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Chalkware is an American term for popular figurines either made of moulded plaster of Paris (usually) or sculpted gypsum, and painted, typically with oils or watercolors.
Co-founder Judi Vaillancourt is credited with having developed the process used to create the first contemporary use of chalkware, using a plaster-like substance with confectionery moulds. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Vaillancourt Folk Art has over 3,000 antique moulds that date back as early as 1850.
Morris wrote that his object was to find the balance between color and variety on the one hand and structure. He declared in an 1881 essay, Some Hints on Pattern Designing of the need to "mask the construction of our pattern enough to prevent people from counting the repeats of our pattern, while we manage to lull their curiosity to trace it ...
Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million.. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have been sold for more than US$1 million.
The most famous was probably the Black House of David, an all African-American "Barn-storming" team that played solely against teams of the Negro leagues. The House of David was the inspiration behind the James Sturm graphic novel , The Golem's Mighty Swing (in which the team was called the "Stars of David") as well as Harry Turtledove 's ...
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [9]
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States, with 95.6 million cats owned [198] [199] and around 42 million households owning at least one cat. [200] In the United Kingdom, 26% of adults have a cat, with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats as of 2020.