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3 unusual facts about Desk


Desk

It is made from the timbers of the HMS Resolute, an abandoned British ship discovered by an American vessel and returned to the Queen of England as a token of friendship and goodwill.

Medieval illustrations show the first pieces of furniture which seem to have been designed and constructed for reading and writing.

The Resolute desk in the Oval Office has been used by many presidents, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S.Truman and President John F. Kennedy.


Affective labor

One popular, albeit slightly less than perfect example, of this might be that, whereas Fred Flintstone, as an average American, drove a crane in a quarry, Homer Simpson sits at a desk and provides safety.

Amar Quartet

From c1914 Paul Hindemith, a graduate of Hoch Conservatory at Frankfort-am-Main, had taken the second violin desk in the Rebner Quartet of Frankfort, led by his violin teacher Adolf Rebner.

Armada of 1779

At the time there were fewer than 40 Royal Navy ships of the line available in the English Channel area, newly under the command of ailing 64-year-old Sir Charles Hardy, who had been desk-bound for 20 years.

Ars-sur-Formans

The reception desk and the spiritual activities of the sanctuary are organised by the priests of the sanctuary: the congregation of Benedictine nuns called the Tyburn Nuns and the Brothers of the Holy Family of Belley.

Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development

· Pierre Johannessen swapping a comfortable desk job in Canberra to raise funds for rebuilding homes destroyed by cyclones in poverty-stricken Bangladesh.

Barry Michael Harman

He wrote and directed the Broadway musical Romance/Romance, which starred actor Scott Bakula and actress Alison Fraser, and which received five Tony Award nominations (including Best Musical, Best Lyrics and Best Book), four Outer Critics Circle Awards and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Lyrics.

Blindness in literature

French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

Boalsburg, Pennsylvania

The fourth generation of the Boal family, Col. Theodore Davis Boal, married a descendant of Christopher Columbus and brought the Columbus Chapel to the Boal Mansion from Spain in 1909 including an Admiral's Desk that belonged to Columbus himself.

Boris Meissner

During his time at the Soviet desk, he was a member of the German delegation accompanying Konrad Adenauer on his visit to Moscow in September 1955 and the Four Power Conferences on Germany in Berlin (1954) and Geneva (1955; 1959).

Christopher B. Wright

Wright began publishing Help Desk on 1996-03-31 as a regular feature of OS/2 eZine.

Data Desk

Macworld reviewed Data Desk in October 1997, and gave it 9.1 out of 10, and a 5 star rating.

David Nalle

In the 1950s he joined the United States Information Agency and was assigned to the Middle East desk and eventually sent to Afghanistan.

Desktop computer

A desktop computer is a personal computer in a form intended for regular use at a single location desk/table due to its size and power requirements, as opposed to a laptop whose rechargeable battery and compact dimensions allow it to be regularly carried and used in different locations.

Dick Gallagher

Whoop-Dee-Doo! (1993), which was nominated for the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award and won the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue

Edward Pimental

A "Command George Jackson" claimed responsibility in a letter signed by the RAF and the French Action directe armed group, reaching the Frankfurter Rundschau desk and two news agencies the same day.

Florence Knoll

Dressers and desks are all square in design but never lack for quality.

George E. Stratemeyer

One of Stratemeyer's favorite cartoons showed him sitting at his desk surrounded by pictures of his eight bosses (Stillwell, Mountbatten, Gen. George C. Marshall, Chiang, Arnold, Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Major General Daniel I. Sultan, and FDR), all of whom could give him orders in one or another of his capacities.

George Furth

Furth won both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for Company, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play for Precious Sons.

Georgia Bulldogs football under Charles McCarthy

As the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed.

Goddard and Townsend

John Goddard made a famous six-shell desk-bookcase for Providence merchant Nicholas Brown.

Graham Perkin

Away from his desk, he supported the Melbourne Football Club, and belonged to the Savage, Victoria Golf and Melbourne Cricket clubs.

Harold Rhode

During the Gulf War, Rhode served as the Turkish Desk officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

Jones P. Madeira

He did general reporting including the Magistrates's and High Courts of the country, firstly from the city desk, and then promoted to man the operations of the bureau of the media house at Piarco International Airport for several years.

Kathleen Christison

The last seven years before her resignation from the agency in 1979 saw her work there centered on the Middle East; and according to Robert Dreyfuss's 2005 book Devil's Game: How The United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (p.160), "Kathy Christison...headed the CIA's Egypt desk from 1973 to 1977."

