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Once there, they thronged round his writing desk and would not go away.
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Virginia Woolf's writing desk, a star of the collection, stayed behind at Duke.
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Pierre keeps a copy of " Hamlet " and Dante's Inferno on his writing desk.
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"He sleeps a lot on the writing desk next to my computer," she shared.
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York Times reporter, "It is a feeling I usually get at my writing desk."
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Matte gold reading lamps flanked the bed, as did a wooden writing desk and nightstand.
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As his family led me to the door, they stopped and showed me his writing desk.
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I stopped teaching and returned to my writing desk to ask more questions than I could answer.
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Beneath a writing desk in the living room, Escobar lifted a plank to reveal a hidden compartment.
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The master suite, which faces the park, had contained an elegantly furnished seating area with a writing desk.
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Basil E. Frankweiler Step Five: Lounge in Marie Antoinette's lounge chair and eat petit fours at her writing desk.
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At the writing desk, he appears to have flashes of inspiration and scribbles so fast he writes off the page.
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Case in point are the contributions of Julia LiBassi (The Raven and the Writing Desk) and Gwen Wolfenbarger (Seal Eggs).
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You won't be able to do cartwheels, but there's enough room to store luggage and sit at a writing desk.
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On the nearby writing desk my laptop glowed with online instructions for how to debone and tie a pork shoulder.
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth tries to wrest Middle-earth back to its source: J. R. R. Tolkien's writing-desk.
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After a long day at the writing desk, I will play around with my dance moves and stretch like a dancer.
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And "Paterson," Mr. Williams' epic paean to the city, is one of the dog-eared books on the character's writing desk.
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Two armchairs and another TV stood at the front of the bed, and a writing desk and two closets right behind it.
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Horgan says that, as exacting as she is in her work life, her personal life is as disorganized as her writing desk.
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My house has a finished basement, and I have my stereo system down there, a screen for watching movies, and my writing desk.
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Morissette is currently working on her memoirs, and she posted a picture of herself at her writing desk, urging the words to come.
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But there is a specific problem with the antique bureau — a fall-front writing desk with drawers beneath — as furniture in today's world.
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Reed Feather Straw Pillow; $10 on Etsy Provence Writing Desk; $389 at Home Decorators Collection Time to go shopping — and then get to work!
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"We'd already started a small nonprofit called Share in 2000," said Ms. Screwvala, sitting at her writing desk in the couple's apartment in Mumbai.
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A sturdy dresser and half-moon writing desk, in polished dark wood with brass handles, felt discordant among the room's clean lines and pale palette.
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When Alice, in Wonderland, ends up at the Mad Tea Party, she had this conversation: Mad Hatter: 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
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Should literary inspiration strike, the dresser transforms into a writing desk, and the hotel desk can provide blank notebooks and pens embossed with the hotel name.
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Stone has topped a shaker-designed writing desk with a series of metal spigots, from which water flows down the desktop and into an open drawer.
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The public will also have the chance to bid on Fisher's Biedermeier-style writing desk as well as ornate Art Deco furniture from her childhood playhouse.
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He is light, stinging, insolent and melancholy, to borrow the words the critic Kenneth Tynan kept on his writing desk to remind himself how to sound.
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Even now my writing desk is full of old wads of Juicy Fruit, which with their gray hemispherical shape and many little indentations resemble shrunken brains.
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" Alice claims not to know, and responds with something to the effect of "I don't know, odd stranger, why is a raven like a writing desk?
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"Before the judge would finalize any opinion, he would stand at a tall writing desk and a clerk would stand by his right elbow," Ms. Dunn said.
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He was only 12 when he acquired his first piece, a writing desk that he bought for $13 on a layaway plan, paying 50 cents a week.
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Before the fire, it housed Texas politician Sam Houston's four-poster bed, and the writing desk of Stephen F. Austin, who has been dubbed the founder of Texas.
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The writing desk, nightstand and coffee table were all midcentury modern, and a potted green Aloe Vera plant (the namesake for the hotel) added a pop of color.
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Constanza Romero Wilson, the playwright's widow and literary executor, said the impetus for the exhibition came to her when she donated his writing desk to the cultural center.
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On an otherwise bare coffee table is a small, exquisite LeWitt cube construction, seemingly in conversation with a delicate Lalanne bird perched on a leather-covered writing desk.
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What must have been months' worth of flattery and favors turned with no warning into anger and violence when John spotted a photo of Alison tacked above Noah's writing desk.
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The bedroom is back to its old state, though several pieces of furniture, like the bureau and the tiny writing desk that was so important to Dickinson's work, are reproductions.
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Ours, the Joaquín Torres Garcia Suite, featured books and prints of the eponymous artist throughout its two rooms, including a sitting room with a red sleeper sofa and antique writing desk.
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Is this how it felt to be O'Neill, alone at his writing desk, ruminating variously on his memories, his visions and the ruckus on the other side of the office door?
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It's an amazing feeling to watch so many talented people working together to build this incredibly complex and detailed universe, all based on something I dreamed up alone at my writing desk.
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There is the white ash bench handmade by Jessica Wickham, its contours shaped by the log it was built from, and Christopher Kurtz's three-legged redwood writing desk that evokes flowing liquid.
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According to one account, Stalin kept Bukharin's letter in the top drawer of his writing desk, where it was discovered after his death but published only after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Highlights include Brontë's earliest surviving miniature manuscript, her portable writing desk and paint box, a blue-and-white floral two-piece dress she wore in the 1850s and a pair of her ankle boots.
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I will tell you: Sophisticated glam is a statue of a shark ($53); a single-handle chrome faucet ($406); a two-drawer walnut writing desk ($1,360); a watercolor painting of a sandhill crane ($240).
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I spent the better part of an afternoon just trying to unlock the sliding cover on an old writing desk, by searching every corner for hidden switches, and using strange keys to open up drawers.
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Each resident at Homecoming has kitschy palm tree-print curtains at his window, an austere writing desk that looks like a secretary's perch out of Mad Men, and a shiny, squat, mustard-colored desk lamp.
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Sitting in his Upper East Side apartment a few feet from his writing desk, Chase was terse but thoughtful and accommodating as he looked back on "The Sopranos," his gruff demeanor spiked with dry wit.
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The Morgan Library's Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, originating at Oxford's Bodleian Library, tries to wrest Middle-earth back from the movies, toymakers, and game marketers to its source: J. R. R. Tolkien's writing-desk.
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"If Tom and I were willing to live in a messy apartment, or to eat more takeout, then the addition of Xiao Li might have signified an easy path back to my writing desk," she writes.
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The relationship between this instinct and the desire to be heard is embodied in the story of her writing desk, gifted to her by a woman whose ex-boyfriend tried to kill her for leaving him.
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X-Leg Table Top Writing Desk with 2 Shelves This sleek, compact, table-top desk fits neatly in the corner of any room in your home, but still provides plenty of space to get your work done.
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Off in a cramped corner were the reassembled pieces of furniture from Proust's bedroom, including a five-paneled Chinese screen, a velvet armchair that belonged to his father and a writing desk, used mostly for piling books.
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To help visitors focus, each document will be displayed unframed, enclosed in a gray free-standing case with a slanted top like a writing desk; caption information will be easily readable on a panel attached above each case.
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Although roughly the same size and design as the standard Classic or Superior room with 250 square feet, it felt smaller because of the large writing desk, and shelves that burst with signed books left behind from published guests.
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In addition to a writing desk, sitting area, his and hers walk-in closets, and high-vaulted ceilings, the bedroom also features an en suite master bathroom with a rain shower, a free-standing soaking tub and double vanity.
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The opening offer for the "Rhinocrétaire," a welded metal writing desk in the shape of a rhinoceros dated 0003, was almost three times the low estimate of 700,000 euros, or about $775,210 — and the auctioneer hadn't even started the bidding.
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Over the 1970s burl-veneer Parsons writing desk in a corner of the living room is a melancholic tableau of black-and-white photographs featuring images of a dead bird, a burned piece of fabric and the atom bomb being detonated.
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With his Tabula Runda writing desk, though, Verheyden plays with form as well: It contains two hidden drawers and legs that have been moved from the edges to the center, challenging our notions of just what an ideal table might be.
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Organized by Profiles in History and her brother Todd, the auction will include items like Fisher's life-sized Princess Leia Statue in its original phone booth, her personalized director's chair from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and even her personal writing desk.
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Organized by Profiles in History and her brother Todd, the auction will include items like Fisher's life-sized Princess Leia statue in its original phone booth, her personalized director's chair from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and even her personal writing desk.
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The whole thing functions somewhat like a rebus, in that you need to fit together its pieces — precisely framed, warmly illuminated images of birds, windows, rooftops, water, mattes, a writing desk, some street scenes — to make sense of the larger, layered meanings.
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O'Neill took a break from her writing desk, where she's hard at work on her third book, to talk all things Asking for It — including why it's a phrase that needs to be taken out of circulation when it comes to survivors of sexual assault.
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A cocktail shaker and a bottle of the licorice-flavored Middle Eastern tipple arak awaited me on the U-shaped writing desk, while a concave neon shelf carved out just above the headboard was fitted with asymmetrical drinking glasses (the better to sip it with).
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Spotlessly clean, bright and airy, its décor a pleasing mix of earth tones and pastels, the room was outfitted with a good-size closet (with plush robes for the pool and spa), a writing desk, two lounge chairs, a credenza with a mini-fridge, and a drip coffee maker.
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If Bunker was a Frankenstein creature, who arose from his liberal creator's writing desk to engulf his context, so Trump is a nightmare uprising of an unstable and potent vein of American unreality, called forth by more than a century's indulgence of dreams of exceptionalism, privilege and demonizing nativism.
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"The glasses were entrusted to the care of the British Library by Austen's great-great-great-niece in 1999, along with Austen's treasured portable writing desk (in which they had been stored) and several other Austen artifacts, including an ink well and an embroidered glasses case," Tuppen wrote in an email.
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Few pieces of furniture could embody this idea better — or have contained more interesting secrets — than the lacquer-embellished gilt-edged writing desk that Madame de Pompadour, the renowned mistress and adviser of Louis XV, commissioned from the Parisian marchand-mercier (a designer and dealer of furniture and objets d'art) Jacques-François Machart.
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There is a moody triptych by Hiroshi Sugimoto, oils by the Greek Arte Povera master Jannis Kounellis, a pair of polished bronze orbs by Lucio Fontana and several pieces by François‑Xavier Lalanne, among them a life-size sheep made into a writing desk that stands in one of the living rooms.
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"A lot of the original features of the house [including] fireplaces and doors, reflect the Art Deco trends of the time, and then a lot of my furniture is family hand-me-downs: my grandmother's brutalist dresser, my mom's Amish writing desk, my grandfather's oil lamp and my dad's 1970s traveling trunk," Velour continues.
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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers — So he's sitting at this portable mahogany writing desk that he carries with him, and he pulls out some paper and a very nice quill pen.
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Transcendental (Wheatley's Desk, Emerson's Chair), a sculpture of the 18th century writing desk of Phyllis Wheatley, the first published African-American female poet, who was born enslaved, and the 19th century writing chair of the poet and Transcendentalist leader Ralph Waldo Emerson, displays Durant's ability to bring visibility to the erasure and intersecting histories of Transcendentalism and American racism through poetry.
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First, head over to the site's homepage, where you can scroll down a long writing desk covered with objects hyperlinked to different sections (the iPad at the top links to Rowling's Twitter feed, for instance, while the candle links to information about her charity, Lumos — there are also some pretty cool pictures of what looks like Fantastic Beasts script annotations and Rowling's writing notes).
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His sanctuary at the elegant suite occupied by Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner was equipped with a rocking chair ("the only talent I've got, I think is the talent for staying awake while reading," he said) and a writing desk ("the symptoms of deposition torpor began creeping over me," he explained, as he traveled past "the outer reefs of relevancy and beyond the cape of materiality").
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Today, the riddle question is broken into two parts: 18A: WHY IS A RAVEN LIKE 23A: A WRITING DESK And the answer offered by a solver who is now lost to history is: 45A: BECAUSE POE WROTE 50A: ON BOTH OF THEM ■ 12A: Pro tip: If you see a clue that says you should be thinking about a word that is "like" something and you've never heard of that thing, odds are good that the answer will be RARE.
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Small writing desk, about 1902 A writing desk or bureau acts as a kind of compact office.
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Henry VIII's writing desk, about 1525 V&A; Museum no. W.29:1 to 9-1932 Henry VIII's writing desk is a portable writing desk, made in about 1525-26 for Henry VIII. It is currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The desk is a product of the royal workshops and is lavishly embellished with ornamental motifs introduced to the Kingdom of England by continental artists.
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In addition it has three compartments with office furnishings (a sofa, writing desk and cupboard) and a shared shower.
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There is also a display in the room where the author Maurier lived of various items owned by her including her writing desk and typewriter.
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Florio, in fact, still possessed her presents when he made his will, including her writing desk set with pearls and fitted with silver ink wells and sand box.
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Among them Grace Jones, Bono, Naomi Campbell, Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, and Richard Branson. Sting wrote Every Breath You Take at Fleming's writing desk while vacationing on the estate in 1982.
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At Bert's writing desk is a gramophone record, and a photograph of Paulina. Next to the wall is Bert's half-broken electric bass. On the floor are Phantom comic books, and two eyes watch out of a rat hole.
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Split spindles also came into use, first rurally and then in urban areas. The daybed was developed in Britain as part of the William and Mary style. So, too, was the writing desk, which was an adaptation of the bureau-cabinet.
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Alice hides beneath a writing desk while the Rabbit first dresses himself, then opens a hidden drawer to reveal a pair of scissors with which he smashes the case, freeing himself. Alice chases the Rabbit out of the house into a field, where she sees a writing desk identical to the one from her sitting room. The Rabbit crawls inside the desk's drawer and disappears. Alice crawls after him and finds herself in a cave, where she stumbles into a wastebasket that turns into in an elevator that deposits her atop a large pile of leaves.
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Writing desk by Ferdinand Plitzner, c. 1715-1720 Ferdinand Plitzner (1678—1724) was a German cabinet maker, remembered for his elaborate furniture with Boulle marquetry, and the Spiegelkabinett, a mirrored porcelain room that he created in 1719 at Schloss Weissenstein for Lothar Franz von Schönborn.
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Alice searches for the rabbit in the leaves, when the leaves suddenly begin to stir on their own power, eventually revealing another, identical writing desk in which Alice finds a tiny key. Alice uses the key to open a miniature door just in time to see the Rabbit vanish disappear into a painted garden; she herself is much too large to fit. Alice finds a plate of tarts and eats one, which transforms her into a small china doll identical to herself. Now she is the correct size to fit through the door but finds she has left the key in the writing desk.
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The collection consists of a very eclectic group of artifacts, mostly pertaining to American history. Included within the collection is a peace blanket from the Apache leader Geronimo, a bugle from the Gettysburg Battlefield, a writing desk belonging to Aaron Burr and moccasins from Chiricahua leader Cochise.
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In 1899, Melikhovo became the property of Baron Nikolai Stuart, who used it as a summer house until the Russian Revolution. Only two pieces of Chekhov's belongings remained there; his grand piano and his writing desk. After the Revolution Baron Stuart was arrested and shot by the Bolsheviks.Orlov, pg.
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Hugh Beringar sees that the man is ill and not long for this world. Cadfael finds Humilis collapsed over his writing desk. Cadfael sees the severity of the old wound, which left him unable to father children. Brother Urien makes a sexual advance towards young Rhun, but is rejected.
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The kitchen was modern. The laundry and ice house were in the basement. Quarters for the help were housed in an annex. Just off from the office and close to the Seventh street entrance there was a ladies' waiting room which contained a writing desk and an Oriental rug.
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Carina Garland notes how the world is "expressed via representations of food and appetite", naming Alice's frequent desire for consumption (of both food and words), her 'Curious Appetites'. Often, the idea of eating coincides to make gruesome images. After the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?", the Hatter claims that Alice might as well say, "I see what I eat…I eat what I see" and so the riddle's solution, put forward by Boe Birns, could be that "A raven eats worms; a writing desk is worm-eaten"; this idea of food encapsulates idea of life feeding on life itself, for the worm is being eaten and then becomes the eater a horrific image of mortality.
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She attempted to revive the crusade in World War Two, but had no success.Green (1979), pp.11–13. She was often to be seen sitting at her writing desk, beside her favourite window which provided the titles for three of her books. Here she wrote many novels and also poetry.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Bechstein (1 June 18266 March 1900) was the maker of C. Bechstein pianos and the founder of C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik. Lobby at Wahnfried, showing the combined "composition piano" and writing desk specially made by Bechstein for Richard Wagner, with a large music stand and space for papers.
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There were rugs on the floor and a writing desk. On the other side of the stairs was a smoking room. The middle of the east side of the waiting room had the entrance to the train concourse. Also next to the waiting room was a newsstand, telegraph and parcel booths, and restaurant.
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Other staff were accommodated at 80 Pall Mall. Senior Allied officers at SHAEF headquarters in alt=Group shot of six smiling men (and one barely visible woman), each in a different military uniform, standing behind a writing desk. Eisenhower is holding three fountain pens. In the background are flags, including the US flag.
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It was written 1874-1880. On 26 August 1889 (the late Prince Albert's birthday), during Victoria's visit to North Wales, she visited Bryntysilio Hall and took tea there. Sir Theodore showed the queen the writing desk where most of the work was written. Lady Martin died at Bryntysilio Hall on 31 October 1898.
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Mabel Esther Allan was born at Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, then in Cheshire (now Merseyside). She decided to be an author at the age of eight; her father bought her a writing desk and taught her how to type.Allan, ii. When the family moved, Allan was given a study in which to write.
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A gondola chair made about 1820. Gondola chairs are a type of low chair, often used at a writing desk, with a downward curved back that forms the arms of the chair. The Gondola chair is named after the 18th-Century Venetian gondola row boats which have a similar curvilinear shape.Pegler, Martin M., and Ron Carboni.
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Its most important relic was the costume that Elisabeth had been wearing when she was murdered. One room was meticulously recreated as the Queen's own writing room with her original writing desk and her 219 Hungarian books. The museum was badly damaged during World War II,"Budapest including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle", UNESCO.hu, 2010.
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Example of a French-Latin 420x420px The author of a manuscript at his writing desk. 14th Century Illumination was a complex and frequently costly process. It was usually reserved for special books: an altar Bible, for example. Wealthy people often had richly illuminated "books of hours" made, which set down prayers appropriate for various times in the liturgical day.
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Murasaki Shikibu (right) reading to Empress Shōshi (left). A scroll of is spread on a maki-e writing desk between them. This anecdote, the sixth scene of the Hachisuka scroll, occurs at an unspecified date in 1009. It is part of a description of the lady Saemon no Naishi who, Murasaki Shikibu writes in the diary, hated her.
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The scientific objective of the trip was to study tree growth at the northern timberline near the Arctic Divide.Glover, p. 104 For his 15-month sojourn in the small town of Wiseman, Alaska, Marshall rented a one-room cabin next to the only roadhouse in the village. He furnished it with books, records, a phonograph player, and a writing desk.
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Each of his novels described the events of one of his love affairs. Early in the film, Gresham is found dead at his own writing desk. The rest of the film explores the events which led to his death, covering the last twelve hours in Gresham's life. Gresham dies in New York City, while working on his latest novel, called Frailty.
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Margit Auer sitting at her writing desk Margit Auer (born 23 February 1967) is a German author. Her children's novels have sold a total of 3 million copies and have been translated into 22 languages. Margit Auer gained popularity through her book series Die Schule der magischen Tiere (The School of Magic Animals). The first book of this continuing series was published in 2013.
