with prayers, indulgences and other material; the block book was an extension of this form. Block books are very rare, some editions surviving only in...
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Woodblock printing (redirect from Block printing)
by the art term woodcut, except for the block books produced mainly in the 15th century. According to the Book of Southern Qi, in the 480s, a man named...
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"Book review of 'For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies', by Robert Irwin." New Statesman. Eagleton, Terry. Eastern Block (book review...
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Woodcut (redirect from Wood-block)
technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the...
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County Block Book Maps, Volume 54, Pages 294-295. Pinelawn (or Pine Lawn) Blocks 2 (PDF and JPG) and 3 (PDF and JPG). Harris County Block Book Maps. Volume...
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Five studios could no longer block-book short film subjects along with feature films (known as one-shot, or full force, block booking); The Big Five studios...
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"Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures" San Francisco Block Book (1894) page 107 showing Western Addition, Block 60, Louis Levinsky residence (922 O'Farrell Street...
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Illustrated versions of Hero's Mechanica (a book on raising heavy weights) show early block and tackle systems. A block is a set of pulleys or sheaves mounted...
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write a book". Robert Trump filed suit on June 23, attempting to secure a preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order to block publication...
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Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice in the Hollywood studio system from...
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of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences...
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The Latin word codex, meaning a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant 'block of wood'. An avid reader or collector...
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and http://books.tax.hctx.net/v060/AE1997_Vol_60_0048.jpg Harris County block book map: Shadyside: JPG format, PDF format "googlemap_cottagegrove.jpg." (Archive)...
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believe they are creatively "blocked". [unreliable source?] In her 2004 book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain...
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In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity...
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New Kids on the Block (also initialized as NKOTB) is an American boy band from Dorchester, Massachusetts. The band consists of brothers Jonathan and Jordan...
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Third-degree atrioventricular block (AV block) is a medical condition in which the electrical impulse generated in the sinoatrial node (SA node) in the...
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(% Lease) 9051 Triola, 77036" Sharpstown Section 3 Blocks 17–23 (JPG, PDF). Harris County Block Book Maps. Volume 92, Pages 414–420. Retrieved on August...
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Incunable (redirect from Cradle book)
are two types of printed incunabula: the block book, printed from a single carved or sculpted wooden block for each page (the same process as the woodcut...
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Retrieved November 15, 2011. "block book page from the County Recorder-Assessor's Office showing Block 3775 (100 Vara Block 359, i.e., South Park)" (PDF)...
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"Adult Swim Confirms Cartoon Network Classics Returning for New Block". Comic Book. Retrieved August 10, 2023. Schonter, Allison. "Major Classic Cartoon...
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College District. Accessed September 5, 2008. Harris County Block Book maps: "Pecan Park Blocks 60-62, 70-72, 80-85, 90-95, 100, 105, 111-115, 121-123, and...
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Copolymer (redirect from Block copolymer)
p.4 "block copolymer". Gold Book. IUPAC. doi:10.1351/goldbook.B00683. Retrieved 1 April 2024. Hadjichristidis N., Pispas S., Floudas G. Block copolymers:...
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V8 engine (redirect from Small-block V8)
to reduce their space requirements. The classification of 'big-block' or 'small-block' refers to the engine's external dimensions and does not necessarily...
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maximum length; a block size. Data thus structured are said to be blocked. The process of putting data into blocks is called blocking, while deblocking...
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illustrated works, the bestsellers of the day, repeated in many different block-book versions: the Ars moriendi and the Biblia pauperum were the most common...
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Z-Library (redirect from Book Finder)
original on 2022-11-07. Retrieved 2022-11-07. "High Court Orders UK ISPs to Block eBook Sites". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved...
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Blockbuster (redirect from Block buster)
series "Block Buster", an episode of the sitcom The King of Queens Block Busters, a 1944 American comedy film Blockbuster (book), a 2004 book by Tom Shone...
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In statics, the block-stacking problem (sometimes known as The Leaning Tower of Lire (Johnson 1955), also the book-stacking problem, or a number of other...
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Atrioventricular block (AV block) is a type of heart block that occurs when the electrical signal traveling from the atria, or the upper chambers of the...
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