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2. Table-setting - Wikipedia

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   Fanny Brate's 1901 A Day of Celebration shows two girls decorating a table; the background is a painting of an undecorated medieval table surround by waiting diners.. Early dining tables were purely functional; the term "setting the table" originated in the middle ages to describe setting a board on two trestles to provide a temporary surface on which to set food. [4]

3. Phantasmagoria - Wikipedia

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   Interpretation of Robertson's Fantasmagorie from F. Marion's L'Optique (1867). Phantasmagoria (American pronunciation ⓘ), alternatively fantasmagorie and/or fantasmagoria, was a form of horror theatre that (among other techniques) used one or more magic lanterns to project frightening images – such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts – onto walls, smoke, or semi-transparent screens ...

4. Roosevelt Room - Wikipedia

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   The Roosevelt Room is a meeting room in the West Wing of the White House, the home and main workplace of the president of the United States. Located in the center of the wing, near the Oval Office , it is named after two related U.S. presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt , who contributed to the wing's design.

5. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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   The Fraser spiral illusion, or false spiral, or the twisted cord illusion, was first described by the British psychologist Sir James Fraser in 1908. The overlapping black arc segments appear to form a spiral; however, the arcs are a series of concentric circles. Gravity hill: Grid illusion: Any kind of grid that deceives a person's vision.

6. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   This design was in many ways rooted in necessity and emphasizes both form and materials. Early British Colonial American [vague] chairs and tables are often constructed with turned spindles and chair backs often constructed with steaming to bend the wood. Wood choices tend to be deciduous hardwoods with a particular emphasis on the wood of ...

7. Decoration - Wikipedia

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   Interior design, the internal finishing of a building; Link decoration, the style of visual appearance of hyperlinks; Name decoration, a technique used in most programming languages; State decoration, an object such as a medal or insignia that is awarded to certain people; Syntax decoration, a form of enriched text presentation or syntax ...