From 2008 to 2010, he was Artistic Director for the 17th Biennale of Sydney, ' THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age ' which took place 12 May-1 August 2010.

* 2010, THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, David Elliott, Artistic Director, 17th Biennale of Sydney

The 17th Biennale of Sydney achieved record attendance of more than 517, 000 visits across all venues with 68 artists premiering new works made especially for the exhibition.

The 17th Biennale of Sydney ’ s SuperDeluxe @ Artspace programme which combined gallery, performance space and bar was awarded Best Arts Event by popular vote at the 2010 Sydney Music, Arts and Culture ( SMAC ) Awards as well as being a finalist in the Best Major Festival category.

The 17th Biennale of Sydney was also a finalist at the 2010 Australian Event Awards in the Best Cultural or Arts Event category.

In 2006 the Band travelled to Sydney, Australia for the 17th Australian Music Festival, where it won the Top Gold award and was selected as the Command Band for that event.

The 16th and 17th Brigades arrived back in Australia the following month and in August, after a brief period of leave, welcome home parades were held in Sydney for the 16th and in Melbourne for the 17th.

* 2000: Sydney, Olympic Games 17th

The 17th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards ( generally known as ARIA Music Awards ) were held on 21 October 2003 at the Sydney Superdome.

In 2006, the band took part in the 17th Australian International Music Festival in Sydney, Australia, attaining a Gold Award.

The 17th century critic Giovanni Bellori, in his survey titled Idea, praised Carracci as the paragon of Italian painters, who had fostered a “ renaissance ” of the great tradition of Raphael and Michelangelo.

Constructed in 1408, it is the oldest covered bridge in Europe and features a series of medieval-style 17th Century plague paintings by Kaspar Meglinger titled Dance of Death.

A year later, in July 2010, Közi went on another tour with Moi dix Mois, titled " Deep Sanctuary II ", with Yu ~ ki as a special guest at Akasaka Blitz on the 17th.

It should be noted that along with its two sister battalions the 15th ( Glasgow Tramways ) and 17th ( Glasgow Commercials ) neither of these three battalions were ever known or titled as the Glasgow Pals.

It was conceived from the work of HJC von Grimmelhausen titled Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus or simply Adventurous Simplicissimus, which was opined by many to be the 17th century's greatest German novel.

There are plenty of examples from official dispatches and notices of 17th, 18th and 19th century of several princely persons titled " Duke of Holstein, Heir of Norway ".

Most makes a brief appearance 3 minutes into the 17th episode of the fifth season of Family Guy titled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ".

The first single released from the album was a club track titled " I Got It from My Mama " which peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at # 31 on the 17th of August 2007.

To commemorate this event, her personal record label, Andreasong Recordings, Inc. released a compilation CD titled As Time Goes By: The Best of Andrea Marcovicci, her 17th album and / or CD.

The device consisted of 25 aluminium discs attached to a four-and-a-half inch long rod, each disc containing the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet in scrambled order around its circumference ( with the exception of the 17th disc, which began with the letters " ARMY OF THE US ").

Can you still remember the 17th March 1956, exactly forty years ago, when you came completely excited into my room in the Viennese Opera, and said to me with a trembling voice: " Just imagine, Böhm asked me to stand in as QUEEN OF THE NIGHT this evening.

In the THE life sciences ranking, Wageningen was ranked 17th, being the highest placed life sciences university in continental Europe.

English collections of erotic verse by various hands, include the Drollery collections of the 17th century ; Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1698 – 1720 ); the Roxburghe Ballads ; Bishop Percy's Folio ; The Musical Miscellany ; National Ballad and Song: Merry Songs and Ballads Prior to the Year AD 1800 ( 1895-7 ) edited by J. S. Farmer ; the three volume Poetica Erotica ( 1921 ) and its more obscene supplement the Immortalia ( 1927 ) both edited by T. R. Smith.

(" German Society Songs of the 16th and 17th Centuries ", 2nd ed., 1860 ).

In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and ( based on plot similarities ) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing " Whiskey in the Jar ".

*** 3 English Songs ( 17th century ), op. 49, 1951, unpubd

On the November 17th 2009 update to the Streetlight Manifesto website, the band writes " we will be heading into the studio soon ( as is a particular electricity deficient collective ..)," implying that Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution will begin recording their first full-length album ( part of the 99 Songs of Revolution project ) in the near future.

There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library.

* Broadside Ballads: Songs from the Streets, Taverns, Theatres and Countryside of 17th Century England ( incl songs, orig melodies, and chord suggestions ) by Lucie Skeaping ( 2005 ), Faber Music Ltd. ISBN 0-571-52223-8 ( Information and samples of more than 80 broadside ballads and their music )

" He placed " Vogue " at number 10 in his list " Top 10 Pop Songs of 1990 " and 17th in " Top 100 Pop Songs of the 1990s.

In 2009 it was named the 17th VH1 Greatest Hard Rock Songs by VH1.

Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp ( October 20, 1620 – November 15, 1691 ) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century.

The use of mail as battlefield armour was common during the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, becoming less common over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

In the Age of Exploration, from the 15th century to the 17th century, European cartographers both copied earlier maps ( some of which had been passed down for centuries ) and drew their own based on explorers ' observations and new surveying techniques.

Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment — especially in Britain, France, Germany and America — among intellectuals raised as Christians who believed in one God, but found they could not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

It is interesting to note how arts during the Golden Age flourished despite the decline of the empire in the 17th century.

Typically, a Dutch painter of the 17th century ( also known as the Dutch Golden Age ) will fall into one of four categories, a painter of portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, or genre.

During the Zemene Mesafint or " Age of Princes " of Ethiopia, Emperors became figureheads, controlled by warlords like Ras Mikael Sehul of Tigray, and by the Oromo Yejju dynasty, which later led to 17th century Oromo rule of Gondar, changing the language of the court from Amharic to Afaan Oromo.

Van Rijn is, however, far from the modern type of business executive, being a kind of throwback to the merchant venturer of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century.

Some have a cultural usage (" the Gilded Age "), others refer to prominent historical events (" the Inter-War years: 1918 – 1939 "), yet others are defined by decimal numbering systems (" the 1960s ", " the 17th century ").

Australia remained in the Stone Age until the 17th century.

The 17th century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent was characterized by the Dutch Golden Age, the Baroque cultural movement, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, and The General Crisis.

Archaeologists usually date the end of the Middle Bronze Age to about 1550 BC, when the Hyksos were driven out of Egypt during the 17th and 18th Dynasties.

The first significant period of Dutch architecture was during the Dutch Golden Age roughly beginning at the start of the 17th century.

In the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, roughly equivalent to the later half of the 17th century, the Muiderkring was the name given to a group of figures in the arts and sciences who regularly met at the castle of Muiden near Amsterdam.

During the Dutch Golden Age, the Dutch East India Company had a lively trade with the East and imported millions of pieces of Chinese porcelain in the early 17th century.

Problems developed in the early 17th century when the Little Ice Age came to North America.

Many Native American populations were weakened from starvation due to the Little Ice Age, which was coldest during the 17th century.

The Little Ice Age which occurred in the beginning of the 17th century caused crop failures with the corn, beans, and squash that the Native Americans planted.

Later, in the 17th century ( the Dutch Golden Age ), Middelburg became, after Amsterdam, the most important center for the East India Company of Republic of the Seven United Netherlands ( VOC ) or Dutch East India Company.

Though a ' Golden Age ' for the young Dutch Republic, the 17th century proved rather devastating for Ommen.

The Little Ice Age began in the early 17th century and ended in the mid 19th century.