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  2. Twelve Tables - Wikipedia

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    In the book, The Twelve Tables, written by an anonymous source due to its origins being collaborated through a series of translations of tablets and ancient references, P.R. Coleman-Norton arranged and translated many of the significant features of debt that the Twelve Tables enacted into law during the 5th century. The translation of the legal ...

  3. Black-and-white dualism - Wikipedia

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    White often represents purity or innocence in Western culture, [2] particularly as white clothing or objects, can be stained easily. In most Western countries white is the color worn by brides at weddings. Angels are typically depicted as clothed in white robes. In many Hollywood Westerns, bad cowboys wear black hats while the good ones wear white.

  4. Decemvirate (Twelve Tables) - Wikipedia

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    They drafted their laws on ten bronze tables and presented them to the people, asked for feedback and amended them accordingly. They were approved by the higher popular assembly, the Assembly of the Soldiers. There was a general feeling that two more tables were needed to have a corpus of all Roman law. It was decided to elect a new decemvirate ...

  5. List of drawings by Rembrandt - Wikipedia

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    Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper: 14.3 x 16.8 cm: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The drawing is related to the etching B158 : Three Men Being Beheaded: c. 1640: Pen and brown ink, corrected with white; framing lines in pen and brown ink: 15.3 x 22.6 cm: British Museum, London

  6. Trois crayons - Wikipedia

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    As drawing techniques evolved, artists combined red chalk with other chalks, including white chalk. The use of white chalk allowed artists to enhance lighting effects in their drawings. However, since white chalk was barely visible on white paper or parchment, artists began to use a toned background to allow the technique to work effectively.

  7. Monochrome photography - Wikipedia

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    [3]: 5 Monochrome images are not direct renditions of their subjects, but are abstractions from reality, representing colors in shades of grey. In computer terms, this is often called greyscale. [5] Black-and-white photography is considered by some to add a more emotional touch to the subject, compared with the original colored photography. [6]

  8. Black-and-white - Wikipedia

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    In computing terminology, black-and-white is sometimes used to refer to a binary image consisting solely of pure black pixels and pure white ones; what would normally be called a black-and-white image, that is, an image containing shades of gray, is referred to in this context as grayscale. [2]

  9. 291 (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Page 4: Le Coq Gaulois, drawing by Edward Steichen; A Bunch of Keys, visual poem by J.B. Kerfoot; plus several short texts; The cover for this issue is a dramatic black-and-white design by Abraham Walkowitz that presaged Jackson Pollock's techniques of the 1940s. The magazine opens to a two-page spread designed by de Zayas that incorporated ...