Laurence O'Keeffe

He joined the Civil Service in 1953, initially in HM Customs and Excise, but transferred to the Foreign Service in 1962 and was posted to Bangkok 1962–65; the South East Asia desk at the Foreign Office 1965–68; Head of Chancery at Athens 1968–72; Commercial Counsellor at Jakarta 1972–75; and head of the Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department, FCO, 1975–76.

Legacy of the May Revolution

Chilean painter Pedro Subercaseaux created many related paintings after requests from Ángel Carranza, such as Cabildo abierto del 22 de mayo de 1810; Mariano Moreno writing in his desk; the embrace of Maipú between San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins; and the first playing of the Argentine National Anthem.

Lester Rawlins

Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Rawlins appeared in off-Broadway productions of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Winterset, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, and Nightride, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.

Louis Majorelle

Majorelle's work, particularly the mahogany desk from the Musée d'Orsay, is featured prominently in the 2008 French Film L'heure d'été, released in the US as Summer Hours in 2009.

Mary Testa

She returned to Broadway in July, 2007 in the musical-theater remake of the 1980 film Xanadu for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.

Miss Otis Regrets

The 2007 television adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, Marple Mystery: At Bertram's Hotel, opens with the hotel desk clerk repeating the full "Miss Otis Regrets" line to a Mr. Porter on the telephone.

Mykola Skrypnyk

Rather than recant, on July 7 he shot himself at his desk at his apartment in Derzhprom at Dzerzhynsky Square (Dzerzhynsky Municipal Raion of Kharkiv city).

Pauline Baynes

In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him.

People's Palace

The palace is also home to renowned Scottish Socialist John MacLeans' campaign desk, which can be found on the first floor.

Pete Glatter

He also put his language talents to use by working on Amnesty International’s former USSR desk (later becoming for a period in 2001-2002 Amnesty’s South Caucasus Researcher).

Pieter Klazes Pel

Pel shared the opinion of Sir William Osler, a contemporary of his, that the way to teach and train new physicians is at the bedsides of patients, rather than at a desk listening to lectures.

Pony glass

In Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Philip Marlowe relates "I unlocked my desk drawer and got out my office bottle and two pony glasses."

Production sound mixer

Usually, the recordist will arrive on location with his/her own equipment, which normally includes microphones, radio systems, booms, mixing desk, audio storage, headphones, cables, tools, and a small amount of stationery for making notes and logs.

Robert Volpe

Over his desk hung a congratulatory photograph from the foreign minister of Italy for recovering two ivories worth $1.5 million stolen from a museum in Pesaro.

Rosann Wowchuk

Although Wowchuk opposed the decision of Gary Filmon's government to eliminate the "single-desk" marketing of hog farms, she did not reverse the policy upon joining government.

Sacramento Station

Rental car companies: Hertz and Enterprise both service the station with pick-up and drop-off availability, though neither has a desk inside the station.

Seana Kofoed

Off Broadway credits include several productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Atlantic Theatre Company, and Manhattan Class Company, in addition to experiences in Glimmer, Glimmer, and Shine with the late John Spencer and An Experiment with an Air Pump, for which she received a Drama Desk Nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Standing desk

A standing desk is a desk conceived for writing, reading, or working, while standing up or while sitting on a high stool.

Susan Hilferty

Hilferty's Broadway credits include the costumes for Wicked (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards), Lestat (Tony nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Radio Golf, Assassins, the revival of Into the Woods (Tony nomination, Hewes Award), Jitney, Dirty Blonde, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

The Bride Wore Boots

Sally in turn buys Jeff a desk that belonged to Jefferson Davis, but the Dames claim it's a fake and one of them, Mary Lou Medford, makes a pass at Jeff.

Theatrical Novel

Helen says that while she, on returning Mikhail Bulgakov in evening from the Bolshoi Theatre, laying dinner, he sat at his desk and wrote a few pages, then went to her incredibly pleased, rubbing his hands with satisfaction.

Thomas Franklin Carter

Pelliot took an immediate interest in the subject, bringing from his desk drawer a box full of movable type in Chinese characters, hundreds of years older than Gutenberg's, which he had found on a cave floor.

Traditions of the United States Senate

In keeping with a 1974 Senate resolution, this desk is assigned to the senior Senator from Webster's birth state, New Hampshire.

WQAD-TV

He was long the staple on the anchor desk and was known for his "On The Road" series of reports and for his longtime role as the emcee of the station's annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethons from 1971 to 1998.


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