They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.

Improvements to the woodlands, gardens and estate buildings were also being made, assisted by the landscape gardener James Beattie and the painter James Giles.

The stereo sound revolution, followed by the programming revolution, accomplished what cleaner and crisper sound alone was unable to achieve, and made FM radio a permanent and important part of the communications landscape.

Crenshaw tells ( and mentions the sources ) that Van Goyen's landscape paintings rarely fetched high prices, but he made up for the modest value of individual pieces by increasing his production, painting thinly and quickly with a limited palette of inexpensive pigments.

Tactics II, the first general commercial board wargame, featured a fictional landscape with two made up countries but whose armies had capabilities based on contemporary conventional forces.

Defenders argue that many of these are the result of deliberate design decisions, some of which were made at a time when the software and hardware landscape were different than they are now.

Few changes were made in the urban landscape, except for laying way or the rue de la Tranchée.

The Opry, today part of the American landscape, is " the show that made country music famous " and has been called the " home of American music " and " country ’ s most famous stage.

The core of the Democratic Party is made up by the members of the Freedom Union ( Unia Wolności, UW ), which had so far been the most important Christian democratic group in the Polish political landscape.

This artistic landscape scene was made by the repeated impression of standard stamps on the clay while it was still soft and not yet fired.

It is famous for its particularly mild climate which, together with the charm of its old fishing ports and the beauty of its landscape, has made it a popular destination for travellers and tourists since the time of Byron and Shelley.

An expansion pack called Populous: The Promised Lands was made available, which added five new types of landscape.

During his time at Roanoke Island he made a number of watercolor sketches of the surrounding landscape and the native Algonkin peoples.

In the 18th century, John Constable made a number of celebrated landscape paintings featuring the cathedral's spire and the surrounding countryside.

Because of oversupply, odd brick statues dot the landscape, the University Plaza, colloquially named " The Brickyard ", in Central Campus is nicknamed for its paving material, and most sidewalks are also made from brick.

The pleasing landscape of that region, as well as its climate, made the location a top competitor for what would be called Euro Disneyland.

Northern Europeans working there, such as Elsheimer and Brill, had made such views pre-eminent in some of their paintings ( as well as Da Vinci in his private drawings or Baldassarre Peruzzi in his decorative frescoes of vedute ); but not until Annibale Carracci and his pupil Domenichino do we see landscape become the focus of a canvas by a major Italian artist.

Subsequently they moved to Bar-le-Duc ( 1870 ), Nogent-sur-Seine ( 1876 ), and Wassy-sur-Blaise ( 1879 ), although they continued to spend summers in Villeneuve-sur-Fère, and the stark landscape of that region made a deep impression on the children.

An Australian linguist, R. M. W. Dixon, recording Aboriginal myths in their original languages, encountered coincidences between some of the landscape details being told about within various myths, and scientific discoveries being made about the same landscapes.

The small town, which served as a kind of microcosm of Hollywood history, sits about 120 miles north of Phoenix, nestled between thousand-foot-high walls of stone in lushly forested Oak Creek Canyon and the wide open space of the Verde Valley, and it was the diversity of this unspoiled landscape that made it such an ideal location to shoot outdoor scenes.

The nearby Connecticut River Oxbow ( now a lake ), immortalized by the famous landscape painter Thomas Cole just four years before natural flooding and erosion separated it from the Connecticut River, was composed from sketches the artist made from the summit of Mount Holyoke in 1836.

The Norfolk landscape painter John Crome, an associate of John Sell Cotman and others of the Norwich school, made an etching of Hoveton in 1812.

The place and the North Otago landscape made an impression on him.

As of 2005, the landscape is made up of housing developments, interspersed with vineyards, farms, and light industry.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

There are no railways on the Faroe Islands due to the difficult landscape, small population and the relatively short distances.

Overland migration as a biological process requires large connected landscapes, which is increasingly difficult to maintain, particularly over the long term, when human demands on the landscape compete, as well.

It is difficult to identify small, long, and narrow wetlands within the landscape.

This fascination with wild and bleak locations is also evident in his many landscape paintings of this period, which usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain.

" Merry England " is not a wholly consistent vision but rather a revisited England which the late Oxford folklorist Roy Judge described as " a world that has never actually existed, a visionary, mythical landscape, where it is difficult to take normal historical bearings.

Hard mode changes include more difficult landscape conditions ( such as fog of war, which limits visibility ), higher-leveled enemies, and fewer units available in each battle.

Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael ( or Ruysdael ) ( c. 1628 – 14 March 1682 ) was a prolific Dutch Golden Age landscape painter, and is considered the most famous of four Haarlem family members who created landscape paintings, though traditionally their works have been difficult to tell apart.

The game does not have an ending, but the landscape repeats after a while, getting more difficult each time.

