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2 unusual facts about vignette


Vignette

Vignette Corporation, a commercial software content management system, records and documents management system, portal, and collaboration tools company

Vignetting in photography, any process by which there is loss in clarity towards the corners and sides of an image


Ape and Essence

It begins with a vignette describing the destruction of the world by nuclear and chemical warfare at the hands of intelligent baboons – a critique of the human race (see more about these vignettes below).

Charles Henry Jeens

About 1860 he became associated with Macmillan & Co., for whose Golden Treasury series and other publications he produced many vignettes, and portraits including a series of Scientific Worthies in Nature.

Elobey, Annobón and Corisco

The American author William Styron wrote a short vignette entitled Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco, about his time as a young Marine officer during World War II.

Franz Stuck

He first became well known by cartoons for Fliegende Blätter, and vignette designs for programmes and book decoration.

Hakluyt Society

At another meeting, held in August that year, Council voted that the vignette of Magellan's ship, the Victoria, should be imprinted on the cover of all volumes.

R. Thampipillay

They give an interesting vignette of the personalities of the Victoria Institution and life in Kuala Lumpur in the early twentieth century.

StoryServer

StoryServer was the name the company Vignette gave to CNET's web publishing application "PRISM" when they bought it.

The Pendragons

Jonathan and Charlotte performed their Artist's Dream illusion, a vignette about an artist's wife dying and appearing as a ghost, which was accompanied by a song composed and sung by Princess Stephanie and dedicated to her late mother Princess Grace.


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