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Stalls
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stall
stall small division of a larger space, sometimes partly partitioned. The term is used for a booth for display and selling at an exhibition, for a compartment in a stable or kennel, or, in England, for the forward seats in a theater orchestra. In a church or cathedral the stalls are the fixed seats... Read more |
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Pedro Duque Cornejo
Duque Cornejo, Pedro (b Seville, 14 Aug. 1678; d Córdoba, 1757). Spanish sculptor, the grandson and pupil of Pedro Roldán and the leading sculptor in Seville in the first half of the 18th century. He also worked elsewhere in southern Spain, including Granada and Córdoba, where he... Read more |
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Carl Stalling
STALLING, Carl Composer. Nationality:American. Career:1920s—accompanist for silent films; 1928—musical director at Walt Disney's studios; 1931–36—employed by Ub Iwerks's studio; 1936–57—musical director for Warner Bros. cartoons. Died:29 November... Read more |
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Portable Toilet
Portable Toilet Background The portable toilet is a lightweight, transportable, efficient and more sanitary variation of a common facility for the elimination of human waste that existed before the advent of indoor plumbing—the outhouse. Before indoor plumbing allowed for... Read more |
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Pantechnicon
Pantechnicon a building in Belgrave Square, London, constructed in the early 19th century to house an exhibition and sale of various arts and crafts, and later used as a furniture warehouse; it was destroyed by fire, with its contents, in 1874. From this the term was extended to mean any building... Read more |
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Hamstall Ridware
Ridware, Hamstall & Ridware, Pipe Staffs. Rideware 1004, 1086 (DB), Hamstal Ridewar 1242, Pipe Ridware 14th cent. Probably ‘(settlement of) the dwellers at the ford’. Celtic *rïd + OE -ware. Distinguishing affixes are from OE hām-stall ‘homestead’ and from... Read more |
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kiosk
kiosk. 1. Oriental summer-palace or pavilion for temporary resort.2. Small open or partly open free-standing structure, the roof (often tent-like) carried on posts or a light colonnade, used as a garden-pavilion, band-stand, or summer-house, often with an orientalizing character, in the Moorish,... Read more |
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Joachim Bueckelaer
Bueckelaer, Joachim (c.1535–c.1574). Netherlandish painter of large still lifes—market and kitchen pieces—active in Antwerp. Bueckelaer was the nephew and pupil of Pieter Aertsen, and he followed his uncle's preference for scenes in which a religious subject is relegated to the... Read more |
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Binbrook
Binbrook Lincs. Binnibroc 1086 (DB). ‘(Place) enclosed by the brook’, or ‘brook of a man called Bynna’. OE binnan or OE pers. name + brōc. OE binn(e) ‘manger, stall’, perhaps used in a figurative sense ‘valley’, would also be a possible... Read more |
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