In 1852, the district administrator of Quedlinburg placed the Teufelsmauer, " a rock outcrop famous as an object of folklore and as a rare natural curiosity ", near Thale under protection, because the inhabitants of neighbouring districts were using the rocks as a quarry.

Its initial theme of a general-purpose scenic and curiosity park led to one of its most famous attractions, a large whale skeleton, which had been washed up near the coast of The Needles in 1842, and is still a showpiece today.

Palmela is the birthplace of the Portuguese explorer Hermenegildo Capelo and, as a curiosity, where some famous individuals such as Hans Christian Andersen were briefly hosted.

he last of these was of particular significance and Hainhofer acted as agent for the Duke in acquiring art and objects for a Kunstkammer ( curiosity chamber ), and in composing the famous so-called Pommerscher Kunstschrank ( Pomeranian curiosity cabinet ), which was made 1615-1617 and given as a gift to the Duke ; tragically, it was destroyed in a fire at the end of World War II.

A curiosity is the placing of two blue plaques on adjoining houses, numbers 23 and 25, both for famous musicians.

My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work.

Malraux pretends, perhaps with a trifle too self-conscious a modesty, that his fragmentary work will accordingly `` appeal only to the curiosity of bibliophiles '' and `` to connoisseurs of what might have been ''.

Long considered a mathematical curiosity, it was during the 1960s that theoretical work showed black holes were a generic prediction of general relativity.

His curiosity was aroused, however, by organic chemistry, and especially by a course of organic biochemistry, given by F. von Wessely, in which Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins ' work at Cambridge was mentioned.

Nikki's curiosity and her attempts to encourage Ellery to work as a detective are responsible for a number of radio and film plots from the early 1940s.

In modern times, Pope John Paul II called at times for restraining the sciences to work strictly within a Christian ethical framework, and respect the boundaries between what is known by faith versus reason-his " Fides et Ratio " and " Gospel of Life " make some points in common with Al-Faruqi, calling likewise for strong ethical limits and a curtailment of curiosity or " knowledge for knowledge's sake ".

Having come across a camera shop near to his work, he visited frequently with curiosity until he persuaded himself to buy his first camera, a secondhand Kodak box " detective " camera, in 1895.

Lewis's strict implication is now a historical curiosity, but the formal modal logic in which he grounded that notion is the ancestor of all modern work on the subject.

Often, the curiosity value is greater than the artistic worth of a work, as in the case of the anamorphic portrait of Edward VI by William Scrots, Patrick Branwell Brontë's painting of his sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne, or a sculpture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in medieval costume.

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Dick at first forgets about the referral, but after a few months pass and work is going horribly, Dick decides to go to Quitters, Inc. out of curiosity.

However, out of curiosity, the King ( or in some versions, Queen Gundicha ) could not help stealing a glance at Vishwakarma's work.

The critic Lyn Gardner found the work stageworthy, but also doubted the attribution, observing that it was " more of a curiosity than a classic ".

On the second visit he attended a Nazi meeting out of curiosity which influenced his later work on propaganda and its ability to unify a group.

One day, at the stage when the 10th parva of his work was complete, Kumara developed deep curiosity with impatience and wanted to desperately see the narrator.

An earlier date of composition is given by R. A. Lipsius, who theorizes the work was compiled during the latter half of the sixth century, in an unidentified Frankish monastery, for the purpose of satisfying the natural curiosity of Western Christians.

The Ambonese curiosity cabinet-Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Yale University Press ( New Haven, Connecticut ): cxii + 567 p. ( ISBN 0300075340 ) English translation preceded by an account of his life and work and with annotations.

Edwin Alva Sr. paid for Curt's whole college tuition up to six additional college degrees, in exchange for Curt coming to work for Alva Industries, ( in the " Inspiration Factory " program ,) after graduation, with his " own lab, entirely too big a salary, and mandate to indulge curiosity by investigating whatever struck fancy "; and Curt's inventions made Edwin Alva Sr. many millions of dollars.

