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Three hundred Aesop's fables Frontispiece illustration of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. George Fyler Townsend (1814–1900) was the British translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables. He was the son of George Townsend and was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge-DCL 1876. He was Vicar of Barntingham ...
Aesop's Fables, II is a 2005 steel sculpture by Mark Di Suvero, installed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] References
AutoCAD is a 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software application developed by Autodesk. [1] It was first released in December 1982 for the CP/M and IBM PC platforms as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers . [ 2 ]
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AutoCAD DXF (Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format) is a computer-aided design (CAD) data file format developed by Autodesk [2] to enable CAD data exchange and interoperability between AutoCAD on different computing platforms.
The title card of A Close Call. A Close Call is a 1929 animated short film which is part of the early sound cartoon series entitled Aesop's Sound Fables. [1] It was produced by The Van Beuren Corporation and released by Pathé Exchange.
Coloured print of La Fontaine's fable by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, c. 1750. The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. [1] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused.
When the fable figured in 16th century emblem books, more emphasis was put on the moral lesson to be learned, to which the story acted as a mere appendage.Thus Hadrianus Junius tells the fable in a four-line Latin poem and follows it with a lengthy commentary, part of which reads: "By contrast we see the reed obstinately holding out against the power of cloudy storms, and overcoming the onrush ...