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	Denmark - Culture - Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although the architectural creations of the age were thus mainly concentrated in private building undertakings in Copenhagen, for instance Niels Juels Palæ near Kongens Nytorv (1696), building work was still going on in other parts of the country.
		Greek Antique architecture was the object of considerable interest at this time, and it left its traces for instance in Harsdorff's colonnade (1794) between two of the Amalienborg palaces.
		Architecturally speaking, Tinggården was built in a varied and informal mould, in which the elements of concrete were hidden behind unpretentious and familiar native materials such as wooden cladding and facing walls.
	www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap4/4-2.asp (5802 words)

	Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The terms which we often use to describe "colonial architecture" such as: "Salt Box", "Cape Cod", and "2 story Colonial" and which we see in real estate ads are not house styles but, refer to the shape of the body of the building.
		In fact, the range of our architecture is broad, of many styles and periods, eclectic, and as several owners lived in the same house, maintained and "updated" it, many changes over the years on a given house have enhanced the appearance of the house and maintained the integrity of the original style or did not.
		This is an overview with a focus on the old styles in the center of town and in the farm architecture throughout town.
	www.hollis.nh.us /windowsonhollispast/architecture/houses.html (8747 words)

	Learning Architecture: 02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Architecture has been recognized as one of the learned professions from the earliest times of recorded history, but its roots lie in the prehistoric agricultural revolution, which brought people together in villages, towns and cities and resulted in the rise of specialized occupations.
		Architecture graduates generally are not the source of grants or endowments, nor is there an industry that can benefit by endowing chairs and sponsoring architectural studies.
		Architectural educators have historically resisted calls from practitioners to provide more well-trained graduates who understand how a building is put together, who know how to make technical drawings (as opposed to conceptual sketches), who can communicate coherently orally or in writing, work with others, and manage their time effectively.
	home.comcast.net /~abstover/learning_arch/learning_arch_02.html (7188 words)

	Architecture - MSN Encarta
		These developments reinforced the grip of neoclassicism in England, and the resulting type of architecture became popularly known as the Georgian style.
		In what was to become the northeastern United States, Peter Harrison and Samuel McIntire took their cues from English architects in their own version of Georgian architecture, which was called Federal after the United States won independence.
		French architectural thought had been jolted at the turn of the century by the highly imaginative published projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicholas Ledoux.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578082_9/Architecture_(building).html (1219 words)

	Colonial History & Architecture at the Hammond-Harwood House, Annapolis, Maryland
		The architecture of the English colonies in North America from 1607 to the Revolution is primarily an architecture built by regional artisans and influenced by the locally built environment.
		It is an architecture not designed as a whole from academic sources and not planned and executed by a professional architect.
		Architecture that is the result of an academic tradition and is designed as a coordinated whole, by a professional architect is described as "high-style" or academic.
	www.hammondharwoodhouse.org /History.htm (1087 words)

	Ottoman complexes in Istanbul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It caused the Ottoman architecture to attain a new dimension.
		Central dome in the main space of the building is supported by half domes in the north and the south and by adding triangular domed sections in varying dimensions in the east and the west, thus, a bright and spacious internal appearance in obtained.
		Despite the fact that it is in classical style, it occupies an important place in Turkish architecture with the novelties it has introduced.
	www.turizm.net /cities/istanbul/ottomancomplex.html (978 words)

	Canadian Architexts: Essays on Literature and Architecture in Canada, 1759-2005 - Canadian Poetry
		West Coast architecture that includes one of the most remarkable Canadian architexts of the post-War era: a poetic “Commentary” by the Vancouver writer Earle Birney (1904-95) that was commissioned, in Wade’s words, “to provide the links of criticism, warning and encouragement for the chain of … [architectural] endeavour” stretching into B.C.’s second century (119).
		It is a mark of the architectonic skill of Birney and his editor that this summary poem appears on the recto of the page at the centre of the “Photostory” to signal both the completion of the first and the imminence of the second half of the narrative.
		Nevertheless “Buildings” is Birney’s most elaborate “architectural poem” and, as such, provides a fitting conclusion to the present essay and a salutary reminder of the dangers of ignoring the complexities of the relationship between Modern Canadian poems and buildings to the sources of their inspiration.
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /architexts/essays/the_music_of_rhyme.htm (4552 words)

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		Overview of the Printer Model The model has three basic parts: (1) the flow of a print file into an interpreter and onto the marker, (2) the flow of media through the marker and (3) the auxiliary sub-units that control and facilitate the two prior flows.
		Since the rules by which the printer state is mapped onto the console and vice versa are not standardized, it is not possible to reproduce the console state or the action of console buttons and menus.
		Smith, Wright, Hastings, Zilles & Gyllenskog [Page 38] RFC 1759 Printer MIB March 1995 Feed dimension measurements are taken parallel relative to the feed direction associated with that sub-unit and are in input sub-unit dimensional units (DimUnit).
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc1759.txt (9432 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From 1648 to 1759 was the Baroque and Rococo era.
		A fine example of Danish Rococo architecture is Amalienborg Slot, home of the royal family.
		An example of architecture from this era is Vor Fure Kirke (Church of Our Lady).
	www.macalester.edu /geography/courses/geog261/rclark/architecture.html (225 words)

