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unusual facts about Perfection



Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor

At his laboratory near Paris, Niépce de Saint-Victor worked on the fixation of natural photographic colour as well as the perfection of his cousin's heliographic process for photomechanical printing.

Actus

Actus purus, a term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the absolute perfection of God.

Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard

He won first prize from the Prussian Academy of Sciences for La Système de Mr. Pope sur la perfection du monde comparé à celui de Mr. Leibniz (1755), a critique of the philosophy of Alexander Pope, Leibniz and Christian Wolff.

Alexandre Bida

He specialized in Orientalism and studied under Eugène Delacroix, but with an artist's eye for precision and perfection, he soon developed his own style.

Alfonso Rodriguez

Alonso Rodriguez (1526-1616), author of The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection

Andrew Wise

As was typical of publishers of his era, he published religious and homiletic works, like The Pathway to Perfection and The Mean of Mourning (both 1596) by Thomas Playfair — though he appears to have operated a rather small-scale business, in comparison with other stationers of his generation.

Anthotype

Henry H. Snelling writes based on his research: "Viola odorata--or sweet scented violet, yields to alcohol a rich blue color, which it imparts in high perfection to paper. Senecio Splendens--or double purple groundsel, yields a beautiful color to paper."

Antonio Sicurezza

Elio Marciano for the female nude observes that "the earthly reality of the fine figures of young girls is filled with love of classical perfection of chaste nudity." Guido Bernardi instead puts its focus on humble objects represented in the paintings of the painter, who, "with a wonderful insight figured object, is able to convey continuous points of joy and reflection".

Charles Fairfield

A copy by him of Teniers's Le Bonnet Rouge was "of the most striking perfection of finish and tone, capable of deceiving any one could it have but age" (manuscript notes in Anderdon, Collectanea Biographica, print room, British Museum).

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

According to Jerome McGann, by masking himself behind a literary artifice, Byron was able to express his view that "man's greatest tragedy is that he can conceive of a perfection which he cannot attain".

Comic timing

Here, the humour is derived both from rapid speech and rapid movement — people running into and out of rooms at breakneck speed and managing to cause havoc in the process as done to perfection in the series Fawlty Towers.

Crossmyloof

When Hugh MacDonald passed through Crossmyloof on one of his Rambles in 1851, he found that the weavers of Crossmyloof and Strathbungo, like their neighbours on the hill above at Langside, were 'celebrated growers of tulips, pansies, dahlias and other floricultural favourites' and met regularly at their florist clubs to examine choice flowers and discuss the best means of rearing them to perfection.

Forrest McDonald

The New York Times pointedly noted that on the same day as McDonald's Jefferson Lecture, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall gave a speech criticizing "complacent belief" in the perfection of the Constitution, given the stain of slavery.

Freitag aus Licht

Gérard Condé wrote in Le Monde about how the requirements of the Light cycle forced the composer into a cloister of sorts, This quest for perfection, a complete fulfillment of the artistic gesture from its conception to its implementation, against the tide of the entire musical practice, gradually shut the composer in a superb isolation, which resembles a prison.

Gilabert de Próixita

Some poems vary the metre but it is always intentional: Gilabert is second to none among his generation in the perfection of his metre, which appears to be influenced by the standards of the Consistori del Gay Saber in Toulouse.

Happy Arcadia

Arcadia was a legendary site of rural perfection, first described by the Ancient Greeks, that was a popular setting for writers of the 19th century and artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau.

Harriet Craig

When he does, he drinks straight liquor, makes himself comfortable on the pristine sofa, and intentionally smashes Harriet's beloved household possession, a priceless Ming vase -- symbolic of her control and obsession with perfection.

Hermański Kryspin

His fans compared him to Danny Tidwell because of his technical perfection and his attitude toward a camera.

Hot Dixie Chick

Out of the mare Above Perfection, a descendant of the very influential sire, Caro, Hot Dixie Chick was sired by Dixie Union, a son of the stakes winner, Dixieland Band who is a son of the most successful sire of the 20th Century, Northern Dancer.

Jackie MacMullan

She released Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection with Geno Auriemma in 2006, and wrote the New York Times best seller "When the Game Was Ours" with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in 2009.

Juan Emilio Viguié

Synchronized film dialogue became possible in the late 1920s, with the perfection of the audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system.

