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  Hans Bol Online
Hans Bol at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Winter Landscape with Skaters, ca.1584/86
Fine art posters are a huge, huge bargain, so don't worry about spending more for the frame than the poster.
All images and text on this Hans Bol page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/bol_hans.html   (219 words)

  
  Manute Bol - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bol's exact birth date and location are not certain, but is believed to be October 16, 1962 in either Turalie or Gogrial, Sudan.
Bol was very active in charitable causes throughout his career, supporting famine relief organizations such as Oxfam and establishing his own charitable foundation, the Ring True Foundation, which aids "the lost boys" orphans in Sudan's long-running civil war.
Bol was thrown from the taxi, suffering multiple injuries, the most severe of which were three broken vertebrae in his neck.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /manute_bol.htm   (828 words)

  
 Manute Bol -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Manute Bol is a (A native or inhabitant of Sudan) Sudanese/ (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop) basketball player and (A militant reformer) activist.
Bol is 7'7" (2.31 m), and before the (Click link for more info and facts about National Basketball Association) National Basketball Association debut of the several-centimeters-taller (Click link for more info and facts about Gheorghe Muresan) Gheorghe Muresan, was the tallest player ever to appear in the NBA.
Bol's birthday is believed to be October 16, 1962 in either Turalie or Gogrial, (A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Sudan.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/manute_bol.htm   (774 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / A long way down
Bol lies in a specially constructed bed to support his 7-foot-7-inch body, which was badly injured in a taxi...
Bol lies in a specially constructed bed to support his 7-foot-7-inch body, which was badly injured in a taxi cab accident June 30.
Bol was returning from a WNBA game at Mohegan Sun to his West Hartford home when the taxi lost control, struck a guard rail on the median divider, and swerved across both lanes before striking a rock ledge.
www.boston.com /sports/articles/2004/09/14/a_long_way_down   (504 words)

  
 Bol Plan
These bols are modeled after the windsocks that Dave Green of Greens kites designed.
Bols have the vents in the leading edge.
Even though these bols are only 4’ in diameter they have a strong pull.
www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Track/8336/bol.html   (820 words)

  
 BOL Terms of Service
BOL is not liable for any damages may caused by the quality of the communication circuit, installation disks/CDs or any other media and/or software, by non-delivery of messages and/or files or delivery to wrong place, or damage to messages and/or files, or damages caused by any other member.
BOL reserves the right to deny membership to any applicant without having to give any explanation, and reserves the right to suspend or cancel the membership and usage of the system to any member who violated or attempted to violate the rules, regulations, and netiquette without having to give any advance notice.
BOL reserves the right to change the rates and details of service without prior notice and the changes may be retroactive according to the order or announcement from BTTB and/or other government authority.
www.bol-online.net /BOL_TOS.html   (1121 words)

  
 No longer standing tall / Former Warrior center Manute Bol reduced to living in poverty
At the height of his career, 7-foot-7 Bol -- who played for the Warriors from 1988-90 and in the '94-95 season -- was the tallest man in the league and arguably the most famous Sudanese man in the United States.
Bol, meanwhile, lives in a modest rented house in a dusty Khartoum suburb with two other wives, a child and 14 relatives.
Bol became a fervent supporter of their cause, lobbying hard on Capitol Hill and generously donating.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/26/SP184245.DTL   (1134 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MINORLH - Bol on thin ice: Ex-NBA star to try hockey
Manute Bol has traded in his basketball sneakers and boxing trunks and now is in a shocking search for a pair of ice skates.
Bol is expected to be in uniform for an appearance with the Ice on Saturday night, but it is unlikely he will play in the game against the Amarillo Gorillas.
Linde hasn't yet spoken to Bol, 40, and admitted that the deal is mainly to generate interest in his team.
espn.go.com /minorlh/news/2002/1112/1460103.html   (626 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - Outside the Lines:
Manute Bol
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SCHAAP- As his NBA career was winding down Bol became the most visible and one of the most vocal critics of the Sudanese government which was again waging war against it's darker skinned, non Muslim citizens in the south.
BOL- I cannot tell you because I don't want him going watching and during fight move away from me. He tried to avoid all of the fight, I mean all of the punches.
BOL- I'm the one that got to live a good life and then forgot I mean what is behind me, you know.
sports.espn.go.com /page2/tvlistings/show110transcript.html   (3530 words)

