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Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic [1] oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet [2] created in 1866. [3] The painting, which depicts a lesbian couple, is also known as The Two Friends ( Les Deux Amies ) and Indolence and Lust ( Paresse et Luxure ).
Beauport was built starting in 1908 as the summer home of interior decorator and antique collector Henry Davis Sleeper.Situated on the rocks overlooking Gloucester Harbor, Sleeper repeatedly enlarged and modified the structure, and filled it with a large collection of fine art, folk art, architectural artifacts, and other collectible materials.
A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade , hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct ...
Pre-war experiments with long welded rail lengths were built upon, and in the years from 1960 long rail lengths were installed, at first on hardwood sleepers but soon on concrete sleepers. For example, the first long welded rail (almost 1 mi or 1.6 km) on the UK's East Coast Main Line was laid in 1957, just south of Carlton-on-Trent , resting ...
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Sleep (Le Sommeil), also known as the Two Friends (Les Deux Amies) and Indolence and Lust (Paresse et Luxure) (1866), by Gustave Courbet. Oil on canvas, 135 × 200 cm (53 × 79 in). Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris