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A vanity award [1] is an award in which the recipient purchases the award and/or marketing services to give the false appearance of a legitimate honor. [2] [3] Pitches for Who's Who-type publications (see vanity press), biographies or nominations for awards or special memberships can have a catch to them in which the honoree is required to pay for recognition.
The idea that the prices of flowers that grow only in the summer could fluctuate so wildly in the winter, threw into chaos the very understanding of "value". [ 71 ] Many of the sources telling of the woes of tulip mania, such as the anti-speculative pamphlets that were later reported by Beckmann and Mackay, have been cited as evidence of the ...
Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...
The Purple Flower by Marita Bonner, is a one-act play typically considered to be Bonner's masterpiece. [1] Not set in any specific place or time, it is a metaphor for racial issues in the U.S. [2] Bonner was born on June 16, 1899, in Boston, Massachusetts. She had short stories and essays published in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life and ...
Purple Hibiscus. Purple Hibiscus is a novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published on 30 October 2003 by Algonquin Books. Narrated in the first person, Kambili Achike, the central character struggles to find her voice as the daughter of a wealthy, devout Catholic businessman, Eugene who violently abuses his family.
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 paintings that she made over her career. [3]
Betty Sue Flowers (born February 2, 1947) is the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (2002–2009) and an Emerita Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. [1] Flowers is a native Texan and graduated from the University of Texas (BA, 1969; MA, 1970) and the University of London (PhD, 1973).
The Language of Flowers. The Language of Flowers is the debut novel of American author Vanessa Diffenbaugh. It was published in 2011 by Ballantine Books. [1] The novel follows the fraught life of a Victoria Jones, who by the age of 18, had lived in 32 foster homes, and becomes a flower arranger. [2]