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The Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs is the masterpiece of Redouté’s later years. This most celebrated of botanical artists came from a Belgian family of painters, and served as drawing master to the queens and princesses of France for half a century.
Platt Rogers Spencer is credited as being the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of cursive handwriting. The text in Ford Motor Company's logo is written in this style, as was the original Coca-Cola logo.
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium honouring the famous printers Christoffel Plantijn and Jan Moretus. It is located in their former residence and printing establishment, Plantin Press, at the Friday Market.
Prince Rupert's Drop are a glass curiosity created by dripping hot molten glass into cold water. When the tail end is damaged, the large amount of potential energy stored in the drop's crystalline or amorphous atomic structure is released, causing fractures to propagate through the material at very high speed.
This documentary focuses on the subculture known as television evangelists. Shown are clips from their programs, interviews with them from news programs and events, and also incidents when they said or did things and didn't know a camera or microphone was on them, along with other embarrassing moments.
Peach stone carving has a long history in China and is first recorded in the middle of the Song dynasty.
Praise-God Barebone (said to have been christened Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone) was an English leather-seller, preacher and Fifth Monarchist.
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel is the first novel by Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, published in 1984. There is no easily discerned plot in the conventional sense, but the central question of the book (the mass religious conversion of the Khazar people) is based on an historical event generally dated to the last decades of the 8th century or the early 9th century when the Khazar royalty and nobility converted to Judaism, and part of the general population followed. However, most of the characters and events described in the novel are entirely fictional, as is the culture ascribed to the Khazars in the book, which bears little resemblance to any literary or archeological evidence. The novel takes the form of three cross-referenced mini-encyclopedias, each compiled from the sources of one of the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism).
Pemmican is dried meat pounded into coarse powder and mixed with an equal amount of melted fat, and occasionally saskatoon berries or other edibles. It's the ultimate protein bar.
Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana is an icon of fascist architecture.