	Architecure
		Architectural historians say that the several hundred buildings in the Historic Stockade District represent a unique collection of early and intermediate styles.
		Many historic buildings are of a single architectural period, but homes here span three centuries, providing a total history of domestic architecture in America.
		The original building, destroyed in the mid 18th Century, was replaced by the current building in 1759 constructed by the master builder Samuel Fuller.
	www.historicstockade.com /communitycenter/cc_architech.htm (257 words)

	Michael Benedikt Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the intentions of this paper is to inhabit the border zone, as it were, between the informal though useful employments of the concept of space in architecture and urbanism, and a stricter, information-theoretic rendition.
		Rather, space-time and "relativity" were taken as invitations to investigate the extremes of openness, "multi-perspectivalism," dematerialization, and mobility as worthwhile aims for the design of buildings and cities.
		It is quite beyond the scope of this article to rehearse the concepts of space as propounded by architects and architectural scholars during this long history, except to note that it was not until the 1750s that the notion arose that space as such had anything to do with architecture,
	www.utexas.edu /architecture/center/benedikt_articles/cityspace.html (2510 words)

	About Emerson Baker
		Having its origins in prehistoric times, the earthfast architectural practices employed in the Americas in the seventeenth century were directly descended from English peasant homes of the High Middle Ages.
		If semi-subterranean houses can be found in the architectural record of both the Chesapeake and Maine, perhaps it is not surprising to find other forms of earthfast buildings in both regions.
		Thus, while Maine was a land of bountiful natural resources which could mean a comfortable living for hardworking colonists, the political reality may have made seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century settlers reluctant, or indeed, unable to invest much time and money into their homes.
	w3.salemstate.edu /~ebaker/earthfast/earthfastpaper.html (6773 words)

	Sir William Chambers
		Two years later he quitted the sea to study architecture seriously, and spent a long time in Italy, devoting special attention to the buildings of classical and Renaissance architects.
		He was employed to teach architectural drawing to the prince of Wales (later George III), and gained further professional distinction in 1759 by the publication of his Treatise of Civil Architecture.
		He began to exhibit with the Society of Artists in 1761 at Spring Gardens, and was one of the original members and treasurer of the Royal Academy when it was established in 1768.
	www.nndb.com /people/955/000104643 (716 words)

	Sir William Chambers
		He studied architecture in France and Italy and established (1755) his practice in England where he designed decorative architecture for Kew Gardens.
		In classical tyles of architecture the various columnar types fall, in...
		English art and architecture: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries During the 18th cent.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0811269.html (262 words)

	The Composite Order in Treatise on Civil Architecture, 1759
		Architectural treatises like this one included both theory and illustrations and are part of a long tradition that began with the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius.
		During the eighteenth century over 700 architectural books were published in England, including both treatises and pattern books.
		His treatise was very successful and became the standard English architectural text.
	www.ackland.org /art/exhibitions/reasonfantasy/amclendon3.htm (149 words)

	Table of contents for Architectural theory
		Henry Wotton from The Elements of Architecture (1624) 39.
		Joshua Reynolds from Discourses on Architecture (1786) 119.
		John Soane from Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture, V, VIII, and XI (1812-15) Part V The Rise of Historicism in the Nineteenth Century A.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip055/2004030886.html (2605 words)

	Piedmont Counties
		Named for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and third son of King George II, this Northern Virginia county was formed from Stafford and King George counties in 1730.
		Named for Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1758 to 1768, this Northern Virginia county, known for its numerous estates, was formed in 1759 from Prince William County.
		Formed from Orange County in 1749, Culpeper County probably was named for Thomas Culpeper, second Baron Culpeper of Thoresway, Governor of Virginia from 1677 to 1683, whose family long held proprietary rights in the Northern Neck.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/journey/counties.htm (302 words)

	wiki/1759 in literature Definition / wiki/1759 in literature Research
		Her husband William Godwin was one of the most prominent atheists of his day and a forefather of the anarchist movement....
		August 24 : Ewald Christian von KleistEwald Christian von Kleist (March 7, 1715 - August 24, 1759) was a German poet and officer.
		Ewald Christian von Kleist was born at Zeblin, near Koslin in Pomerania.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/1759_in_literature (479 words)

	Quebec city and area : Quebec heritage : Learn about architecture
		It has been said that it is possible to learn the history of a city by examining the local architecture.
		This truism certainly applies to Québec City, whose architectural history can be seen on all the buildings from Place-Royale to the outskirts of the modern city.
		This architectural style was inspired by models introduced by the French who came to New France in the middle of the 17th century
	www.quebecheritage.com /en/architectural.html (633 words)

