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[Retro Yakking] London's National Portrait Gallery could sue Wikipedia user ...: It’s not even as easy as that - if the admin, with permission from the Wikimedia community as a whole, thinks the images do not break any laws and should remain on the site, then Mr. Coetzee can do nothing but continue to press for them to be deleted.

[Tudor Q and A] Tudor Q and A: Question from Caroline - Teerlinc minature of Jane ...: I just re-read online the article from the Telegraph of March 6, 2007 in which Starkey reveals his supposition that this may be lady jane. he mentions the brooch she is wearing as being one in the catalog of Lady Jane's possessions at eh British Library, "being of gold with an agate center and bearing the profile of a classical face." Then he talks of the foliage behind the brooch, the gillyflower, a cabbage relative, that was used as the badge of the Dudley, and that Guildford Dudley's nickname was "Gilly."

[dansteadtraveller.com] Michael Faraday: A specimen of one of these heavy glasses afterwards became historically important as the substance in which Faraday detected the rotation of the plane of polarisation of light when the glass was placed in a magnetic field, and also as the substance which was first repelled by the poles of the magnet. He also endeavoured, with some success, to make the general methods of chemistry, as distinguished from its results, the subject of special study and of popular exposition.

[Diary of an Information Technology call girl] reddragdiva: It was amazing what she could do with her one good arm.: They acknowledge his actions were not illegal in the US, but they think they can sue him in the UK anyway and demand he does certain things with his admin powers on Commons (which have promptly been removed, not at his request). They probably didn't expect the lawyer's letter promptly being put up the moment it was received, and effectively being a press release read by a hundred thousand Wikimedians and a million Slashdotters.

[Suite101: Visual & Performing Arts Articles] Portraits of Great Writers in Modern Art: Paintings of Tolstoy ...: While Repin did produce a formally posed portrait of Tolstoy, he also painted more intimate views of the revered author at work at his desk, as well lying in the grass reading and standing in the woods. Repin’s circa 1890 barefoot depiction of Tolstoy is particularly striking, as it fuses Tolstoy’s literary stature with his innate connection to humanity and the earth.

[Suite101 Articles] 18th-Century European Portraitists: Italian Rosalba Carriera ...: Queen Charlotte (1738-1820) [née Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz], wife of the English King George III, is alleged to have descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. Queen Charlotte was a patroness of the arts, known to both Bach and Mozart among others.

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] The brief version of what I have found about the causes of the ...: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed the existence of the program, first reported in a December 16, 2005 article in The New York Times.[6][7] The Times had posted the exclusive story on their website the night before, after learning that the Bush administration was considering seeking a Pentagon-Papers-style court injunction to block its publication.[8] Critics of The Times have openly alleged that executive editor Bill Keller had knowingly withheld the story from publication since before the 2004 Presidential election, and that the story that was ultimately first published by The Times was essentially the same one that reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau had first submitted at that time.[9] In a December 2008 interview with Newsweek, former Justice Department employee Thomas Tamm revealed himself to be the initial whistle-blower to The Times.[10]

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