This 25th-anniversary edition of the Outsider Art Fair comes at a time when many players in the so-called mainstream art world — meaning dealers, curators, critics, collectors, fans and assorted other supporters, producers or purveyors of contemporary art — have enthusiastically embraced the work and creative sensibilities of art-makers who once found or still find themselves on the margins of conventional society and culture, either by force of circumstances or by choice.
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Historically, Laos was subject to the will of its stronger neighbors, enforced by military means. By force of circumstances in warding off repeated foreign invasions, Laotians developed battle skills using elephants and compiled a history full of warlike deeds. Lan Xang, or the Kingdom of the Million Elephants, the first state in the recorded history of Laos, maintained a standing army of 150,000 men. Regiments included cavalry, infantry, and an elephant corps.
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Bernardo Kucinski is one of the most experienced and respected journalists in the current Brazilian scene. Although he graduated in Physics, he entered journalism with the encouragement of Raimundo Pereira, a friend. By force of circumstances (in this case, the military regime that governed the country), he moved to England. In London, between 1971 and 1974, Kucinski was producer and host of the BBC, and a correspondent of journal Opinião first and after Gazeta Mercantil, dedicated to deepen their training in economics.
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By force of circumstances > the waitress and the boat-builder are thrown together on the houseboat, > where he lives on the mudflats, and they find that their notions of life are > congenial. During a bogus strike the racketeer comes back, claims his old > girl and takes her. The rest of the play is the story of how the > uncontaminated pair learn how to get tough about it and save the decencies > of their private principles in a world that is seething with violent > corruption.
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In 1917 the United States joined the war and refusing exemption he enlisted again, this time in the American army. He was sent to France in May 1918 as a sergeant in the 120th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division to join the American Expeditionary Force. By force of circumstances, he became commander of a battalion, joined the United States American Army Intelligence Service and served as a liaison officer with the British forces. Transferred with a promotion to the 58th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division, he was severely gassed in August at the Second Battle of the Marne and sent back to the United States; the ship was torpedoed but did not sink.
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Marius managed to escape to Africa, but Sulpicius was discovered in a villa at Laurentum and put to death; his head was sent to Sulla and exposed in the forum, and his laws annulled. Sulpicius appears to have been originally a moderate reformer, who by force of circumstances became one of the leaders of a democratic revolt. Although he had impeached the turbulent tribune Gaius Norbanus in 95 BC, and resisted the proposal to repeal judicial sentences by popular decree, he did not hesitate to incur the displeasure of the Julian family by opposing the illegal candidature for the consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, who had never been praetor and was consequently ineligible.Sources in T.S.R. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol.
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Industrial School for Girls, Hallowell, Maine Lillian Stevens was a staunch supporter of the Maine Industrial School for Girls, established in 1873. She was first appointed one of five (later six) trustees in 1885. :. . .designed as a refuge for girls between the ages of seven and fifteen years, who, by force of circumstances or associations, are in manifest danger of becoming outcasts of society. It is not a place of punishment, to which its inmates are sent as criminals by criminal process-- but a home for the friendless, neglected and vagrant children of the State, where under the genial influences of kind treatment and physical and moral training, they may be won back to ways of virtue and respectability, and fitted for positions of honorable self support and lives of usefulness.
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By force > of circumstances the personalities of the leaders had played a determining > role and had stamped each maquis with a different brand. . . . To the > regiments we had landed the extreme variety of the F.F.I. organizations, > their at least peculiar discipline, the differing quality of their groups, > the poverty of their equipment, the crying inadequacy of their armament and > supplies, the heterogeneity of their officering, the facility with which > their superior ranks had been assigned, and in certain cases the ostensibly > political nature of their aims, ran counter to the classical military > outlook of many officers, some of whom, in reaction, exaggerated their > regulation strictness. . . . The part [the FFI] had taken in the fight for > liberation not only encouraged them rightly in the wish to retain their > individuality; their successes, valued often from a local angle, established > in their view the excellence of the military system which circumstances had > led them to create and which they intended to substitute for the traditional > system, which they considered out-of-date.De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean.
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