Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volutions Magazine (_volutions Magazine) is a hypermedia online artistic enterprise founded in 2005 by artists and intellectuals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The inaugural edition included poetry, prose, music, painting, and photography.The original founders were UNC graduate students : musician John Ribo (Kapow! Music and member of the Buhanan recording cooperative which also includes artists such as David Karsten Daniels), experimental poet Eduardo Ramos, pen name of Joaquin Bueno, and Brazilian-American poet Marco Alexandre de Oliveira. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vonda Neel McIntyre (born Louisville, Kentucky, on August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author. Vonda N. McIntyre, daughter of H. Neel and Vonda B. Keith McIntyre, earned a degree in biology from the University of Washington in 1970. That same year, she attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, founded at the Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1968. McIntyre went on to do graduate work in genetics.In 1971, McIntyre founded the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, WA with the support of Clarion founder Robin Scott Wilson. She contributed to the workshop until 1973 Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vong Phaophanit (born 1 January 1961, Laos) and Claire Oboussier (born 10 April 1963, London) are artists based in London who have collaborated for the past 25 years. Their studio encompasses a wide variety of media including films, books, large-scale installations and photographic and sculptural works. They have created a number of major groundbreaking public commissions.Born, in Savannakhet, Laos in 1961, Vong Phaophanit was educated in Paris and later studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Aix en Provence, France. He met and married Claire Oboussier while they were both still students, moved to the UK in 1985 and became a British citizen in 1993. Данное издание не...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vong Phaophanit is an artist based in London. Born, in Savannakhet, Laos in 1961, Vong Phaophanit was educated in Paris and later studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Aix en Provence, France. He met and married Claire Oboussier while they were both still students, moved to the UK in 1985 and became a British citizen in 1993. There he began to experiment with a wide range of media subsequently exhibiting widely nationally and internationally. Phaophanit is best known for his large-scale installations which incorporate a wide range of materials including ash, silk, rice, rubber, wax and often light. In 1993 he was short-listed for the Turner Prize and in 1994 was awarded the DAAD fellowship in...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vonn Stropp or Vonn Stropp (1962, Stanwell, England) is the most-used of over 123 pseudonyms used by a visionary painter whose work has been described as "a kind of pre-Raphaelite psychedelia".The son of a schizophrenic Irish father, he often speaks of a dismal childhood. Self-taught artistically, he began at age eleven to have what he described as visionary experiences. After dropping out of school, and working several low-level jobs, he began to paint obsessively. Von Stropp, who now lives in Hounslow, claims that, for him, the experience of painting is very painful, which he compares to crucifixion. An oil painter, with a surrealist style somewhat comparable to that of Salvador Dali, his...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vor of Barrayar are a fictional military caste and essentially the aristocracy of the planet Barrayar in the sci-fi book series the Vorkosigan Saga.On Barrayar, there exist major classes: the Vor and everyone else, occasionally referred to in the books as plebes or proles. Vor status is considered genetic, hereditary, and inescapable. All Vor surnames begin with the syllable Vor-, often prefixed to a recognizable surname from some Earth nation (e.g. Vorsmythe).Because it is an honorific, the prefix Vor- is dropped at the Imperial Service Academy (though not in the service itself) to emphasize the ideal of meritocracy. While the Vor men are generally involved in military or government...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad (often referred to as simply Vor-Tech or Vortech) was an animated television series produced by Universal Animation which aired in first run syndication as part of The Power Block. This show also had a toy line.The VOR-tech undercover conversion squad is a group of secret agents led by Hudson Roarke. Their mission is to stop Lord Matrix, Hudson's older brother, and his evil Bio Mechs (much like the Phalanx creatures in the X-Men comic titles) from infecting the world with a techo-infectious plague. In their battle with the Bio Mechs, VOR-tech agents use special computer systems with VOR-technology that imbue them and their vehicles with special powers....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vorian Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. The ancestor of Paul Atreides, Vorian is a key character in the Legends of Dune trilogy created by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.The Atreides family line goes all the way back to the Greeks on Old Earth. Vorian was the twelfth son of the Titan Agamemnon, one of the twenty Titans who conquered the Old Empire, and was a Human Trustee in Omnius' Machine Empire. He began the family house of the Atreides and was Muad'Dib's ancestor. