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The miniature city was named after George Maduro, a Jewish law student from Curaçao who fought the Nazi occupation forces as a member of the Dutch resistance and died at Dachau concentration camp in 1945.
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The values and talents which made the tile and the dome, the rug, the poem and the miniature, continue in certain social institutions which rise above the ordinary life of this city, as the great buildings rise above blank walls and dirty lanes.
He later found an outlet for his skills by drawing cartoons for the newspaper of the Boys Brotherhood Republic, a " miniature city " on East 3rd Street where street kids ran their own government.
The Surrender of Kandahar, a miniature painting from the Padshahnama depicting the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's successful capture of the city in the year 1638.
* Madurodam is a miniature city, containing hundreds of scale-models of Dutch landmarks in a typically Dutch miniature landscape.
Culturally, as the Sorbonne and Louvre are both establishing extensions in the UAE, a plan is in the works to recreate a miniature Lyon city in Dubai complete with public squares, restaurants and museums.
* Limbourg brothers, ( Herman, Paul, and Johan ; 1385 – 1416 ), Dutch Renaissance miniature painters from the city of Nijmegen.
Among the effects used are miniatures of the city, a camera on a swing, and most notably, the Schüfftan process, in which mirrors are used to create the illusion that actors are occupying miniature sets.
The demonstrators set up an encampment which at one point consisted of " a miniature city " with as many as 150 tents.
The unifying element of this miniature confederation was, among others, the rural municipalities and the forty-member city council.
* The miniature city Madurodam
Portions of Minas Tirith were constructed as full-scale sets, and the whole city as a very large, highly detailed miniature or " bigature " by Weta Workshop.
Other tourist destinations in the Netherlands are cities like the royal seat, The Hague, with its city centre, beaches and Madurodam ( miniature city ).
People attend the event from all over the city and even travel from other cities inside Bolivia to buy miniature versions of goods they would like to give to somebody else.
Two zoos lie within the outskirts of the city, as well as a miniature village, a tourist railway and a national park.
Madurodam is a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague, in the Netherlands.
1385 – 1416 ), were famous Dutch miniature painters from the city of Nijmegen.
Dar es Salaam evolved into " the showcase city of all of tropical Africa ," Lome grew into the " prettiest town in west Africa ," and Tsingtao in China was in miniature as German a city as Hamburg or Bremen.
As projects get bigger, he goes on to argue, the buildings should not get bigger, but divide up ; thus, for instance, in his unrealised scheme for a school in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ( 1978 ), France, the school became a “ city in miniature ”.
Directed and produced by Gina Birch and Simon Tyszko, the video depicts a motorcycle ride through city streets at night, viewed through two side-by-side shots filmed with sub miniature video cameras mounted in boots.
A Persian language | Persian manuscript from the 15th century describing the constructing of Al-Khornaq castle In Al-Hira, the Lakhmids capital city, miniature painting by Kamal-ud-din Bihzad | Behzad
They like to make their webs in shrubby woodlands in large communities of spiders with each individual web connected together into a miniature spider city ( pictured below ).
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The ghetto, a miniature of Warsaw's, was emptied into the camp in the Majdan-Tartarski suburb called Majdanek.
The soldiers were amused that Gaius was dressed in a miniature soldier's uniform, including boots and armor.
A distinguishing feature of most Compactrons is the placement of the evacuation tip on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with " miniature " tubes, and a characteristic 3 / 4 " diameter circle pin pattern.
It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.
An immediate predecessor of Dungeons & Dragons was a set of medieval miniature rules written by Jeff Perren.
Others believe it was a cross from a miniature French pointer and a pinscher ; others claim that is was developed from the St. Hubert Hound, also a bloodhound, in the 18th century, and still others believe that they were descended from Basset Hounds, based upon their scent abilities and general appearance.
Since 3 May 1814, the Sovereign Principality of Elba was created a miniature non-hereditary Monarchy under the exiled French Emperor Napoleon I. Napoleon I was allowed, by the treaty of Fontainebleau with ( 27 April ), to enjoy, for life, the imperial title.
A date of c. 1540 is suggested from two portraits: one a miniature painted by Nicholas Hilliard in 1581 when he was allegedly 42, the other painted in 1594 when he was said to be 53.
At the age of 6, he was given his own regiment of children to drill as cadets, and a year later, he was given a miniature arsenal.
