back splice
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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back splice, a method of finishing off the end of a rope to prevent the
strands unravelling by forming a
crown knot with the strands and then tucking them back two or three times each.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/30/1996; 700+ words
; ...Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, 1844; Alfred Cellier, composer, 1844; Ernst Toller, playwright...poet and anti-Corn Law rhymester, 1849; Alfred Rethel, historical painter, 1859; Alfred Thayer Mahan, naval historian, 1914; Henry...
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Indelibly stamped
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...allegiance to his art in the 19th century, except perhaps for the remarkable series of wood engravings on Death by Alfred Rethel, which, in any case, owed more in spirit to Holbein than to Direr. But there was an earlier and fruitful attachment...
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Angelo Filomeno; Galerie Lelong.(Betrayed Witches)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...death), in which the skeletal figure is simultaneously terrifying and comical. In the prints of Hans Holbein or Alfred Rethel, however, moral judgments are always at hand, and the personification of death is frequently accompanied by Vanity...
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Jacob Burckhardt and nineteenth-century realist art. (Swiss historian in the 19th century)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporary German art - although the works of Germany's most famous artists, Peter Cornelius, Wilhelm Kaulbach, and Alfred Rethel, were not on display - and presented the public with a wide variety of genres, ranging from sculpture to sketches...
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Angelo Filomeno
Magazine article from: Artforum; 7/1/2008; ; 659 words
; ...death), in which the skeletal figure is simultaneously terrifying and comical. In the prints of Hans Holbein or Alfred Rethel, however, moral judgments are always at hand, and the personification of death is frequently accompanied by Vanity...
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Heads or Tails: The Poetics of Money.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...money), and in one of the most compelling chapters, 'What Counts: Money and Validity', he expounds and extols Alfred Sohn-Rethel's extraordinary theory of the economic substructure to Kantian epistemology. It is hard to pick holes in cultural...
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Heads or Tails: The Poetics of Money
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...genuine heir of the Frankfurt School thinkers, especially of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the little known Alfred Sohn-Rethel, who theorized with the most consequence about an epistemological homology between the invention of money and the...
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List of Nursing Board Passers 'Z'.(Board Passers)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...ZACARIAS, ELOISA BERGONIO ZACARIAS, JOHN ALFRED III MANGALIAG ZACARIAS, RUEL PINDOT ZACARIAS...TOLOG ZALDIVAR, LIRA BIGNO ZALDIVAR, RETHEL GRACE TULIO ZALDIVAR, RITCHIE INOCENCIO...ZANTUA, NINA ANGELICA CAJEFE ZAPANTA, ALFRED JARLEGO ZAPANTA, CATHERINE ASERCION ZAPANTA...
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Alfred Rethel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alfred Rethel , 1816-59, German historical painter and draftsman. He gained a reputation...the town hall of Aachen, depicting scenes from the life of Charlemagne. Rethel also made a series of remarkable drawings for wood engravings for Another...
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Rethel, Alfred
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Rethel, Alfred (1816–59). German painter and printmaker. His biggest...was begun in 1847 but left unfinished because of the madness that ended Rethel's career in 1853. He is now mainly remembered for his series of wood...
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