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Vorlon is a member of a fictional alien species in the Babylon 5 television series and fictional universe. The Vorlon species is a member of the First Ones, a group made up of the earliest species to gain sentience in the galaxy. When in the presence of other species, Vorlons wear encounter suits.Little is known of the Vorlon homeworld other than its name, which is also Vorlon. The atmosphere inside Ambassador Kosh's quarters is unbreathable to humans. The human telepath Lyta Alexander was modified by the Vorlons, however, and was able to breathe the Vorlon atmosphere. Still, it is not sure if the Vorlons need this atmosphere, or any at all for that matter; it has been suggested on the show...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Vorondil the Hunter was the Steward of Gondor between the years 1998-2029 Third Age.He was born in T.A 1919, the son of Pelendur. He was a descendant of Hurin of Emyn Arnen, an earlier Steward of Gondor and the father of Mardil Voronwe, the first Ruling Steward of Gondor. Vorondil was a great hunter, and hunted wild kine in the lands east of the Sea of Rhun. The great Horn of Gondor that Boromir of the Fellowship of the Ring had was descended from Vorondil, an heirloom of the House of Hurin.He died in T.A 2029 and was succeeded by his son Mardil as...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vorres Museum is a diachronic museum of folk and contemporary art in Peania of the East Attica Prefecture, in Greece. Its grounds cover 80 acres including several buildings, gardens and courtyards. Its collection includes over 6000 pieces covering 4000 years of Greek history and art. The museum has been donated by the Vorres family to the Greek state.A museum is a building or institution which houses a collection of artifacts. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vortex is a fictional character in the Transformers universes.Vortex is the most out-and-out sadistic of the Combaticons, and functions as their interrogator. A favorite tactic of his is to trap Autobots in the huge wind funnels he creates in helicopter mode until they tell him what he wants to know. He combines with fellow Combaticons to form Bruticus and forms left arm of this giant super-robot. He uses a semi-automatic glue gun. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vortigaunts are a fictional alien race in the Half-Life series by Valve Corporation. In Half-Life and its three expansions, Vortigaunts are frequently encountered by the player as hostile non-player characters. The Vortigaunts are depicted in Half-Life as being an enslaved race in an alternate dimension called Xen, subservient to a large Xen creature called the Nihilanth, which itself is a slave to undisclosed masters. In Half-Life 2, the Vortigaunts have broken free of their slavery, and actively assist the player and other humans in resisting the Combine occupation of Earth. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vorticism was a short lived British art movement of the early 20th century. It is considered to be the only significant British movement of the early 20th century but lasted less than three years. The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis and others established after disagreeing with Omega Workshops founder Roger Fry, and has roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism. Lewis himself saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism. Though the style grew out of Cubism, it is more closely related to Futurism in its embrace of dynamism, the machine age and all things modern (cf. Cubo-Futurism). However, Vorticism diverged from...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Voss is an opera by Australian composer Richard Meale with libretto by David Malouf. It is an adaptation of Patrick White's novel of the same name. The opera was commissioned by The Australian Opera, and premiered at the Adelaide Festival in 1986.In 1977, impresario and administrator Peter Hemmings, then general manager of the then "The Australian Opera", commissioned Meale to write an opera based on Voss, Nobel Laureate White's 1957 novel.White's novel was predominantly set in Queensland, and appropriately, Meale's librettist for the opera wa Queensland writer, poet and playwright David Malouf.. Malouf completed the libretto in 1978, but Voss would not be performed until 1986. Данное...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vox Lumiere is a Los Angeles-based theater/concert production and company. Vox Lumiere's shows combine the playing of a silent film with the live performance of original songs, dance and music. Vox Lumiere has combined live performance with the following silent films: Metropolis, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Peter Pan and The Phantom of the Opera.Vox Lumiere (“voices of light” in Latin and French) was founded in 2000 by composer Kevin Saunders Hayes. On April 30, 2000, Vox Lumiere debuted the music for its first production, "Vox Lumiere–Metropolis" at the sixth annual Avignon Film Festival in New York City. Данное издание не является оригинальным....