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  • Thumbnail for St George's Hall, Liverpool
    St George's Hall, Liverpool (category Wikipedia articles incorporating the Cite Grove template)
    right the spear. She hails the four quarters of the globe, presented to her by Mercury; the last of whom, Africa, inclines with the form of the pediment...
    55 KB (6,335 words) - 10:03, 12 May 2024
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    from the four quarters of the globe. Perhaps some day the capital of the world may be located there, just as Constantine claimed Byzantium was the capital...
    127 KB (14,106 words) - 10:09, 1 September 2024
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    January 1820, English critic Sydney Smith quipped in the Edinburgh Review "In the four-quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?". James Kirke Paulding...
    10 KB (978 words) - 12:38, 23 July 2024
  • of Earth by the different species or races which inhabit it). (Gossett, 1997:32–33). Bernier advocated using the "four quarters" of the globe as the basis...
    77 KB (10,124 words) - 00:56, 27 August 2024
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    friend who quoted Sydney Smith's then-notorious 1820 remark, "in the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?". On December 15, 1823, he left...
    50 KB (6,447 words) - 04:08, 4 August 2024
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    Sydney Smith (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and critic John Neal dubbed his 1820 question in the Edinburgh Review, "In the four-quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" as "insolent" and...
    19 KB (2,597 words) - 17:29, 7 May 2024
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    to build the Great Exhibition of 1851, sent many of its students to the four quarters of the globe. The curriculum of the school included mechanical and...
    6 KB (694 words) - 21:30, 27 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Neal (writer)
    John Neal (writer) (category People of the American colonization movement)
    friend who quoted Sydney Smith's 1820 then-notorious remark, "in the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?". Whether it had more to do with...
    121 KB (14,597 words) - 16:54, 5 August 2024
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    Jean Cras (category French military personnel of World War I)
    as though it had been passed through the sieve of his varied experiences gained in the four quarters of the globe." Polyphème, opera in five acts on a...
    18 KB (2,207 words) - 11:55, 22 August 2024
  • of Adam Seybert's Annals of the United States, published by the well-known critic in the Edinburgh Review; Smith wrote: "In the four quarters of the globe...
    14 KB (1,560 words) - 03:26, 27 June 2024
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    Krasiczyn Castle (category 1631 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    the eternal order of the world, with four grades of authority. The rectangular, spacious court is surrounded to the east and north by living quarters...
    10 KB (1,107 words) - 11:32, 19 April 2024
  • embouchures on the western and eastern coasts... from which, according to the native conception, is an outlet to the four quarters of the globe." There seemed...
    26 KB (3,461 words) - 04:30, 6 August 2023
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    Cherry bomb (category Types of fireworks)
    size and shape (with the fuse resembling the cherry's stem). Cherry bombs range in size from three-quarters to one and a half inches (1.9 to 3.8 cm) in...
    6 KB (651 words) - 21:24, 9 April 2024
  • St. Joseph Cemetery (Manchester, New Hampshire) (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    the four extremities of the field the four smaller crosses proclaim that the life-giving God of Calvary has flowed to the four quarters of the globe,...
    12 KB (1,839 words) - 15:03, 17 July 2024
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    William Simpson (Scottish artist) (category Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours)
    Round the world : or, Pictures from the four quarters of the globe : descriptive catalogue of a collection of water-colour drawings and sketches from...
    29 KB (3,558 words) - 20:32, 14 August 2024
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    Minnesota State Capitol artwork (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and in the last panel, the young man is crowned and sends the four winds to the four quarters of the globe bearing the gifts of Minnesota. In every panel...
    70 KB (8,014 words) - 08:49, 8 January 2024
  • The Globe and Mail. "Hotel de Sharp: Lessons From Four Seasons' Founder". 3 August 2009. "Bill Gates' Family Office Takes Majority Ownership of Four Seasons...
    84 KB (5,702 words) - 02:19, 26 August 2024
  • The 68th Golden Globe Awards were broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 16, 2011, by NBC. The host was Ricky...
    28 KB (745 words) - 00:20, 13 July 2024
  • reduce the number of divisions to 27, but the Chinese retained all of their original 28 lunar mansions. These were grouped into four equal quarters which...
    29 KB (1,383 words) - 06:58, 1 September 2024
  • proposes renting a room at the junk store, one of the few places free of the omnipresent monitors. In the sanctity of their quarters, Winston confides that...
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