Woolf's inclusion ignores her frustration at the public's curiosity about the gender of writers, and O ’ Keeffe had similar thoughts, denying that her work had any gendered or sexual meaning.

OHA believes that all children have a natural need to learn, a natural curiosity, and a desire to do work of meaning.

His values-hard work, determination, insatiable curiosity and unassailably scrupulous business practices-form the foundation on which The Olayan Group stands.

" The review ended by saying that, " These are small but tantalizing points which it would not be worth raising in the work of a less distinguished writer than Mrs. Christie ; but they are worth recording, if only as a measure of curiosity and interest with which one approaches her problems and attempts to anticipate their solution ".

Lord Peter Wimsey's manservant Bunter is putting his Lordship's books away and looks with some curiosity at the chosen few left open on the table, including Housman's " A Shropshire Lad ".

Making all of those copies only served to arouse more curiosity in the young adventurer, and in 1627 Sandrart booked a passage on a ship from London to Venice, where he was welcomed by Jan Lis ( whose Bentvueghels bent name was " Pan "), and Nicolaas Ringnerus.

Up until that time, it was viewed with ridicule and looked upon as a curiosity.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

Starting as a curiosity, the speech system of Apple Macintosh has evolved into a fully supported program, PlainTalk, for people with vision problems.

Shepherd has revealed her sexual curiosity and desire in various interviews about having a physical relationship with a woman.

Zola is reluctant to give up his comfortable life, but the evidence she has brought him piques his curiosity.

Paradoxically, checkmate with two knights sometimes can be forced if the weaker side has a single extra pawn, but this is a curiosity of little practical value ( see two knights endgame ).

Recently, pettu has again become available as a curiosity, and some have made claims of health benefits.

Progress in the field has often been fueled by the demands of industry, well ahead of purely academic curiosity.

This is, however, merely a curiosity and has had no impact on the general usage of the word city in the UK, which has unambiguously retained its urban meaning in British English.

He has become a curiosity with some people at court.

The phenomenon has generated news coverage and curiosity seekers.

The plant's strange UFO-like appearance — approximately 500 feet long per side and location in a secluded and heavily wooded area — in satellite imagery on Google Earth has evoked the curiosity of many locals, who have nicknamed the site the " Giant Triangle " and speculated on its purpose.

And, indeed, any one may see that the curiosity of certain men has led them to contrive these speculations, contrary to the intention of Christ.

Ever since Joseph Merrick's days as a novelty exhibit on Whitechapel Road, his condition has been a source of curiosity for medical professionals.

Martin Seligman has said that " As a professor, I don't like this, but the cerebral virtues — curiosity, love of learning — are less strongly tied to happiness than interpersonal virtues like kindness, gratitude and capacity for love.

For all its technical limitations, the crwth has great charm, and is much more than a historical curiosity.

However, while Moore's Paradox has perhaps been seen as a philosophical curiosity by philosophers themselves, Moorean-type sentences are used by logicians, computer scientists, and those working in the artificial intelligence community, as examples of cases in which a knowledge, belief or information system is unsuccessful in updating its knowledge / belief / information store in the light of new or novel information.

In 1850, Keightley noted that the Heinzelmänchen " totally disappeared, as has been everywhere the case, owing to the curiosity of people, which has at all times been the destruction of so much of what was beautiful in the world.

The Prince of Wales has had unsatiated curiosity about him, but in vain.

The growing interest in family history in the media coupled with easier access to online records has allowed people with a curiosity to start to investigate their ancestry.

It is a curiosity that this sketch has become a tradition in Germany, where up to half the population may watch it every year, but it is relatively unknown in Britain and has never been seen on television in Canada or the United States.

Something of a curiosity piece, it has never been repeated since its original transmission, and a DVD release is unlikely due to copyright matters.