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Landmarks in Handwriting History
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200 B.C. The first comic sketch about bad handwriting appears, in the play Pseudolus by the Roman comedian Titus Maccius PIautus, Pseudolus attempts to read a letter handed him by his friend Calidorus: "By Hercules, I beg you," the exasperated reader gasps, "do even hens have hands like these? For indeed a hen wrote these letters."
780 A.D. The illiterate Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne tries to master handwriting and fails. According to the emperor's biographer, Einhard, Charlemagne kept tablets and blanks in his bed under his pillow so he could practice forming letters in his leisure hours. ...
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Pottery that fired the imagination of a great perfectionist; Antiques and Auctions - ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT: William de Morgan studied painting, furniture and stained glass long before being drawn to pottery and becoming a great like his mentors.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...patterns" pretty well sums up William Frend de Morgan (1839-1917), a leading English...way his friends Lord Leighton, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones...PLATES: A trio of dishes by William de Morgan - those on the right and at the...
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Anniveraries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Francis Danby, painter, 1793; William John Thoms, founder and editor...political reformer, 1811; William Frend de Morgan, artist and novelist, 1839...Leon Daudet, author, 1867; William Christopher Handy, composer and...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Francis Danby, painter, 1793; William John Thoms, founder and editor...political reformer, 1811; William Frend de Morgan, artist and novelist, 1839...writer and philosopher, 1952; William Clark Gable, actor, 1960; William...
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OTTOCENTO SPIRITUALISM: FROM ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TO EVELYN DE MORGAN1
Magazine article from: Browning Society Notes
; ...painter Evelyn Pickering De Morgan (1855-1919), another...discussion of Sophia Frend De Morgan's seminal spiritualist...Sophia and Evelyn De Morgan after her, Barrett Browning...Seymour Kirkup, and William Wetmore Story.10 Curiosity...
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Anniversaries: 13th & 14th January
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...playwright, 1918. Deaths: Edmund Spenser, poet, 1599; William Frend De Morgan, artist and author, 1917; Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti...Anais Nin, writer and poet, 1977; Peter Finch (William Mitchell), actor, 1977. On this day: the Great...
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Furniture designed at the Byrd Cliffe Arts and Crafts Colony.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...designed by Charles F. A. Voy-sey (1857-1941), and they had examples of brilliantly glazed ceramics by William Frend De Morgan and Halsey Ralph Ricardo (see Pl. V). Along with reproductions of Italian Renaissance chairs they had furniture...
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100 Students Named Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois.
PR Newswire
; ...Lauren Scherer, Loyola University; LaJoi Royston, Morgan Park HS; Susan Echeverria and Melvina Karpouzian, Northeastern...Theresa Wantiez, Oak Lawn HS Palatine: Jessica Alvarado, William Frend HS; Kathleen Bell and Amanda Nolan, Palatine HS Peoria...
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