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    The Kneeling Man is a work originally conceived in 1888 by the French artist Auguste Rodin for his The Gates of Hell project. The work's arms and torso...
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    Kneeling is a basic human position where one or both knees touch the ground. According to Merriam-Webster, kneeling is defined as "to position the body...
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    discovery of the Spong Man, which is the earliest known Anglo-Saxon sculpture of a person, was found in Europe's other end, five millennia. The sculpture...
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    Sharps rifle (category Rifles of the United States)
    and superior quality of manufacture, as well as the ease with which it could be reloaded from a kneeling or prone position. At this time however, many officers...
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    Florence. The woman and the kneeling man reference figures from the ancient sculpture Laocoön and His Sons. Bronze reductions of the sculpture, produced in...
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    Encyclopaedia Iranica. The two emperors who are named are shown in the way they are described: Philip the Arab is kneeling, asking for peace, and Valerian...
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    Camille Claudel (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    stages of life: the man who represents Maturity is drawn into the hands of the old woman who represents Old Age and Death, while the young woman who represents...
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    Arts Center at Davidson College, cast in 1972; "The man with the key" figure (Jean d'Aire), on the Sommerro Park in Oslo, Norway; and a bust of Jean d'Aire...
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    both the left and right door panes. Kneeling Female Faun was conceived around 1884 and first cast in 1887. It is found on the left side of the tympanum...
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    Woman on top (category Kneeling)
    while the female partner straddles him, usually in a kneeling position facing either forward or back, and either the man or woman inserts the man's erect...
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    before the Dong Son period, the Red River Delta's inhabitants were predominantly Austroasiatic. Genetic data from Vietnam's Phùng Nguyên culture's Mán Bạc...
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    alone from 260 to 268. He ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century that nearly caused the collapse of the empire. He won numerous military victories...
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    Auguste Rodin (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    sculpture for exhibition, The Man with the Broken Nose, to the Paris Salon. The subject was an elderly neighborhood street porter. The unconventional bronze...
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    20,000), but Rodin would not lower the price. The contract for the commission included that "the genitals of the man must be complete." A previous letter...
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    producer Akiva Goldsman and herself kneeling. Shonda Rhimes posted a photo kneeling with the cast of Grey's Anatomy. The X-Files actors Gillian Anderson and...
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    (1887) Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887) The Sirens (1887) Polyphemus (1888) Standing Mercury (1888) The Kneeling Man (1888) Adonis Awakens (1889)...
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    Seven statues of 7 kneeling man on high poles are meant to represent the 7 continents. In 2007, Catalan artist Jaume Plensa created the contemporary art...
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    list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original...
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    towards the ceiling and resting against the penetrating partner, this is sometimes called the butterfly position. This can also be done as a kneeling position...
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    Sakuntala (Claudel) (category Sculptures in the Musée Rodin)
    1905. The sculpture depicts a young couple, with a kneeling man embracing a woman leaning towards him. It was named after the play Shakuntala by the 4th-5th...
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    Julian Richings (category Alumni of the University of Exeter)
    The same year, Richings played the mysterious, stringy-haired Phil Prosser in Septic Man. In 2014, he starred in the science fiction film Ejecta. The...
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    manuscript is the one used for the original presentation of the text and that the text's composition dates to the mid 13th century (Tesnière 1987). The manuscript...
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    bound man's penis applies electricity to his testicles at Folsom Street Fair. The electricity applied should never be increased suddenly. A gagged man's penis...
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    is the depiction of a man kneeling seiza style, with a large head and a topknot. It was originally a doll enshrined in tea houses or brothels in the Edo...
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    now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It shows a succubus, a demon taking on female form to deceive and seduce human men. The figure kneels in a feline...
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    the other leg. While kneeling, the thighs and upper body can be at various angles in particular: Vertical kneel: where both the thighs and upper body...
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  • The niches of the karnakutas of the first tala contains images of a kneeling man on the left and a kneeling lady in the right. Such a feature is otherwise...
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    Musée Rodin (category Buildings and structures in the 7th arrondissement of Paris)
    defy the norms of his time. Among the works of his youth, Man with a Broken Nose appears out of step with contemporary aesthetic norms, while The Age of...
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    the same rhyton (interpreted as "sworn brothers"), and two sacrificers of a ram. This scene is a representation of a sacred feast where the kneeling man...
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    man stands with his knees and back slightly torqued with feet at least shoulder width apart to expose his anus. A person typically kneels behind the man...
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