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It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.
A collection of immense importance for its range and quality, it includes objects of all periods from virtually every site of importance in Egypt and the Sudan.
These works form the core of the immense and representative collection of the Musée Picasso in Paris.
In Italy they were able to take-in the ancient ruins again ; this time he purchased several photographs, mostly of the ruins, which began his immense collection of folios with archival material sufficient for the documentation used in the completion of future paintings.
The Museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art are the most comprehensive and important in the West comprising nearly 60, 000 objects, including about 10, 000 textiles and 6000 paintings, the range of the collection is immense.
The advent of the digital age has resulted in an immense collection of written work being catalogued exclusively or primarily in digital form.
Stubbins explains that the full version of Gub-Gub's encyclopedia, which was an immense and poorly organized collection of scribblings written by the pig in a language for pigs invented by Dr. Dolittle, was too long to translate into English.
The Vatican Museums (), in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are among the greatest museums in the world, since they display works from the immense collection built up by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries, including some of the most renowned classical sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.
* The BFG: A 24-foot-tall individual possessed of superhuman hearing and immense speed, whose primary occupation is the collection and distribution of good dreams to children.
An immense collection of cultural sites gives more and more clues as to what and who used to live here.
He was a frequent contributor to Notes and Queries, The Gentleman's Magazine, and other antiquarian publications, and left an immense collection of manuscript materials for a biographical history of Great Britain and Ireland.
Other artifacts within Belcourt include an immense collection of Persian rugs, French royal art and furnishings, Oriental art and furnishings and numerous religious objets d ' art.
Through the donation of an immense book and plant collection numbering in the thousands, he effectively created the botany department at Harvard ; the Gray Herbarium is named after him.
He left his immense library collection to the city of Heraklion in Crete, founding the Vikelaia Municipal Library.
This immense collection of books, documents, and other materials pertaining to the radical and labour movements, particularly in Canada, contains approximately 25, 000 items collected by Robert S. Kenny, who was a member of the Communist Party of Canada.
The song was intended to be a download only release for fans, but due to its immense popularity it was released on the " Shining Light " single as well as on the Cosmic Debris b-side collection.
Rymer's most lasting contribution to scholarship was the sixteen volumes of Foedera he published from 1704 to 1713 ; a collection of " all the leagues, treaties, alliances, capitulations, and confederacies, which have at any time been made between the Crown of England and any other kingdoms, princes and states ," it was an immense labor of research and transcription on which he spent the last twenty years of his life.
For the next two decades he wrote his autobiography and organised the immense collection he had made: notes, pamphlets, newspapers and letters.
Outside on the museum's immense lawn, the Kansas City Sculpture Park contains the largest collection of monumental bronzes by Henry Moore in the United States.
Among the points of interest within it are the old chapel of 1318, with Leopold's tomb and the Verdun Altar, dating from the 12th century, the treasury and relic-chamber, the library with 30, 000 volumes and numerous manuscripts, the picture gallery, the collection of coins, the theological hall, and the winecellar, containing an immense tun like that at Heidelberg.
They published " Bibliothèque des auteurs Grecs ", " Bibliothèque des auteurs Latins ", and " Bibliothèque des auteurs français ", an immense collection of two hundred and fifty volumes.
But in America, these collection programs — notably those sponsored by the Library of Congress — were to have an immense influence on the development of the international popular music industry.
The stimulus for this was David Scott Mitchell ’ s offer of his immense and, at the time, unrivalled collection of Australiana, including the original journals of Abel Tasman, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, to the people of New South Wales.
La Légende des siècles (" The Legend of the Ages ") is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, conceived as an immense depiction of the history and evolution of humanity.

collection and importance
The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.
He also discovered the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, a large collection of cuneiform tablets of enormous importance.
* A large collection of cuneiform tablets of enormous importance approximately 22, 000 inscribed clay tablets
Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.
Also of importance is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals assembled in about 890 in the kingdom of Wessex, which mentions several events in Kent during Æthelberht ’ s reign.
The importance of wheelbarrows for water collection is gradually being reduced by the provision of water taps.
According to Jody Joy, curator of the Iron Age collection at the British Museum, the importance of Lindow Man lies more in how he lived rather than how he died, as the circumstances surrounding his demise may never be fully established.
The word " thesaurus " is derived from 16th-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thēsaurus, which is the latinisation of the Greek ( thēsauros ), literally " treasure store ", generally meaning a collection of things which are of big importance or value ( and thus the medieval rank of thesaurer was a synonym for treasurer ).
Here he emphasized the importance of data collection and statistical evaluation while asserting that such empirical methods have only an auxiliary function and must lead to the formation of theories which would “ raise the harsh facts to the level of consciousness .”
A museum is an institution that cares for ( conserves ) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.
He went on to criticise many aspects of contemporary American society, including the police, whom he felt " are little more than the agents of a corrupt political machine ... whom the collection of revenue and the terrorization of opposition is of far greater importance than the suppression of crime.
In 2012 the museum reported its library collection to contain over 80, 000 items of historic importance ( such as maps, proclamations and rare books ) and a further 254, 000 items of reference material.
It also represented an important turning point for Beebe, because in contrast to his youthful fascination with adding animals to his collection, in this book he was beginning to emphasize the importance of wildlife conservation.
In addition, numerous legacies, donations and purchases have been of crucial importance for the growth of the collection.
We also recommend that a strict and inviolable regard be paid to the wise and judicious councils of the late American Congress, and particularly considering that the experience of almost every day points out to us the danger arising from the collection and movements of bodies of men, who, notwithstanding, we willingly hope would promote the common cause and serve the interest of their country, yet are in danger of pursuing a track which may cross the general plan, and so disconcert those public measures which we view as of the greatest importance.
Of particular importance are the Archives on the History of Christianity in China and the Contemporary China Research Collection, as well as a lantern slide and glass plate negative collection entitled " China Through The Eyes of CIM Missionaries.
These ideas became of particular importance in the Italian peninsula, which was divided up between a number of states, notably the Kingdom of Piedmont to the north, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the south, and in between the Patrimony of St. Peter, more commonly known as the Papal States, a collection of states controlled by the Pope for many centuries.
It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.
The hunting / collection activities soon lost its importance, and a shepherd life began on Velebit.
The museum houses an art collection of world importance, including significant examples of European, Asian, and American art, from paintings and sculpture to tapestries and decorative arts.
By 1822 its collection had over 33, 000 books and its importance for Ukrainians was comparable to that held by the Ossolineum library in Lviv for Poles.
The egg collection was made up of carefully authenticated contributions from knowledgeable contacts and on the authenticity and importance of the collection, E. W. Oates wrote in the 1901 Catalogue of the collection of birds ' eggs in the British Museum ( Volume 1 ):

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