Terraforming Asia: The Politics, History and Travels of Celebrity Plants and Plant Celebrities. David A. Biggs is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. Part of Critical Conversation Symposium: Asia and Bios, a symposium to envision and implement a new kind of Asian studies that can more productively and criti...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Biggs, David; Mizuno, Hiromi
Created:
2013-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2021-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 3 cm. = 125 Miliaria Germanica communia quorum 15 gradum unum latitudinus constituant." Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Originally published in Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae ..., 1595. Includes part of Northern Australia and North-West America and Japan on a kit-shaped outline taken from M...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard , 1512-1594
Created:
1628?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale not given; (E 25°01'00"--E 146°19'00"/N 77°03'00"--S 9°48'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Persia, India, China, Japan to Southeast Asia with the north coast of Australia."Spectatmo. consultmoq. viro, D. Henrico Spiegel vrbis Amstelaedamenin consuli et senatori, nec non in consess...
Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702
Created:
1670?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Amsterdam, ca. 1697. Ptolemaic map of Central Asia, centered on the Indus River. The map extends from the Gujarat region in the east to west of Karchi, the north to the mountains. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. -- From dealer description.; Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: [Fortunate ...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Contributor:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Created:
1704?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:32,500,00 (E 25°01'00"--E 146°19'00"/N 77°03'00"--S 9°48'00"). Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. At upper right: 51.
Creator:
Carey, Matthew, 1760-1839
Created:
1814
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale [1:4,660,000]. Dedicated to Major James Rennell, by A. Arrowsmith, January 1st 1801."Engraved by George Allen." Ornate title cartouche, with military regalia. Greenwich meridian. Relief shown pictorially with shading.
Creator:
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823.; Allen, George
Created:
1801-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Oil on masonite depicting animals from Asia. Belongs to a series of murals of animals and people of the world that Francis Lee Jaques painted for the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church (Mahtomedi, MN) in 1964. When it was first painted, the panel was sponsored by Mr. Jerry A. and Mrs. Sonja H. Wenger in honor of Wendy Wenger.
