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  Strokes Definition / Strokes Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Strokes are an American rock and roll band who formed in New York CityNew York City (officially named the City of New York) is the largest city in the United States and the world's most important center for global finance and communications.
The Strokes were the first band to break into the mainstream as part of the turn-of-the-millennium garage rock trend.
Strokes is a responsive surround-sound and light installation that attempts to evoke some of the human sensory experiences relating to swimming.
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 Stroke Definition / Stroke Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) occurs when the bloodBlood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets).
The latter, hemorrhagic stroke (or intracranial hemorrhage There are several types of intracranial hemorrhage, all of them relatively readily diagnosed by CT. First, basic principles: Normal brain tissue has CT numbers of about 30 HU (white matter) to about 40 HU (gray matter).
stroke is a sudden interruption in the blood supply of the brain.
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 THE FIRST AMERICANS
Engravings upon copper and sea shell ornaments are traced with remarkable skill.
Ornaments worn suspended from the neck, known as gorgets, are beautifully engraved with intricate designs depicting human, animal, and mythical figures, many of them quite conventionalized.
In 1730, a bold stroke of diplomacy on the part of Sir Alexander Cuming (Cumin) won for the English the friendship of the Cherokee.
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 Archaeology Wordsmith
By the mid-5th millennium, the Danubian II cultures (Rössen, Stroke-Ornamented Ware, Lengyel, Tisza) arose.
The remarkable uniformity that characterized the Linear Pottery culture in its core area broke down after c 4000 BC and the cultures that emerged -- Tisza, Lengyel, Stroke-Ornamented Ware, Rossen etc. -- were more divergent in characteristics.
It is most possible that it derived from the Körös culture of the northern Balkans.
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 The Household Cyclopedia - Metallurgy
The oreide melts at a temperature low enough to allow its application to all kinds of ornamentation; it has a fine grain, is malleable, and capable of taking the most brilliant polish; when, after a time, it becomes tarnished from oxidation, its brilliancy may be restored by a little acidulated water.
They include silver-plated ware of different styles and quality; which necessarily produce large quantities of spoiled materials and clippings, the recovery of which has hitherto been very imperfectly accomplished; thus causing annually a considerable loss.
When the acid-bath is fresh, the desilvering proceeds very rapidly, and even with heavy plated ware takes but a few minutes; with the gradual saturation of the bath more time is required, and it is readily perceived when the acid must be renewed.
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 Stichbandkeramik (STK) or Stroke-Ornamented Pottery. © The Comparative Archaeology WEB
Based on stratigraphic evidence and seriation of pottery ornaments, an overlapping succession with regional variation from the Late LBK, Hinkelstein, Großgartach, Plaining-Friedberg, and Rössen is likely (Raetzel-Fabian 1986:45, 47-49, Spatz 1996).
The most characteristic pottery is heavily ornamented in the stroke technique, forming continuous “A-frame” and U-shaped bands around the entire, roughly pear shaped, body of the pot.
They are made of very fatty, carefully mixed clay, and before being ornamented the surface of their walls were carefully smoothed.
www.comp-archaeology.org /STK.htm   (1070 words)

  
 B & C ANTIQUES Directory
Japanese Oribe ware ceramic tea bowl (“chawan”) decorated with a stylized brown iron oxide floral pattern on a cream ground with a thick mottled copper green drip glaze on the upper rim.
Oribe ware, a folk pottery produced in kilns located in Mino and Seto, is particularly Japanese in taste and was never made for export.
He was a tea master who set the standard for tea ceremony ware and changed a utilitarian ceramic industry into one that was primarily concerned with pottery as works of art.
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 Gunston Hall Room Use Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The pair also located a ghost mark of a carving across the fascia of the stair landing; the ghosting showed that the now missing carving was similar to the extant rococo carvings in the spandrels of the double elliptical arch which divides the front and rear portions of the Passage.
Although the ornamentation of the second floor rooms is scant in comparison to that on the first floor, physical remnants and ghost marks proved the existence of unsuspected detailing and color schemes in the seven second floor chambers.
Nearly all the export porcelain fragments were blue and white, with several pieces being of the type described by scholars as Batavia ware, i.e., bowls and cups with blue and white interiors and brown exteriors.
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 Austro-Moravian Painted Ware I
In Austria and Moravia this pottery is called Austrian/Moravian Painted Ware (A/MPW).
The first phase of the Austrian/Moravian Painted Ware (A/MPW I) lasted from about 4700-4500 cal BC (Podborský et al.
Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa, A. The Linear and Stroked Pottery cultures.
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 Danubian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It covers the Linearbandkeramic, stroked pottery and Rössen cultures.
