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Nudity

Nudity itself is a form of art that encompasses the encoded art which is visible to the viewer. It depends on the viewer how he interprets it, wether he views it as a form of canvas art or a form of mental entertainment.

Friendship poem

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Building systems

Toys and Playthings:in development and remediation John and Elizabeth Newson This brings us to a brief consideration of the major constructional toys which are devised as sets of basic units, massively supported by accessory kits which increase the interest and versatility of the system. The most successful forerunner of modern constructional kits in the United Kingdom was Meccano; patented by its designer Frank Hornby as 'Mechanics Made Easy' in 1901, the name changed to the familiar one in 1907, still on the market seventy years later. The great attraction of Meccano as with the systems which have successfully competed with it, Lego and Fischer-Technik, was that it was based on simple units of the nondescript quality that we described in relation to floor-bricks, which with the addition of multiples, halves and corner pieces could be built up into even more complicated structures, merely by increasing the number of units. Accessories such as wheels, cogs, axles and basic bat...

Articles

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