Unlike Magic Leap or HoloLens, Vaunt looks and feels normal.
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Using a Vaunt display is unlike anything else I've tried.
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That means a nearby smartphone is necessary for the Vaunt to function.
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Apple used to vaunt the one-handed nature of its 43-inch phones.
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"But I'm honestly scared of losing my livelihood at any minute," Vaunt said.
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I think the intention with Vaunt is a little different from Intel's usual playbook.
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Vaunt is the first pair of smart eyeglasses I've tried that doesn't look ridiculous.
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Still, it's disappointing to think that Vaunt won't get a chance to finish development.
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The company confirmed the end of Vaunt (codenamed Superlight) in a statement offered to TechCrunch.
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Google and Intel made smart glasses — Google Glass and Vaunt — but neither product took off with consumers.
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One of the principal engineers on Vaunt is Brian Hernacki, who was deeply involved in architecting webOS.
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The glasses are called Vaunt, first seen by the Verge, and they are nearly indistinguishable from regular glasses.
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Focals have the same basic idea as Vaunt but are actually set to ship to consumers fairly soon.
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They'll presumably mostly live on the phone, but they can also run in some way on the Vaunt itself.
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Like Google Glass did five years ago, Vaunt will launch an "early access program" for developers later this year.
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Likewise, last year Intel completely shuttered its Vaunt smart glasses division just two months after showcasing a new prototype.
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So if you wear the Vaunt glasses, most people wouldn't immediately know you had a HUD strapped to your face.
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The Vaunt glasses will be made available to developers later this year and will work with Android and iOS devices.
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The Vaunt seemed promising, but the online glimpse we got of the product didn't appear to be fully thought out.
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That's why all of the electronics in Vaunt sit inside two little modules built into the stems of the eyeglasses.
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The Superlight [the codename for Vaunt] project is a great example where Intel developed truly differentiated, consumer augmented reality glasses.
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Democrats especially may want to vaunt Tuesday's victory as the victory (or vengeance) of progressive politics and the #MeToo moment.
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"The Vaunt really doesn't look or feel very different than a regular pair of eyeglasses," venture capitalist Gene Munster said.
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While that's tremendously exciting, after reading The Verge's big story on the Intel Vaunt glasses, I don't know if it's enough.
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Which is great, because you don't want to risk blindness for the relatively small amount of data Vaunt glasses would provide.
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Intel's Vaunt glasses are perhaps the closest — small and stylish, but merely delivering text notifications and directions projected onto your retina.
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Just last month, Intel shut down development of its Vaunt smart glasses and reportedly the entirety of its new devices group.
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The chipmaker recently announced a new pair of smart glasses, Vaunt, with a slim profile unlike anything else on the market.
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But while it may have generated some excitement in the press, Vaunt has vexed major players in the emerging augmented reality space.
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None of CNBC's sources were able to obtain a prototype of Vaunt, and Intel declined to provide a review unit to CNBC.
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Not just because that's a pre-existing sales channel, but also because you'll need to have Vaunt glasses adjusted to your pupillary distance.
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In addition to the VCSEL and all the associated chips needed to power it, the Vaunt includes Bluetooth to communicate with your phone.
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Big players have tried their hand at it with less than stellar results — most notably Google with Glass, and more recently Intel's Vaunt.
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For Intel, however, Vaunt always felt like a pet project from a company that generates most of its revenue supplying components for other brands.
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Vaunt isn't meant to replace other screens, but to become a new kind of display that is useful in ways that other screens aren't.
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North, the company behind the Focals AR glasses, has acquired the "technology portfolio" behind another set of AR glasses, the cancelled Intel Vaunt glasses.
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Whoever does eventually try to sell Vaunt to real consumers is going to face another challenge at least as powerful as the Luxottica monopoly: ecosystems.
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And both the FDP and Greens, bolstered by their relatively strong showings on September 24th, will want concrete achievements they can vaunt to their voters.
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The Verge review notes the product has not formally launched, and a search for "Vaunt" does not turn up a dedicated page on Intel's website.
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Correction, March 11th at 1:58PM ET: North actually introduced its smart glasses before, not after it acquired the technology portfolio behind Intel's canceled Vaunt glasses.
