| 单词 | conquest |
| 例句 | Smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus, bubonic plague, and other infectious diseases endemic in Europe played a decisive role in European conquests, by decimating many peoples on other continents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was prepared to accept Daddy Clidell as one more faceless name added to Mother’s roster of conquests. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It poignantly brought home to me the Indians’ perspective on what I, like other white schoolchildren, had been taught to view as the heroic conquest of the American West. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Celia wonders whether Cuba will be left behind, alone in the Caribbean sea with its faulted and folded mountains, its conquests, its memories. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “And for your information, I’m not a conquest. You know what? I was the one who started it with him.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z However, there is evidence that leaders were aware of and interested in the use of disease to make conquest easier. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps we had become a little arrogant with our fine new technique of ice-claw and rubber slipper, our age of easy mechanical conquest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Thus, Chapter 3 sketched the immediate factors behind Europe’s conquest of Native Americans, and Chapter 4 the development of those factors from the ultimate cause of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her letters were few and hurried but filled with details of her conquests. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was still no serenity and conquest of his suffering. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Their status as precursors led archaeologists to believe that the subsequent emergence of other complex societies was due to their example—or their conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the duke was the king’s most trusted advisor—and had offered no cause for mistrust other than a fierce belief in Adarlan’s right to conquest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Is it necessary to spell out that societies mired in fratricidal chaos are vulnerable to conquest? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was one snag: Wake, surely expected to be an easy conquest, wouldn’t give in. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z With the Greek conquest of all advanced societies from Greece east to India under Alexander the Great in the late fourth century B.C., power finally made its first shift irrevocably westward. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then there are new islands of capital conquest: factories in the Middle West, food-processing plants, tool and die works, lumber and pulp. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The occasional solo of the whip added to the symphony of brutality Adarlan had created for its greatest criminals, poorest citizens, and latest conquests. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the special way of women, Joyce knew she had made a conquest, and managed to hang around the Store in the late afternoons and all day Saturdays. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Amalgamation occurs instead in either of two ways: by merger under the threat of external force, or by actual conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here, with a Scandinavian conquest, had sprung up a wooden long-house—there, the original stones of the curtain wall had been pulled down to build a round tower for priests. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But now, so far, the conquest has been by purchase rather than by warfare. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of everything in the European arsenal of conquest, Indigenous peoples survived more than five centuries of campaigns to take over their land and resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z However, the prospect of that tiny marginal colony’s sustaining an exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas was nil. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The importance of lethal microbes in human history is well illustrated by Europeans’ conquest and depopulation of the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Immobile, bearded and hand palm-lifted the horseman sat; behind him the wild blacks and the captive architect huddled quietly, carrying in bloodless paradox the shovels and picks and axes of peaceful conquest. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z He chose the girl who had always been kind, who had never seemed hell-bent to marry, who made the whole venture seem like his idea, his conquest. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Of most direct relevance to wars of conquest, it can be used to feed professional soldiers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z European conquest of the remaining native states of Central America and northern South America followed during the 16th and 17th centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The capture of the dormice would prove an even more devious avenue to the conquest of Redwall, provided he played his cards right. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In particular, the Tongan Archipelago lies close enough to the Fijian, Samoan, and Wallis Archipelagoes to have permitted regular voyaging between archipelagoes, and eventually to permit Tongans to undertake the conquest of Fiji. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I know very well that he was my conquest, and not the other way around. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Conversion from the old religions to Christianity took several forms across Europe: sometimes through peaceful persuasion, sometimes through conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We boasted about our conquests, our athletic prowess, and how much money we were going to make once we had graduated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few moments, the chroniclers wrote, the conquest was at an end . . . but only for those few moments, before Aegon Targaryen and his sisters joined the battle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After the Muslim conquest in the years around 750 AD, they all switched to Arabic. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The casus belli was usually the desire to avenge an insult or gain status, not the wish for conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In addition to assembling the greatest empire ever seen in the region, the conquests managed to kill off most of the siblings and cousins above him in the line of royal succession. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had no way of understanding that Pizarro’s men formed the spearhead of a force bent on permanent conquest, rather than an isolated raid. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What would his conquest of the city profit him on that day? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Germs thus acquired ultimately from domestic animals played decisive roles in the European conquests of Native Americans, Australians, South Africans, and Pacific islanders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One episode in these wars was the conquest and mass killing of Moriori tribes by Maori tribes, as described in Chapter 2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The conquest and administration of this maritime proto-empire were achieved by navies of large canoes, each holding up to 150 men. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the fact that there is no danger of conquest makes possible the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc and its rival systems of thought. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The facts were clear to all belligerents: the final conquest would come from the sky. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Writing empowered European societies by facilitating political administration and economic exchanges, motivating and guiding exploration and conquest, and making available a range of information and human experience extending into remote places and times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Calixte had bemoaned, most of the theories were martial ones, involving conquest, weapons, and defense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The spoils of a conquest that the country had long ago forgotten, and that some conquistador had failed to tell his children about. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are many examples throughout history of people acquiring power and wealth through conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks had direct exposure to these Asian libraries after Alexander’s conquest of Mesopotamia; that they were a direct inspiration for Ptolemy’s foundation, however, can only be a surmise. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was about gaining wealth and power through conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Once writing had been invented by those few societies, it then spread, by trade and conquest and religion, to other societies with similar economies and political organizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z World- conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In political organization, Polynesian islands ranged from landscapes divided into independent tribal or village units, up to multi-island proto-empires that devoted standing military establishments to invasions of other islands and wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His own remote ancestor, King Loren of the Rock, had tried to stand against the fire when he joined with King Mem of the Reach to oppose the Targaryen conquest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Everything east of it was for Portuguese conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The Aesir were warlike gods of battle and conquest; the Vanir were softer, brother and sister gods and goddesses who made the soils fertile and the plants grow, but none the less powerful for that. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z In the prayer following the chapter, all his energy gathered—all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Maybe he didn’t. Maybe either of you would have done as his first mortal conquest. I believe his goal is to have both of you in the end.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Aztec and Inca Empires were formed by 15th-century conquests, before Europeans arrived, but we know much about their formation from Indian oral histories transcribed by early Spanish settlers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as in their encounter with Native Americans, Europeans entering Africa enjoyed the triple advantage of guns and other technology, widespread literacy, and the political organization necessary to sustain expensive programs of exploration and conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And I can promise you that your Court will be recognized as sovereign, if you help us. No threat of conquest from the new High King. Instead, we offer you an alliance.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The other mode of formation of complex societies, besides merger under threat of external force, is merger by conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa’s capture symbolizes the European conquest of the Americas, because the same mix of proximate factors that caused it was also responsible for European conquests of other Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, in a gesture of conquest, Julius lowered the point of his sword. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But Hitler was not satisfied with this latest conquest. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Such bureaucracies were essential not only to governing large and populous domains but also to maintaining standing armies, sending out fleets of exploration, and organizing wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The same is not true of my rendering of Pizarro’s conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z North American Plains Indians, South American Araucanian Indians, New Zealand’s Maoris, and Ethiopians acquired guns and used them to hold off European conquest for a long time, though they were ultimately defeated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The conquests of Alexander in the late fourth century gave the Greeks firsthand experience of Persia, India, and the Asian kingdoms lying between. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z This Zulu example of a state formed by conquest can be multiplied almost indefinitely. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The chronicles are also full of accounts of Koreans in Japan and of Japanese in Korea—interpreted by Japanese or Korean historians respectively as evidence of Japanese conquest of Korea or the reverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have found no evidence of large-scale warfare at this time, and thus suggest that Hopewell probably did not achieve its dominance by conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Of equal importance in wars of conquest were the germs that evolved in human societies with domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His father thought only in terms of conquest, but what good was it to take a kingdom if you could not hold it? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It shifted farther west with Rome’s conquest of Greece in the second century B.C., and after the fall of the Roman Empire it eventually moved again, to western and northern Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It can create what some anthropologists call a culture of conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own Christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony settled there in order to prepare for his next big conquest. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Even the Muslim world, with its Eastern traditions, was heavily contaminated by the teachings of Aristotle, thanks to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His favorite was the one called “Casanova of the Sea,” who kept a blog about his romantic conquests. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He was determined to try again for the conquest of the South Pole, but before he could organize a new expedition, two other explorers headed for the frozen continent. