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unusual facts about everyday life



Rafael Ritz

He mostly painted in Switzerland, in his canton of Valais where he represented everyday life's scenes.


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Amédée Forestier

In December 1911, a series of his drawings (accompanying text by Arthur Bulleid) was published in The Illustrated London News, depicting scenes of everyday life in an Iron age village near present day Glastonbury - "Glastonbury Lake Village".

Andrejs Grants

Having influences by documentary photographers, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, group "A" used a reportage style to document everyday life of Soviet Latvia, very often creating photographs full of criticism.

Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya

Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya is a book by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad published in 2008, which gives an account of everyday life in the war-torn Russian Republic of Chechnya.

Big numbers

Large numbers, numbers that are significantly larger than those ordinarily used in everyday life

Czech literature

A specifically Czech literary style, poetism, was developed by the group Devětsil (Vítězslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert, Konstantin Biebl, Karel Teige), which argued that poetry should pervade everyday life, that poetry is inseparable from daily life, that everyone is a poet.

Dipankar Home

Partha Ghose, Dipankar Home: Riddles in your teacup: 100 science puzzles from everyday life, illustrated by Suparno Chaudhuri, Rupa 1990

Enjoying Everyday Life

Enjoying Everyday Life is a Christian television series hosted by Joyce Meyer and airing in syndication on numerous broadcast and cable television networks.

Eric Santner

His 2001 book On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig tackles the question of religious tolerance using the work of the Jewish religious philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

Family Album, U.S.A.

Family Album, U.S.A. is a 1991 book by George Lefferts that later became a television course teaching English on an example of American everyday life.

Fehlfarben

Signing a contract with the German subsidiary of EMI lost them their status as an underground band, but in 1980 they released their debut, Monarchie und Alltag (Monarchy and everyday life), an album recognized then and now as one of the most important German-language rock records.

Fly in the ointment

This idiom has been used in the title of some books: The Fly in the Ointment: 70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Life by Joseph A. Schwarcz and The Fly in the Ointment by Alice Thomas Ellis.

Great Cities of the Ancient World

The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople.

Hong Kong units of measurement

Gregorian calendar is usually used, but the Chinese calendar also plays a very important role in everyday life and in telling the dates of traditional festivals.

Horace Pippin

By the late 1930s, critic Christian Brinton, artists N. C. Wyeth and John McCoy, collector Albert C. Barnes, dealer Robert Carlen and curators Dorothy Miller and Holger Cahill championed Pippin's distinctive paintings that captured his childhood memories and war experiences, scenes of everyday life, landscapes, portraits, biblical subjects, and American historical events.

Informal logic

The naming of the field was preceded by the appearance of a number of textbooks that rejected the symbolic approach to logic on pedagogical grounds as inappropriate and unhelpful for introductory textbooks on logic for a general audience, for example Howard Kahane's Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric, subtitled "The Use of Reason in Everyday Life", first published in 1971.

John Rogers Studio

John Rogers's popularity stemmed from the way his statuary groups created scenes of everyday life with a sentimental feel that has been compared to the much later Norman Rockwell.

Museum of Design, Zürich

It documents the aesthetic and cultural transformation of graphics in everyday life from Gutenberg to the present.

My Brother and Me

The show is about a family living in the West Side of Charlotte, North Carolina, who experience the highs and lows of everyday life.

ODL

Observations of daily living, cues that people attend to in the course of their everyday life, that inform them about their health

Phillip Jauregui

His legal work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Joyce Meyer Ministries Publication, “Enjoying Everyday Life” magazine.

Renee Botta

She taught at the University of Zambia and conducted research on how people communicate about AIDS in their everyday life.

The Aesthetics of Rock

Writer Greil Marcus, in his introduction to the Da Capo edition of Aesthetics, maintains that the book is "the best and most obsessive book about the Beatles ever written," and that the work seeks to illuminate "the collapse of art into everyday life, and vice versa."

The Duplex

A number of strips is devoted to the current media events (mainly related to the U.S. pop culture, such as American Idol show) or everyday life (such as popularity of Tivo video recorder and universal remotes).

The Practice of Everyday Life

The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau which examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own.

The Practice of Everyday Life re-examines related fragments and theories from Kant and Wittgenstein to Bourdieu, Foucault and Détienne, in the light of a proposed theoretical model.

WGLY-FM

Christian Talk and Teaching shows heard on The Light Radio network include; Focus On The Family, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, Truth for Life with Alistair Begg, Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer, Grace to You with John MacArthur, Insight For Living with Chuck Swindoll, Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Joni and Friends, and In The Market with Janet Parshall.

Word Gets Around

Much of the album is written about everyday life in Cwmaman.

WXOB-LP

The station also offers three national religious programs: Enjoying Everyday Life with white female evangelist Joyce Meyer, Amazing Facts with Seventh-day Adventist Church evangelist Doug Batchelor, and the Shepherd's Chapel with controversial pastor Arnold Murray.

X-ray generator

Fluoroscopy is used in cases where real-time visualization is necessary (and is most commonly encountered in everyday life at airport security).