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Erie J. Sauder (August 6, 1904 – June 29, 1997) was an American inventor and furniture-maker. He invented a knock-down table in 1951 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and founded a company that produced ready-to-assemble furniture—one of the largest in the United States at the time of his death.
An early 19th century southern pine butler's desk from North Carolina.. In England, the butler's desk, a piece of furniture designed for those in service to fine houses to keep documents and records, was eminently practical and based on the ever-growing needs of an increasingly literate group of persons in service.
A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura, in an English translation published in London, 1736 Plan for Palladio's Villa La Rotonda (c. 1565) – features of the house were incorporated in numerous Palladian-style houses throughout Europe over the following centuries.
Computer desks in a Fermilab control room An uncommon office computer desk with the screen under the top The top of a typical home computer desk. The computer desk and related ergonomic desk are furniture pieces designed to comfortably and aesthetically provide a working surface and house or conceal office equipment including computers, peripherals and cabling for office and home-office users.
William L. Sauder, OC, OBC (May 27, 1926 – December 19, 2007) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was formerly the chairman of Sauder Industries Ltd. and International Forest Products Limited .
The arrival at Troy of the Palladium, fashioned by Athena [5] in remorse for the death of Pallas, [6] as part of the city's founding myth, was variously referred to by Greeks, from the seventh century BC onwards.
Palladis Tamia (1598) title page. Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury; Being the Second Part of Wits Commonwealth is a 1598 commonplace book written by the minister Francis Meres.It is important in English literary history as the first critical account of the poems and early plays of William Shakespeare.
A palladium or palladion (plural palladia) is an image or other object of great antiquity on which the safety of a city or nation is said to depend. The word is a generalization from the name of the original Trojan Palladium , a wooden statue ( xoanon ) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy .