Take a Campus Tour to See How Abeka Curriculum is Developed

Have you ever ever puzzled how your Abeka curriculum is made and who the individuals behind it are?  My household and I took a visit to Pensacola this summer season to search out out! Whereas on campus, we toured:  Abeka’s headquarters (AKA the Abeka Constructing) The print store The distribution heart Pensacola Christian Academy We…

Take a 3D Digital Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Discover Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Up Shut

In the present day, 133 automotive­di­nals from around the globe enter the con­clave to discourage­mine the subsequent pope, dur­ing which they’ll forged their votes within the Sis­tine Chapel. Regardless of being one of the vital well-known vacationer attrac­tions in Europe, the Sis­tine Chapel nonetheless serves as a venue for such impor­tant offi­cial func­tions, simply because…

How Eyes Advanced: A Fascinating Tour By way of the Animal Kingdom

Above, Lars Schmitz, a professional­fes­sor at Clare­mont McKen­na Col­lege, guides us “by way of an enormous tree of life map­ping the evo­lu­tion of eyes within the ani­mal king­dom: how they work, why they’ve tak­en the shape they’ve, and the evo­lu­tion­ary advan­tages they’ve unlocked throughout species.” The video comes cour­tesy of Wired. It’s 36 min­utes and down­proper…

A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpiece

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling­wa­ter is a “home muse­um,” first designed as a res­i­dence, and now open to the pub­lic. Actually, because the insti­tu­tion’s direc­tor Justin Gun­ther explains in the Open House video above, it’s “the primary home of the mod­ern transfer­ment to open as a pub­lic web site,” hav­ing begun supply­ing excursions in 1964. The…

A Tour of Historic Rome’s Greatest Graffiti: “We Have Urinated in Our Beds … There Was No Chamber Pot” & Extra

Other than the likes of bra­vo and piz­za, graf­fi­ti have to be one of many first Ital­ian phrases that Eng­lish-speak­ers be taught in each­day life. As for why the Eng­lish phrase comes direct­ly from the Ital­ian, per­haps it has some­factor to do with the his­to­ry of writ­ing on the partitions — a his­to­ry that, in…

A Tour of the Ultimate Dwelling Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Round Solar Home

Some remem­ber the 9­teen-nineties in Amer­i­ca because the sec­ond com­ing of the 9­teen-fifties. What­ev­er holes one can poke in that his­tor­i­cal fram­ing, it does really feel unusual­ly plau­si­ble inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Cir­cu­lar Solar Home. Although not actu­al­ly constructed till 1967, it was com­mis­sioned from Wright by ship­ping magazine­nate Nor­man Lykes in 1959, the final…

A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Saturday Night time Stay’s Iconic Studio

To assist cel­e­brate SNL’s fiftieth anniver­sary, Archi­tec­tur­al Digest has launched a brand new video fea­tur­ing Hei­di Gard­ner, Chloe Advantageous­man, and Ego Nwodim giv­ing a tour of the Sat­ur­day Night time Stay set. The present has been broad­solid­ing stay from Stu­dio 8H, locat­ed at 30 Rock­e­feller, since SNL first pre­miered in 1975. On this 22-minute tour,…

Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis Home, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Numerous Hollywood Movies

There are various of us who’d benefit from the oppor­tu­ni­ty to stay in a home that seems in Blade Run­ner; there are relatively few of us who would val­ue that oppor­tu­ni­ty at $23 mil­lion, the ask­ing value giv­en in the 2019 Archi­tec­tur­al Digest video on Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1924 Ennis Home above. But even past…

How a Sixteenth-Century Explorer’s Crusing Ship Labored: An Animated Video Takes You on a Complete Tour

Today, it feels as if you happen to can’t go very lengthy in any respect earlier than scrolling previous anoth­er announce­ment about some new tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ment (actual­ized or sched­uled) relat­ed to area explo­ration. Some react to this by received­der­ing what may pos­si­bly be on the market within the uni­verse to jus­ti­fy such enor­mous­ly cap­i­tal- and…

Behold the First American Board Sport, Travellers’ Tour By the USA (1822)

Requested to call a clas­sic Amer­i­can board sport, most of us would first consider Monop­oly, whose imagery and ver­biage — Park Place, Wealthy Uncle Pen­ny­luggage, “Don’t go go” — has labored its method deep into the cul­ture since Park­er Broth­ers introduced it to mar­ket in 1935. Regardless of that, it isn’t the outdated­est Amer­i­can board…

Jimi Hendrix Opens for The Monkees on a 1967 Tour; Then Flips Off the Crowd and Quits

It’s straightforward to dis­miss The Mon­kees. Crit­ics and lis­ten­ers have been doing it for the reason that six­ties, though the band has additionally are available for its share of reap­praisals, par­tic­u­lar­ly for his or her psych-rock album Head. (That’s the sound­observe from the 1968 Jack Nichol­son-direct­ed artwork movie of the identical identify: “One of many…