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  2. Automat (Hopper) - Wikipedia

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    The painting portrays a lone woman staring into a cup of coffee in an automat at night. The reflection of identical rows of light fixtures stretches out through the night-blackened window. Hopper's wife, Jo, served as the model for the woman. [3] However, Hopper altered her face to make her younger (Jo was 44 in 1927).

  3. Coffee culture - Wikipedia

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    A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857). The earliest-grown coffee can be traced from Ethiopia. [6] Evidence of knowledge of the coffee tree and coffee drinking first appeared in the late 15th century; the Sufi shaykh Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Dhabhani, the Mufti of Aden, is known to have imported goods from Ethiopia to Yemen. [7]

  4. History of coffee - Wikipedia

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    An indication of the approach of Neapolitans to coffee as a social drink, is the practice of the suspended coffee (the act of paying in advance for a coffee to be consumed by the next customer) invented there and defined by the Neapolitan philosopher and writer Luciano De Crescenzo a coffee "given by an individual to mankind".

  5. Latte art - Wikipedia

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    Latte art is a method of preparing coffee created by pouring microfoam into a shot of espresso and resulting in a pattern or design on the surface of the caffè latte, cappuccino or hot chocolate. It can also be created or embellished by simply "drawing" in the top layer of foam.

  6. Carmen Miranda - Wikipedia

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    Carmen conquered 'White' America as no other South American has done or ever would, in an era when it was enough to be 'recognizably Latin and Negroid' in style and aesthetics to attract attention." [ 108 ] Miranda was the first Brazilian artist to gain worldwide fame in the 1950s, and she continued to define South American music in North ...

  7. Symposium - Wikipedia

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    Etruscan paintings show men and women drinking wine together and reclining on the same cushions. [14] The Sarcophagus of the Spouses , [ 15 ] found in the Etruscan region dating to 520–530 BC, depicts a man and women lounging together in the context of a banquet, [ 16 ] which is a stark contrast with gendered Greek drinking parties.

  8. Jazz (design) - Wikipedia

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    Jazz. Jazz is a trademarked design that is featured on disposable cups. [1] The design was introduced in 1992, and is considered an icon of 1990s culture. Jazz has also become a meme and has gained a cult following.

  9. Rotoscoping - Wikipedia

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    During the mid-1990s, Bob Sabiston, an animator and computer scientist veteran of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, developed a computer-assisted "interpolated rotoscoping" process, which he used to make his award-winning short film "Snack and Drink".