This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers b...
“The Braggart Townsman” struts in garb of Stuyvesant mood to suggest new design for coats, collars and accessories.His circular box jacket has new dash as it swings from a stiffly-starched collar — the chain that runs from pocket to pocket is easily adaptable as an amusing ornament ...
In the years following World War II, a series of strategic changes transformed Auto Union into what is now known as Audi AG. Initially, Auto Union faced significant financial and labour challenges in the 1950s. This led to its acquisition by Daimler-Benz in 1958. However, the economic strugg...
For instance, we used this method to test the ornament function of antlers by manipulating antler size while controlling allometrically related traits, like body size, to isolate the influence of antler size on female mate choice (Morina et al. Antler manipulation procedures for use in social ...
The opulence and ornament of the synagogue compare to German Jewish/Reform synagogues of the same period. The architect of the building was the German firm of Herter Brothers, which went on to build numerous Lower East Side tenement buildings. This was not the first synagogue for this ...
in the British Isles. And sometime before AD700, knotwork designs were adapted to ornament the astonishingly elaborate, luminous carpet pages and decorated initial letters in Irish Christian and other manuscripts – most famously, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels (as illustrated above)...
In 2012 in the UK it was all about Frankel — and so a (usually) good-natured, if hard-nosed, rivalry rose up between the devoted on two sides of the world:I’m never tempted to enter into such rivalries, but I will say that neither Frankel nor Nelly took a backseat as far as ...
Protected forests in Brazil and Peru hold some of the world’s last remote indigenous groups, increasingly threatened by resource-hungry outsiders.
of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance ...
On Midjourney, I see a prompt that reads: “a majestic throne room, at the dawn of time, glass paint, overglaze, ornament, time-lapse, photojournalism, wide angle, perspective, double-exposure, light, tones of black in background, ultra-HD, super-resolution, massive scale, perfectionism, ...