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National Gallery of Art
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. In December 1936, Andrew W. Mellon offered to build an art gallery for the United States in Washington, D.C., and to donate his superb art collection to the nation as the nucleus of its holdings. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended... Read more |
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National Gallery
National Gallery London, one of the permanent national art collections of Great Britain, est. 1824. The nucleus of museum was the 38-picture collection of the late English banker John Julius Angerstein, which was purchased by the House of Commons; it was initially displayed at Angerstein's former... Read more |
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Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery London, originally the National Gallery of British Art. The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was given by Sir Henry Tate and was opened in 1897. It was extended by another gift of Tate's in 1899,... Read more |
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Penarth
Penarth , town (1991 pop. 20,545), Vale of Glamorgan, S Wales. It is a suburb of Cardiff and a seaside resort. Turner House Art Gallery is in Penarth.... Read more |
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Bernardo Daddi
Bernardo Daddi , fl. 1312-48, Italian painter of the Florentine school. First influenced by his contemporary Giotto, he soon adopted the delicate line and lyrical expression of the Sienese painters, especially the Lorenzetti. Among his dated works are a triptych (1328) in the Uffizi and an... Read more |
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pinacotheca
pinacotheca (Greek: ‘picture repository’). A name originally applied to a picture gallery in the Propylaea (gateway) of the Acropolis at Athens; it was open to the public by the 2nd century ad. The word was adopted by the Romans for galleries of private collectors, and in modern times... Read more |
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Der Sturm
Sturm, Der (German: The Assault). The name of a magazine and an art gallery in Berlin, both of which were founded and owned by Herwarth Walden (1878–1941?), a writer and composer whose aim was to promote avant-garde art in Germany. The magazine ran from 1910 to 1932 and the gallery from... Read more |
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Betty Parsons
Parsons, Betty (née Pierson) (1900–1982). American art dealer, collector, painter, and sculptor, born in New York into a wealthy family. In 1919 she married Schuyler Parsons, a socialite, but divorced him in 1922. From then until 1933 she lived in Paris. After returning to the USA she... Read more |
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Arezzo
Arezzo , city (1991 pop. 91,626), capital of Arezzo prov., Tuscany, central Italy. It is an agricultural trade center and has machine, clothing, gold, and jewelry industries. Arezzo was an Etruscan town, later became a Roman military station and colony, and was made (11th cent.) a free commune.... Read more |
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William Wilson Corcoran
William Wilson Corcoran , 1798-1888, American financier, philanthropist, and art collector, b. Georgetown, D.C. After becoming a successful banker, he retired in 1854 and devoted himself to his philanthropic activities, which included gifts to many educational and religious institutions, as well as... Read more |
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‘crossing the T’
‘crossing the T’, a favourite manoeuvre...normal battle disposition of line ahead. If a fleet in this...cross ahead of its enemy's line approximately at right angles...while doing so, the fleet ‘crossing the T’ had a considerable... |
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crossing the line
crossing the line, a ceremony performed on board ships when their passengers and crew are crossing the equator for the first time. Traditionally, it is performed by one of the ship's crew attired as King Neptune, encrusted with barnacles... |
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Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
...the Rotherhithe–Wapping underground line, but in 1828 was injured in an inundation...of the Great Western Railway that the line should be extended to ‘have a steamboat...first steamship built to make regular crossings of the Atlantic and proved a most successful...Great ... |
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yard
...yard. 1. A large wooden or metal spar crossing the masts of a sailing vessel horizontally...diagonally, from which a sail is set. Yards crossing the masts of a square-rigged ship horizontally...turned at an angle to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel in order to take the ... |
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sea, travel and transport by
...bigger ships to be built. Steam enabled regular timetabled crossings of the Irish Sea. Two Irish Mail steamships plied the Howth...Sirius made the first wholly steam‐powered transatlantic crossing from Passage West to New York. In maritime competition with Britain...investment. Few ... |
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ocean liners
...plane, it was the shipping lines, running passenger ships on...the Hamburg–South America Lines, and the Italians the Lloyd Triestino and Italia Lines, and their ships linked their...Africa, while the Royal Mail Line went to South America. These ... |
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Anders' Army
...000 troops was made to British control in Persia, transports crossing the Caspian Sea from Krasnovodsk to Pahlevi. When it became...Brigade. The 2nd Polish Corps was structured along British lines and during 1942–3, as part of Paiforce, took on the role... |
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Chickamauga, Battle of
...August, Rosecrans feinted upstream while crossing the Tennessee River unopposed in four places...east of the city to threaten Bragg's line of communication to Atlanta. In response...mistakenly ordered a Federal division out of line, permitting a massive Confederate column... |
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Fredericksburg, Battle of
...laying pontoon bridges. A heavy artillery bombardment and a crossing on the upper bridges by a Union brigade drove out the Confederate...Meade's men poured through a gap in Gen. Thomas Jackson's line. A vigorous Confederate counterattack drove Meade's unsupported... |
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Leningrad, siege of
...offered. Leeb then settled in for an indefinite stay on two lines, one around the Oranienbaum complex of forts that included...allow Leeb to withdraw his troops to the River Volkhov and the line of the ‘bottleneck’.Winter came early that year, and was...and shelling combined with the weather ... |
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crossing
