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    10 May 2007) Vasari, Giorgio, Lives of the Artists, translated by George Bull, Penguin Classics, 1965, ISBN 0140441646. Peter Brueghel Biography, Web Gallery...
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    thickest ropes for the Navy. The introduction of synthetic fibers (e.g. rayon and nylon), the extended use of manual labor due to low mechanization, and...
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    ways influenced the development of Soviet and world poetry. The "raging bull of Russian poetry," "the wizard of rhyming," "an individualist and a rebel...
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    on wood; length: 49.5 cm; from the Royal Cemetery at Ur; British Museum Bull's head ornament from a lyre; 2600–2350 BC; bronze inlaid with shell and lapis...
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    this unit of measurement to be called the astronomical radius (French: Rayon Astronomique). In 1675, Tito Livio Burattini suggested the term metro cattolico...
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  • polymer such as polyacrylonitrile (PAN), rayon, or petroleum pitch. For synthetic polymers such as PAN or rayon, the precursor is first spun into filament...
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  • The Illustrated Man. John Wyndham publishes The Day of the Triffids. Le Rayon Fantastique, a collection of French science fiction novels, is launched...
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    figurative scenes. Bull-leaping appears in painting and several types of sculpture, and is thought to have had a religious significance; bulls' heads are also...
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  • Engineering at MIT. Frank Hastings Griffin (1910), chemist who invented Rayon. Rush Holt Jr. - CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of...
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    María Morelos, José Sixto Verduzco, José María Izazaga and Ignacio López Rayón, led the government to Viceregal decided to close it. Once Mexican independence...
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