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  • 41picturesquely — picturesque ► ADJECTIVE ▪ visually attractive in a quaint or charming manner. DERIVATIVES picturesquely adverb picturesqueness noun …

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  • 42picturesqueness — picturesque ► ADJECTIVE ▪ visually attractive in a quaint or charming manner. DERIVATIVES picturesquely adverb picturesqueness noun …

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  • 43Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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  • 44William Gilpin (clergyman) — The Reverend William Gilpin (June 4, 1724–1804) was an English artist, clergyman, schoolmaster, and author, best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque .Early lifeGilpin was born in Cumbria, the son of Captain John Bernard …

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  • 45Samuel Ireland — (May 21 1744 – July 1800), British author and engraver, is best remembered today as the chief victim of the Ireland Shakespearean forgeries created by his son, William Henry Ireland.Early lifeHe ate life as a weaver in aasdfafdssadfaffddddddas,… …

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  • 46graphic — graphic, vivid, picturesque, pictorial are comparable when they mean having or manifesting a quality or character that produces a strong, clear impression, especially a visual impression. All of these words apply particularly but not exclusively… …

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  • 47List of National Historic Sites of Canada — This is a complete list of the National Historic Sites of Canada. All such designations are made by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada . As of March 2008, there are 935 sites …

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  • 48Borrowed scenery — (from Japanese shakkei 借景, lit. borrow/lend scene ) is the principle of incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden found in traditional East Asian garden design.hakkei in the Sakuteiki Shakkei was originally codified in… …

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  • 49John Dixon Hunt — is a European born landscape philosopher who specializes in the picturesque. Mainly focusing on the time around the turn of the 17th century in France and England. He personally claims that the facts of his early life had no bearing on his move… …

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  • 50History of gardening — See also: Category:Landscape design history The history of ornamental gardening may be considered as aesthetic expressions of beauty through art and nature, a display of taste or style in civilized life, an expression of an individual s or… …

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