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Recumbent may refer to: Recumbence, the act or state of lying down or leaning; Recumbent bicycle, a bicycle, tricycle or quadricycle which places the rider in a reclined or supine position; Recumbent effigy, a tomb sculpture of the deceased; Recumbent stone circles, a variation on the more familiar standard stone circles found throughout the UK
Recumbent Figure 1938 (LH191) [1] is an early sculpture by Henry Moore. It was commissioned by the architect Serge Chermayeff for his modernist villa at Bentley Wood , near Halland , Sussex . At the time it was made, it was Moore's largest stone sculpture.
The region was then part of the Duchy of Burgundy and his father, Jacques, was an adviser and senior official to Duke Philip the Good. [4] [5] Pot was raised and educated at the Burgundian court. He was a scholar and bibliophile. [4] He served during the politically fraught years of the last two Valois dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good (r.
The Senior Warden's Chair has some delicate little emblems introduced in the carving – the Fellow Craft tools and the Senior Warden level, in a supporting ribbon. The Junior Warden 's Chair has been broken and a new top of a different style added on, containing a group of tools.
Another style is the recumbent bicycle. These are inherently more aerodynamic than upright versions, as the rider may lean back onto a support and operate pedals that are on about the same level as the seat. The world's fastest bicycle is a recumbent bicycle but this type was banned from competition in 1934 by the Union Cycliste Internationale ...
Among the famous graves are those of the composer Gustav Holst and the Gothic "Arundel tomb", showing the recumbent Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (1313–1376), holding hands with his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster (1318–1372). The tomb was celebrated in the poem "An Arundel Tomb" by Philip Larkin. Also resting there is Joan de ...
The 5BX Plan For Physical Fitness is composed of six charts arranged in increasing order of difficulty. Each chart is composed of five exercises that are performed within eleven minutes. The first four exercises are calisthenics and the last is an aerobic exercise. As the individual progresses within the system, the number of each type of ...