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The conquests of England, every single one of them bloody, are part of what Americans have in mind when they speak of England’s glory. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Rivaling germs as proximate factors behind Europe’s conquest of the Americas were the differences in all aspects of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Euergetes salvaged the situation by going on a rampage of conquest. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The profits helped to fund the conquest of the Inka, which made De Soto wealthier still. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Having possessed Esther, the carnal man awoke, seeing the possibility of conquest everywhere. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Fleeing the Nazi conquest of Europe, the writer Vladimir Nabokov and his family took a ship to the United States in the spring of 1940. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As a result, European conquest did not create widespread or lasting European settlement of sub-Saharan Africa, except in the far south. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is how conquest occurs: one plan is always larger than the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I knew he wanted more conquest, more war, more battle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Farmers tend to breathe out nastier germs, to own better weapons and armor, to own more-powerful technology in general, and to live under centralized governments with literate elites better able to wage wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today they speak back, as individuals and as sovereign nations, against ongoing trauma and the consequences of conquest and terminal narratives. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Such an explanation is on the right track, as those factors demonstrably were directly responsible for European conquests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite the ravages of conquest, this part of Oakwald Forest remained untouched. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They claimed that possession of the entire world west of that line would be open to Spanish conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a culture of conquest moves against people within its own society, and sometimes it moves against other nations or groups on other continents. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They do so only by conquest, or under external duress. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The white man brought racism into the world. He used it as a basis of conquest. It is always easier to conquer a more humane people.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The book shows,” Bobby wrote, “that Christianity itself is just a Jewish hoax and one more Jewish tool for their conquest of the world.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Now that she had got herself in charge, Abra looked around and inspected her conquests. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Writing marched together with weapons, microbes, and centralized political organization as a modern agent of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fanaticism in war, of the type that drove recorded Christian and Islamic conquests, was probably unknown on Earth until chiefdoms and especially states emerged within the last 6,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The most direct contribution of plant and animal domestication to wars of conquest was from Eurasia’s horses, whose military role made them the jeeps and Sherman tanks of ancient warfare on that continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That information, coming back to Spain from Columbus’s voyages and from Cortes’s conquest of Mexico, sent Spaniards pouring into the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those complex political units are much better able to mount a sustained war of conquest than is an egalitarian band of hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because those ultimate causes developed differently on different continents, so did those agents of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Americas had two empires, those of the Aztecs and Incas, which resembled their Eurasian counterparts in size, population, polyglot makeup, official religions, and origins in the conquest of smaller states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What is the conqueror’s wife, if not a conquest herself? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That low number was useful in justifying the white conquest of what could be viewed as an almost empty continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was indeed in the Spanish interest to exaggerate the extent of human sacrifice, because ending what Cortes called this “most horrid and abominable custom” became a post hoc rationale for conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Usually these groups guard treasures hidden from the waves of conquest, the golden artifacts of an archaic Montezuma, or a mine so rich that its discovery would change the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cherokee confederacy was thus formed not by conquest but by the amalgamation of previously jealous smaller entities, which merged only when threatened with destruction by powerful external forces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Before Adarlan began its conquest, this forest was cloaked in magic,” she said softly, but not meekly. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa’s capture was decisive for the European conquest of the Inca Empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The conquest of the Thieves Quarter began immediately. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Our comparison begins with food production, a major determinant of local population size and societal complexity—hence an ultimate factor behind the conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Friederich was obliged finally to give up the siege, because he learned of the fall of Glatz, the critical point of his new conquests. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "A conquest that lasted a summer," his uncle pointed out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But the European conquests of the Americas, Siberia, and Australia illustrate the typical recent outcome. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "My father has donned the ancient crown of salt and rock, and declared himself King of the Iron Islands. He claims the north as well, by right of conquest. You are all his subjects." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the Spanish conquest of the Incas, guns played only a minor role. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We can identify the chain of proximate factors that enabled Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, and that operated in European conquests of other Native American societies as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Among the resulting proximate factors behind the conquest, the most important included differences in germs, technology, political organization, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The system harkens instead back to Alexander’s settlement of veterans to help control his conquests in Asia. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The text used virtually no Arabic, in subtle protest of the Arab conquests of Iran in the seventh century. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z "State religion and imperial ideology,” Kolata argued, "performed much the same work as military conquest, but at significantly lower cost.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By conversion or conquest, Islam, the religion of Muhammad, won over nearly all the lands of the ancient world: Egypt, Persia, India, and the Christian Mediterranean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Around the same time that the violin began its conquest of Europe, keyboard technology was also undergoing rapid advancement. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “I guess if you don’t mind being the latest of his conquests. I just thought you had more respect for yourself than that.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “So many questions. For instance, you wear the queue. I’ve read that it is a badge of slavery imposed by conquest by the Manchus on the Southern Chinese.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Prince Charming and his squire, returning at sunset from their conquest, with a gift of sphagnum.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The sole Native Americans able to resist European conquest for many centuries were those tribes that reduced the military disparity by acquiring and mastering both horses and guns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He lifted her to a crest of conquest which they had forgotten. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the Spaniards’ superior weapons would have assured an ultimate Spanish victory in any case, the capture made the conquest quicker and infinitely easier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From these kinds of soldiers, therefore, come only slow, tardy, and weak conquests but sudden and astonishing losses. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Cortes believed that the military conquest of the Alliance had to be accompanied and justified by an equivalent spiritual conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Within half a dozen years of the initial conquest, Incas mounted two desperate, large-scale, well-prepared rebellions against the Spaniards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were not outlaws because they were murderers, or for any reason like that They were Saxons who had revolted against Uther Pendragon’s conquest, and who refused to accept a foreign king. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Belmont, the final conquest of the Triple Crown, set his name in stone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This was conquest by will and courage, and besides, the tigers must live to fight and give them pleasure another day. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I will only write, at present, of what befell in the conquest, and I will not write much, in order to avoid prolixity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I started reading about Francisco Pizarro’s hard-to- believe conquest of the Incas in Peru. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z While some progress has been made in identifying those ultimate causes in the case of Europe’s conquest of the New World, Africa remains a big puzzle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even so, engagement, marriage—such things make a conquest more interesting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And his father...his father would always be preoccupied with conquest—and wouldn’t stop until every continent bore Adarlan’s flag. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z After all, every known written account of the Inka was set down after the conquest, a century or more after Pachakuti's rise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z States, though—especially so-called empires formed by amalgamation or conquest of states—are regularly multiethnic and multilingual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa remained entirely ignorant about Spain’s conquests of Central America’s most powerful and populous Indian societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My conquest could never be so challenging, so beautiful and so nice with someone of the same sex! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The military uses of horses and camels, and the killing power of animal-derived germs, complete the list of major links between food production and conquest that we shall be exploring. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Giovanni's amatory conquests pour forth as data on a computer printout. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z However, after Agricola's recall in 83 or 84, the conquest was not followed through. Five historical clangers in Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle 2011-03-15T17:44:43Z Army victory in the Civil War and conquest of Native American territory in the West. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Authoritarianism is an outgrowth of patriarchy, after all, which is why curtailing the rights and political power of women is among the first stages of the larger conquest plan. How "Ahsoka" takes the sexist subtext of "Star Wars" and brings it to the fore through Hera Syndulla 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z As important as the epic’s originally oral story of great conquest was the script it was written in: That too would conquer worlds. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The first episode, which airs Sunday on PBS, pedals back to 1858 and the French conquest of Indochina. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “A lot of science fiction films are about conquest,” Denis says. The moon landing was a giant leap for movies, too 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z She added, “He was addicted to the conquest.” Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women in New York 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z As a longtime simultaneous interpreter at the United Nations, I had a front-row seat to the conquest of the world by the English language. Arctic Explorers, New Jersey Literature and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The sculptural drawings on metal represent “the cultural histories of their physical makeup — gold, conquest, violence, agriculture — and the fluctuation of power that surrounds natural resources,” says the gallery’s note. Review | In the galleries: Delicate works show concern about the footprints we leave on our planet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The vast sacked riches of Persia, Alexander's key conquest, contributed mightily to enlarging this new class of private art consumers, Lapatin said. The paradox of 'Power and Pathos' at the Getty: Disasters rescued these ancient bronzes 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The chaos of war has prevented a full accounting, and the Islamic State often issues false reports to exaggerate its conquests, while other groups may do so to draw international sympathy. In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z In one issue, Brown describes Cosmo as a practical guide to seducing men — speaking in the idiom of conquest. Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012 2012-08-13T20:07:00Z This was a conquest "which left its victims resentful but also envious of their conquerors and, ultimately, eager to be initiated into the mysteries of their seemingly near-magical power". From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z This captures, in one sentence, capitalism’s racist roots in slavery and conquest. The Contradictions of Joseph Conrad 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z While the majority of inscriptions found at Hegra are in Nabatean, a Semitic language, some are in Greek, which lingered long after Alexander’s conquest of the Middle East. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z Two elaborate pas de deux interestingly offer the more confusing aspects of attraction and conquest. Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z He understands the present situation not as a new development, but a continuum on a planet permanently plagued by conquest and resistance. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z OK, so like 99% of that count came from crass, arguably disgusting mentions of the litany of things they plan on doing to female conquests. We count every rap cliche in Chris Brown and Tyga's 'Fan of a Fan' 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The exhibition focuses on a period of about 1,000 years, starting around the time when the Libyans, already present in the kingdom, seized power and culminating with the Roman conquest in 30BC. Twilight of the Pharaohs (Le Crépuscule des Pharaons) - review 2012-06-19T13:01:51Z On the very day that this great labor was completed, Aegon began his conquest. ‘House of the Dragon’: Is Larys Strong the New Littlefinger? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z A Mexican production team stages this story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, with a cast drawn from both the old and new worlds. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z Many of the texts, citing historical precedent, assert ISIS’s legitimacy—ISIS’s triumphs, it seems, were anticipated by Muhammad’s feats of conquest in the seventh century. The Perfect Children of ISIS: Lessons from Dabiq 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Is it a moment of delivery or a moment of conquest? I quit pot and now feel weird 2012-11-19T01:00:00Z In part, it’s because so few of the finest objects made from materials truly precious to pre-Columbians survived the Spanish conquest. Review | Gold, jade, macaw feathers, turquoise: Ancient American beauty at the Met 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z There were no such devastation in Caribbean islands before Spanish conquest which wiped out the original people of these islands in less than a century. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But the ultimate conquest would be Alexander the Great. Biking Napoleon's Route 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Truth: Pippa and her brother James actually just completed a 6-day bike race across the U.S. to raise money for charity, not to survey the territory for conquest. Here Are 6 Things We Learned from Pippa Middleton's 1st TV Interview 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Listen, my sons, my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. Next Stop: In Mongolia, the Skyline by the Steppes 2013-08-02T16:45:36Z Subsequent books of the Bible follow the conquest of the land, often accompanied by war and bloodshed. The Book of Genesis, part 7: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 2011-01-24T10:00:04Z And, in 1920, he began to produce a sequence of scenes depicting stages in the European conquest of the continent, big paintings, all of which are in the show. The Bump and the Hollow of Thomas Hart Benton 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z A biblical tableau from the British royal collections will be traveling overseas for the first time, and the Spanish government is sending a scene of Hapsburg conquests in Tunisia. Antiques: Current Events Imperil Ukrainian Museum Show 2014-04-24T21:32:44Z Johnny is a man of endless sexual encounters, though none is a conquest, as women throw themselves at him wherever he goes. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Alessandra Ferri, who retired in 2007 from American Ballet Theatre, where she was one of the great dramatic dancers, stars as Lea, the seductress who falls in love with her boy conquest. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness. The education is arduous, with You’s acolytes committing to memory songs of fishing, hunting and ancient tribal conquests through phonetics alone. China's 'mermaid descendants' weave final garments from skin of fish 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Some of this man's conquests have been consenting in the past, which only emboldens him to believe that he is entitled to take what he wants in every case. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In a popular genre, such films pointed to the moral harms of frontier conquest. A man in full 2014-04-16T04:00:00Z Kublai rules a massive empire, but still has unfinished business: the holdout remnants of the Chinese Song dynasty, as well as fellow warlords who fear that conquest has softened the Mongol out of Genghis’ grandson. REVIEW: Khan Job: Netflix's Ludicrous Marco Polo 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The victory in 1066 by Duke William of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, over Anglo-Saxon King Harold was the start of the Norman conquest which transformed England's language, laws, customs and architecture. After 950 years, Battle of Hastings plays out again 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Styled in the manner of the treasured Bayeux Tapestry – which depicts the 11th-century Norman conquest of England – the completed piece will be transported to France to hang near its predecessor in September. Blood, sex and needlework: Game of Thrones recreated in 90-metre tapestry 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z For him, pretty Emma is just the latest in a long line of conquests. Ten of the best lotharios in literature 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z Khalidi’s core thesis is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is best understood as a war of colonial conquest, one that closely hews to the pattern and mind-set of other national-colonial movements of the 19th century. Is There Any Way to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The world conquest on which Alexander the Great embarked far exceeds a desire to beat the Persians. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z She rips the fresco down to expose an older one underneath, showing scenes of violent conquest. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke screen for his ghastly conquests, he couldn’t do better than Cliff Huxtable. Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Within days, the Carlos conquests had multiplied to three; at least, Mr Weiner said, comfortingly: "I don't believe I had any more than three." Sex addiction? Sorry, chaps, it's just plain old lust 2013-07-28T06:20:00Z What’s more, their conquests often end up feeling like you do now, dirty and teed off. 2010-02-06T05:20:00Z A rare, sharp moment of criticism comes when Johnny has to pose for pictures with his co-star, played by Michelle Monaghan, who appears to be another of his disgruntled conquests. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-09T15:00:00Z Questions of conquest, forced removal, and the current border crisis are always on his mind. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The persona she developed on “Animal” parties hard, trash-talks and treats conquests like sex toys, just as male rock stars have done for decades. Music: Kesha Tilts Closer to a Rock Sound With ‘Warrior’ 2012-11-25T00:10:06Z When the Roman army marched around its new conquest, it was not above using the road and discarding its litter. What the Romans didn't do for us 2011-03-16T20:30:00Z Westerns got less racist and more violent in the fifties, darker versions of the same conquest, but I didn’t watch many. This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on Our National Disdain for the “Intellectual” 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z But there are also some good jokes, such as Leporello's catalogue of his boss's conquests pouring out of a printer in a single, seemingly endless sheet. Don Giovanni – review 2012-06-05T17:01:01Z You and Sellars recently collaborated on "The Indian Queen," a Henry Purcell opera about the Spanish conquest of the Americas, which has toured Europe and Russia. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Namor and the kingdom he leads are poised to remind a global audience of the rich world of Mesoamerica that thrived – until European contact beginning in 1502 led to conquest, decline and eradication. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Many of the early Tintin comics often portray Africans as childish, lazy simpletons, which was often the justification for colonial conquest. Tintin’s racist history: Symbol of Brussels solidarity is uncomfortably divisive 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z As I wrote this morning, Dany’s conquest leaves its own sour aftertaste. White privilege of Westeros: “Game of Thrones” finally addresses its racial politics 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The tensions in her work between display and concealment, between conquest of public space and enigmatic personal odyssey, are both unnerving and delectable. Photographer Jun Ahn’s images place viewers on the precipice 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It was a beautiful way to underscore the fundamental theme of the show, best embodied by Tyrion, of the difference between romanticized tales of war and conquest and the realities of government. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But his particular skill set is and always has been oriented more toward the art of ruling than toward conquest and war. "Game of Thrones" fans are wrong about Tyrion Lannister 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Is it possible to reimagine a new iconography of power, untethered to archaic paradigms of virility and conquest? Perspective | Why female portrayals of power on screen need to evolve 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Kerssen sees this as a problem with a history going back as far as the Spanish conquest, when the traditional system of trade among peoples of various altitudes and ecosystems was interrupted. What your organic market doesn’t want you to know: The dark truth about quinoa 2014-04-24T11:50:00Z There are no heroes, no “good guys” — only desperate toilers and powerful tyrants warring against each other in an everlasting and unforgiving struggle for conquest. “Yellowstone,” an American purgatory: No heroes in Kevin Costner’s new Western series 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Matthew Restall for his audacity to see the “conquest” of Latin America with a gimlet eye. ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It hinges, of course, on the Spanish conquest, and the total moral catastrophe that ensued. Review | Gold, jade, macaw feathers, turquoise: Ancient American beauty at the Met 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z He traveled to our countries and didn’t treat them like objects of conquest and its peoples like the dregs of humanity. Readers Remember Anthony Bourdain, Passionate Traveler 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Conquest covered the years after – yes, you guessed it – the Norman conquest and up to William's death. This World: Stolen Brides, The Normans, Four Sons Versus Four Daughters 2010-08-12T07:00:00Z The Marquise, having been put in the rare position of being jilted by her most recent conquest, seeks to enlist Valmont, her ex-lover and frequent conspirator, in a scheme to humiliate the man. Theater Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-07-12T22:07:59Z Even though Faiyaz boasts abstractly of his prodigious conquests, little is explicitly carnal — aggressive flirting on “All Mine,” and an allusion to leaving “love stains” in the back of an Uber on “Ghetto Gatsby.” R&B That Sweats, Emotionally and Physically 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z This did not prevent the long-established Galerie Perrin from giving up the finicky style of the Louis XV age in favor of the monumental mahogany furniture that became the rage across Europe following Napoleon’s conquests. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z The writers also recognize that it’s impossible to take a look at stratification in America through such a prism without examining the intersection of cultural conquest and monotheism, specifically American Christianity. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z If your potential territory is all of the world’s bleeding vaginas, there is always opportunity for further conquest. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Scrambling to catch up with Europe, even the United States embraced the classic imperialism of conquest and occupation, expelling Spain from its Caribbean backyard and flexing its muscles in east Asia. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Thus, perhaps, this marvelous, argumentative and curiosity-provoking book is itself best thought of as a kind of corrective cabinet of wonders, one whose portraits and specimens complicate the dominant narratives of imperial conquest and control. A Poetry Collection That Opens Up Like a Cabinet of Curiosities 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z To me, a story of conquest could still sound like a story of love. How a Woman Becomes a Lake 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z I hope they will take a leaf out of FDR's book: the US Federal Art, Theatre and Music Projects were vibrantly successful components of the New Deal and the conquest of the great depression. