Patrick Francis HealySJ (February 27, 1834 – January 10, 1910) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who was an influential president of
Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's flagship building,
Healy Hall, bears his name. Though he considered himself and was largely
accepted as
White, Healy was posthumously recognized as the first
Black American to earn a
Ph.D., as well as the first to Jesuit order and to become the president of a predominantly White university. (Full article...)
James Aloysius DoonanSJ (November 8, 1841 – April 12, 1911) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit, who was the
president of
Georgetown University from 1882 to 1888. During that time he oversaw the naming of
Gaston Hall and the construction of a new building for the
School of Medicine. Doonan also acquired two historic
cannons that were placed in front of
Healy Hall. His presidency was financially successful, with a reduction in the university's burdensome debt that had accrued during the construction of Healy Hall. (Full article...)
On June 19, 1838, the
Maryland Province of the
Society of Jesus agreed to sell 272
slaves to two
Louisiana planters,
Henry Johnson and
Jesse Batey, for $115,000 (equivalent to approximately $3.25 million in 2023). This sale was the culmination of a contentious and long-running debate among the Maryland Jesuits over whether to keep, sell, or
free their slaves, and whether to focus on their rural
estates or on their growing urban
missions, including their schools. (Full article...)
Nativity, c. mid-1450s. Oil on wood, 127.6 cm × 94.9 cm (50.2 in × 37.4 in),
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Nativity is a devotional mid-1450s oil-on-wood panel painting by the
Early Netherlandish painter
Petrus Christus. It shows a
nativity scene with
grisaille archways and trompe-l'œil sculptured reliefs. Christus was influenced by the first generation of Netherlandish artists, especially
Jan van Eyck and
Rogier van der Weyden, and the panel is characteristic of the simplicity and naturalism of art of that period. Placing archways as a framing device is a typical van der Weyden device, and here likely borrowed from that artist's Altar of Saint John and Miraflores Altarpiece. Yet Christus adapts these painterly motifs to a uniquely mid-15th century sensibility, and the unusually large panel – perhaps painted as a central altarpiece panel for a
triptych – is nuanced and visually complex. It shows his usual harmonious composition and employment of
one-point-perspective, especially evident in the geometric forms of the shed's roof, and his bold use of color. It is one of Christus's most important works.
Max Friedländer definitely attributed the panel to Christus in 1930, concluding that "in scope and importance, [it] is superior to all other known creations of this master." (Full article...)
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Portrait,
c. 1890s
Joseph Havens RichardsSJ (born Havens Cowles Richards; November 8, 1851 – June 9, 1923) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who became a prominent president of
Georgetown University, where he instituted major reforms and significantly enhanced the quality and stature of the university. Richards was born to a prominent
Ohio family; his father was an
Episcopal priest who controversially
converted to Catholicism and had the infant Richards secretly
baptized as a Catholic. (Full article...)
Stephen Colbert and his wife Evelyn McGee at the Time 100 most influential people awards for 2006 On April 29, 2006, American comedian
Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the
Hilton Washington hotel. Colbert's performance, consisting of a 16-minute podium speech and a 7-minute video presentation, was broadcast live across the United States on the cable television networks
C-SPAN and
MSNBC. Standing a few feet from U.S. President
George W. Bush, in front of an audience of celebrities, politicians, and members of the
White House Press Corps, Colbert delivered a controversial, searing routine targeting the president and the media. He spoke in the persona of
the character he played on
Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a parody of conservative
pundits such as
Bill O'Reilly and
Sean Hannity. (Full article...)
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Coveleski with the Senators in 1925
Stanley Anthony Coveleski (born Stanislaus Kowalewski, July 13, 1889 – March 20, 1984) was an American right-handed
pitcher in
Major League Baseball who played for four
American League (AL) teams between
1912 and
1928, primarily the
Cleveland Indians. The star of the Indians pitching staff, he
won over 20 games each year from the war-shortened 1918 season through 1921, leading the AL in
shutouts twice and in
strikeouts and
earned run average (ERA) once each during his nine years with the club. The star of the
1920 World Series, he led the Indians to their first title with three
complete-game victories, including a 3–0 shutout in the Game 7 finale. Traded to the
Washington Senators after the 1924 season, he helped that club to its second AL pennant in a row with 20 victories against only 5 losses, including a 13-game winning streak, while again leading the league in ERA. (Full article...)
