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pendant
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
pendant. 1. A strop , or short length of rope or wire with a thimble...qualifying name attached to indicate their use: e.g. a cat pendant , used to cat an anchor; and a mooring pendant , used to haul the end of a chain cable round the bows of...
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Rassemblement National Des Indépendants (RNI)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...RASSEMBLEMENT NATIONAL DES IND é PENDANTS (RNI) Parliamentary grouping of independent...Rassemblement National des Ind é pendants (RNI), founded in October 1978, projected...formed the Parti des Ind é pendants D é mocrates, later renamed...
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Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (1725–1805)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Shepherd Boy with a Basket of Flowers and its pendant, Simplicity (1761), Boy with Lessonbook...unhappy families, as in his well-known pendants, The Father's Curse and The Punished...pleas of his mother and siblings. In the pendant, the wounded son returns to his father...
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Jewelry
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...earring, gold chains, often adorned with pendants or lockets, and several rings. Women...pieces in even greater quantity, pinning pendants to their sleeves and starched collars...diamonds and pearls, became available. The pendant, perhaps the most popular Renaissance...
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Parti National Démocratique (PND)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...known as the Parti des Ind é pendants D é mocrates, the PND was founded...Rassemblement National des Ind é pendants (RNI). Led by Muhammad Arsalane al...rassemblement national des ind é pendants (rni). bruce maddy-weitzman
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derrick
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...pivoted at the lower or inboard end and was fitted with stays and guy pendants , and had a topping lift and a purchase attached to it. It was controlled laterally by the guy pendants, which allowed it to swing through a wide arc, and vertically by...
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Perpendicular architecture
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...x2018;fan’, and ultimately ‘pendant’ vaulting systems are also typical. So distinctively...School, Oxford (1424–83), with its remarkable pendant-vaulted roof, is another excellent example. Quintessentially...
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earring
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...gold hoops, which eventually became smaller and supported pendants. In Babylonia and later in Assyria where the earring was worn...Greece the finely wrought gold earrings often had tinkling pendants. The Romans were first to popularize earrings set with precious...
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SIC 5094 Jewelry, Watches, Precious Stones, and Precious Metals
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...headbands, crowns, earrings, and lip and nose rings); neck (pendants and necklaces); chest (brooches, cloak clasps, buttons...the use of gemstone-emblazoned fabrics and chains, ropes, pendants, and girdles were perhaps the greatest moments in the history...
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International Code of Signals
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...Russian, and Spanish. The system provides for one flag for each letter of the alphabet and eleven pendants, numerals 0 and 9, and the answering pendant; and three triangular-shaped flags, the First, Second, and Third substitutes, which are...
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