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Sources say the most likely scenario is a spun-out startup company will take Vaunt to market, backed by both Intel and whomever it partners with.
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That's on top of convincing people that it's normal to wear smart glasses and that Vaunt provides enough value to justify whatever its price will be.
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While it's unclear if a product like this has wings in the market, Intel's Vaunt currently represents the most promising version of 'smart glasses' we've yet seen.
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Just as a Google Cast-enabled TV is just an endpoint for any streaming video, perhaps Vaunt is just an endpoint where cloud apps can stream information.
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Some projects have collapsed entirely, like Intel's Vaunt smart glasses, while others, like Magic Leap's mixed reality specs, have simply failed to live up to the hype.
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While fans of opposing teams still show up in large numbers during home games at the Coliseum, the Rams can now vaunt their best season in years.
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Bloomberg reported earlier this year that Intel was seeking a partner in order to try to bring the glasses, known as Vaunt aka Project Superlight, to market.
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Well, not necessarily in public: Intel's Vaunt glasses look more like the safety glasses people wear around heavy machinery than the corrective ones currently resting on my nose.
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Instead of some cumbersome headset with a special screen, Intel's Vaunt glasses are simple plastic frames that weigh under 50 grams (nearly the exact weight of Snap Spectacles).
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Bloomberg writes that the company will probably be called Vaunt; the smart glasses are reportedly known internally as "Superlite," and will be made by Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer.
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Perhaps that's one reason why Google Glass' second iteration has been relegated to factories, while Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses are more promising for day-to-day use.
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Intel has confirmed that it plans to shut down the New Devices Group (NDG) and cease development on the Vaunt smart glasses project we revealed earlier this year.
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The Economist: What if the "other side" doesn't want to be "interdependent" and "coexist" or aspire to the other virtues that you vaunt—they rather enjoy a fight.
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Both Focals and Vaunt had the same basic idea: use a tiny laser embedded in the stem of your glasses to project a reflected image directly into your retina.
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While it's unclear just how the Vaunt glasses will come to market, Intel has said that the OEM route is a more likely strategy than Intel selling these specs themselves.
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Instead of finding a home in another American technology or retail company, two sources suggested Vaunt could find investors in Asia that were looking to enter the American market quickly.
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The company's high hopes for the project, outlined in The Verge's exclusive look at the Vaunt prototype glasses in February of this year, included gesture control and integration with Amazon's Alexa.
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Speaking of flashy concepts, the company decided to kill off the promising Vaunt smart glasses project, likely because it wasn't able to decide if and how to bring it to market.
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It was always unclear precisely how Intel intended to bring the Vaunt glasses to market, though sources indicated that Intel wanted to find a partner with retail expertise to partner with.
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If the company wasn't able to successfully find a similar partner to handle Vaunt, it's not exactly a surprise that it chose not to try to bring them to market directly.
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Ms. Felix and other poets like her are intertwining politics, public life and poetry to create works that vaunt over conventional language and avoid phrases that have lost meaning through overuse.
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Intel's Vaunt seems to take us a step closer to personal HUDs, but the biggest question still remains: How the heck are we supposed to interact with these computers of the future?
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So it makes perfect sense that North is getting the intellectual property and related tech that Intel developed for Vaunt — it has been more successful in (nearly) bringing a product to market.
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Democrats blame consumers who down only sound-bites; readers who fail to seek facts; a business model that has forced papers to abandon investigation; and politicians who vaunt the power to block access.
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As first noted by The Verge, the startup has picked up the "technology portfolio" behind Vaunt, the AR glasses shuttered by the chipmaker in April this year after a couple of glowing previews.
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Let's try this again: Five years after the flop of Google Glass, Intel is readying smart glasses called Vaunt that project a display on the user's retina — and more importantly, they look normal.
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And yet her determination to flee all the pressures of her celebrity life came via a form of self-mythologizing that would ironically vaunt her above her peers and crystallize an image she hated.
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While fans of opposing teams have shown up in large numbers during home games at the Coliseum, the Rams can vaunt their best season in years, regardless of what happened on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Until then, what I can tell you is that I found the experience of trying Vaunt to be much more compelling than the overly techy cyborg AR glasses I tried at CES last month.
