The theme of The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is most closely related to its immediate predecessor in Malraux's array of novels: Man's Hope ( 1937 ).

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

The entire middle section of The Walnut Trees is taken up with the life of Vincent Berger himself, whose fragmentary notes on his `` encounters with mankind '' are now conveyed by his son.

The gala is the Thrift Shop's annual bundle party and, as all Thrift Shop friends know, that means the admission is a bundle of used clothing in good condition, contributions of household equipment, bric-a-brac and such to stock the shelves at the shop's headquarters at 1213 Walnut St..

Walnut ink is an ink made from the green husk surrounding the nut of walnuts.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a partner in the Joint Genome Institute ( JGI ) located in Walnut Creek, California.

* Walnut ( Juglans ) is typically dark, hard, tight-grained wood prized for fine furniture and wood paneling.

In the Bay Area, for example, the average maximum temperature in July is about at Half Moon Bay on the coast, at Walnut Creek only inland, and at Tracy, just inland.

Meanwhile, the owner of 1127 Walnut Avenue-Professor von Schwartzenhoffen-returns and is outraged at what he finds, as he hates pianos.

The Fulton Theatre was later modified by noted theatrical architect Edwin Forrest Durang, is one of only three theatres recognized as National Historic Landmarks ( the others are the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and the Goldenrod Showboat in St. Louis, Missouri ).

The county is divided into fourteen townships: Belmont, Chester, Clark, East Choleau, Garfield, Grandview, Holland, Independence, Iowa, Joubert, Lincoln, Valley, Walnut Grove, Washington.

The county is divided into twenty-two townships: Antioch, Beaver Creek, Boomer, Brushy Mountains, Edwards, Elk Creek, Hays, Jobs Cabin, Lewis Fork, Lovelace, Moravian Falls, Mulberry, New Castle, North Wilkesboro, Rock Creek, Somers, Stanton, Traphill, Union, Walnut Grove, Millers Creek and Wilkesboro.

The county is divided into eleven townships, which are both numbered and named: 1 ( North Marshall and South Marshall ), 2 ( Laurel ), 3 ( Mars Hill ), 4 ( Beech Glenn ), 5 ( Walnut ), 6 ( Hot Springs ), 7 ( Ebbs Chapel ), 8 ( Spring Creek ), 9 ( Sandy Mush ), 10 ( Grapevine ), and 11 ( Revere Rice Cove ).

The county is divided into nine townships: Brassfield, Dutchville, Fishing Creek, Oak Hill, Oxford, Salem, Sassafras Fork, Tally Ho, and Walnut Grove.

The county is divided into fourteen townships, which are both numbered and named: 1 ( Tarboro ), 2 ( Lower Conetoe ), 3 ( Upper Conetoe ), 4 ( Deep Creek ), 5 ( Lower Fishing Creek ), 6 ( Upper Fishing Creek ), 7 ( Swift Creek ), 8 ( Sparta ), 9 ( Otter Creek ), 10 ( Lower Town Creek ), 11 ( Walnut Creek ), 12 ( Rocky Mount ), 13 ( Cokey ), and 14 ( Upper Town Creek ).

The County is divided into 19 townships: Chestnut Hill, Clifton, Creston, Elk, Grassy Creek, Helton, Horse Creek, Hurricane, Jefferson, Laurel, North Fork, Obids, Old Fields, Peak Creek, Pine Swamp, Piney Creek, Pond Mountain, Walnut Hill, and West Jefferson.

The Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is in Walnut Grove.

The county seat is Walnut Ridge.

The Walnut Street Bridge is the oldest surviving bridge of its kind in the Southeastern United States.

The pizza restaurant in the film (" PAGLIAI ' S ") is now Opie Taylors on the east side of North Walnut Street, across from the Monroe County Courthouse.