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z But there was that long and dreadful detour in between into the politics of white supremacy, which would provide the Republican Party with a blueprint for Southern conquest. Shirley Chisholm, the Democrats’ forgotten hero 2012-09-09T19:00:00Z “Sudden Death” proposes the devastations of the Counter-Reformation and the conquest of Mexico as both cause and image of our violent present, similarly devastated by globalization and the ruthlessness of financiers rather than popes. Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death’ hits history around like a tennis ball 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z By next year the 2010 Year of the Tiger will be just a memory but, for Louis Vuitton and its Asian conquests, the brand is always one leap ahead. Special Report: Fashion: Camping It Up in Old Shanghai 2010-10-06T17:35:00Z Both are male spaces where conquest is prized. For This Mountaineer, Everest Was a Challenge and a Path to Peace 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z When “Lakota America” appeared in 2020, some Lakota scholars objected to that framing, saying it implied a moral equivalence with — or even a justification for — European conquest. A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Nor were we blind to how minorities were treated in the “land of the free,” the long history of slavery and conquest and abrogation of rights. Grieving for America: Are hateful Trump supporters the true face of my adoptive home? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The setting is all too familiar: the Western battlefields of World War II, as Allied forces push back against Adolf Hitler's seemingly inexorable conquest. Review: 'R.U.S.E.' brings war strategy to consoles 2010-09-08T16:36:00Z Its beginning was overshadowed by Napoleon, who controlled much of continental Europe, had begun an invasion of Russia and had his eyes set on the conquest of Britain. Exhibition Review: ‘1812: A Nation Emerges,’ at National Portrait Gallery 2012-06-25T21:40:37Z Hell, even Big is said to have had his fair share of conquests. Chris Noth (Sort of Jokingly) Calls Carrie Bradshaw a Whore 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The character’s amorous conquests, the scripts made clear, may well have existed chiefly in his own mind. Pat Harrington, the Super on ‘One Day at a Time,’ Dies at 86 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The vandal left behind an image of a bullfighter, a bull and the word "conquista," which means "conquest" in Spanish. Man accused in Picasso vandalism to remain jailed 2013-01-16T18:52:13Z Also, their history of seafaring trade and conquest has made them at home by the shore. Fashion Review: The Theater of an Italian Summer 2011-06-22T20:21:31Z After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it became one of the Islamic world’s finest mosques. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Here too is a work of great virtuosity by a Macedonian artist, from the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt in 332 BC. Twilight of the Pharaohs (Le Crépuscule des Pharaons) - review 2012-06-19T13:01:51Z Spanish officials even went as far as to consider the conquest of China; one thought it could be taken by fewer than 60 “good Spanish soldiers”. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The legacies of conquest, however, continue, and Indian communities still endure beleaguering disparities. A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z “The book is an intellectual double take, a rereporting of the great neoliberal conquest, by a writer who kicks himself for missing it at the time.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The first room, of pottery and faience, offers a glimpse of Nubia before the Egyptian conquest. Art Review: Partnerships and Power Shifts Between Two Mighty Lands 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z “Richie Rebel,” a Confederate soldier with the stereotypical Civil War mustache, and a Confederate flag and uniform, waved his sword in the threat and promise of gridiron conquest. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z The Norman conquest transformed England’s language, laws, customs and architecture, and Queen Elizabeth is the 40th monarch in a royal line that traces its origin back to William the Conqueror. After 950 years, France to lend Bayeux Tapestry to Britain 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Several decades after the conquest, chroniclers detailed the burial rites of three Aztec kings, all brothers who ruled from 1469 to 1502. Exclusive: Aztec war sacrifices found in Mexico may point to... 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Nooooo!“ Wired‘s headline joked that Amazon would soon “own writing and reading” and Slate‘s said the move was part of the larger company’s “agenda of world conquest.” Amazon’s Acquisition of Goodreads: Execs and Users Weigh In 2013-03-29T17:24:22Z “The Age of Caesar” opens with an account of the conquests of Pompey and his rivalry with Julius Caesar. ‘The Age of Caesar’: A fresh look at the key players in a time of historic unrest 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Our conquest of the seas brought us new homes and made possible our survival as a global species. Beyond the Blue Horizon by Brian Fagan; Thirst by Steven Mithen – review 2012-09-29T23:05:06Z The seductive Englishman makes another conquest as David Cale’s solo show about a Midwestern boy masquerading as a British man returns for a limited run, sponsored by Audible. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Is that what “Icebound” and the history of human conquest of nature reveal? Individual Consciousness, Lengthy Biographies and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z He and his fellow dancers perfected a choreography of swagger and surrender, an enactment of conquest that encoded submission as the highest form of gallantry. ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Stripping Down to Bare Essentials 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z It invariably referred to the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the conquest of the Philippines that followed. Howard Zinn: “The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The numbers are necessarily approximate, but even from within the deadliest conflict in history, such devastation from a single, airdropped device raised the stakes of war from conquest into the realm of human annihilation. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Trade, conquest, reproduction, translation, displacement, intermarriage: Art partakes of these movements, mutates en route, gets new identities as it circulates and resettles. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z While Democrats focused on decency and democracy, Corben asserts, Republicans focused on conquest. HBO's "537 Votes" uses the Florida recount to explain American politics' descent into bloodsport 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z That might not be so easy: The job was arranged by Alex’s ex-girlfriend, and Max is often distracted by his latest male conquests. 8 Comic Books in Honor of Pride 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z To assist their global trade conquest, the Dutch welcomed immigrants fleeing religious persecution in the south, some of whom brought valuable shipbuilding and navigational knowledge with them. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z You wonder, reading Munn, how Hitler managed to gain control of a nation, mobilise and tyrannise its populace, and plan the conquest of the world. Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn ? review 2012-05-17T12:35:57Z The tango, in all its serpentine, flicking unrest, remains an elusive lover, even as Leda/Dante goes from romance to romance, woman to woman, conquest to conquest, weaving a tangled web of human deceit. ‘The Gods of Tango’: A gender-bending tale of music and love 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z It does seem as though, for the purposes of these writers, science is the conquest of mystery, as it was for Auguste Comte and as it certainly was not for Isaac Newton. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z It is death that brings them grandeur; united in death, they rob Caesar of the triumph of his conquest. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z It was his response to Megan’s continuing insecurity over his slutty history — killing the ghost of conquests past — and when the fever broke, he told her, “You don’t have to worry about me.” ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: A Fever Dream and Spooky Reality 2012-04-09T05:24:14Z “The Man in the High Castle,” which returns with its second season on Friday, depicts an America changed by conquest, not an election, and changed far more starkly. An Alternative America Hits Home in ‘The Man in the High Castle’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, we can see that Roger's love for her transcends her usefulness or her sex appeal or even his interest in conquest. "Mad Men" recap: Women on the verge 2010-09-20T12:20:00Z I asked the woman with whom I saw the play if she thought Wheeler would make a conquest of this last character. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s a story driven by classic tensions: struggle and triumph, division and conquest, group and individual. Review: In ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ Upstarts Who Became the Establishment 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In tracking the Cho family’s response to this existential catastrophe, the novel explores larger questions of generational trauma, the American dream and the consequences of conquest. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z A desire for conquest, perhaps, or the pursuit of wealth or the urge to protect one’s offspring. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The hugging conquests When was the last time he had conventional sex? Clarke Peters: Razzle dazzler 2010-08-08T20:30:00Z He went on to become Napoleon's official artist and – together with his pupils and followers, including Baron Gros – to commemorate the emperor's conquests and glorify his reign. The art of war cuts both ways | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-22T11:41:00Z In Karamakate’s eyes, the European and American marauders who enslaved and destroyed his tribe are agents of an insane culture devoted to genocidal conquest and rapacious destruction. Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Where Majesty Meets Monstrosity 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The book reads like dinner party tales: conquests, side stories and a few confessions. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Locke is known for assembling ready-made materials from disparate places and periods — such as coats of arms and warships — that deal with issues like power, migration and conquest. Hew Locke to Create Artworks for Met Museum Facade 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z An ancient Zoroastrian festival of the spring equinox, Nowruz has been celebrated continuously for at least 3,000 years, more than a thousand years before the region’s Muslim conquest. Persian Cuisine, Fragrant and Rich With Symbolism 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z But as Kalanick’s ruthless tactics came to light, scrappy images of conquest were increasingly replaced by those of cabdriver suicides and price gouging. In ‘Super Pumped,’ the Uber Founder Disrupts His Own Rise 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z As does her confessional tone: among her many conquests, she asserts, were Warren Beatty and Paul Newman. Vicky Tiel?s 40-Year Career in Fashion 2011-08-19T23:04:30Z But as has often been noted by his biographers, Casanova was no Don Giovanni, whose conquests numbered in the thousands. Theater Review: ‘The Giacomo Variations,’ With John Malkovich, at City Center 2013-05-31T18:03:12Z Martinez constructs this collection like a curator building a cabinet of curiosities, one whose portraits and specimens complicate the dominant narratives of imperial conquest and control. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z As countless rock and rap songs demonstrate, when a male performer challenges conservative mores surrounding sex, it is typically to announce conquest or issue command. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z With the 100th anniversary of the conquest of the South Pole coming this December, books about Antarctica will be everywhere this year. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem, rekindling a longstanding debate about using the Bible as a field guide to identifying ancient ruins. Israeli says he has found King David's citadel 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z That stands in stark contrast to many competitors, whose blitzkrieg tactics of throwing open as many stores as possible seems more like an imperial strategy of economic conquest than an integrative business model. Will Walmart eat L.A.? 2012-06-26T19:39:00Z So it seemed logical to call on God when establishing a holiday celebrating that conquest, too. Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z I wasn’t very good at situations like these although I’d been in them quite a number of times since my conquest of Dexter. My dinner with Alger Hiss 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z While trying to probe the true nature of Christopher Columbus' conquests, he ends up making his own contribution to history's hypocrisies. 'Even the Rain': A film-within-a-film about conquerors and their legacy 2011-03-03T21:01:06Z But the Internet wasn’t the point of it, and the dream wasn’t of conquest. Museums See Different Virtues in Virtual Worlds 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Yes, there’s no proof that the Trump camp tipped the New York Post, but don’t forget, this is someone who used to pose as his own spokesman to spread word of his romantic conquests. What TV journalists did wrong — and the New York Times did right — in meeting with Trump 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z What attracted us was its cultural history, which traces back not only to its conquest by Caesar Augustus, but to cave-dwellers, its reputation as a gourmet center and, of course, the wine. In France, Our Dog Has His Day 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Not even the wildest of anti-communist politicians has predicted the conquest of the United States by the Vietcong guerrillas and the North Vietnamese army. