O Congresso dos Deputados é a Câmara Baixa das Cortes Gerais de Espanha, o órgão constitucional que representa o povo espanhol. Reúne-se para sessões no Palácio das Cortes, situado na praça das Cortes de Madrid.
A Universidade Columbia é uma instituição de ensino superior privada, localizada na cidade de Nova Iorque, nos Estados Unidos.
Columbia é a mais antiga instituição de ensino superior do estado de Nova Iorque, a quinta mais antiga dos Estados Unidos, e uma das nove Universidades Coloniais fundadas antes da Revolução Americana. Uma das oito universidades que compõe a prestigiosa Ivy League , foi fundada no ano de 1754 como King's College por intermédio de carta régia de Jorge II da Grã-Bretanha e rebatizada como Columbia College em 1784, visto o caráter patriótico do nome, um nome alternativo para América. Desde sua fundação, a instituição têm formado inúmeros cidadãos de destaque na história do país e do mundo. Além disto, figura até aos dias atuais como uma das mais seletivas instituições de ensino superior dos Estados Unidos. Contando com taxa de admissão de 5.8%, a Universidade de Columbia mantém-se como a terceira mais seletiva universidade do país e a segunda mais seletiva das universidades integrantes da Ivy League.Inicialmente, a universidade foi fundada quase no fim da ilha de Manhattan, em terreno da igreja Trinity Church. No seguinte século, se mudaria para mais ao norte da ilha, onde atualmente ergue-se o Rockefeller Center. Finalmente, no ano de 1896, mudou-se pela última vez, desta vez para o bairro Morningside Heights, onde ocupa uma área de 32 acres de propriedade.Ex-alunos notáveis de Columbia incluem 5 Pais Fundadores dos Estados Unidos – entre os quais, um autor da Declaração de Independência e um autor da Constituição dos Estados Unidos; 9 juízes da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos; 43 Prêmios Nobel; 20 bilionários; 39 vencedores dos Prêmios da Academia e 29 chefes de Estados, incluindo 3 Presidentes dos Estados Unidos.
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College is an arts center located just north of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. Located on the same city block are the American Numismatic Association and part of the campus of Colorado College.
The center uses a thick red outline of a square as its logo.
Santa Maria Assunta is a Roman Catholic collegiate church located in the Piazza Alta of the town of Sarnano, province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy.
Middlebury College é uma faculdade privada de artes liberais dos Estados Unidos da América, localizada em Middlebury, no estado de Vermont. Foi fundada em 1800, e é uma das faculdades de artes liberais mais antigas dos Estados Unidos. Possui mais de 2.500 estudantes, de todos os 50 estados e de mais de 70 países. Oferece 44 cursos nas áreas de artes, humanidades, literatura, língua estrangeira, ciências sociais e ciências naturais.
Middlebury foi a primeira instituição de ensino superior estadunidense a conferir o grau de bacharel a um afroamericano: Alexander Twilight, em 1823. Middlebury também foi a primeira faculdade de artes liberais da Nova Inglaterra a aceitar mulheres, em 1883.
As 31 equipes esportivas de Middlebury são conhecidas como os Middlebury Panthers, e competem na Divisão III da National Collegiate Athletic Association , como parte da New England Small College Athletic Conference .
Antrim Castle also known as Massereene Castle was a castle in Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on the banks of the Sixmilewater River. It was erected in stages between 1613 and 1662. It was destroyed by fire in 1922 and finally demolished in the 1970s. All that remain are a slightly raised grassed platform as well as a freestanding Italian stair tower which was built in 1887 and a gatehouse, which was built around 1818 with twin neo-Tudor towers, with older connecting walls. The gardens are a popular tourist attraction on the Randalstown Road, Antrim.
The Clermont State Historic Site, also known as the Clermont estate, the Clermont Manor or just Clermont, is a New York State Historic Site in southwestern Columbia County, New York, United States. It protects
the former estate of the Livingston family, seven generations of whom lived on the site over more than two centuries.
City Lit is an adult education college in Holborn, central London, founded by the London County Council in 1919, which has charitable status. It offers part-time courses across four schools and five "centres of expertise", mainly covering humanities and science subjects.
In 2011, City Lit was graded as "outstanding" by government inspectors Ofsted. More recently, in 2016, it was ranked "outstanding" for "personal development, behaviour and welfare" and "good" in four other categories.
Cincinnati Public Schools is the U.S. state of Ohio's third-largest public school district, by enrollment, after Columbus City Schools and Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Cincinnati Public Schools is the largest Ohio school district rated as 'effective'. Founded in 1829 as the Common Schools of Cincinnati, it is governed by the Cincinnati Board of Education.
Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo ou Igreja de Santo Onofre no Janículo é uma igreja titular localizada no Janículo, parte do rione Trastevere, em Roma, Itália, dedicada a Santo Onofre e igreja oficial da Ordem do Santo Sepulcro, uma ordem de cavalaria papal. Uma capela lateral é dedicada especificamente à ordem e um antigo grão-mestre, Nicola Canali, está sepultado ali.
A igreja abriga ainda o monumento funerário de Torquato Tasso, autor de "Gerusalemme Liberata", o poema épico que reconta os feitos dos cruzados que lutaram para reconquistar o Santo Sepulcro. Depois de vagar por toda a Itália, o poeta solicitou e conseguiu abrigo no mosteiro de Santo Onofre e passou ali os últimos anos de sua vida.
O último cardeal-presbítero protetor do título de Santo Onofre foi Carlo Furno.
The Chiesa di San Francesco is a Roman Catholic church located in the historic center of Mantua, Italy, at Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi 5.
The church was founded by the Franciscan Order in 1304 but it was not consecrated until 1459, when Pope Pius II performed the ceremony. Suppressed in 1782, it was sacked in 1797, during the Napoleonic Wars, and turned into an arsenal in 1811. Still in military use when World War II began, it was devastated by bombardment during the war. The Cappella Gonzaga, with its frescoes depicting the life of St. Louis of Toulouse , was saved and recently restored. These frescoes were supposed to have been painted by Serafino de' Serafini, an artist who was active in Modena during the 14th Century. The church was reconstructed in Romanesque and Gothic styles. Now visible are some of the original frescoes depicting St. Francis Receives the Stigmata by Stefano da Verona. Andrea Mantegna's work St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels was originally here but it is now at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy.
In the Cappella Gonzaga, built between 1369 and 1484, were buried:
Guido Gonzaga, 2nd capitano del popolo of Mantua.
Ludovico II Gonzaga, 3rd capitano del popolo of Mantua.
Francesco I Gonzaga, 4th capitano del popolo of Mantua.
Margherita Malatesta, second wife of Francesco I Gonzaga.
Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, 5th capitano del popolo of Mantua.
Rodolfo Gonzaga, son of Ludovico III, 2nd Marquis of Mantua.
Francesco Cardinal Gonzaga, son of Ludovico III, 2nd Marquis of Mantua.Also at the church were buried other notables:
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, the condottiero, buried in full armor in 1526.
Blessed Alberto Gonzaga in 1321.
Guido Torelli, the founder of the noble family of Torelli, in 1449.
Cristoforo I Torelli, son of Guido, in 1460.
Francesco Secco, the condottiero who owned the family chapel, in 1496.
The Chiostro della Scalzo or is a cloister in Florence, Italy that originally led to a chapel once belonging to a religious company known as the Compagnia del diciplinati di San Giovanni Battista or della Passione di Cristo. The term "scalzo" makes reference to the barefoot brother who carried the Cross during its public processions.
"Compagnia" was the name given to these Florentine congregations of layman who contributed towards defending Roman Catholicism. Each company had a different practice: the "Laudesi" promoted prayer through the singing of hymns, those for the doctrine taught catechism to children, while the charitable companies offered assistance to the poor. The Compagnia della Scalzo was a disciplined confraternity that practiced penance, often in the form of self-flagellation.
The Compagnia della Scalzo was established in 1376, and used the church of San Giovannino dei Cavalieri on the via San Gallo as early as 1390 for its meetings. When the company purchased land behind this church in the first half of the 15th century, it proceeded towards creating its own premises, which included a chapel , the cloister and entrance still visible today. Back in 1455, it underwent a reform approved by the bishop of Florence, Antoninus, who was made saint in 1523 and who is portrayed in the painted terra-cotta bust now placed in front of the former doorway that led to the chapel.
The brothers wore black hoods with holes to see through and a heavy, black over garment tied around the waist with a white cord; such apparel is documented in the polychrome glazed terra-cotta relief depicting St. John the Baptist and Two Brothers over the entrance to the cloister from via Cavour. Every first Sunday of the month the company organized a procession and every June 24, the festivities in honor of the city's and its own patron saint, John the Baptist, which today see events like the famous fireworks .
Santi Vittore e Carlo is a Baroque style church on Via Balbi in central Genoa, Italy. Originally belonging to the Discalced Carmelite Order, the church was constructed in the shape of a Latin Cross between 1629 and 1635 from a design by Bartolomeo Bianco. Designs by Eugenio Durazzo were incorporated in 1743 with the construction of a façade.
Inside the church are a number of works of 17th- and 18th-century artists, including the wooden sculptures Madonna of the Carmine and Angels and Saints and paintings by Andrea Carlone , Lorenzo De Ferrari , Orazio De Ferrari , Giovanni Maria delle Piane and Domenico Piola . The main altar is the remnant of a destroyed church of San Domenico.
Domenico Parodi painted the figure of "Virtue", but many of the decorations were overseen by Maurice Dufour in the last decade of the 19th century, 1890–1898.
