I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Likewise, tracing — drawing on a thin piece of paper, sometimes designed for that purpose ( tracing paper ), around the outline of preexisting shapes that show through the paper — is also not considered fine art, although it may be part of the draftsman's preparation.

Greenpeace was fined US $ 7, 000 for damaging the reef and agreed to pay the fine saying they felt responsible for the damage, although Greenpeace stated that the Philippines government had given it outdated charts.

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

He worked mainly in woodcut, although he made six engravings, one very fine.

Scientific experiments have not yet pinpointed any definite evidence that this is the case, although they have placed upper bounds on the maximum possible relative change per year at very small amounts ( roughly 10 < sup >− 17 </ sup > per year for the fine structure constant α and 10 < sup >− 11 </ sup > for the gravitational constant G ).

One sort of parchment is vellum, a word that is used loosely to mean parchment, and especially to mean fine parchment, but more strictly refers to parchment made from calfskin ( although goatskin can be as fine in quality ).

And so Schinkel proposed to turn it into a fine garden, although this part of the design was not implemented.

Other than written text, they were often used to create figures, decorations, and images on manuscripts, although many illuminators and painters preferred fine brushes for their work.

The best quality, " uterine vellum ", was said to be made from the skins of stillborn or unborn animals, although the term was also applied to fine quality skins made from young animals.

The conspicuous display of wealth appears to have been discouraged, although this did not preclude the production of very fine, highly decorated bronze, ivory and wooden works of art and the production of jewellery.

* Jordan – possibly illegal ( fine, jail, child custody loss, marriage annulment ) although officials claim otherwise, convictions are recorded for apostasy.

This necessitated the intervention of Thomas Wolsey and the couple were eventually pardoned by King Henry, although they were forced to pay a large fine.

Many black-and-white episodes of Guiding Light survive as kinescopes ; although the quality of these films has degraded to the point where in some cases the video is too dark to be worth viewing, the audio quality is fine.

Both Waterhouse and Barry were convicted, with Barry serving 1 hour in jail and paying a $ 30 fine ( although other sources put the fine at $ 1000 ).

This form requires less fine motor skills, although it requires a multi-button mouse, and possibly a greater degree of GUI literacy.

Some U. S. states and provinces of Canada such as Alberta operate " owner liability " where it is the registered owner of the vehicle who must pay all such fines regardless of whether he was driving at the time of the offense, although they do release the owner from liability if he signs a form identifying the actual driver and that individual pays the fine.

" Slate magazine also praised her performance, saying that she " has a smoldering confidence that takes your mind off her not – always – fluid dancing – although she's a perfectly fine hoofer, with majestic limbs and a commanding cleavage.

To Camillus, his friends explained that, although the condemnation seemed unavoidable, they would help to pay the fine.

The International Boxing Association prohibits the wearing of beards by amateur boxers, although the Amateur Boxing Association of England allows exceptions for Sikh men, on condition that the beard be covered with a fine net.

In the modern era, companies specializing in modern commercial Christian artists such as Thomas Blackshear and Thomas Kinkade, although widely regarded in the fine art world as kitsch, have been very successful.

Simmons felt that Pool of Radiance looked primitive and seemed less polished when compared with Champions of Krynn ; he felt that although Pool was not up to the standard of Champions, he said it was still " a fine little game ".

Charlton was later fined, although he claimed in his autobiography that he never actually paid the fine, and was suspended for the final group match in New York.

Initially Eiffel showed little enthusiasm, although he did sanction further study of the project, and the two engineers then asked Stephen Sauvestre to add architectural embellishments.

The church, although of significant architectural interest, fell into disuse in 1990 and its future is in doubt.

Houses are made in many different architectural styles which may be of European, American and International architecture and which vary in size, although the main difference with the US and Canada is that houses are mainly constructed with bricks and concrete instead of wood ; thus houses tend to last much longer, approximately 50 years.

In Great Britain, Rococo was always thought of as the " French taste " and was never widely adopted as an architectural style, although its influence was strongly felt in such areas as silverwork, porcelain, and silks, and Thomas Chippendale transformed British furniture design through his adaptation and refinement of the style.

In subsequent years, Wren continued with his work with the Royal Society, although after the 1680s his scientific interests seem to have waned: no doubt his architectural and official duties absorbed more time.

Wren did not pursue his work on architectural design as actively as he had before the 1690s, although he still played important roles in a number of royal commissions.

Perhaps surprisingly, some of Loos's own architectural work was elaborately decorated, although more often inside than outside, and the ornamented interiors frequently featured abstract planes and shapes composed of richly figured materials, such as marble and exotic woods.

The architecture of Robert Venturi, although perhaps not as familiar today as his books, helped redirect American architecture away from a widely practiced, often banal, modernism in the 1960s to a more exploratory, and ultimately indubitable, design approach that openly drew lessons from architectural history and responded to the everyday context of the American city.

He remains sui generis, although his architectural work is comparable to Antoni Gaudí ( 1852 – 1926 ) in its use of biomorphic forms and the use of tile.

Australian architectural historian John James, who made a detailed study of the cathedral, has estimated that there were about 300 men working on the site at any one time, although it has to be acknowledged that our knowledge of working practices at this time is somewhat limited.

When the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened to the public in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism ( although Gehry does not associate himself with that architectural movement ), a masterpiece of the 20th century.

Housing stock consists mostly of World War II – era beach cottages built in the Cape Cod architectural style, although many have been expanded or replaced with larger, more contemporary beach houses.

The islands ' human heritage includes numerous unique architectural features from the historic and prehistoric periods, although the earliest written records of island life date from the Late Middle Ages.

Jones did not approach the architectural profession in the traditional way, namely either by rising up from a craft or through early exposure to the Office of Works, although there is evidence that Sir Christopher Wren obtained information that recorded Inigo Jones as an apprentice joiner in St Paul's Churchyard.

* In December 2009, renowned architectural photographer Grant Smith was searched by a group of City of London Police officers under Section 44 because he was taking photographs of Christ Church Greyfriars ; although he was working on public ground, the church's proximity to the Bank of America City of London branch caused a bank security guard to call the police.

The light colour and attractive grain of ash wood make it popular in modern furniture such as chairs, dining tables, doors and other architectural features and wood flooring, although the wood is often popularly stained jet black.

There are still a significant number of piers of architectural merit still standing, although some have been lost.

Many of the new buildings show the influence of the Romanesque Revival architectural mode, although influence of earlier Victorian modes is also widespread.

Of these last, the essay on architecture, " Chronologia Architectonica ", written in 1671, was the most detailed, and ( although in its unpublished state it remained little known ) is now regarded as a highly perceptive milestone in the development of architectural history.

Monuments, memorials and civic statuary are perhaps the oldest and most obvious form of officially sanctioned public art, although it could be said that architectural sculpture and even architecture itself is more widespread and fulfills the definition of public art.

At least fifty churches are of Anglo-Saxon origin with major Saxon architectural features, with many more claiming to be, although in some cases the Anglo-Saxon part is small and much-altered.

He is frequently credited with having invented the microprocessor in 1971, although he proposed the architectural idea and an instruction set formulated with Stanley Mazor in 1969.

The family's own design was drawn up by the well-known Los Angeles architectural firm of Walker and Eisen, although in 1924, Beverly Hills-based architect Roy Selden Price was hired to reconfigure the design.

He was educated in Buenos Aires, first as a musician, then as an architect ( although he never completed his architectural studies ).