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Bookends is the fourth studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by Paul Simon , Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee , the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records .
Lions is a pair of 1893 bronze sculptures by Edward Kemeys, installed outside of the main entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The sculptures are well-recognized public artworks. The sculptures were commissioned by Florence Lathrop Field as a gift to the museum in memory of her late husband Henry Field.
Heavy bookends—made of wood, bronze, marble, and even large geodes—have been used in libraries, stores, and homes for centuries; the simple sheetmetal bookend (originally patented in 1877 by William Stebbins Barnard) [1] uses the weight of the books standing on its foot to clamp the bookend's tall brace against the last book's back; in ...
Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.
Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...
Bookend terrace, an architectural term for a terrace of identical houses, framed at each end by a pair of enlarged houses; Framing device, an element of a story or musical composition occurring at its beginning and repeating at its end; Book end vortices, vortices that form at the ends of a large storm system or derecho
Colleen Hoover's BookTok sensation, It Ends with Us, is finally getting the Hollywood treatment, complete with a star-studded cast. In case you missed it, the best-selling author's romance novel ...
The Hubley Manufacturing Company was an American producer of a wide range of cast-iron toys, doorstops, and bookends. Toys, particularly motor vehicles and cap guns, were also produced in zinc alloy and plastic. The company is probably most well known for its detailed scale metal kits of Classic cars in about 1:20 scale. Starting in 1960 ...