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Liz Galbraith puts a refreshing and beautiful face on fabrics for the home.
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Byline: Mary Daniels
As a textile designer, Liz Galbraith puts a certain singular stamp on her work. She is the only artisan in the United States using hand-blocking, a method of producing patterns on cloth that goes back to biblical time, to create a commercial line of fabrics.
While this is a primitive method, she likens the process to the potato printing schoolchildren do, the result is so appealing that chic world-class designers such as Nina Campbell fancy her fabrics. As a result, her work_which includes lamps as well as yard goods_is turning up in ...
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COMMENTARY: UNQUIET FLOWS THE RHINE
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...2001 Commentary: Unquiet flows the Rhine WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- On the banks of the Rhine, in the ancient city of Strasbourg...promoted 'Europe des nations,' a European confederation of nation-states that also gave France...
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Commentary: Unquiet flows the Rhine.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) On the banks of the Rhine, in the ancient city of Strasbourg, which in the past...De Gaulle promoted 'Europe des nations,' a European confederation of nation-states that also gave France a platform on...
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July's anniversaries.(fall of Roman Empire)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...of satellite states beyond the Rhine, organized in a more rational...Austerlitz. He went on to organize the Confederation of the Rhine, which came formally into existence...joined the Confederation of the Rhine. The insatiable Bonaparte went...
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The German national question and 1848.(Germany's mid-19th century failed attempt to create a nation state)(includes chronology of pivotal political events in 1848-49)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...succeeded in 1806 by Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine, which excluded both Austria...In 1814-15 the German Confederation (Deutsche Bund or simply...regarding the Bund as a dynastic confederation defending the prerogatives...
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Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c. 1800-1815.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...administrations. The two essays on Napoleonic Germany feature the Confederation of the Rhine. Andreas Fahrmeir emphasizes differences within the membership of the Confederation and attributes its instability to these inherent regional differences...
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France's Napoleon complex.(Commentary)(Editorials)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...time, Napoleon fancied himself Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine and Mediator of the Swiss Confederation. Then he married the archduchess of the Habsburg empire. Meanwhile, his brothers ruled...
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ANTIQUES SLEUTH: ; Some pitchers are for looks, not cooks
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...Radiating from it are 18 stamped impressions that might be the shields of the states of the Germanic Confederation or possibly the Confederation of the Rhine. The name "L. Leigh Jr." is stamped in the lower right-hand corner. The number "1800...
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You're the tops
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...the last century. Napoleon was Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine and Mediator of the Swiss Confederation. His brothers ruled Spain, Holland and Westphalia, and his brother-in-law was the...
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Burning Questions - Tracing a Barbarian power struggle
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...was elevated in status by a treaty that made it into a kingdom. However, it joined an alliance called the Confederation of the Rhine which brought Bavaria under the effective rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the mid-1800s, Bavaria formed an...
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Rowe, Michael, ed. Collaboration and Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: State-Formation in an Age of Upheaval, c. 1800-1815.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books
; ...areas discussed--from France, the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, various German States (including the Confederation of the Rhine, as well as the obvious choices of Prussia and Austria), Hungary, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, and Britain...
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