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The first floor also had a ballroom (where the current theatre is). Its fittings included a mahogany board for the game of Racehorse Balls and 20 brown ware spittoons. The ground floor featured the bar, plus a parlour (with 20 iron spittoons) and a coffee room, with a writing desk. The bar featured an 18 x 3 ft counter and a spirit fountain with eight brass taps.
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The door is on the north side, with single windows on the south and west sides. The interior has a rough wood floor and is finished with lime-washed mud plaster on the walls. A masonry firebox is located in the southwest corner, which may have served a wood stove. A rough built-in writing desk with bookshelves is located in the southeast corner.
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All the drafts were saved by his wife and are now in the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow.Suzanne Massie, p. 310 Tolstoy's thirteen children, of whom four died in childhood, were all born at Yasnaya Polyana. They were born on the same leather sofa where Tolstoy himself was born, which was kept in his study next to his writing desk, and is still there today.
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For up to two hundred years, some stones have carried fanciful names, such as Druid's Idol, Druid's Altar and Druid's Writing Desk. Brimham Rocks has SSSI status because of the value of its geology and the upland woodland and the acidic wet and dry heath habitats that support localised and specialised plant forms, such as chickweed wintergreen, cowberry, bog asphodel and three species of heather.
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Barchester Towers, published in 1857 by Anthony Trollope, is the second novel in his series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". Among other things it satirises the antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train.
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The word "desk" originated from the Modern Latin word desca "table to write on", from the mid 14th century. It is a modification of the Old Italian desco "table", from Latin discus "dish" or "disc". The word desk has been used figuratively since 1797. A desk may also be known as a bureau, counter, davenport, escritoire, lectern, reading stand, rolltop desk, school desk, workspace, or writing desk.
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Books, paintings and archives had been secured beforehand in the basement of the Winifred Wagner Hospital, however a Gestapo official stopped Winifred from removing historic furnishings such as Wagner's writing desk, accusing her of "defeatism". As a result, these were later destroyed in the bombing.Spotts, Frederic. (1994). Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival. Chapter 6: "All that lives and soon must die" (Parsifal).
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The committee presented this copy to the Congress on June 28, 1776. The title of the document was "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled."Becker, Declaration of Independence, 4. Portable writing desk that Jefferson used to draft and write the Declaration of Independence Congress ordered that the draft "lie on the table"Jensen, Founding, 701.
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In addition, Hannum still was working on the play construction and Mailer was working on the play dialogue from his writing desk in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn.Time (magazine) (January 5, 1987) Most of '86, Section: Show Business; Page 74. To move the script along, Mailer presented the beginnings of Strawhead for critique to the Actors Studio Playwright And Directors Unit, an exclusive group to which Mailer belonged.Greer, Bonnie.
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The other exhibit includes the chair, writing desk and a television set. The apartment kept the authentic look it had while Andrić lived in it. There is also a library which holds an old Spanish issue of Don Quixote. There are 4,502 books in the library, of which some 500 are presentation copies, signed by the authors who personally gifted the copies to Andrić, who himself was a bibliophile.
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Suetonius reports that the text of this speech was later found in Nero's writing desk, but that he dared not give it from fear of being torn to pieces before he could reach the Forum.Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Nero 47. Nero returned to Rome and spent the evening in the palace. After sleeping, he awoke at about midnight to find the palace guard had left.
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Von Franz had a lengthy exchange of letters with Wolfgang Pauli, winner of a Nobel Prize in physics. On Pauli's death, his widow Franca deliberately destroyed all the letters von Franz had sent to her husband, and which he had kept locked inside his writing desk. But the letters sent by Pauli to von Franz were all saved and were later made available to researchers (and published as well).
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A thin partition was installed in a small corner of the printing works and Quelch was forced to "squeeze up" into these cramped quarters as a makeshift editorial office to make room for the Russians. There was only room for a small writing desk with a bookshelf above it and a single chair.V.I. Lenin, "Harry Quelch," Pravda Truda, No. 1 (14 September 1913). Reprinted in V.I. Lenin Collected Works: Vol. 19.
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In September 2001, the Marion E. Wade Center, formerly housed in Buswell Library, moved to its new purpose-built home. Established in 1965 by professor of English Clyde S. Kilby, the Wade Center is an extensive research library and museum of the books and papers of seven British writers: C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, and Charles Williams. The Wade Center has memorabilia of the Inklings, including C. S. Lewis' writing desk and a wardrobe from his childhood home constructed by his grandfather widely thought to have inspired the Chronicles of Narnia series (although Westmont College also owns a wardrobe that once belonged to Lewis), Charles Williams's bookcases, J. R. R. Tolkien's writing desk where he wrote the entirety of The Hobbit and worked on The Lord of the Rings, and Pauline Baynes's original map of Narnia."Marion E. Wade Center" .
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Following her husband's death, Lady Salisbury continued to live with her son and grandchildren at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, where she died in a fire on 27 November 1835 at the age of eighty-five. It was thought that feathers in her hat caught alight when she was at her writing-desk and caused the conflagration. The fire destroyed the west wing of the house and only a few bones of hers were found.
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Nonsense verse is part of a long line of tradition predating Lear: the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle could also be termed a nonsense verse. There are also some works which appear to be nonsense verse, but actually are not, such as the popular 1940s song Mairzy Doats. Lewis Carroll, seeking a nonsense riddle, once posed the question How is a raven like a writing desk?. Someone answered him, Because Poe wrote on both.
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1836 Before leaving Ballymore, de Ginkell placed Colonel Toby Purcell in charge of the captured garrison,Macariae Excidium, Or, The Destruction of Cyprus: Being a Secret History of the War of the Revolution in Ireland. O'Kelly, C. Dublin, 1850.(Google eBook) with, under his command, "but 4 companies of foot or no more than 240 men, exclusive officers" The green book; or, Gleanings from the writing desk of a literary agitator. O'Callaghan JC, Dublin, 1841.
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Just weeks after this failure, Melville's first known published essay appeared. Using the initials "L.A.V"., Herman contributed "Fragments from a Writing Desk" to the weekly newspaper Democratic Press and Lansingburgh Advertiser, which printed it in two installments, the first on May 4. According to Merton Sealts, his use of heavy-handed allusions reveals familiarity with the work of William Shakespeare, John Milton, Walter Scott, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Thomas Moore.
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The instrument panel was given a centrally located, pull-out writing desk, graced with a scribbler and a sterling silver bamboo pen. A map light at the end of a flexible arm extended from the right side of the desk, the left carried a vanity mirror, also on a flex stem. The back of the front seats popped open. The one on the passenger's side served as a snack table or provided a flat surface for playing games.
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Cabinet, made of red tortoiseshell, 17th century. Writing desk, made of ebony, rosewood, fruitwoods, gilt wood, pewter, and brass, c. 1680 Pierre GolleOften Gole in the accounts. (Les cabinets de Pierre Gole ). (ca 1620, Bergen, North Holland – 27 November 1684) was an influential Parisian ébéniste (cabinet maker), of Dutch extraction.He was rescued from posthumous obscurity in the article by Th. H. Lunsingh-Scheurleer, "Pierre Golle, ébéniste du roi Louis XIV", Burlington Magazine (June 1980:380-94).
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In the 15th century, Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa constructed the first tea room in the shoin chanoyu (reception room tea ceremony) style. This simple room in his retirement villa at Ginkaku-ji allowed the shōgun to display his karamono objects when holding tea ceremonies. The shoin style room developed from the study rooms of Zen monks. They featured wall-to-wall tatami covering in contrast to earlier plain wooden floors, and a shoin desk (writing desk) built into the wall.
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They remained in the country until October 5, 2010. The writing-desk Therese used at Carmel (an artifact as opposed to a relic) toured the United States in September and October 2013, sponsored by the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States."Relics of St. Thérèse", Little Flower Catholic Parish, Toledo, Ohio. In November 2013, a new reliquary containing the relics of Saint Thérèse and of her parents, was presented to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia by the Magnificat Foundation.
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Guersant is her husband physician Louis Benoit Guersant, their son, Paul Benedict Guersant Louis, who became a doctor, and baby daughter who became Ms. Blache. LaTour's wife wore a red shawl over a black dress. The Picard's father, who had been a lawyer and parliamentarian, is represented in a portrait made by Auzou, which won a medal of honor at the 1806 Paris Salon. His writing desk holds his manuscripts and a book he is reading.
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After supper he would sleep a few hours, wake around midnight and write until morning, sustained by large amounts of coffee. Since 1951, the château has been open as an evocative museum dedicated to Balzac. His small second-floor bedroom has a simple bed and writing desk where so many of his often tormented characters were conceived. The château was built upon the foundations of a twelfth-century fortified house, of which a cylindrical tower and dry moats remain.
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He continued to work on his naval novels until his death and spent the winter of 1998–1999 at Trinity College Dublin. He died there on 2 January 2000. His body was returned to Collioure, where he is buried next to his wife. The "Amis of Patrick O’Brian" association, based in Collioure, has been entrusted with the contents of his writing space, including his books and papers, as well as his writing desk, pens and ink.
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The James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home is presented just as the great Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley experienced it for 23 years of his fascinating life. Authentic furnishings and décor include the poet's writing desk, a portrait of his beloved dog and his top hat and cane. The two-story brick James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home, nestled in Indianapolis’ historic Lockerbie neighborhood, was named a National Historic Landmark in 1962 and is open to the public.
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Here, his personal belongings, his writing desk, armchair, drawings and paintings made by him are exhibited. In the bedroom, a death mask of him is also on display. A painting of then Ottoman Shahzada Abdülmecid (1868-1944), which he created in inspiration of Tevfik Fikret's poem "Sis" (), hangs on the wall at this floor. Aşiyan museum was restored completely, and reopened by Mayor Kadir Topbaş in December 2012 after one-and- half-year works costing 1.128 million (around US$640,000).
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Up until refurbishment works carried out in the 1950s, these rooms measured 6 x 6 feet. Work completed in 2015 has ensured that all In-Pensioner berths include en suite facilities, a writing desk, and natural light. On entry, In-Pensioners surrender their army pension, in return receiving board, lodging, clothing and full medical care. In-Pensioners also have their own club with a bar, lounges and restaurant; there are allotments for those who enjoy gardening and facilities for lawn bowls.
