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The industry's scientific consultancy, Ceram, has just recruited seven new scientists to laboratories that started their life as the British Ceramic Research Association, opened in 1951 by a government that was keen to celebrate and protect the country's industrial future and therefore entered grandly through a neo-Greek portico.
Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010
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The Dahesh exhibition displays representations from all of Lecomte du Nouÿ's main themes, including portraiture, travel, history, the neo-Greek tradition, religion, and the Orient.
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About the same time and in the same locality the small islands off the coast of Asia Minor, appeared the earliest collection of neo-Greek love songs, known as the "Rhodian Love-Songs".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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It has resolutely held aloof from mythology, academic allegory, historical painting, and from the neo-Greek elements of Classicism as well as from the German and Spanish elements of Romanticism.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908
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The second stage in the history of Chemistry -- the birth of Alchemy in the Western World -- occurred when the Egyptian practical receipts, the neo-Greek philosophies, and the Chinese dreams of an "elixir vitae" were fused into one by the Arab and Syriac writers.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Mythology, allegory, historic themes, the neo-Greek and the academic are under the ban -- above all, the so-called "grand style."
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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Italian corruption of 'Monemvasia' ([Greek: _monae embasia_] -- a single entrance), the neo-Greek name for the Minoa promontory or island connected by a bridge with the Laconian Coast.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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It will celebrate the £300,000 revamp of the neo-Greek temple on Calton
WN.com - Articles related to RM30mil heritage park to employ latest audio-visual technology 2009
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Beautiful mantles of decorated marble ” neo-Greek designs of fading blacks and palest greens.
Writing a Novel Hardwick, Elizabeth 1973
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Lin_ [38] refers to them as "gude neighbours"; the Gaels [39] term a fairy "a woman of peace"; and Professor Child points out the same fact in relation to the neo-Greek nereids. [
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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