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  2. Figures in a Landscape: People and Places - Wikipedia

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    Figures in a Landscape, subtitled: People and Places; Essays: 2001-2016, is a collection of thirty essays, profiles, articles and book introductions all by Paul Theroux. [1] The thirty pieces cover a wide variety of topics including authors, artists, celebrities, Africa, travel experiences, reading and the craft of writing.

  3. Table of contents - Wikipedia

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    A table of contents from a book about cats with descriptive text. A table of contents, usually headed simply Contents and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list, usually found on a page before the start of a written work, of its chapter or section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers.

  4. Figures in a Landscape (film) - Wikipedia

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    Figures in a Landscape is a 1970 British film directed by Joseph Losey and written by star Robert Shaw, based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Barry England. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Plot

  5. Help : Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and ...

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    A less common alternative is placing the table of contents on the right, using the template {}. If you look at the wikitext for Figure 13-13, you see the {} template at the top of the edit box. No text should ever be in the lead section above this template. Figure 13-13. This article has the table of contents on the right.

  6. Figure in a Landscape - Wikipedia

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    Figure in a Landscape is a 1945 painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon.Based on a photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in Hyde Park, also the basis of another painting, Figure in a Landscape (1945), which was bought by Diana Watson and later in 1950 by the Tate Gallery with the support of Graham Sutherland, then a trustee (1948–1954).

  7. Figure - Wikipedia

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    figure, in writing, a type of floating block (text, table, or graphic separate from the main text) Figure of speech, also called a rhetorical figure; Christ figure, a type of character; in typesetting, text figures and lining figures

  8. Figure painting - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Jacob Jordaens, 1633, 181 cm × 288 cm (71 in × 113 in), oil on canvas. A figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude.

  9. Text figures - Wikipedia

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    Hoefler Text, a typeface designed in 1991, uses text figures. The ascending six and descending nines are minted on this 1996 U.S. penny. Text figures (also known as non-lining, lowercase, old style, [1] ranging, hanging, medieval, billing, [2] or antique [3] figures or numerals) are numerals designed with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name.