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All that four-legged and feathery two-legged company lived in perfect harmony. What's more, the whole menagerie lived with Koder, in a single room furnished in a very original way. In one corner there was a bed, with straw mat covered by a thick blanket. By the window there was a simple merchant's chest, which he used as a writing desk, on top of which there was a whole mess of papers, books, goose quilts and an earthen inkstand.
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Some of Malibran's personal objects, familiar or charged with history, form the very core of the collection: a small salt flask, an incised crystal bedside lamp, a score briefcase in leather, a travel writing desk, the riding whip used during her fatal cavalcade, a long hairpiece cut after her death, a death mask, a shred from the pall torn in pieces by the crowd attending her funeral at the Laeken Cemetery, where de Bériot had an impressive cenotaph erected to her memory.
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In 1917, in a letter to Boris Asafiev, he wrote that he would not show it to anyone and make sure in his will that no one would see it. Before his departure from Russia, Rachmaninoff gave the key to his writing desk in his Moscow flat to his cousin Sofiya Satin; in it was locked the manuscript score for the First Symphony. He showed her the manuscript and asked her to look after it for him.Satina conversation with Martyn, cited Martyn, 103.
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Among the titles the book went through as it progressed were The Making of an Author being a History of one woman and many others. Leo bought in 1904 a portrait by French painter Paul Cézanne, Portrait of Madame Cézanne (). Painted in an unnatural, high-contrast style that eschews conventional approaches to depicting femininity, the work portrays the artist's wife holding a fan while reclining in a high-backed red chair. This hung above Stein's writing desk as she composed Three Lives.
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Grubbs is also known for his collaborations with writers Susan Howe, Rick Moody, and Kenneth Goldsmith, and with visual artists including Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, Stephen Prina, and Cosima von Bonin. He has composed the soundtracks for Angela Bulloch's installations Z Point, Horizontal Technicolour, and Hybrid Song Box.4, and his music appears in two installations by Doug Aitken. Grubbs's sound installation "Between a Raven and a Writing Desk" was included in the 1999 group exhibition Elysian Fields at the Centre Pompidou.
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Thomas McNulty received £17 a year for his efforts and local contribution to the school was £2.13.0. Glencullen's National School was furnished with 3 desks, 1 table, 1 writing desk, 1 book press and 1 blackboard. A few years later (probably 1865) the school was struck off the Roll. Friar Michael Munnelly managed to re-open the school in 1869 and this time it was given Roll no. 9803. The teacher from 1869 to 1874 was James Ruddy, an 18-year-old.
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The steeply pitched roof, an oddity on the northern plains, created an upstairs sleeping loft for the ranch hands. Several items present in the cabin today did belong to Theodore Roosevelt, but the majority of the furnishings are period pieces representing a typical cabin of the time (see Furnishing Plan). The white hutch in the main room is original to the cabin and was used as a bookcase and writing desk. The classically styled desk is from the Elkhorn Ranch cabin.
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Geoffrey de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes II, 1974:860; among other major creditors was the ébéniste Joseph Baumhauer. Among his finest works"The finest specimen of Macret's work", according to Charles Packer, Paris Furniture by the Master Ébénistes, 1956. is a slant- front writing-desk in Louis XV style, lacquered red with raised gilded figures in Chinese style, from the Forsythe Wickes collection now at Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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The marriage goes well for six months despite the death of Mrs. Hammond. But then Emily finds some letters her mother had hidden in a writing desk: one of the letters is an exact copy of the one she received from “Kelroy,” and seeing another written to Kelroy in her name, she realizes what her mother (in collusion with Marney) did. Unable to recover from this shock, she dies not long afterwards. Kelroy of course received a similar letter and has tried to forget about Emily.
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The collection includes prints, paintings, sculpture - including a carved figure of Johnson by Denis Parsons, furniture, manuscripts and books: including many early and rare editions of Johnson's work. The book collection has largely been obtained through two major donations, now housed in the libraries named after their donors: the Hay Hunter and Blum Libraries, and the Wood library contains a further 2,000 volumes. Personal items include Johnson's armchair, tea set, breakfast table and portable writing desk, David Garrick's walking stick and a bookcase belonging to James Boswell.
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Victor Eremita was the pseudonymous author of Either/Or who wrote the preface to the book. In the preface he buys a writing desk in which there is a secret compartment containing the papers of A and B.See the "Preface" to Either/Or. In this book the writer of the preface, Hillarius Bookbinder, finds a small packet of papers left over from an old customer, Mr. Literatus, and parts one and two of Stages On Life's Way are found there. A repetition occurs in this third book.
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In 1939, the province acquired the home and in 1940 opened the site as the Haliburton Memorial Museum. Though Haliburton auctioned off the property and the contents of the home when he left for England in 1856, the museum does have some furniture and artifacts that belonged to him, including his writing desk. Most of these items were procured by donation to the Nova Scotia Museum to coincide with the 1940 opening. The rest of the museum is furnished in period pieces from the museum's collection.
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The museum's collections included a writing desk that belonged to Sandford Fleming, designer of Canada's first postage stamp; Canadian and foreign letter boxes and postal uniforms; mail bags and rural mail boxes; post office signs and sorting equipment. Among the museum highlights was Reflections of Canada: the National Stamp Collection, which included examples of every postage stamp ever issued in Canada. In addition to its public exhibitions, the museum had a mandate to collect, preserve and interpret material objects relating to Canada's postal heritage.
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In the 1980s supplies of furniture and electrical appliances increased along with family incomes. Household survey data indicated that by 1985 most urban families owned two bicycles, at least one sofa, a writing desk, a wardrobe, a sewing machine, an electric fan, a radio, and a television. Virtually all urban adults owned wristwatches, half of all families had washing machines, 10 percent had refrigerators, and over 18 percent owned color televisions. Rural households on average owned about half the number of consumer durables owned by urban dwellers.
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Both charged tourists to climb the gate tower as a viewing platform; Faber built a stairway up the outside of the walls and a viewing room at the top which he furnished with books of poetry, a comfortable sofa and a fully equipped writing desk, and laid out the grounds as a garden with romantic paths through the grapevines, trees and flowers. He also installed an aeolian harp.Schmandt, p. 193; but he reports it to have been the bergfried rather than the gate tower.
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When they did, Roosevelt kept watch over the three thieves with a shotgun and marched them overland to Dickinson, North Dakota, where he collected a $50 reward. Roosevelt quit the ranch in 1887 after losing 60% of his stock in the starvation winter of 1886–87, and returned only a handful of times to the badlands after that. He kept a small share of the cattle until 1898 at the outset of the Spanish–American War. Theodore Roosevelt's writing desk from the Elkhorn Ranch is on display at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
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Finucane, pg 13 Another celebrated account of a haunted house from the ancient classical world is given by Pliny the Younger (c. 50 AD). Pliny describes the haunting of a house in Athens, which was bought by the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus, who lived about 100 years before Pliny. Knowing that the house was supposedly haunted, Athenodorus intentionally set up his writing desk in the room where the apparition was said to appear and sat there writing until late at night when he was disturbed by a ghost bound in chains.
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Kerényi, K.: Tessiner Schreibtisch (Writing Desk in Ticino), 1963; pp. 148ff He moved on to study classical philology at the University of Budapest where he mostly appreciated the teaching of the Latinist Géza Némethy as well as of the Indo-Germanist Josef Schmidt.Kerényi, K.: Tessiner Schreibtisch, 1963; pp. 152f After graduation, Kerényi travelled extensively in the Mediterranean region and spent time as a visiting student at the Universities of Greifswald, Berlin and Heidelberg, learning from the professors of antiquity and classical philology: Eduard Norden, Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff and Franz Boll.
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Cells are equipped with a shower, toilet, bed, writing desk and television. Access is available to an attached, mesh-enclosed, exercise yard. The maximum-security part of the campus also includes needs assessment, protection, crisis support, detention and behaviour management units, with layouts similar to the mainstream units. The behaviour management unit, called Tamar, is an 8-cell high security unit used to house prisoners who are considered to pose a particularly high risk to correctional staff, to other prisoners or detainees, or to the maintenance of good order and security in the prison.
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Melville's writing style shows both consistencies and enormous changes throughout the years. His development "had been abnormally postponed, and when it came, it came with a rush and a force that had the menace of quick exhaustion in it". As early as "Fragments from a Writing Desk", written when Melville was 20, scholar Sealts sees "a number of elements that anticipate Melville's later writing, especially his characteristic habit of abundant literary allusion". Typee and Omoo were documentary adventures that called for a division of the narrative in short chapters.
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Wonderland c. 1865, illustrated by John Tenniel In the chapter "A Mad Tea-Party" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice becomes a guest at a tea party along with the March Hare, the Hatter, and a sleeping Dormouse who remains asleep for most of the chapter. The other characters give Alice many riddles and stories, including the famous 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?'. The Hatter reveals that they have tea all day because time has punished him by eternally standing still at 6 pm (tea time).
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Exterior of the museum The is a museum dedicated to the life and work of Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo. It is in the Sotome district in the northwestern part of the city of Nagasaki. Sotome is famed as the home of the hidden Christians and served as the scene for Endo's novel Silence. Established in May 2000, the museum displays Endo's books, manuscripts, letters, photographs and favourite possessions including his writing desk, his Bible and rosary, and a statue of Mary inherited from his mother and kept at his bedside throughout his life.
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Olivarez, et al., 49. Purcell and Elmslie designed select pieces of furniture for the house, including a small, triangular-backed chair, dubbed a “surprise point” chair by William Purcell, for use in Edna's writing nook.Olivarez, et al., 52. Several noteworthy built- in furnishings include a combined bench and radiator cover beneath the front living room windows; a desk in the writing nook; and a combined bed, writing desk, bookcase, and storage area in the children's room, which Purcell designed after the Pullman-style bed of a train's sleeping car.Olivarez, et al.
