These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

William Sansom writes only about Europe in this book and frequently of such familiar places as London, Vienna, the French Riviera and the Norwegian fjords.

However, in the late 15th century, Thomas Malory created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in his Le Morte d ' Arthur, a work based mostly on the French romances.

Jamais vu ( from French, meaning " never seen ") is a term in psychology which is used to describe any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer.

In Old French sources this then became Escalibor, Excalibor and finally the familiar Excalibur.

During these years overseas, Adams became fluent in French and Dutch and became familiar with German and other European languages.

It must be said that the author must have been from a rich enough family to ensure his education was sufficient to the point of being able to read French, and also to have been familiar with the Yorkshire dialect.

Paine would also more than likely have been familiar with Voltaire's mocking wit and the works of other deistic French philosophes.

His difficulties call into question some familiar distinctions, for example between French, German, and English-Scottish thought, and between the Enlightenment and the counter-Enlightenment.

He was already familiar with the work of Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter, who had worked on French translations of Macbeth, La forza del destino and Aida with du Locle, and the three proceeded to spend nine months on major revisions of the French text and the music to create a 4-act version.

In its early stages of development, the clerks who used Chancery Standard would have been familiar with French and Latin, which must have influenced the forms they chose.

Canadians ( French-speaking ), French traders, missionaries, and military personnel were quite familiar with this area during the French era and thereafter.

He spoke fluent English, German, French, and Italian, and was also familiar with Swedish, and Dutch.

: They approach in full aquatic costume, with round blue jackets, striped shirts, and caps of all sizes and patterns, from the velvet skull-cap of French manufacture, to the easy head-dress familiar to the students of the old spelling-books, as having, on the authority of the portrait, formed part of the costume of the Reverend Mr. Dilworth.

It is familiar meat within Jewish, Arab and French cuisine.

He became well-versed in the language of Latin and grew up familiar with the Scots, English and French languages.

This turned out to be a wise move, because when the French company decided not to renew his 5 year contract, no one had of even heard of their product, but everyone was familiar with the names he had registered.

Use of the term is reminiscent of the Spanish Reconquista, with which the French were certainly familiar — and, since it occurred in the context of a war with Spain ( Philip II of Spain was at the time Queen Mary's consort ), might have been intended as a deliberate snub.

Cabinet-makers associated with London-made marquetry furniture, 1765 – 1790, include Thomas Chippendale and less familiar names, like John Linnell, the French craftsman Pierre Langlois, and the firm of William Ince and John Mayhew.

Henry VIII became concerned with the threat of French invasion during 1539 and was familiar with the more modern continental designs.

These offer more-or-less prepackaged solutions to instruct people seeking their own individual betterment, just as " the literature of self-improvement directs the reader to familiar frameworks ... what the French fin de siecle social theorist Gabriel Tarde called ' the grooves of borrowed thought '.

As a student of French literature, Beckett would have been familiar with Victor Hugo ’ s poem La Conscience.

At the Met ( as the Metropolitan Opera was and is often called ) Monteux conducted familiar French works such as Faust, Carmen and Samson and Delilah, with singers including Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Louise Homer and Giovanni Martinelli.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

Rogers has vast U. S. military knowledge and is often shown to be familiar with ongoing, classified Defense Department operations.

Historian S. C. Rowell has described his rise to power as taking place through " the familiar processes of marriage, murder and military conquest.

A number of the other military athletes in attendance were also familiar with the San Diego races, so they understood the concept when Collins suggested that the debate should be settled through a race combining the three existing long-distance competitions already on the island: the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the Around-Oahu Bike Race (; originally a two-day event ) and the Honolulu Marathon.

The government's use of CS gas on women and children angered McVeigh ; he had been exposed to the gas as part of his military training and thus was familiar with its effects.

The original uniform, which has created a familiar image in the public eye and had a very military appearance, consisted of a khaki button-up shirt, shorts, and a broad-brimmed campaign hat.

The county is named not after the familiar Texas military hero but rather after Georgia governor John Houstoun: the variation in spelling is typical of early nineteenth century orthography.

The familiar bronze statue of " The Indian Maiden " on Frost Parkway, near Miami Street, marks the site of Fort Ball, which was a military depot of the war of 1812.

He would have been familiar with the myth, having carried out his military service in 80 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East.

A member of a military family, he broke with familiar tradition doing teaching studies and, after that, licencing in History in the University of Barcelona.

Most are familiar with the military uses of the technology on Laser-guided bomb.

The Han court dispatched Zhang Qian, a military officer who was familiar with the Xiongnu, to the Western Regions in 138 BCE with a group of ninety-nine members to make contact and build an alliance with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu.

He always returned to Kibbutz En Harod — because he felt familiar with the biblical judge Gideon, who fought in this area, and used it himself as a military base.

An operational system to be carried in a reconnaissance version of the F-4 " Phantom " aircraft was quickly devised and was used briefly in Vietnam, where it failed to favorably impress its users, due to the combination of its low resolution ( similar to the UPD-1's ), the speckly nature of its coherent-wave images ( similar to the speckliness of laser images ), and the poorly understood dissimilarity of its range / cross-range images from the angle / angle optical ones familiar to military photo interpreters.

:" This bill proposes to establish at least one college in every State upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil, where all of needful science for the practical avocations of life shall be taught, where neither the higher graces of classical studies nor that military drill our country now so greatly appreciates will be entirely ignored, and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends, studying its familiar and recondite economies, and at last elevating it to that higher level where it may fearlessly invoke comparison with the most advanced standards of the world.

In 1877, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, changed the regiment's name to the now more familiar Scots Guards In 1881, the 1st Battalion deployed to Dublin, Ireland and the following year the battalion, as part of the Guard Brigade, took part in an expedition to Egypt, which came about in response to a revolt led by Urabi Pasha, an Egyptian military officer.

Although the Janissary sound was familiar in Europe during the 18th century, the Classical composers were not the first to make use of it ; rather, the first imitators were military bands.

China was extremely familiar with R & D on German military hardware.

The cursus honorum, a standardized series of military and civil posts suitable for ambitious aristocratic men, ensured that powerful noblemen were familiar with military command.

Until the late 1960s HMRI's Inspecting Officers were all recruited from the Corps of Royal Engineers ; as the Corps ran the UK's military railway system and they would be very familiar with the Railway Rule Book.

When she realizes she needs help from someone familiar with the workings of a military court, she hires Charlie Grimes ( Morgan Freeman ), an embittered former military attorney who has a grudge against the military brass, to assist her.