Indeed, the administration's curious position on the sales tax was a major factor in contributing to its defeat.

In the European towns where lace was once a major industry, especially in Belgium, England, Spain ( Camariñas ), northern Portugal and France, lacemakers still demonstrate the craft and sell their wares, though their customer base has shifted from the wealthy nobility to the curious tourist.

Jan Blažej Santini Aichel ( February 3, 1677 – December 7, 1723 ) was a Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent a curious amalgam of the Gothic and Baroque styles.

Typically, such Pagan rites at the site are performed publicly, and attract crowds of curious visitors to witness the event, particularly on major days of Pagan celebration such as the summer solstice.

The evolution of artificial intelligence has allowed major world powers to sign a rather curious treaty: the Moon is divided into national zones ( proportional to each nation's Earth real estate ) and all weapons development and production must be moved there to be handled by factories.

George Martin, The Beatles ' producer, questioned the validity of the major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison " They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with George doing the sixth and the others doing the third and fifth in the chord.

At first, he is curious about what made Esther leave, but later he realizes that troubles with her relationship with her husband may have been a major reason.

The existential graphs are a curious offspring of Peirce the logician / mathematician with Peirce the founder of a major strand of semiotics.

But there is a curious fact, Bareiro appears on a list of the major vendors of mate to the Treasury so far the year 1853 to 1865.

A curious extension of the lex talionis is the death of a creditor's son for his father's having caused the death of a debtor's son as mancipium ; of a builder's son for his father's causing the death of a house owner's son by bad construction ; the death of a man's daughter because her father caused the death of another man's daughter.

By curious coincidence she succumbed to chronic illness prematurely in the same year, 1884.

Nevertheless I was curious.

That was a very absurd and annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s curious methods of handling me.

Rector was often curious ; ;

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.

I was curious to know if Lumumba's death, which is surely among the most sinister of recent events, would elicit from `` our '' side anything more than the usual, well-meaning rhetoric.

And I was curious about the African reaction.

There was, furthermore, the crowd of curious onlookers gathered in the street and a couple more cops to hold them at a decent distance.

They succeeded in eluding the curious at the hotel, but there was no chance of avoiding them at the nightclub.

During World War 2,, doctors in The Netherlands and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping.

Again there was that curious pause, and then her mother said, `` I guess I do.

It was curious how the different visitors took this.

It would not have occurred to her that it was curious for a female to sing bass, baritone, tenor, alto, mezzo, soprano and coloratura as she pleased.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles.

The town had the curious distinction of having the only unemployment benefit office in Britain with the insignia of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom above the door, until the building was closed and redeveloped as housing, but the insignia was retained.

Nothing is known of the biography of the author of the book of Malachi although it has been suggested that he may have been Levitical ( which is curious, considering that Ezra was a priest.

In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.

Emperor Frederick II regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he himself was under a ban of excommunication, leading to the curious result of the holiest church in Christianity being laid under interdict.

He was delighted with the enthusiasm of a born casuist in curious puzzles of right and wrong, and in devising a conflict between the generalities of ethics and the conditions of an ingeniously contrived practical dilemma.

“ It is a curious fact that with ‘ Looking-Glass ’ the faculty of making drawings for book illustrations departed from me, and [...] I have done nothing in that direction since .”

: Such a deliberately re-creative act as Botticelli may have performed with his Birth of Venus would go a long way towards explaining the curious flatness and linearity of the painting, which seem so very out of keeping with the direction of Renaissance art and with Botticelli's own approach to painting.

" In his method, he also mentions that " J. Panormo " of London and " Mr. Schroeder of Petersburgh ", made some guitars under his direction ; but it is curious that he mentions them only in regard to his own guitar design ideas, which are today partly critically viewed.

FitzGerald is better known for his conjecture in his short paper " The Ether and the Earth's Atmosphere " ( 1889 ) that if all moving objects were foreshortened in the direction of their motion, it would account for the curious null-results of the Michelson-Morley experiment.

They are depicted like of those of a knight-errant, wandering from place to place with no particular direction, often facing curious and hostile enemies, while saving certain individuals and communities from them in terms of own self chivalry.

It is described as a round brass ball of “ curious workmanship ” with “ two spindles ,” one of which indicated the direction that his party should travel ().

The dispersion relation for such waves is curious: For a freely-propagating internal wave packet, the direction of propagation of energy ( group velocity ) is perpendicular to the direction of propagation of wave crests and troughs ( phase velocity ).

This curious situation, where an elevation in professional rank is signified by dropping the title of Doctor, came about because historically a " surgeon " was an ordinary workman, usually a Barber, not trained in medicine but performing dissections and surgery under the direction of a gowned academic who was the actual " Doctor ".

The " Winds Code " announcing the direction of new hostilities via a broadcast weather ' forecast ', remains a curious and confusing episode, demonstrating the uncertain meaning inherent in most raw intelligence information, and its handling / mis-handling-and in this case, even uncertainty about the existence of some intelligence information, or of its active removal from official records, especially some years after the event.

Billy Wilder's direction captures the feel of morbid expectancy that always comes out in the curious that flock to scenes of tragedy.

In doing this their management was most curious: they bend down four leaves broader than a man's hand, and place them in such a direction as they choose.

Despite being below 2, 000 ft it is the highest point for about 5 miles in any direction ; a consequence of the curious fact that the centre of the district is lower than the surrounding parts.

It is a curious commentary on the theories of Duns Scotus that one pupil, Francis, should have taken this course, while another pupil, William of Occam, should have used his arguments in a diametrically opposite direction and ended in extreme Nominalism.