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The raiments worn by the bulk of Nairobi's population are sourced here.
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Suddenly, Stettheimer's sensibility is fully visible in the lithe figures, the playful movement, the rich raiments, the intense colors — especially in the "Wave," a turquoise sculpture of a dancer in the middle of a broad, indisputably modern-dance turn.
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And in a business that takes itself as seriously as fashion does, this kind of wink reminds us that beneath the splendor of it all — the great sets, the beautiful models sparkling in their jewels and raiments — it is all vanity, all dross.
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President Grant had wanted a state funeral, but Ellen Stanton wanted as simple an affair as could be had. Nonetheless, Grant ordered all public offices closed, and federal buildings draped in "raiments of sorrow". Flags in several major cities were lowered to half-staff, and gun salutes sounded at army installations around the country. On December 27, his body was carried by artillerymen to his home's parlor.
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Reginald of Durham recorded four songs of St Godric's: they are the oldest songs in English for which the original musical settings survive. Reginald describes the circumstances in which Godric learnt the first song. In a vision the Virgin Mary appeared to Godric with at her side "two maidens of surpassing beauty clad in shining white raiments." They pledged to come to his aid in times of need; and the Virgin herself taught Godric a song of consolation to overcome grief or temptation (Saintë Marië Virginë).
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Whilst drunk, she had attended church to pay respects to the "McCormick Child" who had recently died. She asked a group of priests for a candle to light in Latin. When the priests were unable to reply as they did not understand Latin, she ripped the frocks off Father J Neale and Brother Pascal Megazzini, claiming they were not fit to wear the holy raiments. Gleim was fined $50, but because she had previously fail to turn up for court forfeited bonds and the fine totalled $736.30.
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" Entry 207 for 'The Rape of Ganymede in Hofstede de Groot, 1915 Oddly, Hofstede de Groot did not comment on the theme of this painting at all, though Smith before him found it highly unusual when he wrote: "197. The Rape of Ganymede. If the picture (for the present description is taken from a print) be really by Rembrandt, his intention must have been to burlesque the mythological subject above stated, for he has represented the beautiful Ganymede as a great lubberly child, with a blubbering grimace of countenance, sprawling, with extended arms, in the talons and beak of the eagle Jupiter. The bird has seized him by his unclassical raiments, the weight of his fat body has drawn his clothes up to his shoulders, and left his lower extremities in a state of nudity, and is thus bearing him through the murky air to Olympus.
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