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2. Wedding invitation - Wikipedia

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   Wedding invitation. A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother ...

3. Symbolist painting - Wikipedia

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   His work Maternity (1891, Popular Bank of Novara) caused great controversy in his country, but earned him an invitation to the Salon de la Rose + Croix in Paris. His style is characterized by a lively chromaticism of intense luminosity and anti-naturalistic aspect: Triptych of the Day (1907, Milan Chamber of Commerce), The Fall of the Angels ...

4. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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   cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.

5. Erasmus - Wikipedia

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   Erasmus syncretistically took phrases, ideas and motifs from many classical philosophers to furnish discussions of Christian themes: [note 92] academics have identified aspects of his thought as variously Platonist (duality), [note 93] Cynical , [214] [215] Stoic , [216] Epicurean (ataraxia, [note 94] pleasure as virtue), [217] realist/non ...

6. Antoni Gaudí - Wikipedia

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   Antoni Gaudí i Cornet [3] ( / ɡaʊˈdi / gow-DEE, / ˈɡaʊdi / GOW-dee, Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; [4] 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. [5] Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, sui generis style. Most are located in Barcelona ...

7. Vampire literature - Wikipedia

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   Vampire fiction is rooted in the "vampire craze" of the 1720s and 1730s, which culminated in the somewhat bizarre official exhumations of suspected vampires Petar Blagojevich and Arnold Paole in Serbia under the Habsburg monarchy. One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire (1748) by Heinrich ...