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...technical skill-pieced or appliqued quilting, trapunto, flame stitch, crewelwork, embroidery with pearls and beads, stumpwork, petit point and even the intricate and demanding form of needlework with composite materials (silk floss, gold and silver thread, jewels) known in the 13th and 14th centuries as "English work," opus anglica-num. Each runner is fashioned from materials that are painstakingly appropriate to the woman being commemorated. For Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide and interpreter, hand-tanned deerskins are stitched together in traditional

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...next series includes the coins of the period before England became united under one king. An interesting coin in this group is that of St. Edmund. This was probably struck for circulation in East Anglica about 900. Hawkins attributes this coin to Cohric who ruled East Anglica from 890 to 905. Another coin of particular interest is one of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE COINS OF EARLY ENGLAND ON EXHIBIT AT NEW FOGG MUSEUM | 9/27/1930 | See Source »

...unum, et porro melius quam Camus vel Isis, in antiquo mundo. Calculamus, facto, Europam est effetan; ut Bretus Hartius - auctor "Pagani Mongoliensis' - dicit, 'Caucasianus (Europiensis) exluditur." Haec est maxima et liberrima et grandiosissima Respublica que unquam existavit, et nostra Universitas potest facile flaggelare omnem creationem. Yoicks! (expresso Anglica...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Boom in Foreign Tongues. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

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