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Jones, a gifted architect steeped in the latest European taste, also designed the Queen's House at Greenwich for Anne, one of the first true Palladian buildings in England ; and the Dutch inventor Salomon de Caus laid out her gardens at Greenwich and Somerset House.
A gifted inventor, Muir designed a water-powered mill to cut wind-felled trees, and he built a small cabin along Yosemite Creek, designing it so that a section of the stream flowed through a corner of the room so he could enjoy the sound of running water.
The replacement Blue Beetle created by Charlton Comics, and later published by Americomics and DC Comics, is Ted Kord, a former student of Dan Garrett, a genius-level inventor and a gifted athlete.
Koichi proved to be a gifted inventor who became the first to design and build a complete piano action in Japan.
A maker of more than 3, 000 instruments — almost all of which are numbered — and a fine tradesman, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume was also a gifted inventor, as his research in collaboration with the acoustics expert Savart demonstrates.
After service as a sniper in the Russian army in World War I, he immigrated to the U. S. in the early 1920s, and thereafter lived and worked in the U. S. Papashvily succeeded both as a sculptor and as an author ; he was also a gifted engineer and inventor.

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But Mr. Bragg is a remarkably gifted conductor, and the results he has produced with his boys are generally superior.
After Xavier has sat down and talked with Bobby and his parents, Bobby's parents suggest that he go with Professor Xavier to his " school for gifted youngsters ".
The hero, Nick Haflinger, is a runaway from Tarnover, a government program intended to find, educate and indoctrinate highly gifted children to further the interests of the state in a future where quantitative analysis backed by the tacit threat of coercion has replaced overt military and economic power as the deciding factor in international competition.
There is a letter of recommendation of Raphael, dated October 1504, from the mother of the next Duke of Urbino to the Gonfaloniere of Florence: " The bearer of this will be found to be Raphael, painter of Urbino, who, being greatly gifted in his profession has determined to spend some time in Florence to study.
One critic wrote that he was " A gifted technician who has made a sort of composite facsimile of the Renaissance school, he has every virtue except originality.
Sandra, a gifted surgeon who has studied Dr. Frankenstein's notebooks, has been posing as Wilbur's girlfriend as part of Dracula's scheme to replace the Monster's brutish brain with a more pliable one — Wilbur's.
This character has been characterized as friendly and extremely laid-back but also secretly gifted in business.
Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.
Although the Red Skull has no superhuman abilities, he possesses an intellect and inventive genius on the level of supervillains such as Doctor Doom, and is a highly gifted subversive strategist and political operative.
Today the Perkin Medal is widely acknowledged as the highest honour in American industrial chemistry and has been awarded annually by the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry to many inspiring and gifted chemists.
With its gentle Mediterranean climate, Montecito has long been a desirable location for nursery men and gifted horticulturists.
The Mensa Research Journal, which is published three or more times per year, has featured many articles whose subject matter was talented and gifted children.
The symphony is a piece of program music which tells the story of " an artist gifted with a lively imagination " who has " poisoned himself with opium " in the " depths of despair " because of " hopeless love.
We recognized that he was not only an unusually gifted man, but that he had the indefinable something that marks the man who has worked seriously upon himself ... Knowing Reggie to be a very cautious man, trained moreover in assessing information by many years in the Intelligence Service, I accepted his assurances and also his belief that Shah had a very important mission in the West that we ought to help him to accomplish.
The moment of revelation thus becomes clear for hearing audiences, but has been criticized for setting unrealistic expectations for deaf children to " be like Helen Keller " and speak, when even the most gifted deaf child realistically takes years to utter a comprehensible syllable and a lifetime of speech therapy to maintain the ability.
In general, it is frowned upon to trade Kandi that has been " gifted " to a raver.
" O king, this feast that you have partaken with your kinsmen, has been provided by my calf Nandini ( sometimes referred as Sabala ), who was gifted to me by Indra.
* Sam " Squid " Dullard ( Sam Saletta ; Gary LeRoi Gray ; Sean Marquette ): a native of Kansas, who, while not as athletically gifted as the others, has found a niche as the brains and conscience of the group and also a " rock-solid " goalie when they play hockey (" New Squid in Town ", " Power Play ").
He has gifted artwork to many charitable and environmental organisations including Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society.
The novelist Sebastian Faulks, who also wrote an introduction to an edition of these three novels, calls Green " unique ": " No fiction has ever thrilled me as the great moments in Living and Loving ".< David Lodge calls him " an exceptionally gifted and truly original writer ".
" Noel Gallagher of Oasis has described Coxon as one of the most gifted guitarists of his generation.
Guido has a gifted intellect, and is a talented musical comedy actor and stand-up comedian.

gifted and old
Maybe you are not that gifted either, but how about puttering around with the old paints??
He meets 16 year old Jamal – actor Rob Brown – a gifted, Bronx reared basketball player and aspiring writer, and becomes his mentor.
" Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old, acquiring a reputation as a gifted and single-minded child — and a defiant brawler.
When he was gifted a new izaar, he preferred to wear the old ones he had.
He was 11 years old, and entered Harvard as part of a program to enroll gifted students early.
She was a musically gifted child, and when 10 years old sang " Un bel dì vedremo " in a radio competition ; the tenor Beniamino Gigli warned her, however, that she risked ruining her voice and advised her to give up singing until she was older.
He is a gifted all-rounder who is worthy of a place in either discipline and as a 21 year old, he can only get better and I am really pleased at having him in my squad ".
In 1806, a very old dwarf tree from Canton ( now Guangzhou ) was gifted to Sir Joseph Banks and eventually presented to Queen Charlotte for Her Majesty's inspection.
She used the back of an old Levi's jacket, and the original was gifted to John.
When that parish decided to build a new and larger church the old one became redundant and was gifted to the Cathedral as a Lady Chapel.
A gifted playwright, Belasco went to New York City in 1882 where he worked as stage manager for the Madison Square Theatre, and then the old Lyceum Theatre while writing plays.
His friend, William Winter, collected The Poems and Stories of Fitz James O ' Brien, to which are added personal recollections of this gifted writer by old associates that survived him ( Boston, 1881 ).
On waking, the young king related his dream to his nanny, a wise old woman gifted in interpreting dreams.
Premature, bright and highly gifted intellectually, he was a compulsive reader from childhood and graduated with his bachiller in law at eleven years old, according to his biographer Jose Ignacio de Salas.
In early strips, the Pink Bunny seemed taken by flying old airplanes, and sometimes has seemed to be gifted with insight and stupidity.
* PV2 Avery " Angel " King ( Keith Robinson ) — a gifted singer hailing from a small town in Arkansas, enlisted in a fit of anger at not making a competitive choir, a decision the 20 – year – old devout Christian comes to regret.

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