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The fresh face of Vladivostok
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James Brooke
International Herald Tribune
02-20-2004
Bathed by the Sea of Japan but controlled by Moscow, Vladivostok has always presented two faces to the world.Its open face was that of Russia's San Francisco a rollicking, cosmopolitan seaport that was the childhood home of the late actor Yul Brynner.Its unfriendly face began in the 1860s with its name, which means ''To Rule the East.'' Planted as Russia's flag in Asia, Vladivostok was a ''maritime fortress'' under the czars and a closed city under the Soviets.But now Vladivostok, a neighbor of China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula, is ...
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Holbein in close-up: the techniques that allowed Holbein to achieve his astounding naturalism are analysed in this sumptuously illustrated account of his work in England.(Holbein and England)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...engagement with the English Reformation. Another examines the portraits he made of German Hanseatic merchants based in London's Steelyard--portraits apparently intended to be sent back home to their familles, and subtly differing in form...
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CITY OF PROVIDENCE PREPARES TO DISTRIBUTE 2ND ROUND OF GRANTS THROUGH POPULAR NEIGHBORHOOD MARKETS PROGRAM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...accepting applications from merchants associations for grants of...50,000 will be awarded to merchants associations through the Community...year of the program local merchants, in partnership with The Steelyard, used grant money to design...
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Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants c. 1000-1300.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...transformation of the Hanse of Cologne merchants in London into the Hanse Teutonicorum of the London Steelyard. A third chapter looks at...chapter identifies Cologne merchants and artisans in London and...Cologne, some insight into the merchant/artisan milieu might have...along with other foreign ...
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Where's the king?
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...typical artist opportunist, was on the lookout for a new patron, and settled on More's successor, Thomas Cromwell. He also painted the German merchants of the London branch of the Hanseatic League (the Steelyard). He became a suc
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50 for fun; Phil Brown's weekly trivia quiz.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...festival gave the English language which word dealing with motorised transport? 37 The Steelyard was for 300 years up to 1598 a part of London where German merchants lived and worked exempt from English law - to which powerful organisation did they...
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Roundtable discussion about effect of three major downtown OKC projects
Newspaper article from: THE JOURNAL RECORD
; ...brownstones. Also in the mix is The Steelyard, a former industrial space...Sims, president, Bricktown Merchants Association Anthony McDermid...Real Estate; represents The Steelyard Lopez: How do you see your...farther along than we are. The Steelyard is 200,000 square feet and...
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OKC Real Estate Briefs: November 5, 2004
Newspaper article from: THE JOURNAL RECORD
; ...stuff, but don't look for a proposal from them - their Steelyard interests just make them curious neighbors. The others...to get the boot out of Toby's mouth at a recent Bricktown Merchants meeting. Talking about his soon-to-be-constructed...
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Dennis O'Donnell on no more splits for banana lovers
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...after his Hot Pea Special in Boni's Caf Veronese in the Steelyard, Eastcheap. Intrigued, he asked Papa Luigi to identify...the First Folio. So we now lack the immortal scene in The Merchant of Venice where Shylock and a chorus of Venetian Fruit Vendors...
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Apathy forces traders' group to shut up shop
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...Business Association closed in 1990 after five years and Bathgate Merchants ended in the 1970s after running for several decades. George...going for it," she said. A GBP 200,000 facelift of the Steelyard development in the town centre has just been completed. It...
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