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31The Bristol Art Library — (TBAL) is an art performance project created in 1998 by British artist Annabel Other (AN Other in fact). It consists of handmade books in a library the size of a suitcase.HistoryThe project was devised as a protest at the closure of the original… …
32The Sparagus Garden — is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy by Richard Brome. It was the greatest success of Brome s career, and one of the major theatrical hits of its period.Performance and publication The Sparagus Garden was acted by the King s Revels Men at the… …
33The Adventure of the Seven Clocks — is a Sherlock Holmes story by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is consulted by a young lady, a companion to an older woman, about the eccentric… …
34The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle — is a children s book series that focuses on the strange adventures of 6th grader Wally McDoogle (He later turns into a 7th grader). Every book is titled My Life as and then the subject of the book. The series is by acclaimed writer Bill Myers,… …
35The Things They Left Behind — is short story by Stephen King, originally published in the compilation Terror s Echo edited by Ed McBain. It is one of three stories in this compilation that are also available on audiobook, read by John Bedford Lloyd.Plot summaryAlmost a year… …
36Cushion Theory — The theory used when many investors have taken a short position in a stock. It is based on the idea that the price of the stock must eventually go up because those short positions must eventually be covered by actual purchases of the stock. As… …
37(the) Woolsack — the Woolsack [the Woolsack] the seat on which the ↑Lord Chancellor sits in the ↑House of Lords in the British parliament. It is a large square cushion filled with wool and covered with red cloth, and it has no back, arms or legs …
38cushion theory — The theory that a stock with many short positions taken in it will rise, because these positions must be covered by the stock. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …
39Cushion caroms — Jacob Schaefer, Sr. tobacco card, circa 1880s Cushion caroms (or cushion carom billiards)[1] sometimes called by its original name, the indirect game,[2] is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth covered, 5 foot ×… …
40cushion — [[t]k ʊʃ(ə)n[/t]] cushions, cushioning, cushioned 1) N COUNT A cushion is a fabric case filled with soft material, which you put on a seat to make it more comfortable. ...a velvet cushion. 2) N COUNT A cushion is a soft pad or barrier, especially …