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Voz Alta Project (originally named Voz Alta) is a multi-disciplinary art space originally founded in 2002 by the world-famous Taco Shop Poets. The Taco Shop Poets wanted to create a venue that would help in cultivating the next wave of Chicana and Chicano artists in the Border Region. The space has hosted such notable guest as Lila Down, Harry Gamboa, and Howard Zinn.The space is now a multicultural art space. It presents art shows, music events as well as other forms of visual and performing arts. It is a vital contributor to the cultural fabric of San Diego and the surrounding Border Region. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vulca was an Etruscan artist from the town of Veii. The only Etruscan artist mentioned by ancient writers, he worked for the last of the Roman kings, Tarquinius Superbus. He is responsible for creating a terracotta statue of Jupiter that was inside the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, and possibly the Apollo of Veii. His statue of Jupiter, which being made of terracotta had a red face, was so famous that victorious Roman generals would paint their faces red during their triumphal marches through Rome. Pliny the Elder wrote that his works ere "the finest images of deities of that era...more admired than gold." Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! VVV was a magazine devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism, published in New York City from 1942 through 1944. Only four issues of VVV were ever produced (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume). However, it provided an outlet for European Surrealist artists, temporarily displaced from their home countries by World War II, to communicate with American artists. VVV was the direct product of the leading Surrealists of the day. The magazine was edited by David Hare in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst. VVV's editorial board also enlisted a number of associated thinkers and artists, including Aime Cesaire, Philip Lamantia, and Robert Motherwell....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vybz Kartel (born Adidja Azim Palmer January 7, 1976 in Kingston) is a multiple award winning Jamaican dancehall artist/lyricist.Adijah Palmer attended Calabar High School in Kingston but was expelled due to a dispute between him and a gym teacher. He completed his studies at Tutorial College, a private school in Kingston, Jamaica and graduated with English, History, Geography, and Literature at CXC levels. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vyjayanthimala Bali (born on 13 August 1936, in present day Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian actress of the 1950s and '60s, who won a large number of awards for her acting and classical dancing achievements. Following her cinema career, she entered Indian politics, and became a Member of Parliament. Born in Madras in a Tamil family; she did her schooling at Sacred Heart Church Park Convent, Chennai. She trained in Bharatnatyam, a South Indian genre of classical dancing. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vytautas Kolesnikovas (born on September 25, 1948 in Alytus, Lithuania) is a painter, graphic artist, politician, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.From 1968 to 1974 Kolesnikovas studied art in Moscow. After returning to Lithuania he worked at several regional firms in Alytus and presented his artwork at several exhibitions. In 1988 he joined activities of the S?j?dis movement and was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR. Kolesnikovas was a member of the Commission of Science, Education, and Culture in the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! V–J day in Times Square is a famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young woman in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was originally published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the country that were presented in a twelve-page section called Victory. A two-page spread faces three other kissing poses among celebrators in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, and Miami, Florida opposite Eisenstaedt's, which is given a full page display. Kissing was a favorite pose encouraged by media photographers of service personnel during the war, but Eisenstaedt was photographing a...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! W!LD RICE was founded in 2000 by Ivan Heng and is recognised as one of Singapore's leading professional theatre companies. The company takes its inspiration from the multicultural societies that make up Singapore and modern Asia, celebrating their diverse cultures and performance styles.W!LD RICE's creative work is first and foremost a celebration of Singapore talent. By producing and touring glocal productions that are distinctively local in flavour and yet universal in vision and concerns, the company creates shared experiences for audiences in Singapore and around the World.W!LD RICE is committed to touring its shows internationally to raise the profile of Singapore theatre, to create an...
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