Search results for "Art of the United Kingdom" - New World Encyclopedia
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- for her photo essays taken while traversing the globe for Life Magazine. In ... She was known for her sharp instincts and her willingness to get the ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- "lap organs," which were built in the United States around 1840 ... The melodeon is the forerunner of the more familiar pump organ reminiscent ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- She became known for her portraits of celebrities of her day, and ... in her life. Her work had a major impact on the development of modern photography ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one ... Baretshire is focused on the inner workings of an imaginary cathedral ...17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... The term broadcast was coined by early radio engineers from the mid ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- who is best remembered for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, and for her ... Today she is generally regarded as the most famous woman painter of ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- Hōryū-ji (法隆寺; Temple of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist ... his final illness. A fire in 670 destroyed the original buildings, but a ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- Polynesia (from the Greek words meaning "many islands") ... Polynesia may be described as the islands within a triangle with its ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Cotta_Greif_1839.jpg|thumb|200 px|The logo of Cottasche Verlagsbuchhandlung ... The Griffin (sometimes spelled gryphon or griffen, gryphos in Ancient ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 19:20, 31 January 2023
- Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... The Industrial Revolution led to major changes in the job market, ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army ... He physically fed, clothed, and nursed the sick. It is perhaps regrettable ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- The Science Museum (London) is one of many major science museums in ... The Museum not only holds remarkable historical collections but also ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- Roy O. Disney, Walt Disney Productions, and the Disney World and Disneyland ... a particularly happy childhood, and saw many of his movies fail at the box ...23 KB (3,587 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- Geb (also spelled Seb, and Keb) was an important member of the Ennead ... and cosmological belief system developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body ... Bottles have been developed and used over millennia of human history ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... The Museum's collection ranges from ancient to contemporary with ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British ... The State Rooms form the nucleus of the working Palace and are currently ...28 KB (4,475 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2023
- A national library is a library specifically established by the government ... The first national libraries had their origins in the royal collections ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 04:12, 11 March 2023
- |motto = Terras irradient (Let Them Give Light to the World) ... |nickname = The Singing College, The Fairest College, Lord Jeffs, Jeffs ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- [[File:Figure 5 Literacy has rapidly spread Reading the past writing ... Literacy is usually defined as the ability to read and write, or the ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
