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Ocean Currents
Ocean Currents Mariners have known for many centuries that the ocean contains currents that flow along generally consistent paths. The Spanish galleons transporting gold and silver from Mexico to Spain made use of the Gulf Stream to help them return home, while Benjamin... Read more |
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fey
fey originally (in Old English, in form fǣge) fated to die soon; the word is of Germanic origin, and related to German feige ‘cowardly’.The original meaning is still current in Scottish usage, but from the early 19th century the word has developed a more general sense of... Read more |
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agony
agony extreme mental or physical suffering.agony column originally (in the mid 19th century) the column of a newspaper containing special advertisements, particularly those for missing relatives or friends, and thus containing evidence of great distress. Later (the current meaning), it became a... Read more |
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baronet
baronet a member of the lowest hereditary titled British order, with the status of a commoner but able to use the prefix ‘Sir’. The term originally denoted a gentleman, not a nobleman, summoned by the king to attend parliament; the current order was instituted in the early 17th... Read more |
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little
little Battle of Little Bighorn a battle in which General George Custer and his forces were defeated by Sioux warriors on 25 June 1876, popularly known as Custer's Last Stand. It took place in the valley of the Little Bighorn River in Montana.Little Englander a person who opposes an... Read more |
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abstract art
abstract art. Art that does not depict recognizable scenes or objects, but instead is made up of forms and colours that exist for their own expressive sake. Much decorative art can thus be described as abstract, but in normal usage the term refers to modern painting and sculpture that abandon the... Read more |
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dead reckoning
dead reckoning, determining position at sea by advancing the last established position for course and distance run. Before the advent of modern navigational systems dead reckoning was the basis of most offshore navigation. The term ‘estimated position’ is sometimes used for the dead... Read more |
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Peru Current
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California Current
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A century of modern sculpture
...19th- and 20th-century sculpture drawn from one of...approximately 105 sculptures and examines developments...purchase of major sculptures by Jean Arp, Alexander...exhibition, "A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection... |
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Precocious master: twentieth-century sculpture.(sculptor Henri...
...course of early 20th-century sculpture, one is well-known...radically simplified sculpture's forms. A new biography...African art and works of modern art movements. In one...known founders of modern sculpture. But his... |
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Made in Britain: a curatorial tour de force or an experiment in...
...right back to the New Sculpture of the late 19th century...identifiable British sculpture, so we went in search...walk around the last century as they might walk...work from preceding centuries. 'Modern British Sculpture...sculpture in the 20th century that ... |
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SHOWCASING POP ART, SCULPTURE OF BUDDHA
...Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art "Alone in a Crowd...art spanning several centuries, modern sculpture, folk art...the Buddha in Asian sculpture, from early periods to the 19th century. Through Dec. 18...Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915...by Greek and Roman ... |
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Metal composition hold key to identity of modern sculptures.
...composition of modern sculptures with...half of the 20th century, profiles which...even authenticate sculptures. Their findings1...hardness of the sculpture, its resistance...cast a particular sculpture. In addition, not all the sculptures carry a foundry...composition of 62 ... |
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Tate Modern unveils its biggest work yet, Anish Kapoor sculpture
...London's Tate Modern art gallery, leaves...most significant sculptures of this century," said the Tate Modern's curator Donna...to see the entire sculpture from any one position...feel of the Tate Modern, a former power... |
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The Rink With a View; At Mall's Outdoor Gallery, Sculptures Enhance Exercise
...the midst of a 19th-century garden, surrounded by modern sculpture, a federal...skating rink within a sculpture garden. The garden...Washington, frequent sculpture garden visitors, came...normally not come for the sculpture alone." At one entrance...of the garden's 13 ... |
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Collectors' focus: following a recent spate of major exhibitions on the...
The market for modern British sculpture is currently experiencing...from more countries on modern British sculpture than...Arts (RA) show, 'Modern British Sculpture...sculpture in the 20th century, from Barbara Hepworth... |
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'Like a poet's dreams': the redisplay of the 6th Duke of Devonshire's...
...gallery was intended for modern sculpture, and I have...collection of early-19th-century European sculpture...outstanding collection of modern British--rather than European--sculpture was being arranged...notable source for the sculpture gallery's design...competing setting ... |
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Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy of Arts, London W1
Opening this week What do we mean by modern, British and sculpture? Ranging from a picnic table covered with flies...from The Sun, this major sweep through 20th-century British sculpture aims to stress-test the question. Themed... |
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