He passed his whole life in Paris, however, as the centre of the salon of Mme Doublet de Persan ( 1677 – 1771 ), where criticism of art and literature took the form of malicious gossip.

* Doublet ( clothing ), a man's snug-fitting buttoned jacket that was worn from the late 14th century to the mid 17th century

* Doublet ( lens ), a type of lens, made up of two stacked layers with different refractive indices

* Doublet ( linguistics ), one of two or more words of the same language that come from the same root

* Doublet ( physics ), a quantum state of a system with a spin of ½

* Doublet ( potential flow ), fluid flow due to a source – sink combination

* Pierre Jean Louis Ovide Doublet ( 1749 – 1824 ), a politician and writer from France

The earliest such was that in Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his Masque dating from December 1616, in which Christmas appears " attir'd in round Hose, long Stockings, a close Doublet, a high crownd Hat with a Broach, a long thin beard, a Truncheon, little Ruffes, white shoes, his Scarffes, and Garters tyed crosse ", and announces " Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe?

As reported by editor Ruth Berman ( issue # 1, Inside Star Trek, July 1968, pp. 15 – 16 ), " ardent rock hound and amateur lapidary " Roddenberry came up with the Vulcan philosophy after he presented Leonard Nimoy with a unique " hand-crafted piece of jewelry ," a " pendent " ( sic ) of polished yellow gold ( circle ) and florentined white gold ( triangle ), with a stone of brilliant white fabulite — an artificial gem " developed by the laser industry and used in space mechanisms for its optical qualities ," and thus well-suited as a gift for an actor in a science fiction show.

While there is no question that the poem has elements of medieval allegory and dream vision ( as well as the slightly more esoteric genre of the verse lapidary ), all such attempts to reduce the poem's complex symbolism to one single interpretation have inevitably fallen flat.

Boris Schwarz ( Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia, 1972 ), commented on the Passacaglia's " lapidary grandeur " and the Burlesque's " devil-may-care abandonment ".

Sigla are mostly for lapidary inscription ; in certain late historical periods ( e. g. mediæval Spain ), scribal abbreviations were over-used to the extent that some are indecipherable.

The Anglicanus ortus has since been published, books 1-6 ( on herbs and spices ) as Anglicanus ortus: a Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century ( Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediavel Studies, c2012 ), and books 7-8 ( on gems ) as " Henry of Huntingdon's lapidary rediscovered and his Anglicanus ortus reassembled " ( Mediaeval Studies, v. 68, 2006, pp. 43-87 ), both edited by Winston Black.

His last work, les Amours et nouveaux Eschanges des Pierres precieuses ( 1576 ), is a poetic description of gems and their properties inspired by medieval and renaissance lapidary catalogues.

The speciality of " micromosaics ", developed from the late 18th century in Naples and Rome, in which minute slivers of glass are assembled to create still life, cityscape views and the like, is sometimes covered under the umbrella term of lapidary work.

One aspect in the art of lapidary involves correctly cutting the stone to place the color in a way that makes the tone of the finished gem homogeneous.

Jean d ' Outremeuse or Jean des Preis ( Liège, 1338-1400 ) was a writer and historian who wrote two romanticised historical works and a lapidary.

A lapidary ( or lapidarist ) is an artist or artisan who forms stone, mineral, gemstones into decorative items such as engraved gems, including cameos, or cabochons, and faceted designs, or who is an expert in precious stones ; and can be a collector of or dealer in gems.

The facility offers professional studios for a wide variety of arts, such as fiber arts, pottery, jewelry, lapidary, woodworking, multimedia and blacksmithing.

The name has sometimes been used, incorrectly, to label other banded lapidary materials, such as banded calcite found in Mexico, Pakistan, and other places, and often carved, polished and sold.

In good quality unakite is considered a semiprecious stone, will take a good polish and is often used in jewelry and other lapidary work such as eggs, spheres and other carvings like animals.

The town of Bhera in the historic Punjab province of the Indian subcontinent was known for centuries for finishing a relatively pure form of green serpentine obtained from quarries in Afghanistan into lapidary work, cups, ornamental sword hilts, and dagger handles.

In 1976, Concord High School Junior Wai Lee assembled one of the first 12 Apple Is ( no serial number ), the first Apple Computer in an aluminum housing.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

They also assembled kits for people without soldering skills, especially the " junior Computer " from Elektor ( a copy of the KIM-1 ), and the ZX80 from Sinclair.

The enhanced assembler's source program was then assembled by its predecessor's executable ( A1 ) into binary or decimal code to give A2, and the cycle repeated ( now with those enhancements available ), until the entire instruction set was coded, branch addresses were automatically calculated, and other conveniences ( such as conditional assembly, macros, optimisations, etc.

A Batavian contingent was used in an amphibious assault on Ynys Mon ( Anglesey ), taking the assembled Druids by surprise, as they were only expecting Roman ships.

He assembled a backing band consisting of Tommy Allsup ( guitar ), Waylon Jennings ( bass ) and Carl Bunch ( drums ), and billed them as The Crickets.

Sir Thomas Grenville ( 1755 – 1846 ), a Trustee of The British Museum from 1830, assembled a fine library of 20, 240 volumes, which he left to the Museum in his will.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.

Most of the Mesozoic supercontinent of Pangea was now assembled, although North China ( which would collide in the Latest Carboniferous ), and South China continents were still separated from Laurasia.

Excavated sites include Saliagos and Kephala ( on Keos ) with signs of copper-working, Each of the small Cycladic islands could support no more than a few thousand people, though Late Cycladic boat models show that fifty oarsmen could be assembled from the scattered communities ( Rutter ), and when the highly organized palace-culture of Crete arose, the islands faded into insignificance, with the exception of Delos, which retained its archaic reputation as a sanctuary throughout antiquity and until the emergence of Christianity.

Toward the end of the 18th century, Charles Messier compiled a catalog containing the 109 brightest nebulae ( celestial objects with a nebulous appearance ), later followed by a larger catalog of 5, 000 nebulae assembled by William Herschel.

An enormous coalition consisting of Goths ( Greuthungi and Thervingi ), Gepids and Peucini, led again by the Heruli, assembled at the mouth of river Tyras ( Dniester ).

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

Handloading or reloading is the process of loading firearm cartridges or shotgun shells by assembling the individual components ( case / hull, primer, powder, and bullet / shot ), rather than purchasing completely assembled, factory-loaded cartridges.

He assembled a loose-knit band of Southern sympathizers, including David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell ( also known as Lewis Payne or Paine ), and John Surratt, a rebel agent.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

Some time later, while in the Ivory Coast, Taylor assembled a group of rebels into the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ), mostly from the Gio and Mano tribes.

During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the " Lord President Bradshaw John Bradshaw ( judge ), who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed ; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment.

Defender models are assembled under licence in several locations worldwide, including Spain ( Santana Motors ), Iran ( Pazhan Morattab ), Brazil ( Karmann ) and Turkey ( Otokar ).

It's only necessary that they remain unique, a requirement that is necessary to ensure that, even if a bunch of different messages are joined together as part of a bigger multi-part message ( as happens when a message is forwarded as an attachment, or assembled into a MIME-format digest ), you won't have two parts from different messages with the same content ID, which would be likely to confuse mail programs greatly.

In humans, a similar PIC is assembled with SLI, the promoter selectivity factor ( composed of TBP and TBP-associated factors, or TAFs ), IFs ( transcription initiation factors ) and UBF ( upstream binding factor ).

However, when multiple nucleons are assembled into an atomic nucleus ( nuclide ), these fundamental equations become too difficult to solve directly ( see lattice QCD ).