Furthermore, if the landscape is fractured by small and shallow lakes and bays, as in swamplands, it may be difficult to navigate even in good conditions.

This was something other artists were to find difficult for a century or more, often solving the problem by showing a landscape background from over the top of a parapet or window-sill, as if from a considerable height.

In most countries, the coffee crop is picked by hand, a labor-intensive and difficult process, though in places like Brazil, where the landscape is relatively flat and the coffee fields immense, the process has been mechanized.

It thrives on much drier soils than most other alders, and grows rapidly even under very unfavourable circumstances, which renders it extremely valuable for landscape planting on difficult sites such as mining spoil heaps and heavily compacted urban sites.

Due to its size and landscape it is considered one of the most difficult constituencies to canvass in Ireland.

However, poor roads and difficult landscape were setback for the Georgians, and the Atabeg defended the city for a while.

It is difficult to settle down permanently ( to become sedentary ) in a landscape without on-site agricultural or livestock-breeding resources, since sedentism requires sufficient year-round easily-accessible local natural resources.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

The roar of Palmer's gallery as he sank a thrilling putt would roll out across the parklike landscape of Augusta, only to be answered moments later by the roar of Player's gallery for a similar triumph.

Today Algeria contains, in its literary landscape, big names having not only marked the Algerian literature, but also the universal literary heritage in Arabic and French.

However, the mountainous landscape of Chile limits the extent and intensity of agriculture so that arable land corresponds only to 2. 62 % of the total territory.

The settings range from a postapocalyptic landscape with walled cities, defended by agents of the Instrumentality, to a state of sterile utopia, in which freedom can be found only deep below the surface, in long-forgotten and buried anthropogenic strata.

Director / actor John Cassavetes contemplating Capra ’ s contribution to the art of film quipped: “ Maybe there really wasn ’ t an America, it was only Frank Capra .” Capra ’ s films were his love letters to an idealized America — a cinematic landscape of his own invention.

During the Chinese Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 AD ), not only landscape art was improved upon, but portrait painting became more standardized and sophisticated than before ( for example, refer to Emperor Huizong of Song ), and reached its classical age maturity during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644 AD ).

For the landscape worthy of music, worthy of poetry, worthy of art in short, is a symbol and only a symbol.

Photography inspired Impressionists to represent momentary action, not only in the fleeting lights of a landscape, but in the day-to-day lives of people.

While the painting is quite large, about, it is not nearly as complex as the painting ordered by the monks of St Donato, having only four figures rather than about fifty and a rocky landscape rather than architectural details.

Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than 2, 000, 000 during its 1970s circulation peak.

Johnson viewed the ensemble of one-room buildings as a total work of art, claiming that it was his best and only " landscape project.

The Algerian military élite has played a dominating role in Algerian politics ever since independence in 1962, when the army emerged as the only effective powerbroker in a shattered political landscape dominated by weak and competing political factions.

The High Tatras, with their 24 ( or 25 ) peaks exceeding 2, 500 m above sea level, together with the Southern Carpathians, represent the only form of alpine landscape in the entire 1200 km length of arc of the Carpathians.

Soil is not only a support for vegetation, but it is also the zone beneath our feet ( the pedosphere ) of numerous interactions between climate ( water, air, temperature ), soil life ( micro-organisms, plants, animals ) and its residues, the mineral material of the original and added rock, and its position in the landscape.

The lowland landscape was formed only during the last 10, 000 years, following the end of the last ice age.

The plan was to use tanks in support of infantry from the 47th ( 1 / 2nd London ) Division, but the wood was an impassable landscape of shattered stumps and shell holes, and only one tank managed to penetrate any distance.

While with Micheli, Modigliani studied not only landscape, but also portraiture, still life, and the nude.

" Lewis adds, " As cosmopolitan an artist as he would later become, his storehouse of visual imagery would never expand beyond the landscape of his childhood, with its snowy streets, wooden houses, and ubiquitous fiddlers ... scenes of childhood so indelibly in one's mind and to invest them with an emotional charge so intense that it could only be discharged obliquely through an obsessive repetition of the same cryptic symbols and ideograms ... "

He traveled to Martinique in search of an idyllic landscape and worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal construction ; he was dismissed from his job after only two weeks.

The choice of Monza was due not only to the beauty of the landscape, but also its strategic position and the fact of that it was connected to Vienna as well as for its proximity to Milan.

The crystalline motif was employed not only in the architecture, but in the landscape and technology as well, suggesting that the entire planet had been adapted and altered by Kryptonian influence.

Apart from an Ethernet connection, the Alto's only common output device was a bi-level ( black and white ) cathode ray tube ( CRT ) display with a tilt-and-swivel base, mounted in " portrait " orientation rather than the more common " landscape " orientation.

The formation of the Alpine landscape seen today is a recent development – only some two million years old.