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By 1982 Home Interiors had a sales force of 38,000 and gross sales of over $400 million. [4] By 1984 the stated figures were $450 million in sales by a sales force of 39,000, mostly women, who sell door to door and at parties where women socialized as they bought "figurines" and other home decorations.
Children's manga (Japanese: 子供向け漫画, Hepburn: kodomo-muke manga) and children's anime (子供向けアニメ, kodomo-muke anime) refer to manga and anime directed towards children. [1] These series are usually moralistic, often educating children about staying in the right path in life. Each chapter is usually a self-contained story.
PRA ranking exercise being carried out by members of a Farmer Field School in Bangladesh, 2004. Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is an approach used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other agencies involved in international development. The approach aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and ...
[1] The profession of interior design has been a consequence of the development of society and the complex architecture that has resulted from the development of industrial processes. The pursuit of effective use of space, user well-being and functional design has contributed to the development of the contemporary interior design profession.
Cake decorating, the art of making a usually ordinary cake visually interesting; Christmas decoration, festive decorations used at Christmas time; Decorations (John Ireland), a set of three pieces for piano solo composed in 1912–13 by John Ireland
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in the post-war era in Western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. [1]
Preschool (US and UK) from 2 to 5 years old – held in a Nursery School; readiness has to do with whether the child is on track developmentally, and potty training is a big factor, so a child can start as early as 2 years old. Preschool education is regarded by many as important and beneficial for any child as it may give the child ...
It is a convention for American comics that the sound of a snore is represented as a series of Z's, dating back at least to Rudolph Dirks' early 20th-century strip The Katzenjammer Kids. [11] This practice has even been reduced to a single letter Z, so that a speech bubble with this letter standing all alone means the character is sleeping in ...