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11
Nov
2008
Review: The Dreamer #1

11 days ago by Stephen Schleicher

Adventure, Romance, Historical Fiction Some of you have probably read a romance novel or two, or you may be someone who gets lost in your own dreams. Heck, you might even feel like you are living a whole other life in another place and time. Even if you feel like you fit in one of these [...]

Major Spoilers - majorspoilers.com · Rank: 18,249 · 124 references

10
Nov
2008
The Dreamer #1 Arrives this Week from IDW Publishing

11 days ago by Stephen Schleicher

IDW Publishing has announced a six-issue mini-series called The Dreamer, that follows the adventures of young Beatrice Whaley in 18th century. The Dreamer is equal parts 18th-century adventure and 21st-century teenage slice-of-life tale. It is the story of 17-year-old Beatrice Whaley, a wealthy high ...

Major Spoilers - majorspoilers.com · Rank: 18,249 · 124 references

06
Nov
2008
18th-Century Political Pamphlets

15 days ago by Librarian

Among the odds and ends in our boxes of books are some 18th-century English and Dutch political pamphlets. One group of these pamphlets focuses on the political fallout from Prussian aggression towards Austria and France’s invasion of Germany. The earliest pamphlet was printed in 1713, during the Sp ...

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05
Nov
2008
A blue and white lobed bowl. 18th century

17 days ago by Alain Truong

A blue and white lobed bowl. 18th century Modelled with a foliate rim and four gently lobed panels, each separated by double lines and enclosing a medallion of stylised confronted phoenix, framed by floral scrolls, bordered above and below by bands of segmented flower heads against crashing waves, t ...

Les cahiers d'Alain Truong - alaintruong.canalblog.com · 7 references

Fine and interesting Selenus set

17 days ago by Owner

This set might be Danish but could in fact originate from Germany, Austria or Netherlands just as well. A somewhat similar but fancier set can be seen in "Schach Partie Durch Zeiten und Welten" page 222. The same set photographed with flashlight.

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Modern day celeb cultures roots traced back to 18th century obituaries

17 days ago by ANI

London, Nov 5 (ANI): Obituaries from the 18th Century sparked ”modern celebrity celebrity”, researchers from Warwick University have claimed. They say that public fascination with celebrity figures can be traced back to the rise of newspapers and magazines in the 18th Century and their popular obitu ...

Thaindian News » Health ... - thaindian.com/newsportal · Rank: 1,011 · 324 references

04
Nov
2008
Workshop: Sociability and Print in the Long Eighteenth-Century

17 days ago by petroleuse

Date: Friday, November 7, 2008 Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm Place: Arts 160, McGill University, Montreal Abstract How do printed texts interact with other media in the formation of communities in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Europe? As reading becomes an individual activity as opposed to a ...

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Bust A Move

18 days ago by lindabernal

Charles Henri Joseph Cordier was ahead of his time. This, and the rest of his body of work, was completed in the middle of the 18th century. He was practically the only artist interested in African figures during this time. It’s amazing to see it in a museum setting around all these paintings with w ...

Business Class - businessclassnyc.wordpress.com · 5 references

02
Nov
2008
Bayburt

19 days ago by admin

Bayburt Castle of Bayburt Bayburt is a small wonder. This small capital of the Turkish province of Bayburt is where time has stopped. A strategic point on the famous ‘Silk Route’, Bayburt has been the rendezvous of the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ in the past. Visited by Marco Polo and the celebrated Turki ...

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31
Oct
2008
Charles Bardin

21 days ago by Caitlin GD Hopkins

One of the most famous gravestones in New England is the stone carved by John Bull for Charles Bardin (1773). I'm always reluctant to call something the "only" example of a motif, but it's the only stone I've ever seen that has a literal depiction of God as the tympanum design. The cherubim on the f ...

Vast Public Indifference - vastpublicindifference.blogspot.com · Rank: 191,301 · 16 references

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