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...Birds. Just as in Holland, where Hals and Rembrandt painted citizen companies of harquebusiers, Polish burghers formed shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient traditions...
...quite-it's the emblem of the Paris cooking school she helps run, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes...
...sign up as many subscribers as possible. At month's end, it will start distributing 100,000 copies to another group of potential purchasers. Then it will follow up with a big promotion campaign, including salesmen decked out in green blazers adorned with the paper's emblem-a blazing...
Outlines of the figure are buried in a subdued brownish-black background, yet gilt buttons streak like dim lights to shape his presence. An elbow clad in rich brocade is flattened almost like a chivalric emblem of elegance, while the face gazes out with insolent indifference...
...stately, rich in emblem and the work...