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Charm Bracelet
Charm Bracelet Acharm bracelet is a chain of silver or gold, worn around the wrist, to which individual jewelry symbols, called charms, are attached. Traditionally, the wearer, usually a woman, begins with a simple chain then chooses and adds charms that have personal meaning to her own life.... Read more |
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Jan van der Heyden
Jan van der Heyden , 1637-1712, Dutch architectural and landscape painter. He worked chiefly in Amsterdam. His charming pictures of towns, buildings, and public squares are painted with accuracy and precision. He is represented in many leading European collections. The Metropolitan Museum has two of... Read more |
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Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi , 1712-93, Venetian landscape and architectural painter. A follower of Canaletto, he developed a freer style of great brilliance. Guardi's work ranges from elaborate architectural scenes to spontaneous and delightful capricci, both in painting and drawings. His many charming... Read more |
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Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner 1829-1900, American editor and author, b. Plainfield, Mass., grad. Hamilton College, 1851, LL.B. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1858. After practicing law in Chicago, he was associate editor and publisher of the Hartford, Conn., Courant. The many travel articles he contributed to... Read more |
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Newlyn School
Newlyn School. A name applied to the painters who worked in the Cornish fishing village of Newlyn from the 1880s, particularly those directly linked with Stanhope Forbes, who was the founder and leader of the school. One of the attractions of Newlyn was the mild climate, which made it particularly... Read more |
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Francesco di Giorgio
Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco di Giorgio Martini) , 1439-1502, also called Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Italian engineer, architect, painter, and sculptor, b. Siena. With Renaissance versatility he worked as military architect and engineer, first at Siena (1463-78) and later in the service of... Read more |
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quark
quark Any one of six particles (although there is increasing evidence of another two) and their antiparticles (antiquarks) that are the constituents of the hadron group of elementary particles. They occur in one of six ‘flavours’: up, down, top, bottom, charmed, and strange.... Read more |
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Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind Rock and roll band For the Record… Selected discography Sources The rock band Third Eye Blind released their debut album Third Eye Blind in the spring of 1997. One of its singles, “Semi-Charmed Life,” reached number one on the modern rock chart by the... Read more |
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Carl Spitzweg
Carl Spitzweg , 1808-85, German genre painter and draftsman. Self-taught, he depicted the daily life of his native Munich in small, charming pictures in which realism, fancy, and humor are happily combined. Characteristic are The Poor Poet, Two Hermits, and Scholar in the Attic. He contributed... Read more |
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evil eye
evil eye principally Sicilian and Mesoamerican superstition, although it is known in other cultures. According to the Native American version, a person who stares fixedly at a pregnant woman or a child or who is too admiring or physically affectionate with children may produce a malicious effect on... Read more |
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