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  2. Bird in Hand (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Gallagher produced the piece at her studio in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.The painting was acquired by the Tate in 2007 as a gift from an anonymous donor. [1] The painting was exhibited at the Tate as part of a solo retrospective of Gallagher's work in 2013 titled "Ellen Gallagher: AxME".

  3. Bird-in-Hand - Wikipedia

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    Bird-in-Hand Hotel, a historic hotel built in 1852; Bird in Hand winery near Woodside in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia; Bird-in-Hand mine a historic gold mine after which the winery is named; Bird in Hand, a painting by Ellen Gallagher, in the collection of the Tate Modern in London, United Kingdom; Bird in Hand, a play by ...

  4. Ornithology - Wikipedia

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    The use of bird skins to document species has been a standard part of systematic ornithology. Bird skins are prepared by retaining the key bones of the wings, legs, and skull along with the skin and feathers. In the past, they were treated with arsenic to prevent fungal and insect (mostly dermestid) attack.

  5. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy (from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó) 'under' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') shows the relationship between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym).

  6. Huma bird - Wikipedia

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    The Huma (Persian: هما, pronounced Homā, Avestan: Homāio), also Homa or Homay, [1] is a mythical bird of Iranian [2] [3] legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live ...

  7. Bird in Space - Wikipedia

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    The government enlisted Robert Aitken and Thomas Jones as witnesses that Bird in Space was not art. [15] In reply to the court's question as to whether the sculpture was a bird or not, the expert witnesses [16] emphasised that the Bird's 'birdness' [17] was of little relevance. The artists and art experts highlighted the importance of realising ...

  8. Interaction theory - Wikipedia

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    Interaction theory supports the notion of the direct perception of the other's intentions and emotions during intersubjective encounters. Gallagher [7] [8] argues that most of what we need for our understanding of others is based on our interactions and perceptions, and that very little mindreading occurs or is required in our day-to-day ...

  9. Social impact theory - Wikipedia

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    Social Impact Theory was created by Bibb Latané in 1981 and consists of four basic rules which consider how individuals can be "sources or targets of social influence". [1] Social impact is the result of social forces, including the strength of the source of impact, the immediacy of the event, and the number of sources exerting the impact. [ 2 ]