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But who will repeat the Gaul's conquest of Britain? Pushkin launches new imprint for children's books in translation 2013-05-07T11:29:36Z Mr. Bay’s subject — overwhelming violent conquest — is as blatant and consistent as his cluttered mise-en-scène… The French filmmaker Jacques Rivette once described an auteur as someone who speaks in the first person. The Times Critics' Guide to the 'Transformers' Movies 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Other rappers rattle off city names as potential future conquests on the battlefield. Like Many Classic Songs, Fergie's New Single Is Just a List of Random Cities 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z So it had been declared, and so it was; by December 2019, space force was an independent entity and beginning our Starship Troopers-style conquest of the stars. Crash landing: Space Force is not the Trump satire we need right now 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z William won, reinforcing and entrenching the conquest of Ireland by the English. Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The conquest of Everest by New Zealand’s Hillary and his Nepali guide Tenzing in 1953 popularized Nepal as a destination for mountain climbers. Nepal opens peaks named after Hillary, Tenzing to foreign climbers 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “Down through the ages, imperial conquest, exploits of valor and expressions of love have gone hand in hand with violence to women in thought and deed.” How a Woman Becomes a Lake 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z So it ends up that, in a reprise of her conquest of Astapor, she gives the slaves of the beaten city the choice of whether to accept her. Game of Thrones Watch: Blood Is Thicker 2013-06-10T04:04:31Z Provence was not just a lost golden land; despite conquest, it was tenacious and invasive. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z Certainly, the Spaniards “went to great lengths to analyse the moral basis of their conquests”. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The ideology and practices developed in periods of war and conquest evolved into more sedentary, perhaps even bureaucratic forms of action. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z Case herself admits the issue here isn't really about conquest. Why don't female rock stars have groupies? 2011-02-22T16:23:00Z Presented by Olusoga, it looks at cross-cultural exchanges that, for the most part, took place during the age of exploration, before “conquest, plunder, and empire” became the norms. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Germany, for its part, was working to win the war and absorb its new eastern conquests, and was perfectly content for the Allies and Russia to keep each other busy. 'Spies and Commissars': Russia's revolution had no friends in world 2012-07-03T21:03:09Z As NPR reports, "Rumors spread about this giant diamond guarded by a goddess, and it became the object of violent conquest." King Charles III's coronation: The bloody history behind some of the crown jewels 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Big British bands need America so bad that they dump any local commitment just to be there and – ever since the Beatles won – the advance strategies for US conquest have been carefully worked. 'If Bruce Springsteen had been British he would have been Leo Sayer' – a classic feature from the vaults 2012-11-13T15:39:23Z Remember when we could picture a world in which mankind has evolved beyond racism, misogyny, and class warfare, dedicating itself to scientific exploration, cultural understanding, and the expansion of alliances instead of conquest? Boldly take us where we've been, Captain Pike 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z They were precursors not just to imperial conquest, but also to more positive manifestations of contemporary globalism. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z This encounter, so decisive for the conquest of health and for the victory over fear, is also supreme in its moral value. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z This includes a modern staging of Henry Purcell's 17th century opera "The Indian Queen," about the conquest of Mexico, which was produced at the Teatro Real in Madrid last year. Moment of Friday: Gronk's 'Citizen Kane' is 1957's 'The Giant Claw' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z A movie that begins as a kinky erotic thriller morphs into an increasingly gory horror film, divided into four acts, each focused on a conquest. Review: ‘Alleluia’ Follows Partners in Crime, but Not Necessarily in Love 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The movie’s observations of the wolf pack mentality of privileged teenage boys who view every conquest as proof of their prowess is casually devastating. Movie Review: ‘S#x Acts,’ About a Reckless Student Catering to Teenage Wolves 2013-12-05T23:21:17Z In her fascinating book, “The Dawn Watch,” the Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff offers detailed background on the evolution of Conrad’s books, describing how each was a sort of reckoning with Western conquest and advancing globalization. The Contradictions of Joseph Conrad 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Ravel wrote the song in the midst of French colonial wars in North Africa, only a few decades after the bloody French conquest of Madagascar in 1896. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z She returns, again and again, to the conquests of teenage friends. ‘Losing It’: A 26-year-old virgin plots her own deflowering 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Arana, a former Washington Post Book World editor, weaves a gripping account of Latin America’s conquest and exploitation over 500 years. August paperback releases: 14 books to read now 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z “The world is blotted out as you are enveloped in the sweep of a story rich with conquest, conspiracy and mazy human psychology,” wrote the U.S. paper’s reviewer Parul Sehgal. Mantel unveils final volume in award-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z A clip of that speech appears near the end of “First Man,” Damien Chazelle’s sweeping and intimate new film, which takes the conquest of difficulty as both theme and inspiration. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But strange stuff starts to happen on the way to what ought to be a simple conquest. "Black Swan": Even better than you've heard 2010-12-03T01:30:00Z The means of Dany’s conquest, and the source of her power, has been by taking on the maternal role and expanding her family. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: The Irony Throne 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The film also centers on Zim’s hapless attempts at planetary conquest, but his longtime nemesis Professor Membrane is determined to thwart his plans once again — if Zim doesn’t manage to do that himself first. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Amazing Jonathan Documentary’ and JoJo Siwa 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The opera’s libertine god Jupiter is seeking one more conquest: Danae, the daughter of King Pollux. Music Review: Even as Financial Fears Mount, Real Love Outweighs Gold 2011-08-01T22:54:07Z Then a cocky, creepy bloke who manages a youth hostel, hits on female residents, and marks them on his "conquest map of the world". TV OD with Michael Hogan – Cherry Healey: How To Get A Life 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z Building on fantasies of libertine conquest and masculine sophistication, LaVey was savvy enough to recognize that one growth market would be sexual empowerment for women. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z The movie, meanwhile, expands the schoolbook chronicle of the conquest of space beyond the usual heroes, restoring some of its idealism and grandeur in the process. Review: ‘Hidden Figures’ Honors 3 Black Women Who Helped NASA Soar 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Just last year, she was the one heartlessly notching up conquests in her own “Ex’s and Oh’s.” The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The few times the show wades into race are all cringe-inducing — especially in Season 3, when Samantha says, "I don't see color. I see conquests," of a Black man she's interested in. Sex and the City and Gossip Girl must learn from mistakes in reboots 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z The maps of the age of discovery boggle the mind with their intellectual conquest of space. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Interplanetary wars, galaxy-spanning empires, brave men bounding toward their next conquest — all this action rests on a notion of the future as inchoate, waiting to be made. The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z As he sang an invigorating Catalogue aria, visions of the Don's conquests appeared on the balconies. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z As the island nation’s influence spread through global conquests, so did its interest in the languages and literatures of other peoples. ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished It all goes back to 1948 — or maybe it really all goes back to the Roman conquest of the region nearly two millennia ago. ‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ revives Roth’s Middle East Festival at Mosaic 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z In addition to artworks created after the 16th-century Spanish conquest, the show—presented in both English and Spanish—features objects that represent more than 1,000 years of Andean artistic traditions. Explore 1,000 Years of Andean Culture in a New Exhibition in Dallas 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But some historians say the story dates to the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. Halloween getting Latino characters 2011-10-17T16:19:32Z I saw it, so I should mention “Seven Seductions of Taylor Swift,” a sweet, sour and slapdash show written by seven women and performed by Thaddeus Shafer as Ms. Swift’s various conquests. A Review Roundup of Fringe Festival Shows 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z The program drives this point home with amazing footage in which a white Bengal tiger retrieves the rib cage of some conquest from a hiding place underwater. Review: In ‘The Story of Cats’ on PBS, a Look at Evolutionary Masters 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The other part of this was the larger trend in American conquest of Mexican land. Both Super Bowl LIV team names are pretty racist — Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z From then on it was one of the success stories of the century, a delirious conquest of one leading opera house after another. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z This was an era of global exploration, colonial conquest, humanist curiosity and scientific advances. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z An unusually physical performer, Mr. Campbell, who is backed by a pop quartet, illustrates songs with broad, decisive gestures that suggest an entertainer still bent on world conquest. Music Review: Broadway Cowboy of Australia 2010-12-01T05:15:00Z Despite the unexpected failure of what was probably just a scouting party, would Mars, a dying and depleted planet, simply abandon its plans for conquest? ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Both women are vying for the role of Clytaemnestra, the queen who murders her husband, Agamemnon, and his new conquest, Cassandra. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Instead of pursuing violent conquest and martial glory, the powerful monarch of the title revels in the good life and inspires his subjects to do likewise. Review: Byronic Heroism Can’t Save ‘Sardanapal’ in Berlin 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z And for many readers, he said, “the most surprising revelation will be that the seemingly decisive conquest of the continent was anything but.” A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The other, in Drake’s hands at least, is about soft power — most often, the path to conquest is through humility, and sometimes awe. Drake, in Search of an Enemy Besides Himself 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “I shall be sure of your prayers for my safety, conquest and speedy return,” Nelson wrote to Horatia a few days before his death. Antiques: Notes to Lady Hamilton, Who Drove Admiral Nelson Wild 2011-02-10T21:35:33Z Honduras was settled 20 years after Columbus by Hernando Cortés and the Conquistadors from Spain, fresh from their conquest of Mexico. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z From the advent of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, no American movie genre was more relevant than the western, with its allegorical echoes of race, crime, conquest and American exceptionalism. In ‘Hombre’ and ‘Kid Blue,’ the Antiheroes Wear Stetsons Ride Tall on a Rebellion Frontier 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z He turns out to be married to an American woman he plans to ditch, and regards his new English conquest as a catch worth flaunting. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It is also not a tool for conquest, or opportunity for domination, but an opportunity for mutual pleasure. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z “A lot of science fiction films are about conquest. In that void, that huge universe, there’s not many things to fight, unless you do ‘Star Wars’ and there’s an alien living there. For Denis and Pattinson, a cosmic connection in ‘High Life’ 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Ptolemaic rule spanned about three centuries until the Roman conquest in 30 B.C. Finely painted Ptolemaic tomb unveiled in Egypt 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Away with your nationalist rhetoric, your dreams of world conquest. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Letterman, who is showing no signs of fatigue from Scientology roasting, marched on in his conquest with a clip from the documentary which featured interviews from Spanky Taylor, Paul Haggis and — oh, yes, himself. David Letterman roasts Scientology again in hilariously random “Going Clear” parody 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In past centuries religions could capture mindshare through conquest, which is how Christianity spread through Europe and how Islam spread through India. