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Black-and-white dualism. The Last Judgement by Viktor Vasnetsov. The contrast of white and black ( light and darkness, day and night) has a long tradition of metaphorical usage, traceable to the Ancient Near East, and explicitly in the Pythagorean Table of Opposites . In Western culture as well as in Confucianism, the contrast symbolizes the ...
Erie War. The Erie War was a 19th-century conflict between American financiers for control of the Erie Railway Company, which owned and operated the Erie Railroad. [1] Built with public funds raised by taxation and on land donated by public officials and private developers, by the middle of the 1850s the railroad was mismanaged and heavily in ...
Geography. Vanderbilt is located in southwestern Jackson County at 28°49′20″N 96°36′57″W (28.822110, -96.615708). [4] It is 13 miles (21 km) by road south of Edna, the county seat . According to the United States Census Bureau, the Vanderbilt CDP has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2 ), all land.
Fredderick Edmund VanVleet Sr. (born February 25, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, VanVleet played college basketball for Wichita State University before beginning his NBA career. He contributed to a resurgence of Wichita State Shockers ...
Black & White is a god video game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows in 2001 and by Feral Interactive in 2002 for Mac OS. Black & White combines elements of artificial life and strategy. The player acts as a god whose goal is to defeat Nemesis, another god who wants to take over the world.
Nautical star. The nautical star is a symbolic star representing the North Star, associated with the sea services of the United States armed forces and with tattoo culture. It is usually rendered as a five-pointed star in dark and light shades counterchanged in a style similar to a compass rose . In Unicode, this symbol is in the dingbats block ...
Stephanie Joanne White (formerly Stephanie White-McCarty; born June 20, 1977) is a former professional basketball player and the head coach of the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA. She was previously head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team from 2016 to 2021. [1] Prior to Vanderbilt, she was the head coach of the Indiana Fever ...
1917: Black, Starr & Frost sold a diamond necklace for $200,000 to stage star Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the inspiration for Lorelei Lee in the 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. 1921: Designed and produced the silver platter for The Davis Cup for the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.