  
 The Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com
Bol's cousin spotted Manute's potential when he saw his picture in a newspaper.
In 1984, Bol came to the United States and played one season for the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.
In 1997, Bol turned his attention to Sudan, where he was briefly minister of sports and culture.
www.csmonitor.com /durable/2000/03/02/p23s3.htm   (290 words)

  
 Bol - Indian rhythmic mnemonic
It is a series of syllables which correlate to the various strokes of the tabla and are used to define the tal.
In the north (Hindustani sangeet) the tal is actually defined by the bol while in the south (Carnatic Sangeet) it is merely a mnemonic aid to the musician.
For instance there are differences between the bols of the pakhawaj and those of the tabla.
www.chandrakantha.com /articles/indian_music/bol_percussion.html   (391 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NBA - There's no belittling Bol's greater cause
Bol had scored 30 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked 10 shots before leaving the game with a couple minutes to spare in an easy victory for Bridgeport.
And as we passed the bench, I'll never forget the sad eyes of Manute Bol as he looked warily on some big-mouthed teenager who was screaming and pawing for him.
Bol found his way back to the States after fleeing for his life in the Sudan, escaping to Egypt and fighting the government there to reach his children back in Hartford, Conn. Now he sits by the phone and waits for minor league hucksters to call him.
espn.go.com /nba/columns/wojnarowski_adrian/1461591.html   (1018 words)

  
 InterBasket - Manute Bol, Sudan -- Golden State Markets
Bol spent five long years in Africa, dealing with VISA problems and political problems while living in Egypt.
IBN Facts: Manute Bol and Gheorge Muresan of Romania share the record of being the tallest players ever to play in the NBA both playing at 7 feet, 7 inches (2,31 metres).
Bol as he was born the son of a Dinka tribal chief.
www.interbasket.net /players/manute.htm   (455 words)

  
 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was a pupil of Rembrandt in the mid-1630s and in his early work imitated his master's style so well as to create occasional difficulty in distinguishing between them.
The portrait of Elizabeth Bas in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is the best-known instance; it was acknowledged as a Rembrandt until 1911, when it was attributed to Bol, and although this opinion is still generally accepted, there has been renewed support for Rembrandt as the author.
As Bol's career prospered, both as a portraitist and a painter of historical subjects, his style moved away from that of Rembrandt, becoming blander and more elegant in the style of van der Helst.
www.wga.hu /bio/b/bol/biograph.html   (129 words)

  
 BOL's European Retreat
Both BOL and the book clubs are part of the DirectGroup, the end-consumer division of Bertelsmann.
BOL, which had operations in 11 European and five Asian countries, said it expected sales of $79 million (DM180 million) for its fiscal year ending June 30.
Despite its home-grown European and ambitious international roll-out in 1999, BOL was not nimble enough to outrun the Amazon steamroller on its home turf.
www.thestandard.com /article/0,1902,27905,00.html   (901 words)

  
 Bol- Self Portrait
This is one instance Where a painting was taken from Rembrandt and given to a specific pupil.
Bol was already an accomplished painter when he arrived at Rembrandt's workshop and would have been able to contribute to the output of the shop right away.
Bol was a great talent, but his strength lay in his beautiful rendering of detail rather than his ability to convincingly portray figures in action.
www.mystudios.com /rembrandt/rembrandt-pupils-bol.html   (173 words)

  
 Ferdinand Bol. Biography - Olga's Gallery
Ferdinand Bol was born in Dordrecht in 1616.
Bol stayed and worked in Amsterdam till the end of his life in 1680; he painted portraits, historical compositions and sometimes still-lifes.
In his early works the powerful authority of Rembrandt is seen, but already in 1650s he changed his palette to a lighter one.
www.abcgallery.com /R/rembrandt/bolbio.html   (70 words)

  
 Ferdinand Bol (Getty Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bol witnessed a document concerning Rembrandt's wife Saskia's inheritance in 1640, a responsibility that suggests that by then Bol was probably no longer a student but a full-fledged assistant.
Around 1650 Bol's taste drifted to more "modern" trends: his palette lightened, and his figures grew more noble and elegant.
Among Bol's most important works were classicizing Baroque paintings of historical subjects for Amsterdam's new Town Hall.
www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a265-1.html   (196 words)

  
 Hans Bol (Getty Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Renowned for his miniatures, Hans Bol learned his trade from two uncles, who were also painters.
According to Karel Van Mander, Bol's large watercolors were so widely copied that he turned instead to making miniatures in bodycolor on parchment, which he promoted as independent cabinet paintings.
Bol's works combined artifice and naturalism in formats ranging from extensive panoramas to intimate views of the Flemish countryside, usually including small figures enacting a biblical or mythological scene, an allegory, or a genre scene.
www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a3037-1.html   (186 words)

