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unusual facts about ''La Débâcle,'' 1892, collection: Scripps College



Ali Project – Collection Simple Plus

Collection Simple Plus is a compilation CD album by Ali Project that compiles songs from the singles they had previously released under Victor Entertainment.

All My Tomorrows

The album is a collection of classic standards including Jo Stafford's "You Belong to Me" and the ballad "Cry Me a River".

Alloclita brachygrapta

The species was described on the basis of two males in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London.

Armenian Library and Museum of America

The library has one of the largest collections of important books on oriental rugs, and a very substantial collection, which continues to be expanded, on the Armenian Genocide.

Banks' Florilegium

Banks' Florilegium is a collection of copperplate engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander while they accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyage around the world between 1768 and 1771.

Beth Chatto Gardens

The Beth Chatto Gardens are an informal collection of ecological gardens created by plantswoman Beth Chatto in 1960 from the gravel soil and bogs of the disused fruit farm belonging to her husband Andrew Chatto.

Bill Scheft

A collection of his columns, The Best of "The Show", was published by Warner Books in 2005.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art

The permanent collection contains works of art from many renowned artists including Carl Bloch, Maynard Dixon, Rembrandt, Norman Rockwell, and Minerva Teichert.

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Charles Bird King

After the administration changed and McKenney left the BIA, the agency donated the Native American portrait collection to the National Institute, but shoddy care and displays kept it from the public eye.

Château de Langeais

He installed an outstanding collection of tapestries and furnishings and bequeathed the château to the Institut de France which still owns it today.

Christoph Peters

It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, The Fabric of Night (Random House).

Christopher Makos

Makos' Icons portfolio is a collection of silkscreen portraits of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dalí, John Lennon and Mick Jagger.

CLÀR

, a collection of short stories by Duncan Gillies (Donnchadh MacGillIosa) from London via Ness on the Island of Lewis was shortlisted for the main award 2013 Book of the Year.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The operating agreement required Fisk to set aside $3.9 million of the $30 million sale proceeds to be used to establish a fund for the care and maintenance of the collection at the Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk.

Diogenes Club series

Published in 2007, the second collection of stories covers the period of time between the Victorian era and the beginning of the 1970s, featuring original Diogenes Club head Charles Beauregard and his protégé Edwin Winthrop, as well as recurring Newman character Geneviève Dieudonné.

Doom novels

Multiple armed forces are sent to Salt Lake City to detain or fight the resistance, including the United States Army, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Internal Revenue Service 'revenue collection' strike force.

Douglas Ferguson

Douglas Ferguson, Canadian numismatist, ANA President 1941-43, whose collection is now in the Currency Museum

Gustav Landauer Library

Foundation of the collection was a big book donation on occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian writer and anarcho-pacifist Leo Tolstoy in 2010.

Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood

The 2-disc collection includes 77 songs performed by Daniel Amos frontman Terry Scott Taylor for the Doug TenNapel-created video games The Neverhood, Skullmonkeys and BoomBots.

Jim Shepard

His recent collection, Like You'd Understand Anyway, includes stories about the Greek playwright Aeschylus, the Chernobyl disaster and the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

In 1690, Aleksandar Ignacije Mikulić, the Bishop of Zagreb, bought his library, along with some 7300 graphics, and moved it to Slavonia, where the collection became part of the library of the Zagreb Archbishopric, now part of the Croatian State Archives.

Kostas Krystallis

He was born an Ottoman subject in Epirus, but escaped to Greece after being denounced to the authorities for writing a patriotic collection of poetry.

Labasa College

It has a roll of more than 650 students as of January 2013, including a collection of boarding students from across the Northern Division of Fiji making it one of the most diverse and academically proficient educational institutions in the country.

Lambert Blackwell Larking

For many years Larking collaborated with the Revd Thomas Streatfeild (1777–1848), in the collection and compilation of materials for a new history of the county of Kent and, when Streatfeild died in 1848 the materials were left in Larking's hands.

