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- The legend of the Fountain of Youth hasn't so much gone away as it has mutated, captivating new generations of explorers and believers seeking the elixir that will supplant atrophy with acuity and bring back the brawn of one's so-called prime. Ponce de León allegedly went looking for it, and look where he ended up.
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The James Scott Fountain The James Scott Fountain At the western tip of Belle Isle in the Detroit River. This is one of the nation's most beautiful fountains. An aesthetic delight of visiting Detroit is to view this magnificent fountain spraying water on a breezy day.
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Growth hormone, athletic performance, and aging Growth hormone, athletic performance, and aging. In 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Len arrived in Florida to search for the fountain of youth. If he got any benefit from his quest, it was due to the exercise involved in the search.
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Marcel Duchamp Duchamp, Marcel: Fountain Fountain, ready-made by Marcel Duchamp, replica of the 1917 original (now lost). art@aditi In 1918 he sold The Large Glass, which was still unfinished, to Walter Arensberg. With the money from this and another painting, his last, he spent nine months in Buenos Aires, where he heard of the armistice and of the deaths of his brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon and of Apollinaire.
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Mount Rushmore Historian Doane Robinson conceived the idea for Mount Rushmore in 1923 to promote tourism in South Dakota. In 1924, Robinson persuaded sculptor Gutzon Borglum to travel to the Black Hills region to ensure the carving could be accomplished.
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Fountain of Youth During the 12th century A.D., a king known to Europeans as Prester John supposedly ruled a land that had a river of gold and a fountain of youth. But the name linked most closely to the search for a fountain of youth is 16th-century Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, who allegedly thought it would be found in Florida.
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Garden of the Gods The Utes' oral traditions tell of their creation at the Garden of the Gods, and petroglyphs have been found in the park that are typical of early Utes. The Utes found red rocks to have a spiritual connection and camped near Manitou Springs and the creek near Rock Ledge Ranch bordering Garden of the Gods.ne of the surveyors, M. S. Beach, suggested that it would be a capital place for a beer garden . His companion, the young Rufus Cable, awestruck by the impressive rock formations, exclaimed, Beer Garden! Why it is a fit place for the gods to assemble.
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The Myth of Ponce de LeÃ³n and the Fountain of Youth Nonetheless, historians began linking Ponce de León with the Fountain of Youth not long after his death. In 1535 Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés accused Ponce de León of seeking the fountain in order to cure his sexual impotence. “He was being discredited [as] an idiot and weakling,” Smith explained.
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Fountain of Youth Kathleen Deagan, a professor of archaeology at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a National Geographic Society grantee, says a cemetery and the remains of a Spanish mission dating back to St. Augustine's founding in 1565 have been discovered near the so-called fountain of youth.
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Two of four people involved in weekend Fountain beating, murder make court appearance Updated: Mon 6:32 PM, Feb 22, 2016. FOUNTAIN, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - UPDATE: February 22, 3:15PM. Two of the four people the Bay County Sheriff's Office says were involved in a weekend incident which left one person dead and another in critical condition were in court Monday afternoon.
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The Fate of Easter Island (All standing statues today were re-erected in modern times.). In the decades before the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered the island around Easter, 1722—hence the island's name—the Rapanui began to go hungry. Out of desperation, they may even have turned to cannibalism.All standing statues today were re-erected in modern times.). In the decades before the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered the island around Easter, 1722—hence the island's name—the Rapanui began to go hungry. Out of desperation, they may even have turned to cannibalism.
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Motives for Exploration A Spanish explorer happened upon Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. Eurpoean explorers brought more than just boats with them to the new world. They were also carrying the Smallpox disease (a deadly relative of Chicken Pox), which killed millions of native people.
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Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture Mathematics George Trebizond, one of the notable Greek scholars who came to Italy in the early fifteenth century, made a new translation of the Almagest from the Greek for Pope Nicholas V between March and December of 1451.
