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Ok, here's the answer. Donroc, you were close with Durer, but it is actually from Lucas Cranach. It was done during the heart of the Protestant Reformation. It basically shows the Protestant view of Catholic and Protestant views of salvation. On the left is the Catholic view, which Cranach shows as being based on fear and/or failure of abiding by the Ten Commandments. On the right is the Protestant view, represented as salvation being made possible by God's grace. So implicit here is the faith/works issue that was such a critical issue around that time.
I was 2 min. short :-[
1530 : The Confession of Augsburg and The Schmalkaldic Leaguehttp://europeanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa051101a.htm The woodcut is displaying both the Old and the New Testament :
The creation? Adam & Eve are the background, and Christ's death and Resurrection are in the foreground and it looks like the Judgment in the background again.
Old Testament:- Adam and Eve- Moses and the Table of Laws- Death and a Demon chasing ppl into Hell- in the background : The Last JudgementNew Testament:- the Crucifixion (with the Agnus Dei) and the Holy Spirit (the dove), a man saved by the Christ-Holy Spirit redemption- the Resurrection (Christ victorious, stepping on death and Satan)- 2 angels in the sky, one is falling (or enlightening sheppers : the Nativity, the 3 Wise Men?), the other trumpeting towards a woman (Mary? the Annunciation?)- a military camp (ppl slaugthered: Massacre of the Innocents? and snakes all around)I'd say this woodcut is displaying Lutherian values (Mary in the background isn't playing an important role and there is no image of the Pope, the Clergy or any Catholic symbols but the Testament only)About the author, I don't know ???
17 April 1961. Unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to explore the southern Cuban Bah?a de Cochinos
A frontier is a frontier ... 😉
Frontier, "The Frontier", has another meaning in the US: during the 19th century, the American settlers thought of the frontier not as a marked border but as the place where civilization dwindled away and wilderness began. and NOT as a fortified boundary line running through dense populations.Commonly regarded as the area where the settled portions of civilization meet the untamed wilderness, the frontier has persisted in American history as a topic of profound importance and intense debate. The conceptualization of the frontier has shifted greatly over time, evolving from older concepts that treated the frontier as a line of demarcation separating civilization from savagery to more modern considerations that treat the frontier as a zone of interaction and exchange between differing cultures. While numerous conceptualizations of the frontier contend for acceptance by the American public, all agree that the frontier occupies an influential position in the story of the American past.http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=PSM140&cf=n&type=4&id=N970
13 April 1598. The Edict of Nantes by Henry IV of France, granting the Calvinist Protestants (aka Huguenots) substantial rights. It marked the end of the religious wars in France.
12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space (The Colombus of the Cosmos)http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html http://www.russianarchives.com/gallery/gagarin/
On how the plane was found and identifiedhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12997528
The Pentagon had a string of military successes in Afghanistan this month. Which do you think was most important strategically to winning the war on terror?Vote:A. Bombing the wedding of an Afghan couple that didn't belong togetherB. Missile strike on underperforming Afghan elementary schoolC. Massacre of an Afghan shop owner who charged too much for sodaView results http://www.theonion.com/articles/which-afghanistan-strike-was-most-critical-to-winn,19760/?results
10 stories that could be April Fools pranks but aren't ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12932108
Um....for a site which bills itself as "family friendly", I am thinking this thread will have to be put to death...
noted. no offense intended. (I thought it was April fools day tho ...)
French to become mandatory for the US Senate http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