Napoleon transformed the Italian principality of Elba, where he was imprisoned, into a miniature version of his First Empire, with most trappings of a sovereign monarchy, until his Cent Jours escape and reseizure of power in France convinced his opponents, reconvening the Vienna Congress in 1815, to revoke his gratuitous privileges and send him to die in exile on barren Saint Helena.
In 1815 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited his first work in oil, Hermia and Helena, a subject from A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with a portrait miniature, " J. Keats, Esq ", in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819.
To the north-west of the castle are earthworks marking the spot of the " Pleasance ", created in 1414 by Henry V. The Pleasance was a banqueting house built in the style of a miniature castle.
This was done " in camera " using a hand-built model starship and miniature pyrotechnics ; clearly this was influenced by the epic film Star Wars.
Her portrayal of a troubled theatre-goer in Secret Friends ( BBC 2, 1990 ) was described as " a miniature tour de force ... Miranda Richardson's finest hour, all in ten minutes " ( The Sunday Times ).
One, titled The Beast of the Black Bog Tarn, was set in a ( miniature ) haunted house.
It was a " miniature Rome ," under the municipal law of Rome and governed by two military officers, the duumviri, who were appointed directly from Rome.
To the warlike tribesmen, who played it with as many as 100 to a side, it was a miniature battle.
Gosse was born in Worcester in 1810 of an itinerant painter of miniature portraits and a lady's maid.
In a widely-publicided prank by the students of the Helsinki University of Technology, a miniature copy of the statue was discovered from the 300-year-old wreck of the Swedish war ship Vasa when it was lifted from the bottom of the sea in 1961.
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But I do have a miniature dachshund named Reggie who looks out for us.
Thus, in 1649, when Louis XIV was still a child, an artisan named Camus designed for him a miniature coach, and horses complete with footmen, page and a lady within the coach ; all these figures exhibited a perfect movement.
In 2001, the City of Williamsburg, Kentucky named their new water park and miniature golf facility the Hal Rogers Family Entertainment Center as a " thank-you for all of the federal money he has brought back to Whitley County, the City of Williamsburg, and the other 40 counties he represents.
They named the miniature child Issun-bōshi ( Issun is a measure of approximately 3 centimeters.
Dinky Toys were die-cast miniature vehicles produced by Meccano Ltd – makers of Hornby Railways, named after founder Frank Hornby.
The American cat breed, named Bombay, was bred in 1958 in Louisville, Kentucky, when Nikki Horner of Shawnee Cattery deliberately bred an American Shorthair with a Burmese for the purpose of creating a domesticated cat that resembled a " miniature black panther ".
They also recruit a miniature Royal Marine corporal ( later sergeant ) named Fickets to instruct the Iroquois in weapons usage.
It was whittled down by a monk named Rafail using fine burins and magnifying lenses to recreate 104 religious scenes and 650 miniature figures.
Here Come the Littles follows a boy named Henry Bigg as he meets a family of miniature people that lives in his home.
Another Dutch dinner dish is pannenkoeken ( pancakes are named after pannenkoeken ), which come in several varieties including poffertjes ( miniature pancakes ) and spekdik ( a Northern variant with bacon ).
Suspended from the tow lines of other tugs were three miniature unmanned submarines named " Squaws ", each packed with cameras and telemetry instruments.
A 15-inch gauge miniature steam locomotive named Ernest W. Twining exists in Japan at the Shuzenji Romney Railway in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Many miniature railways are named in this way.
Specific high ranking naval and army officers were named ; and in addition, special mention was given to 55 naval aviators and 9 " members of a special attack flotilla " -- presumably miniature submarines taking part in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
A miniature yellow double leafed wallflower Erysimum cheiri was rediscovered by Harpur-Crewe and is now named " Harpur Crewe ".
In 1899 a stage and circus ring was added together with a miniature of Blackpool Tower ( removed 1963 ) and the enterprise named the " Tower of Varieties ".
A particularly suspicious miniature French poodle named Madame Mousey, who has started living among the mice about this time, appears at every crime scene, claiming to be a fortune teller.
The Prehysteria trilogy is a trilogy of family-oriented films made in the early to mid-1990s about the adventures of five miniature baby dinosaurs named after famous pop musicians.
The story is about a young boy named Sanshiro Sugata and his miniature PlaWrestler pocket robot with super LSI circuit named Juohmaru.
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