3 résultats pour "day"

• Remembrance day

  Remembrance DAY Remembrance Day is on 11th November and is also known as Armistice Day or Poppy Day. It marks the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, back in 1918. The end of the First World War, which ended on 11 November 1918, is commemorated in the clearing at Rethondes in the forest of Compiègne at 5.15 a.m. in a carriage set up as an office for Foch. It used to be called Armistice Day, but was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War. Hist...

• José Diego Rivera, Flower Day

  Diego Rivera Peintre mexicain (né en 1886, mort en 1957) à qui l'on doit de grandes décorations murales. Il séjourna en Europe jusqu'en 1921. Représentant du réalisme socialiste, l'Etat lui passa de nombreuses commandes pour des compositions murales exaltant la révolution mexicaine. En 1929, il entreprit un cycle de thèmes historiques (Palais National, Mexico). Dans les années 30, il visita les Etats-Unis et réalisa avec Ben Shahn des peintures murales pour le Rockefeller Center à New York (...

• al-Sabzawari, al-Hajj Mulla Hadi

  al-Sabzawari, al-Hajj Mulla Hadi (1797/8-1873) Al-Sabzawari was the most influential nineteenth-century Iranian philosopher. His reputation rests in part on his Sharh al-manzuma, a commentary on his own Ghurar alfara'id (The Blazes of the Gems), a didactic poem (manzuma) encapsulating in a systematic fashion an exposition of the existentialist philosophy of Mulla Sadra. He was also the most sought-after teacher of philosophy in his day, and many students travelled to Sabzavar to be taught by him...