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James A. RyderSJ (October 8, 1800 – January 12, 1860) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who became the president of several
Jesuit universities in the United States. Born in Ireland, he immigrated with his widowed mother to the United States as a child, to settle in
Georgetown, in the
District of Columbia. He enrolled at
Georgetown College and then entered the
Society of Jesus. Studying in
Maryland and
Rome, Ryder proved to be a talented student of
theology and was made a professor. He returned to Georgetown College in 1829, where he was appointed to senior positions and founded the
Philodemic Society, becoming its first president. (Full article...)
Look Mickey (also known as Look Mickey!) is a 1961 oil on canvas painting by
Roy Lichtenstein. Widely regarded as the bridge between his
abstract expressionism and
pop art works, it is notable for its ironic humor and aesthetic value as well as being the first example of the artist's employment of
Ben-Day dots,
speech balloons and comic imagery as a source for a painting. The painting was bequeathed to the Washington, D.C.,
National Gallery of Art upon Lichtenstein's death. (Full article...)
Samuel A. MulledySJ (/mʌˈleɪdi/muh-LAY-dee; March 27, 1811 – January 8, 1866) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who served as president of
Georgetown College in 1845. Born in
Virginia, he was the brother of
Thomas F. Mulledy, who was a prominent 19th-century Jesuit in the United States and a president of Georgetown. As a student at Georgetown, Samuel was one of the founding members of the
Philodemic Society, and proved to be a distinguished student, which resulted in his being sent to
Rome to complete his higher education and be ordained to the
priesthood. Upon his return to the United States, he became the
master of novices at the Jesuit
novitiate in
Maryland, before being named
president of Georgetown. He sought to be relieved of the position after only a few months, and returned to teaching and ministry. (Full article...)
Patrick Francis HealySJ (February 27, 1834 – January 10, 1910) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who was an influential president of
Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's flagship building,
Healy Hall, bears his name. Though he considered himself and was largely
accepted as
White, Healy was posthumously recognized as the first
Black American to earn a
Ph.D., as well as the first to Jesuit order and to become the president of a predominantly White university. (Full article...)
James Aloysius DoonanSJ (November 8, 1841 – April 12, 1911) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit, who was the
president of
Georgetown University from 1882 to 1888. During that time he oversaw the naming of
Gaston Hall and the construction of a new building for the
School of Medicine. Doonan also acquired two historic
cannons that were placed in front of
Healy Hall. His presidency was financially successful, with a reduction in the university's burdensome debt that had accrued during the construction of Healy Hall. (Full article...)
On June 19, 1838, the
Maryland Province of the
Society of Jesus agreed to sell 272
slaves to two
Louisiana planters,
Henry Johnson and
Jesse Batey, for $115,000 (equivalent to approximately $3.25 million in 2023). This sale was the culmination of a contentious and long-running debate among the Maryland Jesuits over whether to keep, sell, or
free their slaves, and whether to focus on their rural
estates or on their growing urban
missions, including their schools. (Full article...)
Nativity, c. mid-1450s. Oil on wood, 127.6 cm × 94.9 cm (50.2 in × 37.4 in),
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Nativity is a devotional mid-1450s oil-on-wood panel painting by the
Early Netherlandish painter
Petrus Christus. It shows a
nativity scene with
grisaille archways and trompe-l'œil sculptured reliefs. Christus was influenced by the first generation of Netherlandish artists, especially
Jan van Eyck and
Rogier van der Weyden, and the panel is characteristic of the simplicity and naturalism of art of that period. Placing archways as a framing device is a typical van der Weyden device, and here likely borrowed from that artist's Altar of Saint John and Miraflores Altarpiece. Yet Christus adapts these painterly motifs to a uniquely mid-15th century sensibility, and the unusually large panel – perhaps painted as a central altarpiece panel for a
triptych – is nuanced and visually complex. It shows his usual harmonious composition and employment of
one-point-perspective, especially evident in the geometric forms of the shed's roof, and his bold use of color. It is one of Christus's most important works.
