The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

He loses now-misplaced tax collection duties, which go to the Finance Department.

For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

Manthey maintained a valuable collection of physical and chemical apparatus which was at Oersted's disposal during and after his graduation.

The AIMO organizations of both countries, which maintain administrative services throughout the territories, retained immediate responsibility for the collection and publication of demographic information.

There also were reports of a collection at the County Line Elementary School, 3505o Dequindre, which has been attended this year by four of the Kowalski children including Christine.

These two, Heritage and Drexel, chose too not to produce the exactly matching design for every piece, but a collection of correlated designs, each of which could stand alone.

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

The most recent film catalogue, available at each library, lists 110 titles presently in the collection, any of which may be borrowed without charge.

In statistics, analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) is a collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance in a particular variable is partitioned into components attributable to different sources of variation.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

In other words, the circle gets partitioned into a countable collection of disjoint sets, which are all pairwise congruent.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

An abscess () is a collection of pus ( dead neutrophils ) that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue in which the pus resides due to an infectious process ( usually caused by bacteria or parasites ) or other foreign materials ( e. g., splinters, bullet wounds, or injecting needles ).

* Analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) – a collection of statistical models and their associated procedures which compare means by splitting the overall observed variance into different parts

Area can be defined as a function from a collection M of special kind of plane figures ( termed measurable sets ) to the set of real numbers which satisfies the following properties:

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

These include Metals and Materials ; the Secrets of Chemistry ; the Origin of Metals ; the Origins of Compounds, and a Concordance which is a collection of Observations on the philosopher's stone ; and other alchemy-chemistry topics, collected under the name of Theatrum Chemicum.

Fulvius Ursinus compiled a fuller collection of Alcaic fragments, including a commentary, which was published at Antwerp in 1568.

Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.

On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

The casino was a showcase for the Pamphili collection of sculpture, ancient and contemporary, on which Algardi was well able to advise.

# De Misericordia et Justitia ( On Mercy and Justice ), a collection of biblical extracts and sayings of Church Fathers with commentary ( an important work for the history of church law and discipline ), which is to be found in the Anecdota of Martène, vol.

This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

The collection Fondements de la Géometrie Algébrique ( FGA ), which gathers together talks given in the Séminaire Bourbaki, also contains important material.

The group toured extensively and released a total of four studio albums, a collection album, numerous singles and EPs, and a live album which was released after the band broke up in 1998.

In 2009, an exhibition of Dunham's textile batik art collection ( A Lady Found a Culture in its Cloth: Barack Obama's Mother and Indonesian Batiks ) toured six museums in the United States, finishing the tour at the Textile Museum.

The San Diego Museum of Art toured a collection of his work in 2005.

Selected items from the collection toured the United States from May 25, 2008 to September 20, 2009, with exhibitions in Washington, D. C., San Francisco, Houston, and New York City.

In 2005 she toured Australia as a support act for Leo Sayer and a comprehensive collection of her greatest hits was released on CD.

They toured for an additional three years and released their final record, Hourglass, a collection of rare outtakes and demos, before performing their last show at Ziggy's in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on December 28, 2004.

In 1976, he met the American prankster and Mail Artist David Zack at Art Club Budapest who then toured through Europe with his mail art collection.

In 1981 he toured Europe with his " Acoustic " album, a subdued collection of instrumentals, written by himself.

In 2012 an exhibition of works from the art collection ' Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London ' toured museums in the United States while Kenwood House was undergoing renovations ; many of the works had never been outside Britain.

Helen Sjöholm has also toured extensively throughout Sweden with Georg Wadenius and Martin Östergren and she has released two albums, Visor ( 2002 ) ( a collection of more or less well-known Swedish folk songs in new arrangements by Östergren ) and Genom varje andetag ( 2003 ) ( featuring music and lyrics by jazz pianist Anders Widmark ).

The collection was in the tradition of a schatzkammer or treasure house such as those formed by the Renaissance princes of Europe.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

100 BCE ), Indian philosopher, reputed author of a collection of tales known in Europe as The Story of the Seven Wise Masters.

A collection of academic papers exploring the operation of contemporary hawala networks, and the role they play in the transmission of migrant workers ' remittances from Europe to South Asia

Paczolay has compared proverbs across Europe and published a collection of similar proverbs in 55 languages ( 1997 ).

Rudolf's collections were the most impressive in the Europe of his day, and the greatest collection of Northern Mannerist art ever assembled.

Numerous records of government tax collection in Europe since at least the 17th century are still available today.

The first publicly owned museum in Europe was the Amerbach-Cabinet in Basel, originally a private collection sold to the city in 1661 and public since 1671 ( now Kunstmuseum Basel ).

In early September 1989, a collection of Powell's speeches on Europe was published titled Enoch Powell on 1992 ( 1992 being the year set for the creation of the Single Market by the Single European Act of 1986 ).

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

The Turkic peoples are a collection of ethnic groups that live in northern, eastern, central and western Asia, northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe.

* Museum of the Old Arsenal ( 1609 – 14 ), housing the most ancient collection of armor in Europe.

This collection — which was regarded as one of the finest in Europe — now lies in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He also contributed to Visions of Europe, a short film collection by different European Union directors ; his British entry is The European Showerbath.

The National Art Gallery holds a collection of works mostly by Bulgarian authors, while the National Gallery for Foreign Art displays exclusively foreign art, mostly from India, Africa, China and Europe.

The historic center of Riga, Latvia, with " the finest collection of art nouveau buildings in Europe ", was included on the list during 1997 in part because of the " quality and the quantity of its Art Nouveau / Jugendstil architecture ", and four Brussels town houses by Victor Horta were included during 2000 as " works of human creative genius " that are " outstanding examples of Art Nouveau architecture brilliantly illustrating the transition from the 19th to the 20th century in art, thought, and society ".

" In the collection of poems " A Knife in the Heart Again ", Aragon criticizes the penetration of American imperialism into Europe.

During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, and Australian folk music and bush ballads such as Waltzing Matilda were heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, while classical forms were derived from those of Europe.

To the château, he added one of the largest art collections in Europe and the largest collection of ancient Roman sculpture in France.

The Clusius garden ( a reconstruction ), the 18th century Orangery with its monumental tub plants, the rare collection of historical trees hundreds of years old, the Japanese Siebold Memorial Museum symbolising the historical link between East and West, the tropical greenhouses with their world class plant collections, and the central square and Conservatory exhibiting exotic plants from South Africa and southern Europe.

The collection included antique coins, books, engravings, geological specimens, and zoological specimens — one of which was the stuffed body of the last dodo ever seen in Europe ; but by 1755 the stuffed dodo was so moth-eaten that it was destroyed, except for its head and one claw.

The university venues include the Nuffield Theatre, one of the largest professional studio theatres in Europe ; the Peter Scott Gallery, holding the most significant collection of Royal Lancastrian ceramics in Britain and finally the Lancaster International Concerts series attracting nationally and internationally renowned classical and world-music artists.

Its collection spans 5, 000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.

The East Asian collections are among the best in Europe, with particular strengths in ceramics and metalwork, while the Islamic collection, alongside the British Museum, Musée du Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, is amongst the largest in the Western world.