The beginning of the Linearbandkeramic dates to around 5500 BC cal. They appear to have spread westwards up the Danube valley and interacted with the cultures of Atlantic Europe when they reached the Paris Basin.
This was followed by a third wave which used stroke-ornamented ware.
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The flowers ornamenting it were not painted: they were artificial flowers of crepe-silk, and were attached to the top of the lantern.
So the term ittakkiri--meaning "all gone," or "entirely vanished," in the sense of "all told,"-- is contemptuously applied to verses in which the verse-maker has uttered his whole thought;--praise being reserved for compositions that leave in the mind the thrilling of a something unsaid.
Like the single stroke of a temple-bell, the perfect short poem should set murmuring and undulating, in the mind of the hearer, many a ghostly aftertone of long duration.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scientific American Supplement, DECEMBER 19, 1885
This grand 16th century finial is a fine example of French ceramic ware, or glazed terracotta, and it is illustrated both by geometrical elevation and a cross sectional drawing.
This latter shows the clever building up of the structure by means of a series of five pieces, overlapping each other, and kept rigid by means of a stout wrought-iron upright in the center, bolted on to the ridge, and strapped down on the hip pieces.
The cost of drilling is about £1,000, and the mode of procedure is as follows: A derrick being first erected, a 6 inch wrought-iron pipe is driven down through the soft earth till rock is reached from 75 to 100 feet.
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Similar ear ornaments are worn by Kenyahs and some of the Klemantans, but not by Muruts, and by few individuals only among Punans and Sea Dayaks.
The principal ornaments of the women are necklaces and girdles of beads, earrings, and bracelets.
On the upper reaches, where rapids abound, a deck is made by laying split bamboos along the length of the boat upon the benches, and the crew sits upon this deck in paddling, or stands upon it when poling the boat over rapids.
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It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning.
The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility.
An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.
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 Brackenridge's Journal of a Voyage up The Missouri River, in 1811
The chopping was renewed; madam Cuff again appeared, and was saluted as before, but without producing the same effect, as she leisurely crawled down the tree, and attempted to make off, amidst the shouts of fifteen or twenty barbarians, who were bent on the destruction of a mother and her little family.
She was killed with a stroke of an axe, having been previously severely wounded.
The robe is girded round the waist with a broad zone, highly ornamented with porcupine quills, and beads.
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 Klimt
He may approach the applied arts, which exist for his service, with such demands, he may ask such things of the broad mass of artistic production, saleable ware which cater for an existing need.
Art Nouveau less immediately than in the University Paintings, but those of Byzantine and Mycenaean ornament recognized in the decoration of the instrument carried by the figure of Poetry, and the jewelry worn by Excess.
There is a "sideways glance at the German Renaissance in the portrayal of the Knight in Armour." Influence of Hodler seen in the "stylized repetitions of the Choir of Heavenly Angels." See The Chosen One, shown at the twelfth Secession exhibition the previous year.
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 Art & Architecture : The Architecture [Text]
The usual prejudice of labor in favor of untrammeling garments was quite laid aside, the wearing of many overcoats, mufflers and mittens at once was not considered incompatible with the most violent manual labor.
These silhouettes were undertaking the digging of the foundations of the ornamental lamp posts that border this now cheerful and thronged promenade.
As to the tea itself, the judgment of the experts generally is, that no tea can be truly right served in the wholesale and inartistic fashion, but that, on the whole, it is pretty good, though by no means the best that the said experts ever say.
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 grain - Thesaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
render- rough adj.; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
Noun: ornament, ornamentation, ornamental art; ornature, ornateness; adornment, decoration, embellishment; architecture.
Verb: ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize.
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 Lengyel '99 - 2nd Workshop Meeting of IGCP-442
The culture with Moravian Painted Ware (MPW) was already described in the end of the last century (Palliardi 1889) from the town of Znojmo (southern Moravia, at the border with Austria).
The oldest phase MPW Ia corresponds to the stage Lengyel Ia and it is contemporaneous with the middle and young stages of the culture with the Stroke-ornamented Ware.
On the other hand, the phase MPW IIb is compared with the stage Lengyel III.
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 THE WINFIELD COURIER, Starting Thursday, June 24, 1880 to August 19, 1880
The water works boom at Emporia last week was a big thing, and the committee which attended from here say that had we had one of the six streams thrown during the trial test, our late fire could have been subdued without one-tenth of the damage being done.
Miller and Cox have ornamented the front of their building with an immense chromo, the work of artist Herrington representing the "Great Arkansas Valley," with a fat steer right in the middle of it.
