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  2. Hope chest - Wikipedia

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    The term "hope chest" or "cedar chest" is used in the United States; in the United Kingdom, the term is "bottom drawer"; while both terms, and "glory box" are used by women in Australia. [1] [2] Today, some furniture makers refer to chests made to hold family heirlooms or general storage items as hope chests.

  3. National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum - Wikipedia

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    Despite this, in 2015, renovations at the museum destroyed hand-painted murals by Padma-Shri Award-winning artist Ganga Devi. In the 1990s, the Crafts Museum commissioned renowned artist and Padma Shri Awardee Ganga Devi to paint the internal walls of a room in the traditional Madhubani style of art. The project, completed over six months, was ...

  4. History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661)

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    Ruins of St. John the Baptist Church in Andheri, built by the Portuguese Jesuits in 1579. Bombay, also called Bom Bahia or Bom Baim in Indo-Portuguese creole, Mumbai in the local language; is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world. It's also the cosmopolitan city centre of the Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area, and the cultural base of the ...

  5. Seaman's chest - Wikipedia

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    Seaman's chests at the Åland Maritime Museum in Finland Seaman's chests from Sild island with the Dannebrog og North Frisias flag. A seaman's chest is a wooden chest which was commonly used by sailors to store personal belongings. They are also known as sea chests, not to be confused with the recesses found in the hull of certain ships.

  6. E. C. Stuart Baker - Wikipedia

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    Blyth's kingfisher painted by Stuart-Baker. Edward Charles Stuart Baker CIE OBE FZS FLS (1864 – 16 April 1944) was a British ornithologist and police officer. He catalogued the birds of India and produced the second edition of the Fauna of British India which included the introduction of trinomial nomenclature.

  7. Johannes Spitler - Wikipedia

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    A blanket chest made between 1800-1805 and painted by Johannes Spitler, on display in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia. Little is recorded about Spitler's life, but he is known to have been born in the community of Massanutten, Virginia, [1] in a portion of Shenandoah County which later became part of Page County. [2]

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