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"At Home" was preceded by the novella Peasants, published in April of that year, after which there was several months' break caused by Chekhov's deteriorating health. "On the account of bad weather have bought myself some paper and now sit down to write a story," Chekhov informed his sister Maria Pavlovna on 9 October 1897.Чехов — Чеховой М. П., 9 (21) октября 1897. "Just started to write a bit and maybe will get used to somebody else's writing desk," he wrote to his cousin Georgy Mitrofanovich Chekhov on 11 October, also from Nice, France.
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His troubles truly began when creditors came to seize his belongings and took a writing desk, said to have belonged to Margaret of Parma, that had been left in his safekeeping by a neighbor who had been expecting a similar seizure. Some of his sketches were overlooked and were collected by his friend, Eugène Isabey, who sold them at auction and was able to take in twenty Louis d'or to help him pay his debts. After this, Giroux went to stay at the artists' colony in Barbizon.A propos d'un portrait d'Achille Giroux, Le Figaro, Paris.
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The Prince and Princess of Wales on their wedding day, 1863 Sir Charles forced the drawer of Lady Mordaunt's writing desk and found a number of letters to her from the Prince of Wales. It was plainly unwise for the Prince to have written these and, throughout his life, he seems to have had trouble resisting such communication with women he admired.James Brough (1975) The Prince and the Lily. However, their content (though very similar to the sort of things he wrote some years later to his mistress, Alice Keppel) was innocuous.
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In February 2014, Emory University premiered Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens, the first major exhibition to celebrate the life and work of Seamus Heaney since his death. The exhibit holds a display of the surface of Heaney's personal writing desk that he used in the 1980s as well as old photographs and personal correspondence with other writers. Heaney died in August 2013, during the exhibition's curatorial process. Though the exhibit's original vision to celebrate Heaney's life and work remains at the forefront, there is a small section commemorating his death and its influence.
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The Gestapo officer conducted his search of the rooms and his interrogation of Edmond Soutif, using as a support for his notes the folder taken from the writing desk in the apartment. Unable to discover incriminating evidence, they eventually left. But had he only opened the folder, the officer would have found the letters that would certainly have condemned to death not only Soutif's family but also their correspondents. The event served to strengthen Soutif's conviction at the end of the war of the need for peace and collaboration between the nations.
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The collection of furniture is mostly composed of English and French examples, including storage and resting pieces, such as chests, sideboards, cupboards, bookcases, seats and chairs, made with oak, walnut and other types of wood. Outstanding among them are the pieces of Gothic trend, a 19th-century Bonheur du jour writing desk in Biedermeier style, and an 18th- century sacristy chest of drawers, proceeding from Minas Gerais. The collection of tapestries includes French and Flemish examples, most of which from the 18th century, produced by Aubusson tapestry, Gobelins Manufactory, etc.
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In a letter of 1819 to the Archduke, Beethoven mentions that "in my writing-desk there are several compositions that bear witness to my remembering Your Imperial Highness". Several theories have been advanced on why he decided to write thirty-three variations. He might have been trying to outdo himself after his 32 Variations in C minor, or trying to outdo Bach's Goldberg Variations with its total of thirty-two pieces (two presentations of the theme and thirty variations).Lockwood, Lewis, Beethoven: The Music And The Life, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005, , , pp. 394–95.
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The painting depicts Saint Jerome in the traditional representation inside his study. He wears a cardinal's dress and hat, and is reading a book, in a small study clogged with numerous objects showing his erudition and interests. Below is a lion, recalling the saint's legend in which he had extracted a thorn from the paw of the animal, who had later remained loyal to him. The light enters from a window behind the writing desk and from the foreground, in order to illuminate any detail of the scene.
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Orbell in 1891 Harry Orbell (4 November 1860 - 27 March 1914) was a British trade unionist. Born in Bethnal Green on 4 November 1860Birth certificate, Henry Joseph (Harry) Orbell trained as a writing desk maker, but was unable to find sufficient work, and so instead found employment at a tea warehouse, repairing tea chests. In 1887, there was a proposal to reduce wages of workers at the warehouse, and Orbell helped organise a meeting in opposition to this. The meeting founded the Tea Operatives' and General Labourers' Association, with Orbell becoming its president.
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The computer interface is a conceptual metaphor of a writing desk. In computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact more easily with the computer. The desktop metaphor treats the computer monitor as if it is the top of the user's desk, upon which objects such as documents and folders of documents can be placed. A document can be opened into a window, which represents a paper copy of the document placed on the desktop.
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Among the visitors in this and later periods were poets and writers Milan Rakić, Laza Kostić, Branislav Nušić, Stevan Sremac, Simo Matavulj and Milovan Glišić, and painter Paja Jovanović. The writing desk where Rakić wrote his poems, his bed and library are still in the house. The royal couple spent so much time in the villa that it appeared as if the court moved out of Belgrade. After king and queen divorced in 1888, the summerhouse was left aside for a while and was again in the bad shape.
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Washington attended Adams's pesidential Inauguration on March 4, 1797 in Philadelphia and read aloud his final brief "farewell address." He was eager to return to his beloved home of Mount Vernon after he had served two consecutive terms of office. Before his departure, Washington sold and gave away his belongings, including a writing desk that contained love letters from his wife, Martha. Although no one dared to challenge Washington for the presidency, his reputation, during the second half of this second term in office was under scrutiny of the Republican Party, which had been founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
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Neo-gothic in style, the Palace as it is today was finished in 1808. One of its best known features is the gallery designed by William Atkinson. On view in the State Rooms of Scone Palace are collections of furniture, ceramics, ivories, and clocks. Some of the prized contents of Scone Palace are Rococo chairs by Pierre Bara, further items by Robert Adam and Chippendale, Dresden and Sèvres porcelains, as well as a unique collection of Vernee Martin vases and a Jean-Henri Riesener writing desk given to David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, by Marie- Antoinette.
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1905 portrait by Ernst Würtenberger (1868–1934) Hesse's writing desk, pictured at the Museum Gaienhofen Having realised he could make a living as a writer, Hesse finally married Maria Bernoulli (of the famous family of mathematiciansGustav Emil Müller, Philosophy of Literature, Ayer Publishing, 1976.) in 1904, while her father, who disapproved of their relationship, was away for the weekend. The couple settled down in Gaienhofen on Lake Constance, and began a family, eventually having three sons. In Gaienhofen, he wrote his second novel, Beneath the Wheel, which was published in 1906. In the following time, he composed primarily short stories and poems.
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They originally made a tent from portions of the spars and sails of the wreck before building a permanent cabin from wreck timber and stone. Raynal had experience in building huts from his time in the goldfields and guided the crew in building a solid cabin with a stone chimney, furnished with stretchers, a dining table and writing desk. However it took some time to build as the only available tools were an axe, an adze, a hammer and a gimlet. The men named the cabin "Epigwaitt", an American Indian word meaning "a dwelling by the water" suggested by Musgrave.
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After the editor Charles Wilson learned of the matter, Johnson was dismissed. Johnson secured employment on the leader-writing desk of The Daily Telegraph, having met its editor, Max Hastings, during his Oxford University Union presidency. His articles appealed to the newspaper's conservative, middle-class, middle-aged "Middle England" readership, and were known for their distinctive literary style, replete with old-fashioned words and phrases and for regularly referring to the readership as "my friends". In early 1989, Johnson was appointed to the newspaper's Brussels bureau to report on the European Commission, remaining in the post until 1994.
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The Gordon Parks Museum/Center in Fort Scott, Kansas, reports that it holds dozens of Parks' photos, both given to the Museum by Parks, and various belongings bequeathed to the Museum by him upon his death. The collection includes "awards and medals, personal photos, paintings and drawings of Gordon, plaques, certificates, diplomas and honorary doctorates, selected books and articles, clothing, record player, tennis racquet, magazine articles, his collection of Life magazines and much more." The museum has also separately received some of Parks' cameras, writing desk and photos of him."Museum" page , The Gordon Parks Museum/Center website.
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Essentially, Day took basic structures and ideas from urban trends on furniture designs and elaborated on them utilizing his personal creative taste. This habit of utilizing popular designs, combined with the cost- efficient production methods in his workshop through steam power, made Day's designs not only symbols of status for customers through their style, but also competitively priced. Based on stylistic analysis, it appears that Day pleaded many of his basic design structures for his various furniture pieces from a craftsman pattern book by John Hall, the Cabinet Makers’ Assistant, especially his use of s-shape curves. Writing Desk, c.
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The last period of Rimsky-Korsakov's life was his most creative. During this time he composed eleven of his fifteen operas, including Christmas Eve, Sadko, Mozart and Salieri, The Tsar's Bride, Kaschey the Deathless, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, The Golden Cockerel, and over 40 romances. The composer's study does not contain a piano: Rimsky- Korsakov usually worked at a writing desk, trusting his unique inner ear. At another desk would sit Nadezhda, faithful assistant in all her husband's musical undertakings, making corrections and piano arrangements of his symphonic and operatic works.
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The yacht also boasted all-electric lighting from 135 lamps of 16 candlepower (cp) (15½ candela (cd)) and a searchlight of 2,000 cp (1,950 cd). The chartroom, paneled in mahogany and featuring plate glass windows and a settee, served as a lounge or smoking room in mild weather. A curved mahogany staircase led down to the library, which was well-stocked with books and finished in white mahogany with salmon tapestry adorned with roses. Over a hidden writing desk—revealed at the touch of a button—was carved the aphorism "The sea and air are common to all men".
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Pinter's home in Ambrose Place, Worthing, where he wrote The Homecoming Pinter wrote The Homecoming in six weeks in 1964 from his home in the Sussex coastal town of Worthing, where, according to theatre critic John Lahr, "the magnificent barrenness of the play's North London setting was imagined as he sat at his writing desk overlooking gardens, within earshot of the sea." According to Lahr, Pinter remarked that "it kind of wrote itself." Pinter's close friend and former schoolteacher, Joseph Brearley, was visiting Pinter after he had written the play. "I gave him the play to read," Pinter recalled.
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He served as President of the Iqbal Memorial Trust for a term of five years (1981–85). Azad was elected vice-president of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu (Hind) (a national body for the promotion of Urdu under the Ministry of Human Resource Development) in 1989 and President in 1993, remaining in this office till his demise. He was at his writing desk until fifteen days before he died – of carcinoma and a brief illness – at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre in New Delhi, India on 24 July 2004. He was 84 and is survived by his wife and five children.
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While Botticelli adopted a more expressive composition in his Saint Augustine (inspired by Andrea del Castagno's works), Ghirlandaio created a more serene and conventional figure, concentrating instead on the still life of the objects exposed on the writing desk and the shelves behind Jerome. In this, he was perhaps inspired by northern European models, such as Jan van Eyck's Saint Jerome in His Study which was in the collections of Lorenzo de' Medici. Jerome is portrayed with his head resting on one hand, while writing with the other. This was the same posture chosen by Jan van Eyck.
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The open books and the cartouches, with Greek and Hebrew letters, correspond to his activity as translator of the Bible. On the writing desk is the date (MCCCCLXXX), as well as a sealed letter, glasses, two inkwells (with drops of ink near them), scissors and a candle holder. The desk is covered by an oriental carpet, a luxurious object often depicted by Ghirlandaio, and perhaps also inspired by Netherlandish painters. The objects on the shelves include a cardinal hat, two pharmacist vases, a cylindrical case, a necklace, a purse, some fruit, two transparent glass bottles and an hourglass.
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It can be traced in the city's archives starting in 1616 with the description Ein Goldin Klainot mit Edelgestainen Versetz N.N. genandt ('a gold jewel with a precious stone setting named N.N.'); starting in 1740 it is referred to simply as "Onyx". In 1799, the historian Johannes von Müller kept it in his writing desk. With the loss of Schaffhausen's city status, the onyx came into the possession of the canton and was housed in the state archives. Despite several attractive purchase inquiries, it was not sold and has been on permanent loan in the exhibition of the Museum zu Allerheiligen since 1928.
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In 1949 the family were reunited when Ewald Erb arranged for his wife and daughters to rejoin him at Halle in the Soviet occupation zone. By this time, he had already been working at Halle University for two years, having arrived directly from a British prisoner-of-war facility in 1947. However, Ewald Erb was living in Halle in a single rented room containing one writing desk and one bed. There was space for the girls' mother, but the children were sent to live in a "home" (a recently re-assigned boarding school) for the next two years.
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Henry's love of animals started during her childhood. Soon afterwards, she also discovered a love for writing when her parents presented her with a writing desk for Christmas. Henry later said, "At last I had a world of my very own – a writing world, and soon it would be populated by all the creatures of my imagination."Marguerite Henry, Dear Readers and Riders, Rand McNally, 1969, p. 200. Henry sold her first story at the age of 11. A magazine had solicited articles about the four seasons from children, and she was paid $12 (now about $250) for "Hide-and-Seek in Autumn Leaves".
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Balzac's five- room apartment was located on the top floor, at three levels, and as today opened into the garden. Here he edited La Comedie humaine and wrote some of his finest novels, including La Rabouilleuse, Une ténébreuse affaire, and La Cousine Bette. Although the writer's furniture was dispersed after his widow's death, the museum now contains Balzac's writing desk and chair, his turquoise- studded cane by Lecointe (1834), and his tea kettle and a coffee pot given to him by Zulma Carraud in 1832. The museum also contains an 1842 daguerreotype of Balzac by Louis-Auguste Bisson, a drawing of Balzac by Paul Gavarni (c. 1840), a pastel portrait (c.
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Like in the kitchen in the dining car, the bar's floor was a "metal pan" finished in anti-slip Martex. Both of these lounge areas were separated from the passageway by half- wall partitions. The dome of Moon Glow, like the domes in the chair car and sleeping car, accommodated 24 people. At the base of the stairs to the dome was a built-in writing desk area, which contained cubicles for writing supplies, the public address system, an intratrain telephone, and a "train-to- shore" radiotelephone that could be operated whenever the train was within of the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.
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Bonheur du jour, now in the Palace of Versailles, attributed to Jean Henri Riesener A bonheur du jour (in French, bonheur-du-jour, meaning "daytime delight") is a type of lady's writing desk. It was introduced in Paris by one of the interior decorators and purveyors of fashionable novelties called marchands-merciers about 1760, and speedily became intensely fashionable.F.J.B. Watson once suggested that "its somewhat obscure name perhaps refers to its sudden and astonishing success." (Watson, Louis XVI Furniture [London: Tiranti] 1960:23, note 8); the first appearance of the term bonheur du jour that he identified was in 1770, in an inventory of the duc de Villars' property at Marseille.
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While the main part of the house has remained in its original state, an addition was added to the back of the house in 1812, to accommodate Aaron Day II, the grandson of Josiah, and son of Aaron I. Aaron II and his family moved in with his parents and utilized the new wing. Once the house was purchased by the Ramapogue Historical Society in 1903, it was preserved in its original state. Tours of the house are held on special town days or holidays. All artifacts in the house are time period appropriate, and include original Day family items, such as the high boy, writing desk, and other furnishings.
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His Dallas residence includes a large collection of historical documents from the likes of Ponce de Leon, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, George Washington, Robert E. Lee and all the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Crow is also a noted art collector, owning original paintings by Peale, Renoir and Monet, as well as the likes of Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower. All told, 8,500 books and manuscripts are housed here, including doodles by Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass' Bible, given to him as a gift from Clarence Thomas. Additional items include Napoleon's writing desk and Duke of Wellington's sword from 1815.
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The curator, Dr. Issac Gewirtz shows her various items that had belonged to Dickens including a writing desk, a letter opener with a pet cat's paw, a diary with entries written in shorthand that might be referring to Ellen Ternan and a reference to "George Silverman's Explanation." There is also an inkwell, still containing some dried ink, and Dr. Gewirtz allows her to hold Dickens' very small pen in her hand. Part Five - Philadelphia At the start of the episode, Margolyes comments that Philadelphia is "Dickens Mad." In West Philadelphia's Clark Park, where the only statue of Dickens in the world at the time of filming.
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André-Charles Boulle, commode Mazarine (Mazarine cabinet), 1708, made for the Grand Trianon In 1708, the prototypes for the commodes Mazarine, then called bureaux, were delivered to the Trianon by André-Charles Boulle. The first Duke of Antin, Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, director of the king's buildings, wrote to Louis XIV: "I was at the Trianon inspecting the second writing desk by Boulle; it is as beautiful as the other and suits the room perfectly."Commode Mazarine In 1717, Peter the Great of Russia, who was studying the palace and gardens of Versailles, resided at the Trianon; the Peterhof Palace was inspired by Versailles.
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The Blue Moon is the first and oldest tavern in the U-District. It was an instant hit with students, together with the still-thriving Duchess Tavern in Ravenna (which was established in the same year as the Blue Moon). Updated at Under state law, students had to trek one mile from campus to purchase drinks. The Blue Moon was one of the rare bars outside of the Central District to serve African American servicemen during World War II. The tavern also provided a haven for UW professors who were caught up in the McCarthyist purge, such as Joe Butterworth, who used the bar as his writing desk.
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The Mexican Army left behind a number of artillery pieces, Arista's writing desk and silver service, the colors of Mexico's lauded Tampico Battalion, and other baggage. Among the several captured Mexican artillery pieces were two 8-pounder bronze guns, two 6-pounder bronze guns, and four 4-pounder bronze guns.Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1, By United States War Dept, 1894 Taylor's army settled into their Fort Texas campsite as Taylor considered his next move, although he did exchange prisoners with Arista. Taylor crossed the Rio Grande on 18 May, Arista's army having abandoned their artillery, sick and wounded at Linares, Nuevo Leon during their retreat to Monterrey.
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In order to make its games as portable as possible, Infocom developed the Z-machine, a custom virtual machine that could be implemented on a large number of platforms, and took standardized "story files" as input. In a non- technical sense, Infocom was responsible for developing the interactive style that would be emulated by many later interpreters. The Infocom parser was widely regarded as the best of its era. It accepted complex, complete sentence commands like "put the blue book on the writing desk" at a time when most of its competitors parsers were restricted to simple two-word verb-noun combinations such as "put book".
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The wada was originally known as Gaikwadwada, and owned by Sayajirao Gaikwad III the Maharaja of the Princely state of Baroda. It was not sold to Tilak by the Maharaja in 1905, as per general saying with certain conditions it had given by Maharaja to Tilak .. The original wada (Marathi for courtyard / building) where Tilak published the newspaper still houses the current day offices of Kesari. Along with offices of Kesari, the courtyard contains the Tilak museum and Kesari-Maratha library. These together house mementos of Tilak, including his writing desk, a number of original documents, and the first India national flag which was unfurled by Madame Cama in 1907 in Stuttgart.
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In 1984, Christina Hardyment had written an account of her own investigations into the real-life places and real-life people in Arthur Ransome's stories. As a direct result of this book, Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk, people interested in forming a society dedicated to Arthur Ransome had been leaving their contact details at Abbot Hall, where, following his death in 1967, his widow Evgenia had donated various articles, including his writing desk. In 1989, Christina followed up on these contact details by sending an appeal for funds to restore the dilapidated Mavis, the supposed prototype for Arthur Ransome's Amazon. The response to this appeal was overwhelming and in June 1990 The Arthur Ransome Society was formed.
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Both were based around the same handmade, wooden case, containing the telephone circuit and bell, but unlike the bellset, shown with the Tele 150, below, the Tele 121 had the transmitter mouthpiece screwed onto the front of the box and the switch hook, holding the receiver, protruding from the left hand side. Below the mouthpiece was a dial- mount, which either contained a dial (F or L - Figures only or with Letters - from about 1926) or a blanking plate (CB). This made it a true, one-piece telephone which was available either 'stand alone', mounted on a handsome, wooden, back-board, with integral writing desk or, as a Tele. 123, combined with the original, Button A & B coin-box.
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The Japanese boats focused on boarding the larger carrack, and at one point climbed aboard from the stern and shot a musket at Pereira, denting his helmet. The Japanese then made their way into the great cabin, briefly holding the captain-major hostage and carrying off his writing desk before being repelled. The flotilla's focus on the carrack left it exposed to the Portuguese galleon, which was able to support the carrack by catching the Japanese flotilla in the two ships' crossfire. The cannons wrought such havoc on the frail Japanese boats that the Hirado forces, after losing 3 ships and over 70 men, in addition to over 200 wounded, withdrew to their base crestfallen.
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Down a step from the main saloon, the after cabin is positioned under the bridge deck and cockpit where the boat's motion in a seaway is least noticeable. A double berth, private shower and a writing desk are standard but a second berth to starboard could be installed in place of the desk as an option. Down a step and going forward, the galley is to starboard with of counter space, a three- burner propane stove, double stainless sinks and refrigeration as standard equipment. Across from the galley is a second dinette, intended as an everyday eating area though in place of the dinette, a double stateroom could be built in as an option.
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The first volume begins with a discussion of three economic bubbles, or financial manias: the South Sea Company bubble of 1711-1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719-1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century. According to Mackay, during this bubble, speculators from all walks of life bought and sold tulip bulbs and even futures contracts on them. Allegedly, some tulip bulb varieties briefly became the most expensive objects in the world during 1637. Mackay's accounts are enlivened by colorful, comedic anecdotes, such as the Parisian hunchback who supposedly profited by renting out his hump as a writing desk during the height of the mania surrounding the Mississippi Company.
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Writing desk by Charles Cressent, 1730–1735 Charles Cressent (1685–1768) was a French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style. As the second son of François Cressent, sculpteur du roi, and grandson of Charles Cressent, a furniture-maker of Amiens, who also became a sculptor, he inherited the tastes and aptitudes which were likely to make a finished designer and craftsman. Even more important perhaps was the fact that he was a pupil of André Charles Boulle. Trained in such surroundings, it is not surprising that he should have reached a degree of achievement which has to a great extent justified the claim that he was the best decorative artist of the 18th century.
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The earliest experiments with the aeoline may have taken place in 1824, when it has been claimed that Buschmann built a tuning aid named an aura, about 4 inches long and equipped with 15 reed tongues. (The name Aura was also then in use in German to mean a jaw harp). But no written evidence can be found to support this. While still in Rinteln, in Buschmann's letters to his sun Eduard, it appears that Friedrich built a bigger version of an aeoline in 1829, with bellows and piano keyboard of two octaves, which, being about the size of a small writing desk, was still much smaller than any comparable fixed key instrument they had built previously.
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Jefferson finally received a chair in 1818, after Hemmings had made his own version, but Hemmings quickly created at least two more chairs later with the actual chair as a model. At least one attributed to Hemmings still exists. Hemmings considered the writing desk he made for Ellen Randolph Coolidge as his masterpiece, and both he and Jefferson were devastated to learn that it had been lost in a shipwreck on its way to her. Among the other Hemmings projects lost to time is a four-person landau carriage that Hemmings fashioned in 1814 for an aging Thomas Jefferson, who became tired of making his thrice-yearly visits to Poplar Forest on horseback.
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The 24 portraits of Guanyin are presented in an album alternating them with short text passages. They are in gold ink on black paper, and were inspired by an album of woodblock prints by Ding Yunpeng (1547–1628) that had been based on a hand scroll by Li Gonglin. Her acclaimed painting, White Robed Guanyin, is in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. She also painted other religious figures, such as her fan painting of A Daoist Female Immortal, possibly Chang E. Her non-religious subjects are primarily women at leisure: playing xiangqi under plum blossoms, playing a guqin under wutong trees, sitting at a writing desk, or playing with a parrot.
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Renga was typically composed in sessions attended by a group of poets known as the renju (連衆, also renjū)—usually 7-8, though the number could range widely—, a scribe (執筆・shuhitsu), and a master (宗匠・sōshō). The setting of the session was called the ba (場), and was an integral part of the poetic sequence, providing aesthetic inspiration and often serving as the basis for the hokku. These sessions could take the form of more literary pedagogical events or more informal competitions that drew crowds of spectators. The scribe sat at a low writing desk (文台・bundai), with the poets sitting facing the desk and the master beside it.
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Although the war had impeded Day's ambition to become a furniture designer, his fortunes changed in 1948 when he and Clive Latimer won First Prize in the Storage Section of the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Their ingenious concept for a range of multi-purpose storage units fabricated from a tube of pre-formed moulded plywood received international acclaim. Although never mass-produced, a set of prototypes made by Heal & Son in 1949 demonstrated the principles behind the design. Supported on tubular aluminium legs, the cabinets were compact and flexible, with sliding doors, interchangeable shelf and drawer fittings and a writing desk with a drop-down flap.
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Comte lived on the 2nd floor of 10, rue Monsieur le Prince from 1841 to his death in 1857, where he wrote the four volumes of Système de politique positive (1851–1854), his last treatise of positivist philosophy. The apartment has subsequently been restored and reconstructed as it was at the philosopher's death. It consists of five main rooms (dining room, living room, study, classroom, bedroom) with vestibule, and contains Comte's writing desk, portraits of Clotilde de Vaux and various disciples, personal effects, and handwritten letters, as well as a library of positivist writings that contains about 600 books in French, including first editions of his works, 250 books in other languages, a thousand brochures, and four collections of periodicals.
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The Spurgeon Library houses the remaining personal collection of Charles Spurgeon, which Midwestern Seminary acquired from William Jewell College in 2006. The ribbon-cutting and dedication of the library took place in October 2015, and the Seminary is now working to digitize the collection and publish new volumes of previously undiscovered sermons. Dr. Christian T. George serves as the curator of the collection, which also includes numerous items and artifacts from Spurgeon's life and ministry, among them his personal writing desk, travel kit, and the metalwork from his study door. The library interior has been well-appointed in academic "Oxford style" and features numerous portraits highlighting the life of Spurgeon specifically commissioned by Dr. George and Midwestern Seminary of the Romanian artist Petru Botezatu.
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André-Charles Boulle, Commode Mazarin (Mazarin Cabinet), 1708, made for the Grand Trianon Boulle delivered the prototypes for the Mazarin Commode to the Grand Trianon in 1708. Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin Director of the King's buildings, wrote to Louis XIV: "I was at the Trianon inspecting the second writing desk by Boulle; it is as beautiful as the other and suits the room perfectly." The design proved to be popular, although criticized for being awkward meaning, particularly because four extra spiral legs that were required to support the weight of the bronze and marble. At least five other examples were made by Boulle's workshop, dated between 1710 and 1732, including one now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Furniture stamped by Baumhauer that is mounted with Sèvres porcelain plaques must have been commissioned and sold by Simon-Philippe Poirier, who maintained a monopoly of the production, having originally devised the decor.James Parker in Park and Dauterman 1967:139-41: cat. no.24, a small writing desk stamped by Joseph, mounted with Sèvres plaques, ca 1770; other similar writing tables are noted. some furniture stamped by Joseph is veneered with panels of Japanese lacquer, another sure indication of the intervention of a marchand-mercier, who, rather than the cabinetmaker himself, was in a position to purchase Japanese screens and cabinets, have them disassembled and, once the wooden support of the lacquer surfaces had been planed down, applied as costly veneer panels.
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He disappears but his grin remains behind to float on its own in the air prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat. Chapter Seven – A Mad Tea-Party: Alice becomes a guest at a "mad" tea party along with the March Hare, the Hatter, and a very tired Dormouse, who falls asleep frequently only to be violently awakened moments later by the March Hare and the Hatter. The characters give Alice many riddles and stories, including the famous "why is a raven like a writing desk?." The Hatter reveals that they have tea all day because Time has punished him by eternally standing still at 6 PM (tea time).
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In January 2013, coinciding with the bicentenary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice, Byrne published a new biography called The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things. Featured as BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and again a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, it approaches the subject's life by means of an array of key objects, including her portable writing desk and the topaz cross given to her by her brother. Austen was presented as a more worldly figure than is often thought, more engaged with city life, but above all as a highly professional writer. In 2014, Byrne published a biography of Dido Elizabeth Belle, which was a commission to coincide with the general release of the motion picture Belle.
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Speaking with Trefusis, the somewhat meek man admits that during his nine years employment, he was ruthlessly bullied by Sir Reuben. Trefusis shows Poirot the scene of the crime and the detective is puzzled as to why there is a bloodstain on the writing desk but Sir Reuben's body was found on the floor. Poirot tries an experiment with his valet, George, and realises that Sir Reuben was clubbed as he sat in his chair and remained in position afterwards as the chair is low-down in comparison to the desk. Poirot is more suspicious than ever of Lily Margrave's nervous demeanour and investigates the two local hotels to see if anyone was staying that night who left the hotel near midnight.
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Hutton, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. They met sometime before 1682, and exchanged many personal, and often flirtatious, letters. Locke described her admirably in a letter to Phillipp van Limborch: “The lady herself is so well versed in theological and philosophical studies, and of such an original mind that you will not find many men to whom she is not superior in wealth of knowledge and ability to profit by it.” She and Locke were of great importance to one another in their friendship and studies, and Locke took up residence in her household (from 1691 until his death in 1704). He brought with him his library (of nearly 2,000 books), purchased for her a writing desk, ink and quills, and paid for the binding of her works.
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The other running gag is that Richard suspects Sheridan is gay, something which is implied through his love of needlework, his lilac-colored car, his desire for pure silk pyjamas, his male friend, Tarquin (with whom Sheridan makes his own curtains), and his stated lack of interest in girls. Richard regularly tries to raise the issue with Hyacinth, only for her to remain totally oblivious. A glimpse of the back of Sheridan's head can be seen in the episode "Let There Be Light" while he is in a taxi, and during the opening credits, a photograph of him as a young boy is seen on Hyacinth's writing desk; this is the closest he has ever been seen on the show.
