The hobbyist may then trade coins in a coin club or buy coins from dealers or mints.Their collection then takes on a more specific focus.Some enthusiasts become generalists and accumulate a few examples from a broad variety of historical or geographically significant coins.…
At the time, this almost represented the entire collection.In early 2004, the DVD also became available by mail.…
This collection devoted one edition to each country and included information and photographs.
A collection of these columns was later published as two books.He continued to write for The Blitz and Mirror till his last days.…
The surreal numbers are a proper class of objects that have the properties of a field.Within set theory, many collections of sets turn out to be proper classes.Examples include the class of all sets, the class of all ordinal numbers, and the class of all cardinal numbers.…
After opening their first shop, off London's Piccadilly, Matthew and Rebecca Wildsmith quickly gained a loyal following and began crafting bespoke shoes for many Royals and luminaries.Subsequently a ready-to-wear collection was introduced, which became equally popular.The company moved to London's Duke Street in 1948 and then on to Princes Arcade in the late 1960s.…
After opening their first shop, off London's Piccadilly, Matthew and Rebecca Wildsmith quickly gained a loyal following and began crafting bespoke shoes for many Royals and luminaries.Subsequently a ready-to-wear collection was introduced, which became equally popular.The company moved to London's Duke Street in 1948 and then on to Princes Arcade in the late 1960s.…
Some enthusiasts become generalists and accumulate a few examples from a broad variety of historical or geographically significant coins.Given enough resources, this can result in a vast collection.King Farouk of Egypt was a generalist with a collection famous for its scope and variety.…
Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works.Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously.…
It contains everything written by Washington, or signed by him, together with most of his incoming letters.Part of the collection is available online from the University of Virginia.…
On the other hand, out of all the thousands of potential archaeological sites destroyed or grossly eroded by such natural processes, occasionally sites survive with exceptional preservation of a related collection of artifacts.An example of such a collection is the Mary Rose.…
It was added to the Museum of Modern Art's collection of video games.
King has published fifty-five novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books.He has written nearly two hundred short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections.Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.…
Since 2008 the United States has charged at least 57 defendants for attempting to spy for China.Different intelligence services value certain intelligence collection techniques over others.The former Soviet Union, for example, preferred human sources over research in open sources, while the United States has tended to emphasize technological methods such as SIGINT and IMINT.…
The V&A has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, with which Henry Cole, the museum's first director, was involved in planning; initially it was known as the Museum of Manufactures, first opening in May 1852 at Marlborough House, but by September had been transferred to Somerset House.At this stage the collections covered both applied art and science.Several of the exhibits from the Exhibition were purchased to form the nucleus of the collection.…
It is the most colorful of the versions and is distinctive for the downward-looking stance of one of its background figures.It is also the only version not part of the collection of a Norwegian museum.The 1893 version (shown here) was stolen and recovered from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994.…
For a short time at the end of World War II he was commissioned by various newspapers to depict war scenes.A collection of his drawings is still in the possession of his family.Although he gained little popular success in his lifetime, his work was highly respected by his peers, and his friends included Dylan Thomas and Graham Greene.…
Further specific collections are available to cover the subjects of business, politics and health.In 1998, Meislin was editor-in-chief of electronic media at the newspaper.…
This figure is representative of tour revenue through 1995, as touring stopped after the death of Jerry Garcia.Their numerous studio albums were generally collections of new songs that they had first played in concert.The band was also famous for its extended musical jams, which featured both individual improvisations as well as distinctive "group-mind" improvisations during which each of the band members improvised individually while simultaneously blending together as a cohesive musical unit.…
This volume, illustrated by Jeff K. Potter, is not a comprehensive collection of all the stories Campbell had published in those thirty years, but 39 tales which Campbell and his editor Jim Turner thought representative.Two of this decade's short story collections won major awards for best collection.Campbell has continued his prolific output, publishing an average of a novel a year, plus standalone novellas, since 2000; three of the novels have won major awards for best novel.…