Max Friedländer definitely attributed the panel to Christus in 1930, concluding that "in scope and importance, [it] is superior to all other known creations of this master." (Full article...)
Image 15
Portrait,
c. 1890s
Joseph Havens RichardsSJ (born Havens Cowles Richards; November 8, 1851 – June 9, 1923) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who became a prominent president of
Georgetown University, where he instituted major reforms and significantly enhanced the quality and stature of the university. Richards was born to a prominent
Ohio family; his father was an
Episcopal priest who controversially
converted to Catholicism and had the infant Richards secretly
baptized as a Catholic. (Full article...)
Stephen Colbert and his wife Evelyn McGee at the Time 100 most influential people awards for 2006 On April 29, 2006, American comedian
Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the
Hilton Washington hotel. Colbert's performance, consisting of a 16-minute podium speech and a 7-minute video presentation, was broadcast live across the United States on the cable television networks
C-SPAN and
MSNBC. Standing a few feet from U.S. President
George W. Bush, in front of an audience of celebrities, politicians, and members of the
White House Press Corps, Colbert delivered a controversial, searing routine targeting the president and the media. He spoke in the persona of
the character he played on
Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a parody of conservative
pundits such as
Bill O'Reilly and
Sean Hannity. (Full article...)
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Coveleski with the Senators in 1925
Stanley Anthony Coveleski (born Stanislaus Kowalewski, July 13, 1889 – March 20, 1984) was an American right-handed
pitcher in
Major League Baseball who played for four
American League (AL) teams between
1912 and
1928, primarily the
Cleveland Indians. The star of the Indians pitching staff, he
won over 20 games each year from the war-shortened 1918 season through 1921, leading the AL in
shutouts twice and in
strikeouts and
earned run average (ERA) once each during his nine years with the club. The star of the
1920 World Series, he led the Indians to their first title with three
complete-game victories, including a 3–0 shutout in the Game 7 finale. Traded to the
Washington Senators after the 1924 season, he helped that club to its second AL pennant in a row with 20 victories against only 5 losses, including a 13-game winning streak, while again leading the league in ERA. (Full article...)
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James A. RyderSJ (October 8, 1800 – January 12, 1860) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who became the president of several
Jesuit universities in the United States. Born in Ireland, he immigrated with his widowed mother to the United States as a child, to settle in
Georgetown, in the
District of Columbia. He enrolled at
Georgetown College and then entered the
Society of Jesus. Studying in
Maryland and
Rome, Ryder proved to be a talented student of
theology and was made a professor. He returned to Georgetown College in 1829, where he was appointed to senior positions and founded the
Philodemic Society, becoming its first president. (Full article...)
Look Mickey (also known as Look Mickey!) is a 1961 oil on canvas painting by
Roy Lichtenstein. Widely regarded as the bridge between his
abstract expressionism and
pop art works, it is notable for its ironic humor and aesthetic value as well as being the first example of the artist's employment of
Ben-Day dots,
speech balloons and comic imagery as a source for a painting. The painting was bequeathed to the Washington, D.C.,
National Gallery of Art upon Lichtenstein's death. (Full article...)
Samuel A. MulledySJ (/mʌˈleɪdi/muh-LAY-dee; March 27, 1811 – January 8, 1866) was an American
Catholic priest and
Jesuit who served as president of
Georgetown College in 1845. Born in
Virginia, he was the brother of
Thomas F. Mulledy, who was a prominent 19th-century Jesuit in the United States and a president of Georgetown. As a student at Georgetown, Samuel was one of the founding members of the
Philodemic Society, and proved to be a distinguished student, which resulted in his being sent to
Rome to complete his higher education and be ordained to the
priesthood. Upon his return to the United States, he became the
master of novices at the Jesuit
novitiate in
Maryland, before being named
president of Georgetown. He sought to be relieved of the position after only a few months, and returned to teaching and ministry. (Full article...)