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  • Renaissance and the distinction of what they called Primitive Art, by which they meant the art of the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries.

    Art Clive Bell 1922

  • The Methodist Episcopal Church experienced its first division in the year 1791, when Rev. William Hammitt led a dissatisfied faction out of the church at Charleston, S. C., which organized and became known as the Primitive Methodists.

    My life and work, 1885

  • On Thursday, he will bring that project, called "Primitive," to New York's New Museum as a seven-video installation, all filmed in a border town across from Laos called Nabua.

    A Thai Director Dreams of History 2011

  • Watch YouTube clips of The Journey from Zanskar here or call Primitive at 312/575-9600 for more information on attending either the June 26 or 27 screening.

    Esther J. Cepeda: Hoop Dreams Filmmaker Makes The Journey From Zanskar Via Chicago 2009

  • A Colorado state filing lists him as an officer in a company called Primitive Fear, and a Denver newspaper reporter who interviewed him in 2004 for a pre-Halloween story on haunted houses cited him as “co-owner.”

    Clues, But No Answers 2007

  • The minor scale form having minor sixth and minor seventh above tonic to be called Primitive Minor.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • All those sects known as Primitive Christians represent variations of the idea -- Quakers, Mennonites, Communists, Shakers and Dunkards!

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • Strata commonly called Primitive; granite, gneiss and mica-slate (or gneiss oscillating between granite and mica-slate); very little primitive clay-slate; weisstein with serpentine; granite with disseminated amphibole; amphibolic slate; veins and small layers of greenstone.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Strata commonly called Primitive; granite, gneiss and mica-slate

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • Montagna del dio cannibale, La (1978) ... aka Primitive Desires (UK) ... aka Prisoner of the Cannibal God

    Home Theater Forum 2010

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