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Buckingham Fountain Buckingham Fountain. Buckingham Fountain, officially known as the 'Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain' is one of Chicago's most popular landmarks. The fountain is located in Grant Park at the center of a formally laid out garden.
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- THE GIST: - 1  An ancient aqueduct that once delivered fresh water to Rome is found. - 2  The 1,900-year-old tunnel was built by Emperor Trajan in 109 A.D. - 3  The entry to the aqueduct was found through a secret door in a ruined chapel.
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Trevi Fountain Construction of the Fountain. Neptune. Already in the fifteenth century a small Trevi Fountain was built here during the papacy of Nicholas V. In 1732, pope Clement XII commissioned Nicola Salvi to create a large fountain at the Trevi Square to replace the existing fountain.
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Trevi Fountain Aqua Virgo. The Trevi Fountain is situated at the end of the Aqua Virgo, an aqueduct constructed in 19 BC by Agrippa, the son-in-law of Emperor Augustus. The aqueduct brings water all the way from the Salone Springs (approx. 21km from Rome) and supplies the fountains in the historic center of Rome with water.
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Trevi Fountain The Trevi Fountain was finished in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini, who substituted the present allegories for planned sculptures of Agrippa and Trivia, the Roman virgin. It was officially opened and inaugurated on May 22 by Pope Clemens XIII.
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Park Inn by Radisson Brussels Midi Hotel As a result, the original statuette is now found at Maison du Roi, the Museum of the City, located on Grand Place. Manneken Pis and the Museum of the City. The residents of Brussels have a fondness for this world renowned little boy.The city also has a rather humorous outlook with regards to Manneken Pis.anneken Pis is a bronze statuette of a little boy urinating into the fountain basin, which reaches just 61cm tall. In the fifteenth century, the statue played an important role as the first drinking fountain in Brussels.
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Florida Ponce de León spotted and landed on the peninsula on April 2, 1513. He named the region La Florida (land of flowers). The story that he was searching for the Fountain of Youth is mythical and only appeared long after his death. In May 1539, Conquistador Hernando de Soto skirted the coast of Florida, searching for a deep harbor to land.
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Two of four people involved in weekend Fountain beating, murder make court appearance The Bay County Sheriff's Office arrested four suspects in the murder and attempted murder on Owenwood Rd. in Fountain Saturday afternoon. The second victim remains in a local hospital. The names of the two victims have not been released.
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- The idea for carvings in the Black Hills in South Dakota came from Doane Robinson, South Dakota's State Historian. Doane invited Gutzon Borglum to the Black Hills in South Dak … ota to discuss his idea and see if Gutzon would be interested in doing the carvings. On his second visit, Gutzon Borglum found Mount Rushmore and agreed to do the carving and Doane Robinson agreed to work to fund the project.
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- Gordon Parks: [Essence Magazine] Shaft is seen reading a copy of Essence Magazine in his girlfriend's apartment. Parks is a co-founder of Essence. The magazine is spotted when Shaft is engaging in a conversation with a blind newsstand vendor during the opening sequence.
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- She looked, indeed, like one of those wonderful boys of the Italian Renaissance, whom you may still see at the National Gallery, whose beauty is no denial, but rather the stamp of their slender, supple strength, young painters and sculptors who held the palette for Leonardo, or wielded the chisel for Michelangelo, and anon threw both aside to take up sword for Guelf or Ghibelline in the narrow streets of Florence.
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Buckingham Fountain Buckingham Fountain. Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark in the center of Grant Park. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona Fountain at the Palace of Versailles, it is meant to allegorically represent Lake Michigan.
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Visiting the Fountains of Rome One of the most prolific artists in Rome was Gianlorenzo Bernini, who was active artistically from 1622-1680. In addition to breathing life into the marvelous marble creations in the Museo Borghese, Bernini sculpted several fountains in the city, the most famous of which is the Four Rivers Fountain in Piazza Navona.he most famous fountain in all of Italy is the Trevi Fountain, an over-the-top Baroque masterpiece completed only in 1762.