	Primary Source Microfilm's Online Guides
		Convenient and Ornamental Architecture, Consisting of Original Designs for Plans, Elevations and Sections from the Farm House to the Most Grand and Magnificent Villa.
		Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental, Adapted to this Climate.
		Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern.
	microformguides.gale.com /BrowseGuide.asp?colldocid=3001000&Page=1 (521 words)

	Culpeper Historic District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The county-seat town of Culpeper is significant for its architectural cohesiveness and associations with commercial, military, political, and transportation history.
		Originally known as Fairfax, Culpeper was founded in 1759.
		The district's focal point is the Culpeper County Courthouse, completed in 1874 by Samuel Proctor who crowned it with a fanciful cupola.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/journey/chd.htm (257 words)

	Sir William Chambers
		Brought up in Sweden by Scottish parents, trained in France, a regular visitor to China and India, Sir William Chambers (1726-1796) was by far the most internationally minded British architect of his time.
		Settling in London in 1755, Chambers became a favorite of King George III and went on to hold the highest official architectural offices and to build public and private commissions throughout the British Isles.
		Because of his eclectic neo-Palladian style, seminal Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759), and longterm influence through his numerous pupils, Chambers was regarded as one of the two greatest architects of late eighteenth-century Britain, sharing the honor with the more prolific Robert Adam.
	yalepress.yale.edu /YupBooks/book.asp?isbn=0300069413 (303 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this specification, where 208 only a particular section of one of these references is 209 identified, then the normative reference is to that section 210 alone, and the rest of the referenced document is informative.
		Terminology 464 465 For the purposes of this document, the following terms apply: 466 467 archLSB 468 The architectural part of the LSB Specification which 469 describes the specific parts of the interface that are 470 platform specific.
		ISO POSIX (2003) 1757 1758 An LSB conforming implementation shall provide the 1759 architecture specific data interfaces for Localization 1760 Functions specified in Table 1-12, with the full functionality 1761 as described in the referenced underlying specification.
	freestandards.org /spec/refspecs/LSB_2.1.0/LSB-Core-PPC32/LSB-Core-PPC32_lines.txt (9261 words)

	Why I teach Eclipse
		The Eclipse philosophy is embodied in the technology's architecture: provide a small core that gives developers a consistent way to extend the system's capabilities.
		The plug-in architecture makes it possible for Eclipse to support many languages and paradigms.
		Its architecture allows each plug-in to contribute configurable options with the functionality.
	www.ibm.com /developerworks/rational/library/jun05/pollice/index.html (2727 words)

	IBM to Unveil Developer Tools for Power Architecture
		The move is a step in IBM's program to open up the architecture of its Power microprocessors to enable third-party vendors to build custom chips and software based on the platform.
		IBM officials said the Power Everywhere initiative—while the company will open up the architecture, it will keep control of the core parts of the platform, such as the instruction set—is designed to get Power technology into everything from small handheld devices to a customer's largest enterprise systems.
		Read how businesses are planning their path to a service-oriented architecture and choosing the tools that will help them reach their destination quickly and efficiently.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1592274,00.asp (969 words)

	Jacques Gondouin (Getty Museum)
		The son of the gardener at one of the French king's royal châteaux, Jacques Gondouin rose to become one of the leading Neoclassical architects and furniture designers to the king.
		After studying architecture, he won third place in the Prix de Rome competition in 1759.
		From 1795 he began working again on architectural projects, including a renovation of the palace of Versailles.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=3552&page=1 (203 words)

	Ange-Laurent de Lalive de Jully
		Rectilinear and decorated with motifs from ancient Greek and Roman architecture, this style would become increasingly popular, supplanting the sinuous curves of the rococo.
		Lalive de Jully was an early admirer of Greuze, who showed this portrait of him in the 1759 Salon.
		He was among the first to appreciate the moralizing subjects for which Greuze was primarily known.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg53/gg53-32702.0.html (214 words)

	Scots in Sweden - Eighteenth Century
		The Tottie family came to Stockholm in 1688 with a tobacco dresser named Thomas Tottie, born in 1664 in Jedburgh, where his father was a customs officer.
		Thomas Erskine was born c.1746, of a family that were strong adherents of the Stuart cause, and who had suffered severely from the confiscation of estates after Culloden.
		In 1759 Thomas Erskine, then 13 years old, was in Gothenburg, where he worked until 1765 as a clerk in the offices of George Carnegie.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/sweden/18.htm (2838 words)

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		An implementation of this version of the specification may not 501 claim to be an implementation of the Linux Standard Base unless it has 502 successfully completed the compliance process as defined by the Free Standards 503 Group.
		Since a binary specification shall include information specific 512 to the computer processor architecture for which it is intended, it is not 513 possible for a single document to specify the interface for all possible 514 LSB-conforming implementations.
		Terminology 766 767 For the purposes of this document, the following terms apply: 768 769 archLSB 770 771 The architectural part of the LSB Specification which describes the 772 specific parts of the interface that are platform specific.
	www.freestandards.org /spec/refspecs/LSB_2.0.0/LSB-CXX-IA64/LSB-CXX-IA64_lines.txt (4625 words)

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