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Nearly a year before his death, the ailing Mapplethorpe helped found the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. His vision for the Foundation was that it would be " the appropriate vehicle to protect his work, to advance his creative vision, and to promote the causes he cared about ".
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Nearly all ( excepting those where this is impossible by definition, such as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ) note name, year or date of birth, and date of death.
Nearly a thousand Bermudians spent part of the year on the Turks engaged in salt production, and the industry became more productive.
Nearly 2, 000, 000 waterbirds, including 35 species of shorebirds, use Mono Lake to rest and eat for at least part of the year.
* Nearly four centuries later Giorgio Vasari wrote: " Guglielmo, according to what is being said, in year 1174 with Bonanno as sculptor, laid the foundations of the belltower of the cathedral in Pisa.
Nearly half their population died within a year.
Nearly twenty-five million blocks and bricks were manufactured each year to keep up with the high demand.
Nearly two million visitors a year come to Beaufort and the Sea Islands of northern Beaufort County, with spring and fall seasons being peak times.
Nearly 1 year later, he died at the age of 57.
Nearly one year after the fire, the official inquiry determined the cause was the failure, overheating and ignition of one of the electric heaters installed in the conductor's compartments that were not designed for use in a moving vehicle.
Nearly all of the island is covered by a glacier and it is surrounded most of the year by pack ice, making it inaccessible almost all year round.
Nearly a year and a half later, on 26 June 1656 a petition begging for Wildman's release was presented to the Protector by various persons engaged in business speculations with him, and on giving security for £ 10, 000 he was provisionally set free.
Nearly the whole of the year 1818 he spent in Rome, and afterwards he lived for several years at Coburg ( 1820 – 1826 ).
Nearly a year later when writing up his notes on the return voyage he speculated that this, together with what he had been told about Galápagos tortoises, could undermine the doctrine of stability of species.
Nearly a year later, in 1992, version 1. 2 was released which added, among other minor things, a new death animation and Synchronous firing mode.
Nearly another year would pass before the other foreign parties to the conflict signed treaties on 3 September 1783, with that being ratified by Congress on January 14, 1784, and formally ending the American Revolutionary War.
Nearly a year passed before another ship docked at Saint Helena.
Nearly 20 years later, Frieda returned in the 1980-81 academic year as Freddie ’ s little sister.
Nearly a year later, Newell hired Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols, ostensibly to dig a well, and on October 16, 1869 they found the giant.
* Nearly a year earlier in January 1918 Woodrow Wilson had issued his Fourteen Points policy, which seemed to promise that self-government and self-determination would become normal policy in international relations.
Nearly 30, 000 ( 20 %) died in exile during the year and a half by the NKVD data and nearly 46 % by the data of the Crimean Tatar activists.
Nearly every coin the US struck from 1793 to 1825 has an example that was struck in a year other than that which it bears.
Nearly a year later in January 2009, Wal-Mart informed Cott it was terminating a 10-year-old pact under which Cott had been supplying the company with store-branded soft drinks.
Nearly a year after that, it finally became independent on 2 July 1934, albeit 16 years after the British Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) gained its independence as the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).
Nearly and before
Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.
Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.
Nearly forty years were to pass before a comparably ambitious ruler appeared on the Russian throne.
Nearly all early postage stamps depicted the images of national leaders only, but before long, other subjects and designs began to appear.
Nearly the entire presidential line of succession is eliminated ; Ryan, who had just been confirmed as vice-president moments before, narrowly escapes the attack and is immediately sworn in as president.
Nearly 600 die before help arrives.
Nearly a century before Erik, strong winds had driven Gunnbjörn towards a land he called " Gunnbjarnarsker " (" Gunnbjörn's skerries ").
Nearly half a century before in 1875, two other schools for African Americans were organized.
Nearly three decades before directly collaborating with Stockhausen, they designed the cover of the book Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer ( ed.
Nearly 600 years passed before Tirion once again appears in the mythology.
Nearly all duels and battles began with an exchange of arrowfire, before single combat was entered, with sword and dagger.
Nearly all routine radiosonde launches occur 45 minutes before the official observation time of 0000 UTC and 1200 UTC, so as to provide an instantaneous snapshot of the atmosphere.
Nearly all farmers kept pigs, which could often scrounge most of their own food or eat milk left over from making cheese, scraps or slop, and were fattened on acorns in autumn before slaughter.
Nearly two decades later, shortly before the Battle of Yavin, Palpatine found the continued existence of open political dissent a hindrance to his total control, and disbanded the Imperial Senate — sweeping away the last remnants of the Galactic Republic.
Nearly all the trails from the Missouri converged on the Platte River at or before Fort Kearny in mid-state Nebraska.
Nearly all the wartime documentation on Generalplan Ost was deliberately destroyed shortly before Germany's defeat in May 1945.
Nearly four years later, Watson went back to court before District Court Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan for reconsideration of his sentence on February 12, 2008, which was an uncommon situation for the federal court after a defendant had served his time and had been released.
Nearly 2800 Palatine German emigrants were transported to New York by Queen Anne's government in ten ships in 1710, the largest single group of immigrants before the Revolutionary War.
Nearly all pregnancies are viable after the 27th week, and no pregnancies are viable before the 21st week.
Nearly a dozen armed men joined the hijackers before the plane returned to Algiers the following day, Saturday, 15 June, where an additional 65 passengers were released.
Nearly all American mass transit networks operating on the honor system expect their users to buy tickets immediately before use ; regular riders can avoid that inconvenience by buying period passes in advance ( often from the same machines that sell daily or one-time tickets ).
Nearly all of the vehicles, rockets, spacecraft, and spacesuits on display are either authentic or a " flight-ready backup ," which is identical to the item actually flown: if a problem is detected in a spacecraft, rocket, or suit before it is flown, the backup fills in on the mission for the damaged item.
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