 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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The club that really took the biscuit; DRUNK ON IDEAS: Hogarth's Midnight Modern Conversation was inspired by groups such as the Kit-Cats.
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Byline: Kathryn Hughes
The Kit-Cat Club by Ophelia Field Harper Press ? 25 . ?22.50 inc p& p (08451550713) . ...
Sadly, perhaps, the Kit-Cat Club was not set up to eat chocolate biscuits.
Instead, it emerged in the early 18th Century from a group of liberal-minded wits, writers and politicians dedicated to ensuring England remained a constitutional monarchy.
Ever since William and Mary had arrived from Orange to take over the throne in 1688, there had been mutterings that 'The Old Pretender', Mary's half-brother, was getting ready to ...
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GLOBAL AWARENESS Collectibles bring the hemispheres home; Where to find worldly decor Here are some of the places to find sources listed in this story: Richard B. Arkway Inc., 59 E. 54th St., New York, NY 10022; (212) 751-8135. Ballard Design, 1670 DeFoor Ave. N.W., Atlanta, GA 30318-7528; (404) 351-5099. Martin Behaim globe, through Coach House Antiques, P.O. Box 118, High Point, NC 27261; (800) 274-3433. (Call for retail outlets.) The Bombay Company, P.O. Box 161009, Fort Worth, TX 76161-1009; (800) 829-7789. George F. Cram Co., P.O. Box 426, Indianapolis, IN 46206-0426; call (800) 227-4199 for a retail store near you. Mood Indigo, 181 Prince St., New York, NY 10012; (212) 254-1176. Orbit Design Inc., 4420 S. Wolcott, Chicago, IL 60609; (312) 376-0003. (Call for retail outlets.) Rand McNally, P.O. Box 182257, Chattanooga, TN 37422-7257; (800) 234-0679. Waverly, 79 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016-7878; (800) 423-5881. (Call for retail outlets.)
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Maybe the geopolitical unrest of the last decade has made us nostalgic for a time when the world's boundaries didn't seem to be changing by the minute. Or maybe we're just tired of gazing at the moon and stars. But suddenly, maps and globes everything from priceless antiques from the Age of
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Across eras, life stays the same
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther's break with...expand their markets. The Behaim family plays a prominent...betrothal, thanks mostly to Behaim's father, Paul, who...wife died. The elder Behaim quickly found another...by Andy Marino (St. Martin's Griffin, $16...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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WRITER EXPLORES THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEST FOR MATERIAL GAIN IN HISTORY.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...former German cloth merchant named Martin Behaim, who stole some of the precious...commercial locations in the world.'' Behaim's sphere, a beautiful object in...15th to mid-16th centuries. Behaim's globe was an artifact that prefigured...
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Some good words on the good world of worldly goods
Magazine article from: Irish Marketing Review
; ...that they may sin with impunity, Martin Luther precipitates the Protestant...For example, we are introduced to Martin Behaim who was commissioned by the merchants...commercial and industrial espionage, Behaim produced a lavishly detailed globe...
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The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Atlas, Andreas Bianco's world map, and especially Martin Behaim's globe approximate Columbus' geographical vision...Cathay, and Cipangu, using his own narratives and Behaim's world globe as guides. The author demonstrates how...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Globes help us to know our world; Flash back Under the Hammer.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
; ...in 25 AD. Because they used marble, the globe survives today. German geographer Martin Behaim made the earliest terrestrial globe that has survived. Behaim made his in 1492 and Christopher Columbus was almost certainly strengthened by it in...
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Managing the new paradigm: the nurse manager's challenge.
Magazine article from: Nursing Economics
; ...painful cultural changes and produce confusion, conflict, and a great amount of uncertainty. For example, when Martin Behaim in the 1400s declared that the earth was round instead of flat (as had been suggested by Greek mathematicians such...
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Da Vinci Sfumato: The Essay and Novel; Leonardo Da Vinci Unveiled.
PR Newswire
; ...the most enigmatic characters of the Renaissance period: Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Jacob Fugger and Martin Behaim. Thus, discover the greatest love story of all times between Mona Lisa and her impetuous lover. 10 years of intensive...
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Speedline announces distribution partner.(Industry News)(Speedline Technologies, Inc.)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Circuits Assembly
; ...Speedline employees and Speedline-trained factory service engineers. Contact information for GPS Technologies is: Martin-Behaim-Str.2, D-663263 New Isenburg, Germany; +49 (0)61021743-520; fax: +49 (0)61021743-420; e mail...
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Pumpkinseed Sunfish Swims on New Stamp
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...diocese. Germany issued a stamp Sept. 10 to commemorate the first terrestrial globe, made between 1491 and 1493 by Martin Behaim. The 60-pfennig stamp shows a photograph of the globe, which is 51 centimeters in diameter and represents the world...
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