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In the 19th century, Paris green and similar arsenic pigments were often used on front and back covers, top, fore and bottom edges, title pages, book decorations, and in printed or manual colorations of illustrations of books.
The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author.A title can be used to identify the work, to put it in context, to convey a minimal summary of its contents, and to pique the reader's curiosity.
Titres are sometimes expressed by the denominator only, for example 1:256 is written 256. [3] The term also has two other, conflicting meanings. In titration, the titer is the ratio of actual to nominal concentration of a titrant, e.g. a titer of 0.5 would require 1/0.5 = 2 times more titrant than nominal. This is to compensate for possible ...
The first edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, printed in 1962, comprised two volumes.Also printed in 1962 was a single-volume derivative edition, called The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors Edition, which contained reprintings with some additions and changes including 28 of the major authors appearing in the original edition.
The French title of Roman Polanski's film about the Dreyfus affair (in which Zola is a character) is J'Accuse, although its English-language title is An Officer and a Spy. In 2020, French actor David Serero recorded the entirety of the "J'Accuse" text. [25]
Just like kids, animals often times do things we don't expect them to do or do the exact opposite of what they're told. Wesley is a horse with a big personality.
Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. [a] It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known from a second-century papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century.
An employee stabbed a Michigan company's president during a staff meeting, the police said. A suspect, whom fellow employees describe as quiet, left the scene but was subsequently arrested.