  
 GONZO! Records - BOL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
BOL proved to be a powerful draw in the Southern California scene, performing with Hate Dept., 16 Volt, Clay People, K.D.C. and a host of others.
Offers began to come in for BOL to tour nationally as an opening act for larger artists, but due to family commitments, BOL had to decline.
Soon thereafter, founding member Rob Robinson left the band (to the great disappointment of BOL fans) due to a general lack of interest in BOL and music in general.
members.aol.com /gonzorcrd2/bol.html   (306 words)

  
 Ferdinand Bol (1616 - 1680) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Although he was intended to adopt his father’s career in medicine, Ferdinand Bol instead learned to paint under Jacob Cuyp and Rembrandt.
As Bol’s reputation skyrocketed, he received many prominent portrait commissions as well as opportunities to work on many public buildings.
Bol married sometime around 1669 and abandoned his art career to concentrate on business and political affairs.
www.wwar.com /masters/b/bol-ferdinand.html   (293 words)

  
 BOL Design sample page, point of sale, dispaly units, carts, kiosks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The unit is two sided and can hold a total of 24 different styles of shoe and boot.
This unit was commissioned by Aer Rianta International, and built by BOL Design.
BOL Design Ltd. Unit 100 Baldoyle Industrial Estate, Baldoyle, Dublin 13, Ireland.
www.bol.ie /samples.htm   (510 words)

  
 BOL - Brixton Online Ltd: Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
BOL training, web and technical support teams are specialists in providing cost effective ICT solutions to businesses and the community.
BOL Business Club is a great place to learn together in a pleasant and informal setting.
BOL Business Club is a great place to learn together in a pleasant and informal setting.  Get practical information, answers to your questions and best of all network with other businesses!
www.bol.org.uk /displayPage.cfm?pageID=7358   (184 words)

  
 Jim Johannesen Bol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There is a file available on the CTKiters Yahoo Group available for download that will make planning your own version of the Bol much easier.
Bol Math: When Jim Johannesen designed the triangle Bol, he wanted an 8 foot diameter Bol.
Divide that by the 15 hexagon triangles that rim the Bol, and it comes out to 20.1056 inches.
www.geocities.com /gengvall/2003/bol.html   (367 words)

  
 Rediff Bol - Need Help?
Rediff Bol is the Instant Messenger from Rediff.com.
Unlike a chatroom, with Rediff Bol you know who exactly you are chatting with.
With Rediff Bol, you can also find out instantly if someone who you want to chat with is online.
bol.rediff.com /help/basics.htm   (220 words)

  
 Ferdinand BOL Ferdinand Bol (1616 - 1680) Amsterdam Nationality: Dutch Historical Painter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He initially followed Rembrandt’s style closely and this has led to a number of questionable attributions, as in the case of the ‘Portrait of Elisabeth Jacobsdr Bas’ (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Around 1642 Bol set up his own studio, becoming a citizen of Amsterdam ten years later.
Bol held a number of important public posts and secured profitable commissions through his contacts.
www.palettesofvision.com /Reproductions/Ferdinand_Bol   (244 words)

  
 TLMAXCAP BOL - Bill of Lading Software
If the first BOL shown had six Items instead of only five, the first BOL would print without any item detail and then a second page would print with all of the items.
Using this attachments method, your BOL can be as long as is necessary and you don't have to worry about what forms are currently in the printer -- as long as it's white paper, you are good to go!
The BOL number is automatically generated according to the VICS standard in one of two ways: if you have a UCC/EAN # or not.
www.tlmaxcap.com /BOL/BOLloadreports.html   (1024 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ferdinand Bol (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Ferdinand Bol, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
Ferdinand Bol[fer´dinAnt bOl] Pronunciation Key, 1616–80, Dutch painter.
He studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam, and his early work (e.g., Elizabeth Bas, Amsterdam) has sometimes been confused with that of his master.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bol-Ferd.html   (219 words)

  
 Bruin Online Home Page
Bruin OnLine (BOL) is a collection of services that provides UCLA students, faculty, and staff with:
In order to use Bruin OnLine services, you must have a BOL account.
You can create your BOL account on the Accounts page.
www.bol.ucla.edu   (75 words)

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