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Furniture Fit For Heroes: A catalogue of 18th, 19th & early 20th Century Campaign Furniture and travel Equipment. Christopher Clarke Antiques, October 2006; The Quartermaster General: A catalogue of 18th, 19th & early 20th Century Campaign Furniture and Travel Equipment. Christopher Clarke Antiques, October 2008; Nicholas A. Brawer, 2001.
The 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition used Mummery tents and 35-pound (16 kg) Whymper tents (as well as 40-pound (18 kg) and 80-pound (36 kg) military tents) but for the 1922 Everest expedition a modification was tried using a smaller 19-pound (8.6 kg) version with a flysheet, which was called a Meade tent, after the British ...
The Sibley tent was invented by the American military officer Henry Hopkins Sibley and patented in 1856. Of conical design, it stands about 12 feet (3.7 m) high and 18 feet (5.5 m) in diameter. [1] It can comfortably house about a dozen men. [2] The Sibley design differed from other conical tents, or bell tents in a number of ways. Sibley's ...
Detail of an early 18th-century tent in the District Museum in Tarnów in Poland, richly decorated in Muslim motifs and equipped with windows – an example of luxury tent-making for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's magnateria. A Sami family in front of goahti. Photo was taken around 1900 in northern Scandinavia. A simple tarp tent
During the 18th century, men who joined the army were recruited in a number of ways. The regular army used recruitment parties and occasionally press gangs to enlist men, while the militia regiments were raised by a ballot, a process that was established in the Militia Act 1757: "Thirty-two thousand men, all of them good Protestants, were to be ... subjected to martial law in time of active ...
Kittinger Company furniture was used extensively in the redesign since this company was the sole licensee of furniture for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's famous program to produce exact reproductions of 18th century antiques. [6] Included in the redesign was a new conference table and chairs for the cabinet room.
Tent gazebo. The etymology given by Oxford Dictionaries is "Mid 18th century: perhaps humorously from gaze, in imitation of Latin future tenses ending in -ebo: compare with lavabo." [3] L. L. Bacon put forward a derivation from Casbah, a Muslim quarter around the citadel in Algiers. [4] W.
As a highlight in Swedish art history, the Pavilion is a fine example of the European neoclassicism of the late 18th century in Northern Europe. [1] Beside the Pavilion lie the "Sultan's Copper Tents", buildings designed to resemble big tents.