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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  3. Susan Kare - Wikipedia

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    Susan Kare (/ k ɛər / "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986. [1]

  4. Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    Foil wallpaper generally has paper backing and can (exceptionally) be up to 36 inches (91 cm) wide, and be very difficult to handle and hang. Textile wallpapers include silks, linens, grass cloths, strings, rattan, and actual impressed leaves. There are acoustical wall carpets to reduce sound.

  5. Paula Scher - Wikipedia

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    Scher designed a new identity and promotional campaign for the New York City Ballet (NYCB), one of the largest and well-known dance companies, founded in 1933 by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine. Scher designed with Lisa Kitchenberg of Pentagram and the NYCB's Luis Bravo, to create an identity that linked the company's legacy and location ...

  6. Elizabeth Eaton Rosenthal - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Eaton Rosenthal, also known as Elizabeth Sweetheart, was born in Nova Scotia in 1941. She is a fine artist, fabric designer and is well known as the "Green Lady of Brooklyn" for her love of the color green, which she wears and decorates her home with nearly exclusively.

  7. Washington Heights, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.

  8. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia

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    This was due to the introduction of mass production techniques and, in England, the repeal in 1836 of the Wallpaper tax introduced in 1712. Wallpaper was often made in elaborate floral patterns with primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) in the backgrounds and

  9. Madison Square and Madison Square Park - Wikipedia

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    The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City that Arose With It. New York: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-38468-5. Berman, Mirian, Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks. (2001) ISBN 1-58685-037-7; Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.