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These times also marked the beginning of Fletcher's 40-year association with Francis La Flesche, Susette's half brother. They collaborated professionally and had an informal mother-son relationship. They shared a house in Washington, D.C., beginning in 1890. Alice Fletcher at her writing desk In addition to her research and writing, Fletcher worked in several special appointed positions during the late nineteenth century. In 1883 she was appointed special agent by the US to allot lands to the Miwok tribes, in 1884 she prepared and sent to the World Cotton Centennial an exhibit showing the progress of civilization among the Indians of North America in the quarter-century previous, and in 1886 visited the natives of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands on a mission from the commissioner of education.
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The official ceremony consisted of a procession walking across the bridge, the planting of memorial trees at the northern end and the bridge's designer, Frederick Byerley breaking a bottle of champagne on one of the pedestals at the southern end of the bridge where he "baptised" the structure, the Fitzroy Bridge. Following the official opening, a large crowd gathered at the Criterion Hotel who proceeding to drink a number of toasts in honour of Rockhampton's new bridge. Byerley was presented with a walnut writing desk along with a gold pen and pencil as a token of the respect the bridge workers had for him during construction of the bridge. The bridge remained in service until a new bridge, also called the Fitzroy Bridge, was officially opened alongside the old bridge on 27 September 1952.
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Stained-glass window in St Nicholas's Church, East Dereham Cowper was seized with dropsy in the spring of 1800 and died. He is buried in the chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, St Nicholas's Church in East Dereham, and a stained- glass window there commemorates his life. In St Peter's Church in Berkhamsted there are two windows in memory of Cowper: the east window by Clayton & Bell (1872) depicts Cowper at his writing desk accompanied by his pet hares, and bears the inscription "Salvation to the dying man, And to the rising God" (a line from Cowper's poem "The Saviour, what a noble flame"); and in the north aisle, an etched glass window is inscribed with lines from "Oh! for a closer walk with God" and "The Task".
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It was around this time that Schack became a friend and professional colleague of Mozart, who was gradually increasing his involvement with Schikaneder's troupe. Schack apparently asked his friend for advice and help in composing,The source here is the preface to an 1831 edition of Schack's A Mass for Four Voices and Orchestral Accompaniments published by Vincent Novello. Novello had learned of Mozart's assistance from the Mozart's widow Constanze during a trip to Salzburg in 1829 (Buch 1997, 195). and the level of assistance evidently increased. The following anecdote was published in the Baierisches Musik-Lexikon by (Munich, 1811): > Mozart often came to Schack to fetch him for a stroll; while Schack dressed > he would sit at the writing desk and compose here and there a piece in > Schack's operas.
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Melville's work often touched on themes of communicative expression and the pursuit of the absolute among illusions. As early as 1839, in the juvenile sketch "Fragments from a Writing Desk," Melville explores a problem which would reappear in the short stories "Bartleby" (1853) and "Benito Cereno" (1855): the impossibility to find common ground for mutual communication. The sketch centers on the protagonist and a mute lady, leading scholar Sealts to observe: "Melville's deep concern with expression and communication evidently began early in his career". According to scholar Nathalia Wright, Melville's characters are all preoccupied by the same intense, superhuman and eternal quest for "the absolute amidst its relative manifestations," an enterprise central to the Melville canon: "All Melville's plots describe this pursuit, and all his themes represent the delicate and shifting relationship between its truth and its illusion".
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Bonheur du jour mounted with Sevres plaques, stamped by Martin Carlin, commissioned by Poirier, the plaques dated 1766 (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris) The marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier had the idea of mounting bonheurs du jour with specially-made plaques of Sèvres porcelain that he commissioned and for which he had a monopoly; the earliest Sèvres-mounted bonheurs du jour are datable from the marks under their plaques to 1766-67 (illus.).Svend Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France (London: Faber & Faber) 1974, plate 111, bonheur du jour stamped by Martin Carlin in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris; another with plaques dated for 1766 is in the James A. de Rothschild collection, Waddesdon Manor. Other choice examples of the time are inlaid with marquetry or panels of Oriental lacquer, banded with exotic woods, with gilt-bronze mounts. By the mid-1770s the bonheur du jour was being made in London, where it was simply called a "lady's writing- desk".
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The Kevrenn Alre during the Festival interceltique de Lorient 2009 Kevrenn Alre ("Bagad and Celtic Circle of Auray" in Breton language) is a group of music and dance of Breton traditional inspiration, created in 1951, by railroad employees of the marshalling yard of Auray (Morbihan, Brittany). Eight times national champion of bagadoù and ten times national champion of Breton dance, Kevrenn Alre takes place in an avant-gardist position of a Breton cultural movement (Bagad, Celtic circle, show / concert) and of pioneer by compositions and scenic creations combining modernism, musical fusions and dances. The musicians, devoted workers with a union which makes their strength, built up to themselves a style, a sonority jazz with the addition of a writing desk clarinet stemming from the music school, and the working habits, as the week of repetition before Lorient competition. Training is since its inception in relation to Celtic nations, in his music and in his travels.
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Tokonoma with scroll, and tsuke-shoin, a writing desk with a view, which gave this style its name; this later became purely decorative, being used to display impressive writing utensils The foundations for the design of today's traditional Japanese residential houses with tatami floors were established in the late Muromachi period (approximately 1338 to 1573) and refined during the ensuing Momoyama period. Shoin-zukuri, a new architectural style influenced by Zen Buddhism, developed during that time from the shinden-zukuri of the earlier Heian period's palaces and the subsequent residential style favored by the warrior class during the Kamakura period. The term , meaning study or drawing room has been used to denote reception rooms in residences of the military elite as well as study rooms at monasteries. A shoin has a core area surrounded by aisles, and smaller areas separated by fusuma sliding doors, or shōji partitions constructed of paper on a wooden frame or wooden equivalents, and .
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An Oscott student under Wiseman, Acton later remarked on the international influence of the college at the time: "apart from Pekin, Oscott was the centre of the world". John Henry Newman's writing desk at the Birmingham OratoryThe most influential writer to be attracted to Oscott by Wiseman however was John Henry Newman, who was to become the outstanding Catholic literary figure of 19th century England and the major influence on the Catholic literary revival that was to follow. Newman moved to Birmingham shortly after his conversion from the Church of England in 1845, staying initially at Oscott before founding the Birmingham Oratory in Edgbaston in 1849. Living at the Oratory almost continuously until his death in 1890, his major works written in Birmingham include the autobiographical Apologia Pro Vita Sua, the novel Loss and Gain, his principal philosophical work Grammar of Assent, and the poem The Dream of Gerontius, later set to music by Edward Elgar.
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A single corridor on the left hand side of the car led past the 12-seat beverage room or "Mural Lounge" (under the dome), and led to the 13-seat observation lounge at the rear of the car; a short flight of stairs was located centrally at the front of the observation lounge which led up to the dome, with seating for 24. An initial proposal for each car to have its own decorative scheme was rejected on cost ground; instead there were two scheme: "O" and "P"; both of which were developed by Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson, a firm of architects in Philadelphia frequently used by Budd. Additionally, a leading Canadian artist was commissioned to produce two murals for the beverage room: a main mural for the front wall, and an auxiliary mural for the right hand (window-side) wall. In addition, they were asked to provide a decorative map for the observation lounge which was mounted above the writing desk to the right of the dome staircase.
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Gilles-Marie Oppenordt was born in Paris. His father Alexandre- Jean Oppenord (1639-1713) was an ébéniste, born Cander-Johan Oppen OordtLance 1873. at Guelders, one of numerous cabinet-makers from the Low Countries who were drawn to Paris by the opportunity of patronage; the elder Oppenord was naturalized in 1679, when he was a menuisier en ebène ("furniture-maker in ebony") at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins;Dell 1992:208 note 4 (brief biographical notice). in 1684 the elder Oppenord was appointed an ébéniste du Roi, with official lodgings in the Galeries du Louvre that had been perquisites in the royal gift of outstanding craftsmen in the luxury trades since the time of king Henri IV. Signed drawing of a writing desk As a boy Gilles-Marie Oppenord was trained in the studio of Jules Hardouin-Mansart and was sent in 1692 to study as a royal pensioner in Rome for eight years, where he largely ignored the remains of Classical Antiquity and spent his time instead sketching the Baroque sculptural ornaments of the preceding generations, principally those carried out under Bernini and Borromini, and in northern Italy the ornament of Mannerist architects like Pirro Ligorio.
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There, they worked as hired musicians, playing in São Luis and nearby cities parties, running a repertoire that held all the successful rhythms from that time, such as reggae, lambada, dance, serestas, meringues etc. As a peculiar feature, the band is formed by four visually impaired men who had met each other still young at Escola de Cegos do Maranhão and awake to music using school's old instruments (a music keyboard with missing piano keys, a guitar missing chords and the druumer used to use the writing desk to set the pace). Then, they agreed to follow together the project to form a reggae music band. Contested by the cultural elite, but embraced by the masses, reggae music became one of the most relevant features of maranhense culture, where it was created a very singular way to listen and dance the rhythm, creating an aspect that is unique in the entire world. At that time, the “radiolas”, or sound-systems, recognized in this manner in Jamaica, were responsible for spreading reggae music in the whole state, while different reggae clubs maintained the rhythm on top attending a great public frequency, even though reggae was still not played on radios.
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Words and thoughts that she flung hither and thither, without > design or intent beyond the amusement of the moment, come to me still with a > mingled thrill of pleasure and pain that I cannot describe, and that my most > friendly readers, not having known her, could not understand. Anne Elwood, from her Memoirs of Literary Ladies:Elwood(1843) > It was her invariable habit to write in her bed-room, – "a homely-looking, > almost uncomfortable room, fronting the street, and barely furnished – with > a simple white bed, at the foot of which was a small, old, oblong-shaped > sort of dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, > heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small > for aught besides the desk. A little high-backed cane chair, which gave you > any idea but that of comfort, and a few books scattered about, completed the > author's paraphernalia." Emma Roberts again: > She not only read, but thoroughly understood, and entered into the merits of > every book that came out; while it is merely necessary to refer to her > printed works, to calculate the amount of information which she had gathered > from preceding authors.
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