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z It is a feast of history, an expert tour through thousands of years of war and conquest, on land and at sea, through more recent advances in warfare. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Moving north, you pass a neighborhood where avenues named for U.S. states cross streets named for Native nations, the grid itself a metaphor for order and conquest. Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z She swiftly moved on to other conquests who equally met a sad end: Her second husband David died of a heart attack immediately after their wedding upon discovering she had been conning him. Death in Walford: 30 years of EastEnders murders 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z But the young gent speaks less and less of marriage, soon tires of his easy conquest, and passes her on to a friend or simply deserts her. The Origins of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala - review 2012-02-10T22:55:05Z The famous embroidery featured 58 scenes depicting the Norman conquest leading up to the Battle of Hastings. Bayeux Tapestry gets an extra piece 2014-01-17T03:52:25Z Wellsbury is the kind of town built for people who look like Georgia, which makes it ripe for conquest. "Ginny & Georgia" isn't "Gilmore Girls" redux – it's darker, riskier and far more fun 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z One of these is based on the quasi-legendary sybaritic Assyrian monarch, Sardanapalo, who prefers feasting with his concubines to governing and conquest. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z It combines the romance of the striving immigrant with dreams of cultural conquest and also serious ideas about what the modern novel might become. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Stewart laments his “terrible problem with finality” — that is, his propensity for getting caught by tabloids two-timing his last conquest with his next. Books Of the Times: Rod Stewart’s Autobiography 2012-11-14T22:44:40Z When it comes down to it, perhaps this litmus test is about whether we see the US flag more as Kennedy’s “banner of freedom and peace” or a “flag of conquest”, hostile or otherwise. 'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man put a rocket up the politics of space 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The list of rumored and confirmed conquests is on a DiCaprio level. I can’t bear to watch HiddleSwift: The public spectacle of love-tweet-delete is just too much 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z And the three are far from blind to the going-to-the-big-game aspect of their next conquest. The Four Seasons Space Gets a New, Younger Face 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Mexico’s indigenous people were decimated during the 1521 Spanish conquest that by some estimates wiped out nine tenths of the population. Star of Mexican film 'Roma' prompts raw discussion of race, class 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The gleefully chauvinistic work depicts an icy China overcome by warm, Western force, and closes with the fantasy of a conquered culture celebrating its conquest. Music Review: ?Heart of a Soldier? at San Francisco Opera - Review 2011-09-11T17:17:57Z Our overall theme for the season started with the conquest of Everest in the 1920s and George Mallory, who was the first person that attempted Everest and died in a tweed suit. Ski Bunnies on City Slopes 2010-12-16T05:45:06Z These are the two parts of our language that came together with the Norman conquest. The director of Folger Shakespeare Library on inventing words, abusing language 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead of preening heroes of war and conquest, an exemplary figure here would be a bald, monkish Manchu official in a flowing robe lovingly carved from boxwood. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z Hypermodern and three-dimensional in presentation and scope, the film is a sweeping, rapturous exploration of pre-settlement Quebec, conquest, revolution, and rapid industrialization. At 375, Montreal’s cosmopolitan charm still seduces travelers 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Saarinen understood how essentially American the arch form was, a symbol of triumph and conquest that is hollow at its core. Perspective | 50 years later, St. Louis’ Gateway Arch emerges with a new name and a skeptical view of western expansion 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Offerings are brought to the god Osiris and an inscription in golden capitals urges in Greek — the language imposed on Egypt after Alexander’s conquest in the fourth century B.C. Review: The Mysteries of Meroe 2010-05-21T12:00:00Z And yes, Britain led the way with its 1960s conquest of global popular culture. John Lennon and Yoko Ono: the image that defines the second Elizabethan era 2012-05-31T13:06:07Z You will not forget the sight of him making out with his latest conquest. ‘Smoking Causes Coughing’ Review: A Superteam Saga With a Demented Twist 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s a rollicking tale of pirates, conquest and political intrigue. Dancing to ‘Yellow Submarine,’ Neanderthal Extinction and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Several scenes later, he’ll have her in his bed, a plot twist to reward him and the male viewers who want to see their hero complete his conquest. M*A*S*H at 50: the Robert Altman comedy that revels in cruel misogyny 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z In this iteration of the Don Juan legend, the notorious womanizer plans and executes his conquests amid dramatic shadows and gothic floods of light. Two plays in contrast: a misogynist Don Juan and a feminist Greek hero 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Currently touring Europe is an opera about the Spanish conquest of the Americas that is directed by an Angeleno and whose set was conceived by a Los Angeles artist. Three wishes for 2015 from the High & Low 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Like ants fatefully drawn to honey, Xie and Mo’s conquests seem very helpless and very doomed. Movie Review: ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Directed by Hur Jin-ho 2012-11-09T01:55:30Z As a heterosexual who becomes impotent once his interest in a woman shifts from conquest to affection, it turns out he’s an ideal customer. When the Nation That Shaped You Is Falling Apart 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The well-paired duo navigate a subtly shifting line, but Rachel's determination not to become the latest of Aaron's conquests grows tiresome, their impasses repetitive. 'The Fourth Noble Truth' a meditation on Buddhism, seduction 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z I suspect you rush in like the impetuous Romeo, declaring yourself for all you are worth, raising expectations of epic romance to dizzying heights before dropping your lovers the second you sense conquest is complete. I dump my girlfriends after 18 months. What am I so scared of? | Dear Mariella 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z He struck toreador poses, leered at the array of beautiful women in his band, and stalked the lip of the stage as if to inspect his next conquest. Concert review: Bryan Ferry at the Civic Opera House 2011-10-12T06:03:00Z The siren song of this book will be broken down, note by note — the trills of literary conquest, the wily rhythm of my daredevil heart. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z As the character explains in repetitive voice-over, none of his conquests quite lives up to the pixellated perfection of what the web has to offer. Sundance film festival 2013: Don Jon's Addiction - first look review 2013-01-21T17:03:51Z Egypt had been a locus of fascination for Europeans, especially the French, since Napoleon’s short-lived military conquest at the close of the 18th century. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But he opens as Savile tonight, entering in a blond wig and jangling jewellery, giving it "Now then, now then," and gloating about his underage conquests. Jerry Sadowitz – review 2012-12-12T17:28:45Z His book is the fruit of an enormous amount of research that focuses on the conquest of the mountains and the interconnected kingdoms and states that vied for control. Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Colonialists would go hand-in-hand with botanists and astronomers in their conquest of the globe. Forgotten hero 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But no English, no English,” meaning that his conquests didn’t speak his language. Like Seaside Heights, but With a Duomo 2011-07-30T04:01:30Z Before the Spanish conquest, it was the heart of Incan empire and its walls were said to have been lined in gold. Cuzco, Peru, Can Be Breathtaking (in More Ways Than One) 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z In short, it’s on the brink of global conquest. High time: introducing the Guardian's new cannabis column for grownups 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Beltane was an ancient Gaelic event with roots that predate the Roman conquest of the British Isles. 10 bewitching facts About Beltane, the ancient gaelic fire festival 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Her new persona will appear in photomontages at the Brooklyn Museum — one clad in custom-made medieval armor with small palm trees as headgear, connoting European conquest and her Caribbean roots. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z There is the girl’s mother, indifferent when she’s not overtly approving of the conquests; her father, deceased. The dark side of David Bowie: As the mourning goes on, we can’t ignore his history with underaged groupies in ’70s 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s always been okay for presidents, like Jack Kennedy, to seek escape in something like the James Bond books, techno-heavy tales of all manner of conquest. Women, stop apologizing for reading ‘women’s novels.’ That includes you, Hillary. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Cruise has a few years ahead of him before he heads the way of "The Mule," proven by the pre-movie teaser for his next great cinema conquest, 2023's "Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One." No, "Top Gun" isn't an anti-woke success story, but rather a tribute to aging Tom Cruise and balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Lollapalooza’s plans for world conquest apparently don’t include any more North American cities. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z Winchester was the capital of England throughout a large part of the Anglo-Saxon period and after the Norman conquest. Britain's 'earliest hospital' discovered 2010-10-20T16:23:00Z Either way, the violence of the Spanish conquest, the Mexican-American war of the 1840s and the recent ascendance of the drug cartels figure in his personal mythology. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z For the first half, at least, this is a tale of conquest. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The production entitled Mexica, which centers on the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, began filming two weeks ago on location in Mexico City. Spielberg-produced Amazon mini-series in Mexico put on hold over coronavirus: letter 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z It is a tale of the old wood-and-field worshiping races, Swedes and Bohemians, transplanted to Nebraskan uplands, of their struggle with the untamed soil, and their final conquest of it. Review: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Ay Khanum, excavated by the great French archaeologist Paul Bernard, revealed a Hellenistic site, originally a Greek settlement founded after Alexander’s conquest of the Iranian world. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z To make explicit that this story of conquest can be seen as an age-old saga of male and female relations, Mr. Rihm wrote the role of Montezuma for a soprano. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Sensing a sharper rightward shift after 9/11, many pith-helmet-and-jodhpurs fetishists boisterously outed themselves, exhorting politicians to recreate a new western imperium through old-style military conquest and occupation of native lands. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Whether a romantic conquest or reject, every man in Ellie's life seems foreign and imperceptible. 'Lucky Them' chases after a vanished rock 'n' rock legend 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But the sudden German conquest of France in the late spring of 1940 left the staff with a choice: Return to Nazi-occupied France or stay in the U.S. as refugees. The Rise and Fall of French cuisine 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a war novel, a novel of illicit gay love, a novel of addiction,” he said, “and a stirring portrait of Hong Kong a year before and a decade after Japanese conquest and occupation.” Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z He charts dozens of wars, revolutions and conquests in between. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z They try to justify their friendly interactions by assuring Spanish authorities that "peaceful conquest was possible." Surviving the New World in Laila Lalami's 'The Moor's Account' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “Behanzin was unable to govern properly, because he was dragged into the colonial conquest of Africa by the Europeans,” she said. A Painter Explores His Royal Roots 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z You see me here, eating a simple stew/ Me, slave to no desire except for one:/ World conquest. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z New York, we see, became a locus for Cuban debates for half a century, with advocates of liberation, Spanish loyalists and proponents of conquest jostling for supremacy, until the Spanish-American War overturned the playing board. Exhibition Review: Looking South, Not East, Into New York?s Past 2010-09-16T22:55:00Z One of his insights is that the continent’s military history was defined by the construction of forts, both to defend it from foreign powers and to assist in its conquest. Sir John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78 2012-08-03T01:01:09Z Venezuela praised its 'socialist revolution' for a culinary conquest on Saturday: Guinness World Records for the country's beloved Christmas dinner staples. Venezuela lauds world records for Christmas dinner 'made in revolution' 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z He based the story on “Anabasis,” written by the Greek soldier Xenophon, who helped lead the retreat of 10,000 Greek soldiers after their failed conquest of Persia about 400 B.C. Sol Yurick, Novelist, Dies at 87 2013-01-09T15:49:27Z She would be truly formidable if she'd made her own conquest plans instead of hitching her hopes to whichever man or men are pulling ahead on a given day. On "Succession," why bother simply surviving when you can fake what it means to be living ... plus? