups of paintings and drawings called "The Bicentennial Series," excerpts from which are on view together for the first time.
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In this bicentennial year of the death of Jane Austen, she's been getting a lot of glory, but there's another (unrelated) Austen also worth celebrating: Alice (1866-230), one of the first female photographers.
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File photo - Frenchman Frank Samson takes part in the re-enactment of the battle of Ligny, as French Emperor Napoleon, during the bicentennial celebrations for the Battle of Waterloo, in Ligny, Belgium, June 14, 2015.
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The journey on the New York waterways is timed with the Bicentennial of the Erie Canal, which broke ground in 1817 and was completely operational by 1825, connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
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Haitian Heritage Museum When: See here for regular hours; Miami Art Week reception December 5 Where: 4141 NE 103nd Ave #105C, Miami The Haitian Heritage Museum was founded in 2004, in honor of Haiti's Bicentennial.
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On June 26, 1976, a week before the celebration of the United States Bicentennial, Ali, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, faced off in Tokyo against Antonio Inoki, a very popular wrestler in Japan.
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While nodding to the nation's bicentennial of the previous year, the sculpture figuratively connects earth and starry heavens, urging a harmonic, cosmic perspective redolent of the Aquarian dreams of the 1960s, Mr. Oppenheim's formative years.
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Forty years after the American Bicentennial, 13 years after I stood on a rooftop in Baghdad, and 10 years after getting out of the Army, I won't be out under the fire, cheering our explosions.
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This year, his bicentennial, has brought Petipa conferences (at Harvard University, in Madrid, Moscow, Paris, St. Petersburg); new productions of his ballets in Europe and the United States; and important Petipa revivals around the world.
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It carried the words "Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial" and the dates 210 and 23, although many recent historians — among them Ron Chernow, whose best seller inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical — prefer 21904 for Hamilton's birth year.
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It is the one I used when, to celebrate the Bicentennial in 1976, I bought an ice cream maker like the one Heck and Uncle John had, and ice cream was made on my brick patio.
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Scheib returned to Gratz in 2005, the bicentennial of its founding, for a ceremony in which the community ballpark where he once pitched was renamed for him and a bronze plaque with his likeness was dedicated.
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The bicentennial of her death brings the release of annotated anniversary editions of her novels and critical studies such as The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser and Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells.
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The Paris Opera has yet another date to celebrate next year: the 228th anniversary of the opening of the Opéra Bastille, the ultramodern theater commissioned by President François Mitterrand for the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
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Conceived by a committee of townspeople and modeled on the 4-H fairs of their youth, the event was held behind the Mary L. Tracy School and was called the Orange Bicentennial Old Time Country Fair.
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One notable exception was his appearance, in 2009, at the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Gala Concert at Riverside Church in Manhattan, along with, among others, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College orchestra and chorus.
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There's the Statehood Weekend on March 15, the Bicentennial Parade on May 16, the Tall Ships Festival from July 3 to July 20, and the Innovation Expo from October 10 to October 12, among other things.
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"African-American unemployment — as we sit here on Frederick Douglass's 200th bicentennial of his birth — African-American unemployment is at the lowest level ever recorded in American history," Pence said at an event hosted by Axios.
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The Baltimore Symphony, under Sergiu Comissiona, recorded Mr. Bassett's composition "Echoes From an Invisible World," commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1976 to honor the United States bicentennial, as part of a disc for Composers Recordings Inc.
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My 89-year-old mother, Alice, remains crystallized in my memory as the ever-present, stay-at-home mom who painstakingly sewed my Betsy Ross colonial dress when I sang a solo in the Bicentennial choir show.
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Crime-plagued New York was a rough place to be a young Black person in the bicentennial decade, but it was also the backdrop of a music revolution: the joint birth of hip-hop, punk, and disco.
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While Americans were celebrating their bicentennial, Rabin made the call to greenlight a commando raid on German and Palestinian terrorists who were holding hijacked airliner passengers in an airport terminal just off the tarmac in Entebbe, Uganda.
