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I'm really keen to get hold of a book by David Frost called How to Live Under Labour - or at Least Have as Much Chance as Anyone Else published in 1964 by Heinemann. Anyone have one they want to sell...
I'm currently writing an essay on gender roles throughout art history, however im struggling...hit a wall.... I'm looking at artist Carol Schneemann, and looking at what extent does gender play a role...
I want to make a plaster cast of my face at some point, but I can't find where to buy Alginate or the silicon plaster you put in the cast afterwards. I live in the UK, does anyone have any...
I bought a painting last year. It was intended as a gift but due to unforeseen circumstances, I still have it. It is by an artist from the Isle of Wight and is inspired by images captured by the...
I know nothing of art, especially sculpture, but I have seen a very large alabaster sculpture that caught my eye.
Is alabaster an expensive material?...
I took a photo of a painting I like very much. It looks 3-D to me. It has a rocking chair and butter churn on a braided rug, A bowl of yarn on the floor beside chair, dish cabinet in the background,...
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Stuck on two. 22A Unit of luminous intensity equal to one candela per sq mtr. N*T
25D Main part or body of a vertebra, to which the arches and processes are attached? ****U*...
Thank you to those who answered my last post. Do you think this scene is appropriate to include in the story? When they got to school Peter opened the door for Rachel and let her through. ‘Thank...
In the recent past I found on the internet a listing of all the productions and casts for The Royal Exchange in Manchester,but I didn't write down the details and now I now cannot find it. Does...
The quiz is to do with TV programmes through the decades: 14. Dumb observer (6,7) 29. Exact double (8,5) 36. Single scout (3,4,6) 51. Contest for Jesus v Emmanuel (10,9) 56. Elizabeth 11's description...
Hi, I am an international student wishing to improve my spoken English. I've been watching Downton Abbey these days and wondering if I could use it as a model for perfecting my English? Or is the...
Do Cauldron Promotions still exist or something like that? Can I still get the sort of posters they supplied - for example the series of Roger Dean Greenslade posters.
I recently discovered comics. I've been aware of them, but thought they were for nerds. How wrong I was! I'm not in to the typical Batman/Spider-Man/Star Wars etc ones, I prefer funny ones or...