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Both before and after the American Civil War (in which he was initially a war correspondent), Strother was a successful 19th-century American magazine illustrator and writer, popularly known by his pseudonym, "Porte Crayon" (French, porte-crayon: "pencil/crayon holder").
Mount Porte Crayon is a mountain in the Roaring Plains Wilderness of the Monongahela National Forest in the northeastern corner of Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. It rises to an elevation of 4,770 feet (1,450 m), the elevational climax of the Allegheny Front .
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South of Mount Porte Crayon and Seneca Creek, the Appalachian structural front is less clearly unified. Pottsville-capped Spruce Mountain , south and east of Seneca Creek, continues the Allegheny Front's geology southward; [ 5 ] this ridge reaches an elevation of 4,863 feet (1,482 m) at Spruce Knob , West Virginia's highest point.
The highest point in the immediate area (just outside the Dolly Sods Wilderness area in the Roaring Plains West Wilderness) is Mount Porte Crayon (4,770 ft or 1,450 m). The summit area around Mount Porte Crayon is the largest flat-topped plateau in Eastern North America containing 5.5 square miles (14 km 2) above 4,500 ft (1,400 m) elevation.
Boy with a Spinning-Top or Child with a Teetotum is a 1738 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, now in the Louvre in Paris, which acquired it in 1907.
Mount Porte Crayon: 4770 / 1454 Yew Mountains: 4705 / 1434 Highest elevation achieved at Red Spruce Knob; highest point along the Highland Scenic Highway-Route 150 North Fork Mountain: 4588 / 1398 Highest elevation achieved at Kile Knob Allegheny Mountain: 4478 / 1365 Highest elevation achieved at Paddy Knob Shavers Mountain: 4432 / 1351
en garde "[be] on [your] guard". "On guard" is of course perfectly good English: the French spelling is used for the fencing term. en passant in passing; term used in chess and in neurobiology ("synapse en passant.") En plein air en plein air lit. "in the open air"; particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. en pointe en pointe