The Glasgow four: Poets of the Interior
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert McNair, Margaret Macdonald, and Frances Macdonald were students from the Glasgow School of Art and were called the Glasgow Four. They collaborated on highly stylized designs for furniture, book jackets, silver jewelry, hammered pewter picture frames, embroidered banners, and wall sconces.
Publication Name: Style 1900
Subject: Humanities
ISSN: 1080-451X
Year: 2005
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Midnight's child
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Many different versions and forms of the 'Cinderella' story have appeared in different cultures and eras, but the version appearing in Charles Perrault's 'Tales of My Mother Goose,' in Jan. 1697, is the most influential. Some of the alternate versions, including the French story of Babar, are analyzed.
Publication Name: The New York Times Book Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0028-7806
Year: 1996
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Backsliding to imperial
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The Canadian government mandated the use of the metric system in 1970 and much effort has been devoted to this changeover. However, the fact remains that the imperial system is still in common usage some 25 years later.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest (Canadian)
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0413
Year: 1995
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