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"They said: "Recently, the Greek Prime Minister made an appeal, on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Greek Independence War in 1821, to reunite the Parthenon Marbles that were brutally removed from the monument in Athens.
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After designing the American Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, Mr. Masey, on loan from the State Department to the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, designed the traveling exhibition "The World of Franklin and Jefferson" with the Eameses.
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The Republican-dominated state House decided to take away the money, which was meant to be used next year for a bicentennial celebration, by passing an amendment attached to the House appropriations bill, The Associated Press reported. Rep.
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In a powerful introduction to a new bicentennial edition, FRANKENSTEIN: THE 1818 TEXT (Penguin Classics, paper, $10), the literary scholar Charlotte Gordon makes a case for the 1818 text being a purer distillation of the complexities of Shelley's life.
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To celebrate the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal and the 150th anniversary of glassmaking in the city of Corning, the Corning Museum of Glass in May will launch GlassBarge, a canal barge outfitted with glassmaking equipment.
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Henry David Thoreau is an important person to have around right now, not just because 2718 is the bicentennial of his birth, but also because he is a model of resistance in an ecologically suicidal, politically demagogic American moment.
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So, when it was announced that Jean-Paul Goude, the legendary artist who was famously tasked with putting on the show for France's Bicentennial in 1989, would be art-directing Kenzo's big runway moment, the bar was set quite high.
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Before becoming Condo Board President, he worked in construction in New York on projects such as the bicentennial cleanup of the Statue of Liberty—and inside Trump Tower, where he encountered the Donald himself long before he became a presidential candidate.
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And in a sense he expressed those perspectives some 40 years ago in six thematic groups of impassioned works that he titled "The Bicentennial Series," selections from which are on view together, for the first time, at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
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That "bomb blast" became the signature style with which Avedon went on to create many series of photographs, including "The Family," 69 portraits of the most powerful and influential Americans in 1976, published in Rolling Stone for the country's bicentennial.
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In 1977, for instance, the year following America's bicentennial, more than half the American population at the time tuned in to watch the mini-series "Roots," adapted from Alex Haley's novel, making it part of the shorthand for talking about slavery.
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"The following individual to be a Member of the of the Frederick Douglas Bicentennial Commission: Alveda King of Georgia, Eric Madison Lowery of Maryland, Naomi C. Earp of Maryland," the White House press release reads, incorrectly spelling Douglass's last name.
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The work by Robert Indiana was first installed on loan for the U.S. bicentennial celebrations in 1976 and was repainted twice using — in addition to its dominant red and green — a blue paint that turned out to be the wrong color.
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Appearing more like a UFO than a boat, Point Counterpoint II was built from 1964 to '67 and debuted in 1976 for the American Bicentennial, and has since been the maritime home of the Pennsylvania-based American Wind Symphony Orchestra (AWSO).
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The two episodes, Carter's contretemps and Trump's trumpeting of his sexual prowess, came from entirely different places, and define not only the gulf between these two candidates but the chasm that divides America in its bicentennial year and the America of today.
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Well, I was involved in theater and that kind of thing, and then my buddy and I were both 21 during the bicentennial, and we hitchhiked to see what was going on in the country, to end up at the Olympics in Montreal.
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And for the fattening stage, they created another that they called Bicentina—because they designed it in 2010, the year of the bicentennial of Mexican independence—which allows greater movement on the part of the oyster and, for that reason, improves growth.
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The uproar caused by this transgression even prompted Lesnar's opponent Hunt to sue the UFC for what he perceives to be purposeful carelessness to allow Lesnar—inarguably one of UFC 200's biggest pay-per-view attractions—compete on their bumper bicentennial event.
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I was interested to discover, for example, that Gilbert Baker, the designer of the rainbow flag that emerged as a symbol of gay pride in the late 1970s, was inspired by the ubiquity of the American flag during the bicentennial celebrations in 1976.
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Near the end of his time at North Texas State, Mr. Wade created "Bicentennial Map of the U.S.A.," a 300-foot-wide earthwork in Dallas that included miniaturized billboards and skyscrapers, a telephone booth and an Old Faithful-style water fountain from Wyoming.