Maria Laina

She was awarded the State Prize for Poetry for her collection, Ρόδινος φόβος in 1993 and the Cavafy, together with Giorgos Markopoulos in 1996.

Mary John, Sr.

In January, 2008 the Vanderhoof Public Library opened the Mary John Collection, a collection of 800 books on First Nations topics created in her honor.

Natzweiler-Struthof

The collection was sanctioned by Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler, and under the direction of August Hirt with Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers, general manager of the Ahnenerbe, being responsible for procuring and preparing the corpses.

Nepenthes chang

The first known collection of N. chang was made by Arthur Francis George Kerr in 1929.

Norman MacKenzie

Norman MacKenzie (lawyer) (1869–1936), Canadian lawyer and arts patron whose collection became the Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery

Nosratollah Noohian

His literary compilations include "Biographies of Poets of Semnan" (1958), which was republished in the US in 2001, "Shining Stars" (1959) a collection of published articles relating to Persian poetry, and "Works of Raf'at Semnani" (1960) (رفعت سمنانی) with an introduction by Zabihollah Safa.

Notes from My Travels

Notes from My Travels is a collection of journal excerpts kept by actress Angelina Jolie in 2001-2002 detailing her experiences travelling to troubled Third World regions in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Peterborough Canoe Company

Examples of the Peterborough Canoe Company's products, as well as many other types of canoes, can be found at the Canadian Canoe Museum, located in Peterborough, and there is an example of the open style canoe in the collection of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.

Phyllis Hartnoll

A collection of her poems The maid's song and other poems was published by Macmillan in 1938 and she wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.

Pinacoteca di Brera

Raphael's Sposalizio (the Marriage of the Virgin) was the key painting of the early collection, and the Academy increased its cultural scope by taking on associates across the First French Empire: David, Pietro Benvenuti, Vincenzo Camuccini, Canova, Thorvaldsen and the archaeologist Ennio Quirino Visconti.

Raphinae

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed they were ground doves, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had rediscovered in the royal Danish collection of Copenhagen.

Redpath Museum

The ethnological and archeological collection is one of the oldest in North America and began with Sir William Dawson's collection.

Richard Bowes

A short fiction collection, Transfigured Night and Other Stories, was published by Time Warner in 2001.

Ronald G. Beckett

Following the initial work in the Cardiopulmonary Sciences laboratory, Beckett began to apply endoscopy in concert with radiography on the Max Uhle collection of mummies from Pachacamac Peru at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

South African National Blood Service

The head office is in Weltevredenpark, Gauteng, near Johannesburg, but there are blood collection operations in eight of the nine provinces.

South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1892

Tillman had forced the state Democratic party to adopt the entire Ocala Platform in order to avoid a challenge from the Populist Party.

Stella Greenall

Greenhall presented their collection of 870 Venetian coins and 23 medals to the British Museum, a gift which was celebrated with the exhibition 'Venice Preserv'd' which ran from 9 November 1993 to 13 February 1994.

Stephen Batman

Afterwards Archbishop Parker selected him as one of his domestic chaplains, and employed him in the collection of the library now deposited in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Suzhou Museum

The collection of paintings and calligraphy includes works of masters from Song Dynasty to Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Belle Game

The Belle Game digitally released their first collection of songs, the Inventing Letters EP, on November 10, 2009.

The Music Box

His short story Another Fine Mess from the collection Quicker Than the Eye features the ghosts of Laurel and Hardy haunting the staircase by replaying the scene.

The Saint in Trouble

Both the stories in this collection were adaptations of episodes of Return of the Saint.

The Voices of Time

The Voices of Time (collection), a collection of science fiction short stories by J. G. Ballard

Winter-Telling Stories

Winter-Telling Stories is a collection of Kiowa tales written by Alice Marriott and illustrated by Roland Whitehorse.

Zelandia Illustrata

The collection was founded by the Amsterdam lawyer Jacob Verheye van Citters (1753–1823) in the 18th century.


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