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Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson 1873-1939, American landscape painter, b. San Francisco. He studied art in Kansas City, in New York City under Twachtman and J. Alden Weir, and in Paris. On returning to New York he joined the independent artists' group called the Eight . His impressionist landscapes won him many... Read more |
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Adele Simpson
SIMPSON, Adele American fashion designer Born: Adele Smithline, in New York City, 28 December 1904. Education: Studied dressmaking at Pratt Institute of Design, Brooklyn, New York, 1921-22. Family: Married textile manufacturer Wesley William Simpson, 1930 (deceased); children: Jeffrey, Joan.... Read more |
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Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld (Albert Hirschfeld) , 1903-2003, American graphic artist, b. St. Louis. He and his family moved to New York City when he was 12, and he studied art there and in Paris. A master of line, Hirschfeld is famous for his witty, perceptive, and joyful caricatures of celebrities from the... Read more |
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American Museum of Natural History (New York New York)
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in New York City is the largest natural history museum in the world. It displays more than 30 million specimens from all branches of natural history along with a wealth of anthropological artifacts in a vast complex of... Read more |
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Norman Norell
NORELL, Norman American designer Born: Norman David Levinson in Noblesville, Indiana, 20 April 1900. Education: Studied illustration at Parsons School of Design, New York, 1919; fashion design at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 1920-22. Career: Costume designer, Paramount Pictures, Long... Read more |
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William Baziotes
William Baziotes , 1912-64, American painter, b. Pittsburgh. Baziotes's works of the 1940s and 50s are largely abstract images, usually with brooding, primitive qualities encompassed in rich and muted colors. He taught in New York City at several schools including the Brooklyn Museum Art School and... Read more |
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Paul J Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more |
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Whitney Warren
Whitney Warren 1864-1943, American architect, b. New York City, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. He began practice in New York City in 1894. Later he joined with Charles D. Wetmore in a firm that had one of the most extensive practices of its time and was known for the designing of large... Read more |
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Adolf Arthur Dehn
Adolf Arthur Dehn , 1895-1968, American painter and illustrator, b. Waterville, Minn. During the 1920s, Dehn became known as a forceful satiric illustrator. Later he concentrated primarily on painting, especially watercolor. Among his major works are Jimmy Savo and Rope (Whitney Mus., New York... Read more |
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erogenous zones
...alter or adorn to attract the male eye.Erogenous zones vary from...more arousing than exposure so male desire is displaced from the vulva...observed that bare flesh is boring. Male curiosity is sustained by...well-turned ankle. Then legs lost their sexual ... |
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Fifteenth Amendment
...enfranchise most black American males. Actually, African‐Americans...several northern states blacks lost the right to vote as more whites...black voter, Grant would have lost the popular, though not the...the 1870s and later gradually lost the vote by force ... |
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baldness
...ordered the defeated Lycian males to have their heads shaved, an...sexually active than hair-bearing males. With the male hormone testosterone linked...stopped completely. However, lost hair was never restored. The only...item of dress as it was for ... |
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internment
...been overrun by the Germans, male civilians of Allied countries were confined...and the military, had every male alien between 16 and 70 removed from...Internment of all ‘B’ category male Germans and former Austrians, aged...nearly all ‘C’ category males ... |
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Native American Wars
...the behest of women who had lost a son or husband and desired the group's male warriors to capture individuals...could replace those they had lost. Captives might help maintain...cultures also allowed young males to acquire prestige or status through ... |
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sculpture
...cultural meaning, have been lost. All that can be said with confidence...of authority); the (usually male) face is limned with its jaw jutting forward...clothed female and the naked male, appears in the late eighth...natural state of the human (male): ... |
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Reform Acts
...county voters. With the majority of adult males now enfranchised, the total exclusion...electorate, bearing in mind the heavy male casualties during the war. The electorate...towns with less than 15,000 population lost both members, and a further 36 with less than 50,000 ... |
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Suffrage
...elections to no more than 15 percent of adult males. In the American colonies, land was cheap...records suggest that most adult white males could vote in local elections.In the United...Constitution” granting universal adult male suffrage. This constitution was ... |
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labia
...that imagine and valorize the male genitals as closed, singular, and whole...of the talking vagina was not lost to the French tradition, and Diderot...as an inferior version of the male. Thomas Laqueur provides a history...majora are homologous to the male ... |
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pheromones
...which can be detected by sensory receptors on the antennae of a male moth 1 Km or more away, enabling it to home in on the female. Unspayed female dogs can attract males from a similar distance. Ants have a ‘lexicon’ of different...intruders on their territory. Although humans appear to have ... |
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agnate
...law, agnati were a group of males and females who were related...relates to patrilineal (or male) descent, but the element of male authority has been lost. An agnate is thus a blood relative in the patrilineal (or male) line. Agnation refers ... |