Kevin McLoughlin

His ability to execute the 30-yard kick pass "almost to absurd perfection" has led to comparisons with soccer player Andrés Iniesta.

KISS principle

The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", Mies Van Der Rohe's "Less is more", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away".

Matt Briggs

Writer Ray Mungo wrote of Briggs’ work, "Briggs as the language, cadence, and rain-shrouded soul of the Northwest honed to perfection in his candid and haunting style." Shoot the Buffalo won a 2006 American Book Award and was a Finalist for the 2006 Washington State Book Award in Fiction.

Mercia MacDermott

For Freedom and Perfection (the life of Yané Sandansky), Journeyman Press, 1988, ISBN 978-1-85172-014-9

Michael Symon

Symon was featured in fellow Clevelander Michael Ruhlman's 2001 book, The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection.

Mirabelle plum

In Spain it grows in Galicia, in O Rosal, a valley in the south of the province of Pontevedra in which was introduced in the mid-twentieth century by Xosé Sánchez García and where it has acclimated to perfection.

Nicolas Jenson

Nicholas Jenson has been something of iconic figure among students of early printing since the nineteenth century when the aesthete William Morris praised the beauty and perfection of his roman font.

Oh No It Isn't!

Bernice Summerfield's investigation into the lost civilisation of Perfection takes a turn for the strange when her cat Wolsey turns into Puss in Boots

Philip Woodward

It was acclaimed by Jonathan Betts, the Senior Curator of Horology at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as "the nearest approach to perfection by any mechanical timekeeper not employing a vacuum chamber".

Pierre Ryckmans

Leys expressed distaste for the film, however; stating in an afterword accompanying a reprint of the novel that this "latter avatar The Emperor's New Clothes, by the way, was both sad and funny: sad, because Napoleon was interpreted to perfection by an actor (Ian Holm) whose performance made me dream of what could have been achieved had the producer and director bothered to read the book."

Robert de Cotte

Robert Neuman, Robert de Cotte and the Perfection of Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France, University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Roger Bellon

His dance compositions include: Signé Modigliani for French Choreographer, Nadine Birtchansky, which had its World Premiere at the California Institute of the Arts, The Perfection of Anna (short film) and In Between (short film) for Choreographer Hilary Thomas and Director Elizabeth Gracen.

Russell Davies

In 2003, Russell Davies wrote and presented Quest for Perfection, a film about jazz clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, for BBC Four and produced by John Warburton (shortlisted for the 2004 Grierson Award).

Samson Raphaelson

All directed by Lubitsch, the three were Trouble in Paradise, Heaven Can Wait, and Raphaelson’s favorite, The Shop Around the Corner, which had starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and which Kael wrote was “as close to perfection as a movie made by mortals is ever likely to be; it couldn’t be the airy wonder it was without the structure Raphaelson built into it.” (The story was remade in 1998 as You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.)

Side degree

Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans - the culmination of a number of side degrees of the Oddfellows, most of which adopt the pseudo-Middle Eastern "oriental" theme - Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection, Veiled Prophets of Bagdad, Knights of Oriental Splendor, Ancient Mystic Order of Cabirians and the Imperial Order of Muscovites, who were unique in adopting a Russian motif.

Tamiel

His name is usually translated as "perfection of God" (the combination of tamiym and El-God) but Tamiel is also called either Kasdeja (also Kasdaye, "kahs-DAH-yay", כַּשְׂדַּי, "Chaldean") or Kasyade (compd. of Heb.: כסה kasah "to conceal" + יד yad "hand, power", meaning "covered hand" or "hidden power") in the Book of Enoch, Chapter 69.

Touba, Senegal

In Sufism, this symbolic tree represents an aspiration for spiritual perfection and closeness to God.

Tzadik

Joseph's resistance to Potiphar's wife represents his perfection of the "Sign of the Covenant".

Yasodharman

The Bijayagadh Stone Pillar Inscription of Vishnuvardhana, locally known as Bhīm kī Lāţ, was erected at Bayana in Bharatpur district for having perfection been attained in samvat 428 on the fifteenth lunar day of the dark fortnight of (the month) Phâlguna.

Yesung

From 28 February to 21 June 2011, Yesung temporarily replaced band mate Eunhyuk as radio DJ partnering with Leeteuk on Super Junior's Kiss the Radio, while Eunhyuk was away on promotional activities for Super Junior-M's third EP Perfection.


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