The used car lot (" Campus Cars ") that Dave's father owns was on S. Walnut St., and was a real used car lot for many years, but now has two small commercial buildings on the property ; it is located at 1010 S. Walnut St. Next door is the local Honda motorcycle franchise seen in the background of the famous " Refund?

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg includes not one war but two, and throws in a Turkish revolution along with some guerrilla fighting in the desert for good measure.

Walnut, wormy chestnut, pecan, three varieties of burl, hand-woven Philippine cane, ceramic tiles, marble are used to emphasize the feeling of texture and of permanence, the furniture to fit into rooms with tiled floors, brick or paneled walls, windows that bring in the outdoors.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

* Davis, Miriam ( 2008 ), Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land, Walnut Creek ( CA ), Left Coast Press, 304 pp.

Walnut St., Downtown Kansas City, Mo.

Following the broad success of SimCity 2000, Maxis moved from Orinda, California, to Walnut Creek in 1994.

After development work for the game was concluded, Maxis ' longtime studios in Walnut Creek were officially closed in 2004, and the staff moved to EA offices in Redwood City.

Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.

An ancient use of Walnut ink was to stain the hands of criminals in gypsy communities.

During high school, she acted and danced, graduating in May 1947 from Stevens School, a small private institution in a mansion on Walnut Lane in the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of Germantown.

A surviving first section, titled The Walnut Trees of Altenburg, was published after the war.

* ( c. 1974 ) In Little House on the Prairie ( TV series ), an outbreak of typhus hits Walnut Grove, Minnesota killing several.

Wood choices tend to be deciduous hardwoods with a particular emphasis on the wood of edible or fruit bearing trees such as Cherry or Walnut.

Many of the city's more affluent residents, both black and white, left the city after the war, moving to neighboring Alameda, Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito to the north ; to San Leandro, Hayward, Castro Valley and Fremont in Southern Alameda County ; and to the newly developing East Bay suburbs, Orinda, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Concord.

There is less sapwood than heartwood, and the latter contains pockets of resin.

Ash is not used extensively outdoors due to the heartwood having a low durability to ground contact, meaning it will typically perish within five years.

Jarrah is an important element in its ecology, providing numerous habitats for animal life-especially birds and bees-while it is alive, and in the hollows that form as the heartwood decays.

The sapwood is typically cream-coloured and the heartwood has various shades of brown and purple.

The heartwood is reddish-brown, and the sapwood is lighter in color.

The wood is hard, yellowish-white to pale reddish, with the heartwood not distinct ; it is used for furniture and turnery.

Quercus robur is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work.

The trees are especially prized for their wood, of which the heartwood is extremely rot and termite resistant.

This plant has a dense, orange-red heartwood that takes a high shine, and it is the premier wood used for making bows for stringed instruments.

While the heartwood is usually a pale green, it can take on streaks of red, purple, or even black ; depending on the extractives content ( i. e. the soil conditions where the tree was grown, etc .).

The heartwood is used by Buddhist forest monastics in Southeast Asia as a dye, giving the robes of the monks in those traditions their distinctive light-brown color.

The wood is medium weight, somewhat brittle, of light tan color with a noticeably large heartwood area of darker brown, tinged with red.

The genus is famous as the supplier of Lignum vitae, which is the heartwood of several species in the genus.

Only the heartwood is used: this is typically orange or reddish-brown in color, often with a figuring of darker irregular traces weaving through the wood.

The sapwood ( not often used ) is a creamy yellow, with a sharp boundary with the heartwood.

The heartwood is known to change color after being cut, lending to its appeal.

The fine-grained, soft brittle pinkish-to brownish-red heartwood is fragrant, very light and very durable, even in contact with soil.

In old growth pine the heartwood of the bole is often saturated in the same way.

It is generally thought that slow growing pines in virgin forests accumulate colored products in the heartwood but genetic factors and soil conditions may also play a role in rich color development ( Nizalowski, 1997 ).

The aromatic wood, especially the heartwood, is among the finest of pine woods-hard, strong and durable.