`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.

Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

Measurements for rectangular pattern piece A are obtained by measuring inside circumference and depth of butter mold bowl.

A dinner and celebration in honor of this piece of engineering took place July 4, 1793, in a tavern erected by the corporation on the island.

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

A visible piece of astatine would be immediately and completely vaporized due to the heat generated by its intense radioactivity.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

In general, external alpha radiation is not harmful since alpha particles are effectively shielded by a few centimeters of air, a piece of paper, or the thin layer of dead skin cells.

Divers measure each abalone before removing from the reef and each and every piece is re-measured by the deckhand as well as removing excess weed growth from the shell.

* The current world record was set in 1999 at 100 picokelvins ( pK ), or 0. 000 000 000 1 of a kelvin, by cooling the nuclear spins in a piece of rhodium metal.

This edifice, considered the most important civil piece of art of the time, was designed by Francesco Laurana.

* Atmosphères, an orchestral piece by György Sándor Ligeti

In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

There is ongoing discussion among academics over the nature of the Nimrud lens, a piece of quartz unearthed by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, in the Nimrud palace complex in northern Iraq.

While the speed of communication is important, so is the fact that the messages cannot be overheard except by listeners with a piece of the original crystal.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

In this painting, Altdorfer places a large tree that is cut off by the margins at the center of the landscape, making it the central axis and focus within the piece.

Finally, ATM networks create and remove switched virtual circuits ( SVCs ) on demand when requested by an end piece of equipment.

The actions involved in operating the piece are collectively called " serving the gun " or " detachment " by the gun crew, constituting either direct or indirect artillery fire.

For example, letters 1, 5, and 8 contain a discussion on the question, whether the use of a piece of metal with the figure of a lion, as a talisman, is permitted by Jewish law for medicinal purposes, or is prohibited as idolatrous.

* 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

In this piece, the artist references Enlightenment values while alluding to Rousseau's social contract.

The modern day graffiti artist can be found with an arsenal of various materials that allow for a successful production of a piece.

Another graffiti artist can go over a piece in a matter of minutes with a simple throw up.

As a result, James Brown remains to this day the world's most sampled recording artist, with " Funky Drummer " itself becoming the most sampled individual piece of music.

This made the piece about the art, not the artist.

The jock would still introduce each selection, but the jock would have available a scripted introduction to use if he was not personally familiar with a particular piece of music and its artist.

A number of Blues musicians have also used proverbs extensively., The frequent use of proverbs in Country music has led to published studies of proverbs in this genre., The Reggae artist Jahdan Blakkamoore has recorded a piece titled Proverbs Remix.

The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where he or she wants a line to appear in the finished piece, so exposing the bare metal.

The artist places a piece of paper ( or cloth etc.

In this ebony sculpture, the artist has made use of the contrasting colors and textures in a single piece of wood.

* English graffiti artist and activist Banksy portrays a modernised representation of a rickshaw in a piece where an overweight rich couple with a mobile phone ( in colour ) are being ferried by a young black boy and his rickshaw ( in black and white ).

Thorvaldsen's statue of Pope Pius VII is found in the Clementine Chapel in the Vatican, for which he was the only non-Italian artist to ever have been commissioned to produce a piece.

There would be ideas in the air and Maciunas would assign the piece to one artist or another.

The piece is an experimental documentary on the structure of a brain, reflecting the disquiet of an artist and his distorted vision of the world.

Jimmie Durham, an American Indian conceptual artist, references Fanon's postcolonial thought in a piece entitled " Often Durham Employs ..." ( 1998 ), with this quote from Fanon: " The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers.

For example, a violin luthier will use a gouge to carve the violin, a craftsmen may use it to scoop out wood for a project, or an artist may produce a piece of art by cutting some bits out of a sheet of linoleum ( see also Linocut ).

Wisconsin poet / spoken word artist Geo Kiesow's piece, " That's When All Hell Broke Loose in Winchester, Wisconsin ", describes the town's lemons-to-lemonade reaction to a watermelon truck collision.

According to the new media artist and theorist Maurice Benayoun, the first piece of interactive art should be the work done by Parrhasius during his art contest with Zeuxis described by Pliny, in the fifth century B. C.

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.

An artist takes an original work of art and adds their own take on the piece creating something completely different while still leaving traces of the original work.

The artist may construct the piece.

Isamu Noguchi's 1941 design for Contoured Playground in New York is sometimes interpreted as an important early piece of land art even though the artist himself never called his work " land art " but simply " sculpture ".

In the visual arts, it is not uncommon in either fine art or commercial art such as comics for a number of assistants to do work on a piece that is credited to a single artist.

Other potential classifications include identifying the artist, the place of origin or the mood of the piece.