hôtel
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hôtel. 1. Large private residence, or town-house in France.
2. Official residence of a public figure or official.
3. University hostel.
4. Building for accommodation of strangers, really a superior inn, since the C19 a very large and luxurious establishment with bedrooms, dining-rooms, and other facilities, usually spelled without the circumflex accent.
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Swiss Cyclist Urs Graf Positive in Doping Test
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 6/28/1999; 231 words
; Swiss cyclist Urs Graf has been suspended for eight months by the Swiss Cycling Federation on Monday after testing positive in doping control. Graf, 25, tested positive for testosterone on the fifth and final stage of last month's Tour of Romandie cycling race.
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Baseline Management Company Collaborates with Applied Research Associates, URS Corporation to Launch New Catastrophe Risk Models for Insurance and Reinsurance Industries.
Business Wire; 2/17/2009; 700+ words
; ...Baseline earthquake model leverages URS' expertise in building codes...specific building damage using URS' CODA (Code-Oriented Damage...engineering business." William Graf, Manager, Earthquake Risk, URS Corporation, said, "The Baseline...
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United States: Baseline Management Company Collaborates with Applied Research Associates, URS Corporation to Launch New Catastrophe Risk Models for Insurance and Reinsurance Industries.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 2/20/2009; 700+ words
; ...Baseline earthquake model leverages URS? expertise in building codes...specific building damage using URS? CODA (Code-Oriented Damage...engineering business.? William Graf, Manager, Earthquake Risk, URS Corporation, said, The Baseline...
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Tennis: Graf pattern looks ominous for Date
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/4/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...of the net makes a mistake. Graf is less likely than anyone else...She stays really low," Graf said of her semi-final opponent...it will be some surprise if Graf loses today. Nothing special...Michigan consulted a coach, Urs Walter, earlier this year but...
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Medieval Lines of Demarcation; At the National Gallery, 90 Years That Changed the Shape of Drawing
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/31/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Germanic craziness is crazier. When Urs Graf (1485-c. 1529) draws "Drowning...Both artists knew war's savageries. Graf enjoyed a fight. In Basel, notes...disturbing the peace at night, brawling." Graf then signed on as a mercenary, and...
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Concepts drawn from world in transition: Holbein, Schongauer illustrate a new style.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Matthias Grunewald, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Baldung Grien . It also includes lesser-known painters such as Urs Graf, Albrecht Altdorfer and Wolf Huber. Mr. Robison has included works by early anonymous artists as well. The gallery...
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Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 1/12/1991; 620 words
; ...Most of his artists took for granted that wars had to be, that they were part of the normal order of events; even Urs Graf, who drew some ferociously realistic battle scenes, expresses "a grim acceptance that warfare is self-renewing...
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Histoire de la litterature en Suisse romande.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Contantinopolitain, c'est-a-dire Italo-franc-levantin' while Cendrars claims to be 'le lansquenet suisse de la race d'Urs Graf '. So where is Edmond Fleg, born in Geneva in 1874, author inter alia of Pourquoi je suis juif (1928)? At first...
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Patrick Andrist, Les Manuscrits grecs conserves a la Bibliotheque de la Bourgeoisie de Berne--Burgerbibliothek Bern: Catalogue et histoire de la collection.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Bibliotheque de la Bourgeoisie de Berne--Burgerbibliothek Bern: Catalogue et histoire de la collection (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2007). 349 PP.; 77 illustrations; CD-ROM. ISBN 978-3-85951-269-6. 116.00 [euro]. Considering...
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OUT & ABOUT.(Washington Weekend)(Out & About)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...and Switzerland - Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Durer, Mathis Grunewald, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Baldung Grien, Urs Graf, Albrecht Altdorfer, Wolf Huber and Hans Holbein the Younger - make up "From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings...
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Urs Graf
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Urs Graf , c.1485-1528, Swiss wood engraver, etcher, painter, and goldsmith, studied at Basel. He was influenced by the work of...
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Graf, Urs
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Graf, Urs ( b Solothurn, c. 1485; d ?Basle, 1529...the pen; favourite subjects are soldiers ( Graf himself spent some time as a mercenary in...flamboyantly dressed ladies of easy virtue. Graf also designed stained glass, made woodcuts...
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etching
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...became. The first etchings belong to the early years of the 16th century (the earliest dated example, of 1513, is by Urs Graf ), though the basic principle, that of corroding a design into a metal plate, had been utilized earlier for the decoration...
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