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Wood was born in Los Angeles, the eldest child of Gerald and Mary Duddy, immigrants from Ireland. [7] Wood's father served in the Irish Army and the United States Air Force as a radar systems engineer. [8] In 1974, Wood graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Los Angeles, an all-girls Catholic high school.
Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942 – January 14, 2016) was an American-Canadian Marxist historian, and one of the primary developers of the Marxist tendency known as political Marxism. Biography [ edit ]
Will Wood is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and comedian. [4] [5] Wood has released four studio albums; Everything Is a Lot (2015), SELF-iSH (2016), The Normal Album (2020), [6] and "In case I make it," (2022). The former two were released as Will Wood and the Tapeworms, Wood's prior band name. He has additionally released two live ...
In wood carving relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood; the same term is also used for carving in stone, ivory carving and various other materials. The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.
Species of ebony include Diospyros ebenum (Ceylon ebony), native to southern India and Sri Lanka; D. crassiflora (Gabon ebony), native to western Africa; D. humilis (Queensland ebony), native to Queensland, the Northern Territory, New Guinea and Timor; and D. celebica (Sulawesi ebony), native to Indonesia and prized for its luxuriant, multi-colored wood grain.
Wood-carving examples of the first eleven centuries of CE are rare due to the fact that woods do decay easily in 1,000 years. The carved panels of the main doors of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill, Rome, are very interesting specimens of early Christian relief sculpture in wood, dating, as the dresses show, from the 5th century. The doors are ...
Robert A. Wood is an American diplomat who is the alternate representative of the United States of America for special political affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of ambassador. Early life and education
Grant Wood's boyhood home, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is listed as one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa. [2]Wood was born in rural Iowa, 4 mi (6.43 km) east of Anamosa, on February 13, 1891, the son of Hattie DeEtte Weaver Wood and Francis Maryville Wood.