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11Sanssouci — is the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, at Potsdam, near Berlin. It is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French… …
12Queluz National Palace — The Queluz National Palace ( pt. Palácio Nacional de Queluz) is a Portuguese 18th century palace located at Queluz, a freguesia of the modern day Sintra municipality, in the District of Lisbon. One of the last great Rococo buildings to be… …
13Order of the Occult Hand — The Order of the Occult Hand is a whimsical secret society of American journalists who have been able to slip the meaningless and telltale phrase It was as if an occult hand had… in print as a sort of a game and inside joke. Contents 1 History 2… …
14Jerauld Wright — during its commissioning and fitting out period. [ Warrior among Diplomats , p. 100 101, 105 107; [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s10/sequoia ii.htm USS Sequoia (AG 23)] DANFS Naval Historical Center] Bureau of OrdnanceWright developed an… …
15Abigail Child — is a prolific film/video maker and writer interested in the disjunctions between memory/experience and between sound/image relations. She is also interested in mixing genres in her work and strategies for re writing narrative, as well as… …
16List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Hitchhiker s portal This is a list of races, fauna, and flora (as well as creatures without category) featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy. Contents …
17Fear Itself (comics) — Fear Itself Promotional image by Stuart Immonen. Publisher Marvel Comics Publication date April – October 2011 …
18Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… …
19Clarke, (Sir) Arthur C(harles) — (1917– ) The author of the screenplay (with STANLEY KUBRICK) and novel, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), Arthur C. Clarke is now regarded as one of the most important SCIENCE FICTION authors of the 20th century. Very early in life, Clarke… …
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