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Ireland, John (Nicholson)
...1914); An Island Hymn, male vv. (1915, rev. as Island...Told Me, Heraclitus, unacc. male vv. (1924); New Prince, New Pomp, carol, unacc. male vv. (1927); The Holy Boy...to sell (1918); The Land of Lost Content (6 Housman poems... |
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Penderecki, Krzysztof
...Loudun) (1968–9); Paradise Lost (1976–8); Die schwarze Maske (1984–6...1974); Adagio from Paradise Lost (1979); Passacaglia (1988); Adagio...Magnificat, bass, boys' vv., 7 male vv., 2 ch., orch. (1973...Visions, and Finale (Paradise Lost), sop., mez., ten., ... |
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Feminine symbols and religion
...masculine images reflect the male control of religion for at least...imagery has not been entirely lost, persisting as it does in most...even that image was reduced in male interpretations to one of submissive...ground, but usually against much male ... |
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Reform Acts
...county voters. With the majority of adult males now enfranchised, the total exclusion...electorate, bearing in mind the heavy male casualties during the war. Three more...towns with less than 15,000 population lost both members, and a further 36 with less than 50,000 ... |
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Grainger, Percy (Aldridge)
...sop., ten., pf. trio (1912); Danny Deever, male vv., orch./bar., male vv., pf. (1903, 1922–4); Marching Song of Democracy...13); Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow (1920); Lost Lady Found (1905–10); Men of Harlech (1904... |
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cock
...refers to an original story or fable, now lost.Cock of the North, in a Jacobite song...walk reflecting the dominance of the male bird, a person whose supremacy in a particular...century.Cock Robin a familiar name for a male robin, especially in nursery rhymes... |
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Peter
Peter2 male forename, name of a number of other real...nursery to Never Never Land where he and the Lost Boys struggle against the pirates and Captain...spring-clean the house which he and the Lost Boys had built around her.Peter Pan's... |
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Farrar, Ernest (Bristow)
...CHORAL: 3 partsongs, mixed ch. (1907); 2 part-songs, male vv. (1909); The Blessed Damozel, low v., ch., orch...or sop., orch. (1918).CHAMBER MUSIC: vn. sonata (lost); Celtic Suite, vn., pf. (1910); Celtic Impressions... |
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Sri Lanka
...from India. Out of fear that the Buddha's teachings might be lost, the Pāli Canon was committed to writing during the reign of King...sent for from the Mon region of present-day Burma, and the male lineage was restored. There was further political turmoil in... |
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NSW: Hope for lost male fertility could lie with mice
00-00-0000 NSW: Hope for lost male fertility could lie with mice Boys who lose their fertility through...scientific journal Nature. Presently the only way of preserving male fertility is by freezing sperm, but this is only possible in a... |
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The Y Chromosome That Lost the Male-Determining Function Behaves as an X...
...considered to be one of the youngest male-determining chromosomes in vertebrates...functionally the same except for the male-determining function. In addition...chromosomes, the Y chromosome that has lost the male-determining function can behave... |
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Now that girls have the keys to the boys' room are lost male enclaves cause...
...one of Britain's few remaining all-male organisations. It might be good enough...Hawick Hunt jealously guards its exclusively male status, and certain boys' schools cling...others. Time was that the nearest a young male Womble came to a lady was when Madam Cholet... |
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THE THRILL OF HUNT LOST ON MALES.(MAIN)
...with the way many men don't like to ask directions, because they don't want to seem foolish. But they don't want to get lost either. ``Guys want to get the right thing,'' he says, ``and get back home without feeling they were taken.'' The... |
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Lost in the Male; Rob Becker and the Battle of the Sexes
...He needed a place to think male thoughts, to be alone among familiar male totems. So he went to his hamper...the car radio when they become lost, he says. Although these behaviors...new age swami to middle-aged males looking for their lost ... |
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Farmer ant species may have lost all its males.(Asexuality)(Brief Article)
...unfertilized eggs, the latter turning into males. Scientists already knew of five unusual...In these species, however, occasional males still appear. In Himler's studies of...more than 100 nests without finding a male. A colleague likewise collected some 200 nests but failed ... |
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Marines enlist lady DIs // Femininity isn't lost in `male' role
...career a lot of women don't pick. Or males either, for that matter." Wells turned...instructors who work side-by-side with male instructors. Their training is as rugged as males undergo, except that women spend an extra...the broad-brimmed felt hat that their ... |
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Books: Did he dare to eat a peach? PAINTED SHADOW: A LIFE OF VIVIENNE ELIOT...
T S Eliot's The Waste Land is the most famous poem of the 20th century, the epitome of literary modernism. It is conventionally read as, in its own phrase, "A heap of broken images". Its fragmentary quotations from the masterworks of past culture and dark allusions to myths of sterility are taken |
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FAIR SHOT FOR WOMEN LOST IN THE MALE.(Sports)(Column)
...would not have made the same decision if the player had been male. Listen in: ``I knew there would be a ruckus about this,'' he said, ``but you have to understand that males are made up differently from women, and I try to be sensitive...re told, basically, that these are little girls ... |
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One for the ladies ... and any lost souls (male or female) searching for...
...reality to begin with. In "Sex and the City," Star writes dialogue that's a little too clever. He is addicted to giving his male characters names like Skipper, Drew, Stanford, Barclay and Capote (not a Bill in the bunch, much less a Billy). And he... |
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