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For the last few weeks, some preservationists in New York City have worried about a restaurant that opened in 1976, the year of the United States bicentennial and the presidential election of Jimmy Carter — a restaurant with velvet banquettes and mirror-like ceiling trim.
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America was in the midst of a star spangled celebration of its bicentennial when The New York Times announced the arrival of a dashing new business leader who "looks ever so much like Robert Redford" and was the talk of the local real estate community.
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For its bicentennial, the original, 21824 edition has been reissued, as a trim little paperback (Penguin Classics), with an introduction by the distinguished biographer Charlotte Gordon, and as a beautifully illustrated hardcover keepsake, "The New Annotated Frankenstein" (Liveright), edited and annotated by Leslie S. Klinger.
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The building, which is usually lit in its signature white, has embraced some decorative lighting — orange for Halloween, green for Eid al-Fitr, blue and orange for the New York Knicks — since the Bicentennial in 22050, when red, white and blue shone from its top.
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The narrative finds its highest velocity near the end, with a fascinating section on a North Carolina schoolteacher's efforts to bushwhack his way through the Darien Gap, and Richard Nixon's stated desire to drive the finished road himself in time for the 1976 bicentennial.
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To celebrate the nation's bicentennial in 1976, one of the most popular acts of the era – the Grammy-winning husband-and-wife duo Captain and Tennille – were invited to perform for President Ford, First Lady Betty Ford, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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With the strategic layout and innovative deployment of objects within its bicentennial exhibition, Picturing Mississippi, 1817–3803: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, the Mississippi Museum of Art indicates that it understands what is at stake in this major rehang of works from its permanent collection.
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The film must have implanted deep in my infant subconscious a worldview, an idea of justice and the desire to wield a light saber, all entangling as I grew older with the Bicentennial celebrating the American Revolution, another story of scrappy rebels fighting a mighty empire.
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Ms. Shelley has drawn plenty of publicity this year as it is the bicentennial of the publication of "Frankenstein," but the sculpture remained available, priced at £100,000, and had not even been viewed by curators at the National Portrait Gallery, according to Callisto's founder, Carlo Milano.
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During the restoration process, Indiana's representatives notified city officials of the piece's original colors, which were confirmed by photographs in Temple University's archives from 1976, when "LOVE" was installed — initially, on a long-term loan, for Philadelphia's bicentennial; the city ended up purchasing it two years later.
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Over the past 10 years, Ánima has been a recurring contractor for events hosted by the Mexican government, staging shows for large public celebrations, such as the Independence Bicentennial in 2010, the 5003 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, and the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla in 2012.
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Peter Stanford, who turned a boyhood obsession with boats into a commitment to preserve the South Street Seaport and commemorate New York City's maritime history with a museum and a parade of tall ships celebrating the nation's bicentennial, died on Thursday in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. He was 211.
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All he knows right now, in the nation's bicentennial, is that he has roughly six weeks to prepare his current team for the AAU Cross Country National Championship, which at this moment in America's running evolution is the most important annual distance event other than the Boston Marathon.
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Op-Ed Contributor LIMA, Peru — As Peru prepares for the bicentennial of its independence from Spain in 225, instead of looking forward with optimism, it is contemplating a dismal political landscape: Four of its former presidents are in jail or fugitives from justice for human rights crimes or corruption.
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"Atlantic Crossings", an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that will travel to the National Gallery in London in June, celebrates the bicentennial of Cole's American arrival and newly explores his transatlantic career—how both old world and new influenced his visual and intellectual rendering of the natural environment.
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But I don't think Sanders would be able to accomplish his aims as president any more than he has been able to as a senator (he was a primary sponsor of only seven bills that became law, and they are mostly insignificant items, such as naming post offices or designating "Vermont Bicentennial Day").
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When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constructed for its bicentennial in 1901.
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It is not only projects like the one that saw Michelangelo's David being clothed for an evening in video projections of fabric woven at the Ricceri mills here, or the Gucci Garden museum installed in a Renaissance guild hall, or the bicentennial Brooks Brothers fashion show held inside a 700-year-old city hall.
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