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  2. Mountmellick embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Beale, Edgar, The earth between them, Wentworth Books, Sydney, 1975 Boyle, Elizabeth, The Irish flowerers , Ulster Folk Museum and Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University , Belfast, 1971 O'Keeffe, Regina, The Quakers of Mountmellick , FAS and the Mountmellick Development Association, Mountmellick, 1974

  3. Richard Wentworth (artist) - Wikipedia

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    ] In the work Shower, Wentworth attached a small propeller to an ordinary table creating the impression that the furniture is about to take flight. [citation needed] For his 1995 solo show at the Lisson Gallery he created False Ceiling a flock of books suspended by wire from the gallery's ceiling.

  4. 7000 Oaks - Wikipedia

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    The Dia Art Foundation maintain 37 trees paired with stones in New York City and consider this installation of 7000 Oaks one of their 12 locations and sites they manage. [7] In 2007 the artists Ackroyd & Harvey visited Kassel to collect acorns from the original oaks. 100 trees grown from these acorns were exhibited at Tate Modern in London, UK ...

  5. 11 brilliant writers on the books that made them who they are ...

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    IN FOCUS: Anne Enright, Rory Stewart, Adam Kay and more authors from the Hay Festival lineup tell Ellie Harrison about the books that they’ve loved and felt inspired by 11 brilliant writers on ...

  6. Andrew Fountaine (art collector) - Wikipedia

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    On 28 April 1733, [4] there was a terrible destruction of Fountaine's collection of portrait miniatures in a fire at White's Chocolate and Coffee House.Fountaine had rented two rooms at White's to temporarily hold his huge collection of portrait miniatures by Nicolas Hilliard, the Olivers, Samuel Cooper, and others.

  7. The Wild Trees - Wikipedia

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    The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring is a non-fiction book by Richard Preston about California's coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and the recreational climbers who climbed them. It is a narrative-style collection of stories from climbers who pioneered redwood climbing, including botanist Steve Sillett , lichenologist Marie ...

  8. The Large Plane Trees - Wikipedia

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    The Large Plane Trees, also called Road Menders at Saint-Rémy is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889 in Saint-Rémy, France, the painting depicts roadwork underneath autumn trees with yellow leaves. In actuality, "The Large Plane Trees" and the "Road Menders of Saint-Rémy" are two different paintings and are sometimes ...

  9. The Man Who Planted Trees - Wikipedia

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    The Man Who Planted Trees (French title: L'homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953. It tells the story of one shepherd's long and successful singlehanded effort to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the Alps , near Provence ...