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Art and politics have always mixed: This exhibit displays hundreds of years of royal art from the former Indian kingdom of Marwar-Jodhpur, much of which was used in trade, diplomacy and conquest. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2018 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. LaBeouf shows up fairly early as Jerôme, anxiously working a sleazy mien and an unconvincing British accent as Joe’s first conquest. Movie Review: Pain Abounds in Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomanic’ (Surprised?) 2014-03-20T22:09:41Z St Fagans: Natural History Museum in Cardiff is also hoping to raise £25,000 to re-create a Roman farmstead which will offer an insight into home life at the time of the Roman conquest. Crowdfunding scheme for art launched 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s been said before that Lady Gaga’s greatest work of art is her own persona, and that has only increased with the progress of her pop conquest. Gaga's Toldja-So Moment at Lollapalooza 2010-08-07T19:32:00Z “Imperfect Union” is truest to its own stated cartoon conquest when it plumbs lesser-known stories — and actually lives up to its battle cry of saying “Enough!” of focusing solely on those great dead white men. ‘A Most Imperfect Union,’ a retelling of U.S. history by Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz A brutal account of the region’s conquest and exploitation that reads like a literary epic. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Picasso glares at us as if we will be his next conquest, while Jasper Johns stares intensely off into space. ‘A Closer Look’ at more of Paul Allen’s art collection at Pivot 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z With a billboard on Sunset Boulevard and an exhausting run of TV appearances, he set about his conquest. Demis Roussos: A colourful career 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z He is a high achiever, hungry for worldly conquests of a mainline sort. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The perfectly fitted, massive mortar-free walls of their palaces and temples still line many of the narrow streets, though most buildings were rebuilt after the violent conflicts during the Spanish conquest a century later. Hiking to Machu Picchu past sacred Inca peaks 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In 1936, he produced a giant figure, “Victory,” for an architectural installation commemorating Mussolini’s brutal conquest of Ethiopia, and a ceiling frieze for a Shrine of Fascist Martyrs in Milan. Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Both candidates have fought with the press, but where he treats it as a war of conquest, she treats it as a siege. Battle of the Network Stars: Trump vs. Clinton 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z And after Wallis completed her own conquest, she spent the rest of her life paying the price. Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself 2012-02-05T22:22:14Z Conjuring up Alexander the Great — “his assumed civilizing campaigns, his conquest of the Orient” — emphasizes his place in “the Western imagination as a whole,” Mr. Hamilakis said. Alexander the Great’s Legacy Stirred Up by Excavation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z But the history is there if you pay attention — the grand, terrible story of global capitalism and territorial conquest. Here’s What We Would Nominate for Best Picture 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Thus seeded, the ivy begins its patient journey of conquest. Revered, then reviled: Tracking the rise and fall of ivy 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The tsarist conquest of the mountains, Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and the Ingush, the wars of 1994 and 1999 – none of these sits comfortably with the rubric of "security, cooperation and progress". Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the?Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z Crowley was working on an independent film called “Gray State” which features the eerie log line, “By consent or conquest.” “A Grey State”: A right-wing conspiracy theorist films his own deadly descent into madness 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “It’s a cultural democratization project, it’s not a conquest of the world.” A Masterful Debut, but Can It Rise to Greatness? 2010-05-12T12:30:00Z Castles did not sprout up across western Europe the moment the legions disappeared; the Middle East was not transformed within a generation of the Arab conquests into a set from the Arabian Nights. What I'm thinking about … why history has put Australia behind a firewall 2013-03-02T03:49:39Z Unlike the atrium, where you can almost imagine top-hatted bankers plotting financial conquests, the rooms themselves have an elegant yet homey feel, and start at $399 a night. 36 Hours in Manhattan, Below 59th Street 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z That approach is something of a conquest—as much for the museum’s in-person spectator as for the viewer of “National Gallery.” Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z And it was a mountain that inspired this week’s stylish collections: an homage to Britain’s explorer past, with the 60th anniversary of the conquest of Everest producing high-tech parkas and hefty sweaters. London Men's Collections: Glamour vs. Downtown 2013-01-11T11:17:42Z The emperor summons the cyborg to his chamber, but what follows isn't a strategy session about future conquest. Sci-Fest L.A. gives one-act science-fiction plays a spotlight 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z I like the conquest and challenge of it.” Heads Up: In Austin, Bungalows and Brews 2011-07-15T18:55:00Z He cited the recent loan to Tehran of the Cyrus Cylinder, which records the Persian king's granting of religious freedoms after his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC. British Museum has best spring ever 2013-06-25T17:11:15Z “Her physical limitations are appalling,” Wyeth wrote, adding that his aim was “to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.” The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z “That England, that was wont to conquer others,” he says, “hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Britain Wonders, Is It Too Soon to Dramatize the Pandemic? 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z So basically the film's entire premise – that Schindler was obliged to turn detective and interview all of Beethoven's old conquests, looking for the anonymous true love mentioned in his will – is wrong. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z Director E. Loren Meeker’s main conceptual notion was a silent cohort of white-clad women, the Don’s past conquests haunting the stage, shifting the center of gravity toward a female vantage. Review | WNO’s new ‘Don Giovanni’ is a monster that feels timely without trying 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z For a Britain that was fast losing its empire, the conquest of Everest was greeted with nationalistic euphoria. Jan Morris, Celebrated Writer of Place and History, Is Dead at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z In the annals of human exploration, curiosity is often a prelude to and enabler of conquest. ‘Becoming Cousteau’ Review: The Old Man and the Sea 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z When Malvo listens to one of his conquest tapes, doesn’t it seem as though the script is channeling what Lester might say or do? 'Fargo' Recap: It's a Turducken 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The history of conquest has also left its mark. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z Reddit chat threads are brimming with banter from players who crow about conquests and share insight on where to find high-value targets. Millennials Cash In as Pokémon Sherpas 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z “But I’m not here for a conquest. I’m here for a cocktail.” Alcohol’s Sudden TV Renaissance 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z It was not a recognized genre, but was always involved with other things — war and conquest, religion, history writing, commerce, science, poetry and so on. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z “This theme and my libretto are yours by right of conquest,” the librettist wrote. The Secret of Verdi’s ‘Otello’ and ‘Falstaff’? His Publisher 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The new film covers similar ground on the opposite coast: Martine stirs up intimacy, then lets her conquests figure out what to do with it. Nobody Walks: Sex, Love, Bugs and (Kind of) Lena Dunham 2012-10-18T12:00:54Z Nor did the conquest spell instant doom for the city’s Greek Orthodox authorities, who initially at least kept many of their finest churches. New histories of Istanbul 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Since conversion was thought to excuse conquest, these devotional artworks had to overawe their viewers. How Colonial Artisans Dazzled the New World 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Its apparent neo-realism becomes a triumph of style, its direct observation is an intellectual conquest. The Miraculous Apu Trilogy 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z “I have met many of your type over the last few years, coming here to fulfill some personal conquest, but you never stop to think about how arrogant you are,” he says. A Comic Strip About the Marines: The Few, the Proud, the Bored Out of Their Minds 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z This was a political as well as an aesthetic choice intended to encourage the inclusion of Mexico's indigenous population – the underdogs of Spanish conquest – into post-revolutionary society. Mexican modernism and the politics of painting 2013-06-29T07:59:01Z I found that I could really love and hug them without feeling, I've got a conquest here. Clarke Peters: Razzle dazzler 2010-08-08T20:30:00Z Jonathan M. Katz’s lively, deeply researched “Gangsters of Capitalism” tracks Butler’s three decades of foreign conquest. Review: An imperialist repents in ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’ 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z In paintings and sculptures he hops from one conquest to the next: from Io, to Ganymede, to Leda; disguised as a cloud, an eagle, a swan. Review: ‘A World of Emotions’ in Greek Art Unmasks the Stony Faces 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In 1569, Cosimo’s conquests were acknowledged by the pope, when he conferred on him the new title of Grand Duke of Tuscany. Art: For Florence, Vasari Was a Man of All Talents 2011-07-13T11:48:19Z The spirit of American exceptionalism is strong, but scorning American blacks for seeking their freedom is no longer respectable, and advocating conquest in the name of God is not far behind. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z “Latin America has been obsessed with the wounds of the conquest and colonization.” Sci-Fi Writers Find Warmer Climate Amid Cuban Thaw 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z He resolves to reunite with his brother by trudging across the continent, shoes against the current of westward migration and continental conquest. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Unlike many Old World museums, it also is not an “imperial” institution, many of whose holdings were gathered through plunder and conquest. A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z Beautiful dresses and billowy layers of underclothing often litter the stage, casually discarded in the same way that the fickle Casanova left behind so many women after his conquests. Review: Frisky Malkovich in 'Giacomo Variations' 2013-06-03T18:30:10Z They will also shift the time frame of the entire art category, downgrading the Spanish conquest from the defining moment in history to one of many moments. How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The port boomed after the French conquest of Algeria in 1830. France’s Chicest Hotel Family Has Come to Languedoc. Is That a Good Thing? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z He returned, having unbuttoned his suit jacket to reveal a bright red vest, and this time he unleashed himself as he sang Leporello’s list of his master’s amorous conquests from “Don Giovanni.” Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z The classroom was only one field of potential conquest. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z Between conquests, emperors like Caesar Augustus and Hadrian lingered there. Overnighter: Near Barcelona, Gems From Ancient Rome 2011-06-03T19:03:42Z The notion is of sex as conquest – sex and violence are so linked that one is almost the other. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z As Mr. Dumas puts it: “Leather is the first material tamed by Hermès and remains its noblest conquest.” Herm?s Tells a Playful Tale of Leather 2012-05-21T12:33:10Z Renowned as a sport-fishing destination since the days of Hemingway’s marlin conquests, the draw is now catch-and-release fishing for tarpon, bonefish or permit. 36 Hours in Key West, Fla. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z No one said the conquest of Canada would be a “cakewalk,” but the hawks were confident the Americans would be greeted as liberators. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z History is a tale of rapacious conquest and destruction with an apocalyptic ending. Movie Review: Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young Journeys’ 2012-06-28T23:29:53Z More to the point, we now know there were no white hats in the conquest of the West, only purveyors of genocide and continent-scale land theft. A Wild West Story About the Early Internet and Sex.com 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z This was among the first encounters of the agile Portuguese when their Age of Discovery gathered conquests in the 1400s. The rain forest destination Americans are missing out on 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z In a short director's note in the program, she writes that "Norma," which takes place in 50 BC during Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul, has greater potential for social commentary than normally noticed. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Ireland was the original colonized nation, and was subjected to a near-genocidal conquest centuries before the Holocaust. How did Irish-Americans get so disgusting? 2014-03-15T17:00:00Z The conquest of the Persian empire is invariably explained in political terms. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z They evoke river transport, industry, territorial expansion — the building of the American economy from conquest and enslavement. On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z It was a beautiful machine that encouraged tyrannical Japan to dream of world conquest, and brought death more swiftly to rival airmen and civilians alike. The Wind Rises: An Animation Master’s Last Flight? 2014-02-20T15:00:59Z I had encountered men over the previous two-and-a-half years who treated it as either a precious, sentimental anomaly or as a personal conquest that would amplify their masculinity, but he was not among them. Advice from an accidental virgin: how to survive freshman year debauchery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “This is one of the earliest mosques known from the beginning of the arrival of Islam in Israel, after the Arab conquest of 636 C.E.,” said Gideon Avni of the antiquities authority. Archaeologists find mosque from when Islam arrived in holy land 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The Norman conquest transformed England’s language, laws, customs and architecture, and Queen Elizabeth is the 40th monarch in a royal line that traces its origin back to William the Conqueror. After 950 years, France to lend Bayeux Tapestry to Britain 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But pretty soon that’s dropped, and we’re in the same old “Macbeth” territory of war and conquest and all those crimes against God eventually smiting the hubris of man. Getting 'Macbeth' Right 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Like many a teller of Istanbul’s tale, Ms Hughes suggests that the city’s conquest in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks was not quite such a watershed as conventional wisdom holds. New histories of Istanbul 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z After a slow, perhaps imaginary, feminine disrobing, "O, my America, my Newfoundland", expresses the lover's delight in the vision of his mistress's newly undressed body, and in the forthcoming conquest. Poem of the week: Actaeon by George Szirtes 2013-07-22T11:16:36Z Colonies remained central to French history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the conquest and administration of vast territories in the Maghreb, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z In England the story begins with the Norman conquest, a clash between dramatically different technologies of war. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z We were at a function once when a guy asked her if I was her new conquest in front of me. Burt Reynolds: ‘I dumped a load of manure on the National Enquirer' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Many believe the Renaissance was begun by encounters between eastern and western learning when Greek scholars fled the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Bridging the gap: the east-west divide in art 2011-04-05T16:30:31Z One of the principal items of the neoconservative agenda, circa 2003, was to banish the “Vietnam syndrome” once and for all and refurbish American national pride by managing a successful conquest of Iraq. “Last Days in Vietnam”: Is the humiliation of 1975 about to be repeated? 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Nor is it “The Searchers,” or even any of the lesser westerns that mine the psychological and ideological complexities of conquest and territorial struggle. | 'The Eagle': Back Then, a Man?s World of Loyalty and Adventure 2011-02-10T22:21:36Z The race for commercial conquest, and the high-stakes achievement of America’s social hierarchy, overwhelm the individual, rendering him or her as merely decorative in the cold landscape of a country on the make. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The posture is hieratic but the very naturalistic handling of the musculature points to a time when Hellenism had left its mark on Egyptian art following Alexander’s conquest in 332 B.C. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z The strategy of interweaving these young men’s testimonies with those of the women provides a stark illustration of the failure of education to undo the twin ideals of male conquest and female acquiescence. Ne me touche pas… the shift in sex and power sweeping France 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Some of the roots are installed at the Plaza of Three Cultures, which brings together elements of Mexico's indigenous past, the Spanish conquest and the modern mix of the two. Mexico's new public art exhibit examines 'roots' 2012-01-19T21:56:18Z If he was right, God help us all, for the conquest of art by money and the proliferation of celebrity artists that he condemned continues to multiply. Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time 2012-08-07T12:06:48Z There were existing civilizations in the hemisphere, and then a brutal conquest by outsiders, and now there are centuries of cleaning up the trauma. How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Spanish chronicles of the conquest marvel at the vivid colors of cochineal dyestuff for sale in the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, and the first shipment soon left for Spain. An Insect’s Colorful Gift, Treasured by Kings and Artists 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z It has been said before that Lady Gaga’s greatest work of art is her own persona, and that has only increased with the progress of her pop conquest. Lady Gaga?s Told-You-So Moment at Lollapalooza 2010-08-09T21:22:00Z These are not subtle disputes, and the consequences were far from ecumenical, particularly when successor religions sought to spread their beliefs through conquest and conversion. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z In the North some traditions held on longer, stories of shapeshifters that dated back at least to Saxon times before the conquest. "Game of Thrones" in real life: Actual history, just as epic as George R.R. Martin's tales 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z After 77 years of relative peace in Europe, the longest ever, conquest and slaughter are back. World War II, Ukraine and the Future of Conflict 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “Ordinary People” in many ways resembles a traditional novel: realistic, concerned with social mores and psychological states, full of sharp descriptive language—the “bleaching conquest of gentrification,” the “demeaning regularity” of mornings. In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z That flag was always envisaged as being the stars and stripes – and it has always been a bit of both: part “flag of conquest”, part “banner of freedom and peace”. 'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man put a rocket up the politics of space 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The history ends in 1967, with the conquest of the Old City by Israel. 'Jerusalem': An unholy history of a holy city 2011-12-22T00:52:03Z When the ruler of Emmer decides to feed the Immanents of every other nation to his own, conquest isn’t the greatest danger. From ‘Frankenstein’ to Nora Roberts in 200 Years 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The production presents the conquest of Mexico as a ritual of courtship and, when that doesn’t work, boorish sexual aggression. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Created by women to record the Norman conquest, it dates from the late 11th century – in other words, it was created when the battle of Hastings in 1066 was a recent, living memory. Pardon? What Modern Toss's F***yeux tapestry says about Britain today 2013-04-17T14:26:59Z Its art was heavily influenced by a Greek style of sculpture dating back to Alexander the Great’s conquest of the area around 330 B.C. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z And, indeed, the Roman conquest of the Sicilian Greek city in 212 B.C. was an emblematic moment in the revolutionizing of the Roman visual arts. Review: The Face of Captive Greece in Rome 2010-08-13T15:41:00Z Even after the Spanish conquest, the tunic remained a wardrobe staple, at least on ceremonial occasions, until an 18th-century prohibition on tunic wearing. Art Review: The Power Suits of the Past, as Worn During Ancient Empires 2011-04-22T21:48:37Z Inevitably, many of her readers will be disappointed by any story that doesn’t involve the dominant-submissive relationship between the sadomasochistic billionaire Christian Grey and his demure conquest Anastasia Steele, who becomes his willing sexual servant. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z You can feel the pained love and care in every single page, and you’ll get a ground-level report of almost every conquest, feud or struggle Sinatra went through. Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson Peak 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Faye on the other hand is deeply independent and struggles with children, but knows more about how Don works than any of his other conquests. Mad Men: season four, episode 13 2010-12-01T22:45:00Z Armenians, as this great show attests, have long been at the mercy of outside forces, and the beauty of this show is tinged with conquest and subjection. Reverent Beauty: The Met’s Armenia Show Is One for the Ages 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z All the fights and the fallouts, the wrestling bouts, the litany of carnal conquests and contractual flareups: the carnival of immodesty starts early and never subsides. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Including movies: it hardly seems like a coincidence that psychoanalysis and cinema should begin their conquest of modern consciousness at around the same time. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and ?J. Edgar?: Studies in Repression 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z Sex, security, prosperity, the conquest of loneliness and a nifty reproductive end-run around mortality: all of this is promised in the advertising copy, if not precisely guaranteed in the fine print of the contract. Cross Cuts: The Hard Work in ‘Before Midnight,’ Amour’ and Other Films and Shows 2013-06-19T15:15:49Z His major label debut album, “Testimony,” is different from most R&B in one crucial way: It’s preoccupied not with love and conquest, but with despair and perseverance. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z While many Vietnamese resented Japan's occupation in 1940, less bloody than many of its other conquests, some also saw it as a step to ending French colonial rule in Indochina. Old loves highlight Japan and Vietnam's new bonds 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But Jon cautioned against resorting to the same old heedless torch this, destroy that approach to conquest that has made Westeros such a miserable place over the years. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, Episode 4: The Spoils of War 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Even Mogadore and Lorien - before the Mogadorian destruction of their own planet and conquest of ours - were home to many animal species that would be unknown to the people of Earth. Teen book club: Pittacus answers your questions 2012-08-03T07:00:00Z They span not only the Arab world and north Mediterranean but Asia and Africa, telling a story of migration, conversion, and conquest, and the effects of these forces on the eating and preparing of food. The Best Food Books of 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z And Atkinson acknowledges that the Revolutionary War, a means to separate from the English rather than a desire for conquest, differed from World War II “in magnitude, breadth, and consequence. “ Historian Rick Atkinson digs deep into Revolutionary War 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Blue approaches myths of the West in terms of his own heritage as a Native American, as a land not of conquest and violence but of lost peace and spiritual unity. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z He was born in the once absurdly rich silver-mining hill town of Guanajuato, scene of some of the most horrific abuses of the Spanish viceroyalty after the European conquest. LACMA's uneven new Picasso and Rivera show reveals an unprecedented, must-see discovery 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In “Sands of the Emperor,” his recent trilogy about the colonization of Mozambique, he narrates the Portuguese conquest of the Gaza Kingdom through the eyes of a teenage girl, Imani. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The Chilean production matches Christopher Columbus with Queen Isabella to get at issues of colonialism and conquest. Humanities Festival preview: Journey off the beaten path 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z I left the tawdry, dingy, gray world of airlines and moved into a place of large, complicated, colorful conquest. Learning to Love Airport Lit 2012-02-17T20:39:16Z The soldiers, abused and humiliated by their superior officers, are also engaged in a brutal war of conquest with the Indigenous Tasmanians, referred to as “the blacks.” ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z That motif of an ancient military victory can be seen as a parallel to the conquests of Charles V. Renaissance Shield With an Afterlife in World Wars Is Returning to Europe 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z “His life seemed to reflect the West’s fascination with the East, conquest and wonder dancing hand in hand,” Mr. French wrote. Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z |
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