cross·ing / ˈkrôsing/ • n. 1. a place where two roads, two railroad lines, or a road and a railroad line cross. ∎ the action of moving across or over something. ∎ a journey across water in a ship. ∎ a place at which one may safely... |
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grade crossing
grade cross·ing • n. a place where a railroad and a road, or two railroad lines, cross at the same level. |
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infiltration
...in a target area in hostile territory. It usually involves crossing a frontier or other guarded line. Methods of infiltration are black (clandestine), gray (through a legal crossing point but under false documentation), and white (legal... |
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Takemitsu, Toru
...Asterism, pf., orch. (1967); Crossing, 4 instr. soloists, women's vv...memory of Morton Feldman) (1988); Tree Line, chamber orch. (1988); A String Around...1952–9); Piano Distance (1961); Crossing (1962); For away (1973); Les yeux... |
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abbreviations
...For example, continued repetition of a note is indicated by crossing its stem with one or more strokes to show the required sub...a passage to be played in octaves may be written as a single line, with the words con ottave or con 8ve. |
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Hadrians Wall
...Apparently a frontier, it was designed to supervise not to deny movement. The line could not have been held against a concerted attack; in the event of a crossing Roman forces would concentrate to the south to expel invaders. |
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inbreeding depression
inbreeding depression The decreased vigour in terms of growth, survival, or fecundity, which follows one or more generations of inbreeding. This is the opposite outcome to that obtained by the crossing of two separate inbred lines. Compare heterosis. |
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Mullers ratchet
...sexually, the genotype can be recreated by crossing-over, but if reproduction is parthenogenetic...clone dies. The ratchet prevents any line in an asexual population from reducing...load to a level lower than that of the line with the lowest load. |
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crosshairs
crosshairs plural n. a pair of fine wires or lines crossing at right angles at the focus of a gun sight, for use in positioning, aiming, or measuring. |
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header
...the face of a wall. Compare with stretcher (sense 4). 4. a line or block of text appearing at the top of each page of a book...water maintaining pressure in a plumbing system. 6. a beam crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters. |
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cross
cross • verb 1. the bridge crossing the riversynonyms: go across, span, extend/stretch across...go/travel across, cut across, traverse. 3. the roads/lines crossed theresynonyms: intersect, meet, join, converge, crisscross... |
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intersection
intersection • noun 1. the intersection of two lines synonyms: crossing, crisscrossing; meeting. 2. the driver stopped at an intersection synonyms: junction, interchange, crossroads, corner, cloverleaf. |
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Grade crossings: from concrete and wood to rubber, steel and composite,...
...Railroad Crossings. These crossings are a tie-less system with...removal from track. Curved crossings, restrained rail crossings, precast products, concrete...also available. The concrete crossing has a surface with a diamond...Premier works ... |
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Crossings on Arriva's 85mph main line still not fail-safe; 'NINE CROSSINGS ON...
...RHODRI CLARK LEVEL crossings on Arriva Trains Wales...Manchester use the Marches Line, where a rail expert claims nine level crossings have a technical safety...a train on a level crossing. The barriers had...pedestrians crossing the ... |
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Crossing into new territory: Researchers and suppliers seek improved ways for...
...cross over another rail line constantly emerging...integrity. And all crossing body bolts are the...inventory." The first SRR crossing was installed more...has built about 25 crossings of various angles for...the gauge and guard lines is ... |
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Crossing where wife was run over fails safety experts' tests.
...guidelines. Anyone stepping on the crossing at the end of the green pedestrian...on. But the 14.3-metre crossing should have a 12-second...engineers Morgan Tucker fear more crossings could fail to meet the recommended...she walked to reach the crossing ... |
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Taking crossings to the next level: managing level crossing safety in the...
...noise levels around level crossings. Higher line speeds (to 160km/h) and train frequencies (such as lines converted to light rail...incidents. Dangers at level crossings is a special module of the...addresses close to notorious crossings, ... |
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Why crossings get safer. (railroads) (includes an article on factors behind...
...systems are improving crossing safety. There has...rail-highway grade crossing on the primary Interstate...railInterstate Highway grade crossings. Obviously, this...crossings on its many lines. But grade separation...Over a 20-mile ... |
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Grade crossings: with new material combinations, new products and familiar...
...thing: to make sure grade crossings are smooth and safe. For more information on grade-crossing products, look at our...selective on which grade-crossing projects it undertakes. "We will supply grade crossings to customers who value the...conditions. KSA's ... |
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Crossing is deadly again
...daughter, Aaliyah, 5, at County Line Road crossing near U.S. 20 in Gary...Espinosa, 34, of Gary at County Line Road crossing north of U.S. 20 in Gary...East Chicago, at the County Line Road crossing just north of U.S. 12... |
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11 Crossings In City Put Cars in Peril
...an intersection stop line in Fox River Grove...even shorter at some crossing-intersections in...efforts to make such crossing-intersections safer...the tracks at these crossings. "You have no idea...Most of the tight crossing intersections ... |
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Grade crossings keep evolving: from concrete and wood to rubber, steel and...
...from track. Curved crossings, restrained rail crossings, precast products...available. The concrete crossing has a surface with...works best with off-line applications and transit...manufactures a specialty crossing that is a ... |
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