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  • 11Isaac Asimov — Asimov in 1965 Born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov Between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920[1] Petrovichi, Russian SFSR …

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  • 12Monadnock Building — U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark District Contributing Property …

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  • 13Plainness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Plainness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 plainness plainness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 simplicity simplicity severity Sgm: N 1 plain terms plain terms plain English Sgm: N 1 Saxon English Saxon English Sgm: N …

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  • 14Surrealism — SurrealismIn 1917, Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealism in the program notes describing the ballet Parade which was a collaborative work by Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso and Léonide Massine: From this new alliance, for until …

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  • 15Walter Raleigh — Infobox writer name = Walter Raleigh |thumb|200px|right|Portrait of Walter Raleigh, near age 32, by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1585 bgcolour = silver birthdate = c. 1552 birthplace = Devonshire, England deathdate = death date|1618|10|29|df=y (aged 66) …

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  • 16Kirkstall Abbey — is a ruined Cistercian monastery in the western outskirts of Leeds in Yorkshire, set in grounds which are now a public park on the north bank of the River Aire. It was founded c. 1152 and was over seventy five years in construction. It was closed …

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  • 17Gargoyle — In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building. The term originates from the French gargouille, originally throat or gullet ;cite book|author=Houghton …

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  • 18Ornament (music) — An extreme example of ornamentation as a fioritura from Chopin s Nocturne in D flat major. In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead …

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  • 19Dieterich Buxtehude — The only surviving portrait of Buxtehude, from A musical party by Johannes Voorhout (1674). A portrait of another person in the same Voorhout painting; this once was thought to be Buxtehude, but recent research in Kerala J. Snyder s book …

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  • 20International style (architecture) — The International style was a major architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s. The term usually refers to the buildings and architects of the formative decades of Modernism, before World War II. The term had its origin from the name of a book by …

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