Она ищет решение, а находит любовь…Люси Хилл (Рене Зеллвегер) любит роскошные платья, дорогие машины и ей нравится карабкаться вверх по карьерной лестнице. Как-то раз из родного жаркого Майами ее отправляют в командировку в холодную Миннесоту. Чтобы выполнить задание, Люси должна приспособиться к суровому климату и к местным жителям, которые не собираются оказывать ей теплый прием.
Год: 2009
Жанр: комедия
Страна: США
Режиссер: Йонас Элмер
Автор сценария: Кен Рэнс, С. Джей Кокс
Актеры: Рене Зельвегер Рашида Джонс Харри Конник мл Сиобэн Фэллон
Возрастной рейтинг: 16
Друзья, 20 марта в 15 часов мы проведем онлайн-трансляцию экскурсии по Екатерининскому дворцу. Приглашаем Вас виртуально пройтись по парадным залам дворца в сопровождении экскурсовода Ольги Щербановской. Вы сможете побывать в Большом зале и Янтарной комнате, прогуляться по Золотой анфиладе.
Эрмитаж обладает одной из лучших коллекций римского скульптурного портрета, охватывающей почти все этапы развития этого жанра в древнеримском искусстве – от его зарождения и становления во времена Римской республики до расцвета в императорский период.
Главной отличительной чертой римского портрета является удивительный реализм в передаче портретных характеристик и физиогномических особенностей моделей, что во многом было обусловлено мировоззрением самих римлян. Этот реализм, часто переходящий в натурализм в римских портретах, дал повод называть их «скульптурными фотографиями».
Большинство представленных памятников относится ко времени расцвета светского скульптурного портрета в Древнем Риме. За многими из них стоят интереснейшие судьбы исторических личностей – императоров, полководцев, политических деятелей.
Вместе с Александром Бутягиным, заведующим сектором Северного Причерноморья Отдела Античного мира, сегодня мы попробуем разглядеть за этими мраморными лицами живых людей, от которых нас отделяют почти два тысячелетия.
The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.
Although quite an early work, the arabesques contain hints of Debussys developing musical style. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes through music. His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time. Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote:
“that was the age of the ‘wonderful arabesque when music was subject to the laws of beauty inscribed in the movements of Nature herself.”
When we explored our way down to the bottom of this abandoned mine shaft, we were pretty impressed by all that we discovered… We have the fact that this mine is in a remote location, the fact that it is a shaft (which fewer individuals are willing to venture into) and the fact that this is a dry, desert mine to thank for the remarkable number of historical mining artifacts down in the mine, but even taking all of that into account, this was still pretty extraordinary. I can only think of a handful of other mines that are preserved as well and have not been picked over by thieves and scrappers (or destroyed by the AML crews).
So many interesting things down in this one that it is hard to know where to start… The lantern? The huge number of dynamite boxes from different manufacturers? The drift that looped around back to where we started? The loaded flatcar? The large headframe underground? Perhaps needless to say, this mine has shot its way up into the Top 10 of my “Favorite Abandoned Mines” list.
I would be curious to know what was down that large winze served by the headframe. It was hard enough getting down the main shaft, but dropping down there as well would be another level of difficulty. Regrettably, our ropes on this trip were not up to the task.
This was not a recent explore for us and we have been advised by a subsequent mine explorer that the shaft has now caved and is no longer accessible. While unfortunate, that being the case, I am glad we visited and documented this mine when we did.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind… These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!