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Constance Stokes (1906–1991) was a modernist Australian painter working in Victoria. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School until 1929, winning a scholarship to continue her study at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Her paintings and drawings were exhibited from the 1940s onwards, and she was one of only two women included in a major exhibition of twelve Australian artists that travelled to Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy in the early 1950s. Influenced by George Bell, Stokes was part of the Melbourne Contemporary Artists, a group Bell established in 1940, and her works continued to be well-regarded by art historians for many years after the group's formation. Her husband's early death in 1962 forced her to return to painting as a career, resulting in a successful one-woman show in 1964, her first in thirty years. She continued to paint and exhibit through the 1980s. Her work faded into relative obscurity after her death, until the publication of Anne Summers' 2009 book The Lost Mother, a narrative that highlights Stokes and her paintings. Her art is represented in most major Australian galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. (Full article...)
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... that in 1521, the Danish King Christian II had the abbot and five monks of Nydala Abbey drowned even though they had sheltered him for the night?
... that the Nobel laureate James Rainwater collapsed after a lecture but a student revived him via CPR?
... that Siegfried Kracauer called the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari a premonition of the rise of Adolf Hitler, because it spoke to a subconscious need in German society for a tyrant?
... that on his 2015 single, "Mr. Put It Down", Ricky Martin uses processed vocals and his falsetto to deliver the lyrical content?
... that Michigan's Matt Elliott went on to play four years in the NFL despite being "Mr. Irrelevant" in 1992?
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More than 2,200 people die after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Nepal.
The Armenian Apostolic Church canonizes 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The L0 Series maglev train breaks the world speed record and becomes the first train to run at more than 600 km/h (375 mph).
Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (pictured) is sentenced to 20 years in prison for ordering killings during the 2012–13 Egyptian protests.
At the Boston Marathon, Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa wins the men's race and Kenyan Caroline Rotich wins the women's race.
Ongoing: Yemeni Civil War – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Recent deaths: Władysław Bartoszewski
 
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April 26: World Intellectual Property Day; Feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church)

SS emblem
1865 – U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
1933 – The Gestapo (SS emblem pictured), the official secret police force in Nazi Germany, was established.
1945 – World War II: Both the German and Polish–Soviet sides claimed victory as major fighting in the Battle of Bautzen ended.
1970 – The World Intellectual Property Organization came into being when its charter entered into force.
2007 – Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots.
More anniversaries: April 25 – April 26 – April 27
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Calipers
A diagram of vernier calipers, a device used to measure the distance between two opposite sides of an object, showing the individual parts:
1.Outside large jaws: used to measure external diameter or width of an object
2.Inside small jaws: used to measure internal diameter of an object
3.Depth probe: used to measure depths of an object or a hole
4.Main scale in centimeters, marked every millimeter
5.Main scale in inches, marked every 1/16 of an inch
6.Vernier scale gives interpolated measurements to 1/20 of a millimeter
7.Vernier scale gives interpolated measurements to 1/128 of an inch
8.Retainer: used to block movable part to allow the easy transferring of a measurement
Here the metric scale shows a distance of 2.475 cm between the jaw faces: the 0 mark on the vernier is between 2.4 and 2.5, and the 7.5 mark is the one best aligned with a mark on the main scale. Similarly, the inch scale shows (15
5
/
8
)/16, or 125/128, of an inch.
Diagram: Joaquim Alves Gaspar, modified by ed g2s
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Constance Stokes (1906–1991) was a modernist Australian painter working in Victoria. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School until 1929, winning a scholarship to continue her study at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Her paintings and drawings were exhibited from the 1940s onwards, and she was one of only two women included in a major exhibition of twelve Australian artists that travelled to Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy in the early 1950s. Influenced by George Bell, Stokes was part of the Melbourne Contemporary Artists, a group Bell established in 1940, and her works continued to be well-regarded by art historians for many years after the group's formation. Her husband's early death in 1962 forced her to return to painting as a career, resulting in a successful one-woman show in 1964, her first in thirty years. She continued to paint and exhibit through the 1980s. Her work faded into relative obscurity after her death, until the publication of Anne Summers' 2009 book The Lost Mother, a narrative that highlights Stokes and her paintings. Her art is represented in most major Australian galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. (Full article...)
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Xiao Wangdong
... that Lieutenant General Xiao Wangdong (pictured) briefly served as China's Minister of Culture, before he was purged and imprisoned for nine years?
... that a site along Little Roaring Brook has prehistoric archaeological significance?
... that in 1521, the Danish King Christian II had the abbot and five monks of Nydala Abbey drowned even though they had sheltered him for the night?
... that the Nobel laureate James Rainwater collapsed after a lecture but a student revived him via CPR?
... that Siegfried Kracauer called the 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari a premonition of the rise of Adolf Hitler, because it spoke to a subconscious need in German society for a tyrant?
... that on his 2015 single, "Mr. Put It Down", Ricky Martin uses processed vocals and his falsetto to deliver the lyrical content?
... that Michigan's Matt Elliott went on to play four years in the NFL despite being "Mr. Irrelevant" in 1992?
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Mohamed Morsi
More than 2,200 people die after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Nepal.
The Armenian Apostolic Church canonizes 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The L0 Series maglev train breaks the world speed record and becomes the first train to run at more than 600 km/h (375 mph).
Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (pictured) is sentenced to 20 years in prison for ordering killings during the 2012–13 Egyptian protests.
At the Boston Marathon, Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa wins the men's race and Kenyan Caroline Rotich wins the women's race.
Ongoing: Yemeni Civil War – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Recent deaths: Władysław Bartoszewski
 
On this day...
 

April 26: World Intellectual Property Day; Feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church)

SS emblem
1865 – U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
1933 – The Gestapo (SS emblem pictured), the official secret police force in Nazi Germany, was established.
1945 – World War II: Both the German and Polish–Soviet sides claimed victory as major fighting in the Battle of Bautzen ended.
1970 – The World Intellectual Property Organization came into being when its charter entered into force.
2007 – Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots.
More anniversaries: April 25 – April 26 – April 27
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It is now April 26, 2015 (UTC) – Reload this page

 


Today's featured picture
 

Calipers
A diagram of vernier calipers, a device used to measure the distance between two opposite sides of an object, showing the individual parts:
1.Outside large jaws: used to measure external diameter or width of an object
2.Inside small jaws: used to measure internal diameter of an object
3.Depth probe: used to measure depths of an object or a hole
4.Main scale in centimeters, marked every millimeter
5.Main scale in inches, marked every 1/16 of an inch
6.Vernier scale gives interpolated measurements to 1/20 of a millimeter
7.Vernier scale gives interpolated measurements to 1/128 of an inch
8.Retainer: used to block movable part to allow the easy transferring of a measurement
Here the metric scale shows a distance of 2.475 cm between the jaw faces: the 0 mark on the vernier is between 2.4 and 2.5, and the 7.5 mark is the one best aligned with a mark on the main scale. Similarly, the inch scale shows (15
5
/
8
)/16, or 125/128, of an inch.
Diagram: Joaquim Alves Gaspar, modified by ed g2s
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