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The earliest sampler extant is a spot sampler, i.e. one having randomly scattered motifs, of the Nazca culture in Peru [5] formerly in the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. It is estimated to date from ca. 200 BCE –300 CE and is worked in cotton and wool pattern darning on a woven cotton ground.
Tammis Keefe, a cloth designer whose patterns appeared at Lord and Taylor in September 1952, used a harlequin print diamond pattern on a large cloth she crafted for a table setting show. [5] In a July 1954 article in the Washington Post, columnist Olga Curtis mentioned harlequin print fabrics and cellophane as very novel ideas in accessories. [6]
San Cristóbal is Spanish for Saint Christopher, reckoned in Catholicism as the patron saint of sailors.. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named it Dassigney's Island in 1684, [2] later shortened to Dassigney or Dassigny Island, [3] in honor of Philip Dassigny, the member of Bartholomew Sharp's crew who translated the Spanish atlas [4] that saved the captain from being hanged for piracy.
Cristobalite is stable only above 1470 °C, but can crystallize and persist metastably at lower temperatures. The persistence of cristobalite outside its thermodynamic stability range occurs because the transition from cristobalite to quartz or tridymite is "reconstructive", requiring the breaking up and reforming of the silica framework.
The military forts, especially Castillo San Felipe del Morro and Castillo San Cristóbal, have been a common setting for these tales. So is the historical Cementerio Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis , which houses a considerable amount of notables within its limits, as well as notorious criminals such as Cofresí in its outskirts.
Like in case of most other sections, the nationwide Requeté executive was disbanded [369] and its local structures were subordinated to corresponding juntas, [370] which marked reversal to the pre-1934 pattern. All the above, plus San Cristobál's address at Montejurra, [371] triggered protests; some Juntas Provinciales accused the Huguista ...
Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos for five weeks on the second voyage of HMS Beagle in 1835 and saw Galápagos tortoises on San Cristobal (Chatham) and Santiago (James) Islands. [119] They appeared several times in his writings and journals, and played a role in the development of the theory of evolution. Darwin wrote in his account of the ...
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