The sign is a good one, and will catch many unwary boarding-house men who will be led to believe that the steer on the sign is a fair sample of the beef furnished to their customers.
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 The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon: From Ifugao to Kalinga: A Ride Through the Mountains of Northern Luzon
Gallman, who was trotting immediately in front (and who ought to know his own trails!), called “Ware hole!” just as Bubud put one of his forefeet in it, pitched forward, and threw me over his head, thus establishing a complete breach of continuity between us.
However, as long as the thing had to happen, it was a good place to select, for the trail was four feet wide here, and, in case of going over the side, the drop was only eighty or ninety feet, with bushes conveniently arranged to catch hold of on the way down.
This tribune, by the way, was ornamented with tufts of leaves and grasses at the corners.
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Well, it will soon be over if all be well, and I will gladly put the finishing stroke to it in Dunedin.
For myself the number of ornamented "spurtles" I have made aboard, to make the porridge, was wonderful; these I gave away as fast as I made them and many took them ashore with them so that my handy-work is to be found in many parts of Otago and Southland.
I have heard of a man who was emigrating, who took with him a bundle of sticks, out of which he made walking sticks during the voyage, carving them out in strange styles according to his fancy.
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Tom played with the jeweled dagger that hung upon his thigh; he examined the costly and exquisite ornaments of the room; he tried each of the sumptuous chairs, and thought how proud he would be if the Offal Court herd could only peep in and see him in his grandeur.
He was only an ornamental appendage at this time, and was seldom called to exercise his function; but there had been times, not many generations past, when the office of taster had its perils, and was not a grandeur to be desired.
So he stroked his brow, perplexedly, a moment or two, and presently said: 'Now I seem to remember thee somewhat- but my wit is clogged and dim with suffering-' 'Alack, my poor master!' ejaculated the whipping-boy, with feeling; adding, to himself, 'In truth 'tis as they said- his mind is gone- alas, poor soul!
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When taking a long walk about the town, I found that, although inferior in size, it is a very desirable place for summer residences; being beautifully situated on romantic slopes crowned with elegant and tasty villas.
Canajoharie is regularly and appropriately laid out with wide, well kept and adequately lighted thoroughfares, and many citizens reside in spacious and architecturally ornamented houses.
The streets, from fifty to 100 feet wide, are for the most part ornamented with rows of trees.
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 Olaudah Equiano, b. 1745. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. ...
Each master of a family has a large square piece of ground, surrounded with a moat or fence, or enclosed with a wall made of red earth tempered; which, when dry, is as hard as brick.
ware, ornaments, and instruments of war and husbandry.
They wanted sometimes to ornament me in the same manner, but I would not suffer them; hoping that I might some time be among a people who did not thus disfigure themselves, as I thought they did.
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But the art of the strokes is not all; the art of their combination is that which produces the enchantment, often so as to astonish the Japanese themselves.
It is not surprising, indeed, considering the strangely personal, animate, esoteric aspect of Japanese lettering, that there should be wonderful legends of calligraphy relating how words written by holy experts became incarnate, and descended from their tablets to hold.
The shopkeeper never asks you to buy; but his wares are enchanted, and if you once begin buying you are lost.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
It is a large and fine city, with busy markets, as it is the port from which the wares from India and Sind are despatched to the Iraqs, Firs and Khurasan.
She herself was wearing a garment of gold brocade, encrusted with jewels, with a crown set with precious stones on her head, and her horse was covered with a saddle-cloth of silk embroidered in gold.
On its legs were bracelets of gold and round its neck necklaces set with precious stones, and her saddle frame was covered with gold ornamented with jewels.
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 Carriage Museum of America
The hinges have projecting ornaments, terminating in busts of the Roman emperors, and the carving and other ornaments have a finish that could not be excelled; although an improvement in shape and size is here and there visible, there is an overruling clumsiness about the whole thing which contrasts very forcibly with the modern coach.
On festivals the harness was ornamented with silk fringe.
The imperial coaches were distinguished by having leather traces, but the ladies of the imperial suite were obliged to be content with carriages the traces of which were made of ropes.
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 THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND MUSEOLOGY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The excavation work has focused on the Neolithic settlement of southern Moravia within its European context, and especially on the Bandkeramik, Stroke-ornamented Ware and Moravian Painted Pottery cultures.
The ground plan of a long-house with what is probably an apse attached to one of its shorter sides, the deposition of three almost complete vessels, and a small burial ground are also of interest.
The Middle Neolithic is evidenced by finds of Stroke-ornamented Ware: settlement features interspersed with graves, one of which contained three bodies.
www.phil.muni.cz /archeo/tesetice_uk.html   (482 words)

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