The Venice Biennale is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice,Italy,by the Biennale Foundation. It focuses on contemporary art,and includes events for art,contemporary dance,architecture,cinema,and theatre. Two main components of the festival are known as the Art Biennale and the Architecture Biennale,which are held in alternating years. The others –Biennale Musica,Biennale Teatro,Venice Film Festival,and Venice Dance Biennale –are held annually. The main exhibition held in Castello alternates between art and architecture,and there are around 30 permanent pavilions built by different countries.
The University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire is a public university in Eau Claire,Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and offers bachelor's and master's degrees.
Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick was an American lawyer,businessman and anti-war activist.
The Cour des Comptes is France's supreme audit institution,under French law an administrative court. As such,it is independent from the legislative and executive branches of the French Government. However,the 1946 and 1958 French constitutions made it the Court's duty to assist the Cabinet and Parliament in regulating government spending. The Court thus combines functions of a court of exchequer,comptroller general's office,and auditor general's office in common-law countries. It is also a Grand Corps of the French State and mainly recruits among the best-ranked students graduating from the Ecole nationale d'administration.
The Washington Times-Herald (1939–1954) was an American daily newspaper published in Washington,D.C. It was created by Eleanor "Cissy" Patterson of the Medill–McCormick–Patterson family when she bought The Washington Times and The Washington Herald from the syndicate newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951),and merged them. The result was a "24-hour" newspaper,with 10 editions per day,from morning to evening.
The Lycée Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with the Lycée Louis-le-Grand,it is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and demanding sixth-form colleges (lycées) in France.
The Venice Commission,officially European Commission for Democracy through Law,is an advisory body of the Council of Europe,composed of independent experts in the field of constitutional law. It was created in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall,at a time of urgent need for constitutional assistance in Central and Eastern Europe.
Bazus is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
The judiciary of Malta interprets and applies the laws of Malta,to ensure equal justice under law,and to provide a mechanism for dispute resolution. The legal system of Malta is based partially on English law and partly on Continental law,whilst also being subject to European Union law.
The Town is a 2010 American crime thriller film co-written and directed by Ben Affleck,adapted from Chuck Hogan's 2004 novel Prince of Thieves. The film stars Affleck,Rebecca Hall,Jon Hamm,Jeremy Renner,Blake Lively,Titus Welliver,Pete Postlethwaite,Chris Cooper and Slaine. Its plot follows a Boston bank robber who begins to develop romantic feelings for a victim of one of his previous robberies,while he and his crew set out to get one final score by robbing Fenway Park.
Jean Malaurie was a French cultural anthropologist,explorer,geographer,physicist,and writer. He and Kutsikitsoq,an Inuk,were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on 29 May 1951.
Claire Falkenstein was an American sculptor,painter,printmaker,jewelry designer,and teacher,most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures. Falkenstein was one of America's most experimental and productive 20th-century artists.
Ruth Elizabeth "Bazy" Tankersley was an American breeder of Arabian horses and a newspaper publisher. She was a daughter of U.S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick. Her mother was progressive Republican U.S. Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick,making Tankersley a granddaughter of Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio. Although Tankersley was involved with conservative Republican causes as a young woman,including a friendship with Senator Joseph McCarthy,her progressive roots reemerged in later years. By the 21st century,she had become a strong supporter of environmental causes and backed Barack Obama for president in 2008.
The French Red Cross,or the CRF,is the national Red Cross Society in France founded in 1864 and originally known as the Sociétéfrançaise de secours aux blessés militaires (SSBM). Recognized as a public utility since 1945,the French Red Cross is one of the 191 national societies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It has more than 62,000 volunteers and 17,000 employees. Its network consists of 1,062 local offices,108 departmental and territorial delegations and 634 social,medico-social and health establishments throughout France,including the overseas departments and territories.
Giulia Bogliolo Bruna is an Italian ethno-historian,living in France,specialist of the discovery travels at the Renaissance,of the imaginary of the north and of the Inuit in Frencophone and Anglophone travel literature,and of the Inuit,their culture and traditional art
Philippe Malaurie was a French professor of private law.
The Finnish pavilion houses Finland's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.
Claire Elizabeth Szabó is a New Zealand chief executive officer and was president of the New Zealand Labour Party from 2019 to 2022.
Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code is a lèse-majesté law deems it illegal to "Insult the President of Turkey". A person who is sentenced for a violation of this article can be sentenced to a prison term between one and four years and if the violation was made in public the verdict can be elevated by a sixth. Prosecutions often target critics of the government,independent journalists,and political cartoonists. Between 2014 and 2019,128,872 investigations were launched for this offense and prosecutors opened 27,717 criminal cases. Turkey's article 299 and article 125,which allows one party to sue for insult despite lack of sufficient evidence,are arguably used as part of SLAPPs.
Armenia has been a member of the Council of Europe,an international organization that focuses on strengthening democracy,human rights,and the rule of law across Europe,since 2001.