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It's such low power that we don't [need it certified]," he says, "and in the case of [Vaunt], it is so low-power that it's at the very bottom end of a class one laser.
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Though I have never tested Intel's Vaunt AR glasses — which use retinal projection to display images on the inside of your literal eyeball — I think I can safely say I'm more comfortable with this arrangement.
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The group is perhaps best known for a pair of smart glasses, known internally as Vaunt, which use a low-power laser to beam a low-resolution image into your peripheral vision, directly onto your retina.
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While future models might be equipped with a microphone and access to smart assistants like Alexa or Siri, the first-gen Vaunt models will be controlled through subtle motion gestures like a nod of the head.
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Some sources suggested Vaunt may be the result of an internal power struggle at Intel, or an attempt to appease leaders within Intel that were pushing for the company to realize the potential of previous augmented reality acquisitions.
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Instead of superimposing data over the world visually, like Google Glass or Intel's Vaunt glasses, Bose's AR concept unsurprisingly focuses on audio, adding "audible layer of information and experiences" to the real world, according to a report from CNET.
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The glasses work more or less the same as Intel's disbanded Vaunt smart glasses project in that both take advantage of retinal projection, meaning the image they display shines on the back of your retina, which leaves everything in focus.
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In February the company had said it would announce a developer-focused early access program for the Vaunt later this year, though it was simultaneously looking to sell a majority stake in the division responsible for the AR glasses, according to Bloomberg.
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They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they'd become precisely the sort of useless baggage you'd trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel.
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The Vaunt glasses' low resolution (400x150 pixels) monocolor display may disappear from view when not in use and require no adjustment for people with bad eyesight, but it also doesn't have any way of gathering data beyond what it can pull from your phone.
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Laidlaw's "Epistle 33" is a letter from a fictional character named "Gertie Fremont," who recounts her team-up with feisty partner "Alex Vaunt" (Alyx Vance) to find the "Hyperborea" (Borealis) luxury liner, which must be destroyed or captured from the evil "Disparate" (Combine) aliens.
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But for Vaunt to reach consumers, it would need to either be spun out as a stand-alone company, with Intel as a minority backer, or would have to be acquired by a company that sells to consumers, both Bloomberg and The Verge reported.
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Photo: Alexander Koerner (Getty)Damn, I've never seen a tech company give up on a project so quickly since Microsoft bet big on the Kin, but Intel may have taken the cake as it announces the closure of the division responsible for its intriguing Vaunt smart glasses.
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AR glasses startup North picks up Intel's Vaunt patents This is probably a hardware space Snap has their eyes on; Spectacles jogged a lot of the current thinking on glasses-type wearables, but at this point, the company needs something that has wide appeal and can feed users back into its own app.
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Read more: Adult Content Creators: Patreon Is Doing 'the Exact Opposite of What We Asked For' Nicole Vaunt, an adult content creator, told me in an email that Patreon reached out to her a few months ago, and told her to remove any nudity or implied nudity from her Patreon public page and public posts.
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Instead of a multicolor display that augments reality, the Vaunt glasses reportedly shine a small red display into you eyeball using a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser—that's the kind of laser found in your printer, mouse, and in the dot projector on the iPhone X. According to Intel, the version they use is low-powered enough to cause zero damage to your retinas.
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Intel isn't coming off the best few weeks in the news: Apple is reportedly planning on dropping Intel processors for its Mac computers as early as 2020, and last week Intel abruptly abandoned its Vaunt smart glasses project (to say nothing of the disastrous Meltdown and Spectre debacle earlier this year.) That said, Intel did beat estimates for its quarterly earnings this week, posting a record $16.07 billion in revenue largely on the strength of its PC processor and data center businesses, so don't exactly count the famed chipmaker out yet.
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In 2001 it was in danger of splitting in two, a fate that had already overtaken the similarly aged Duke's Vaunt. To prevent this, the tree was fitted with a metal corset.Newsquest Group "This Is Wiltshire.", Retrieved in 2003.
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A lame ass draws the chariot and stumbles half-way up the hill. The pure are in hiding; the favoured are fools. The phoenix may not soar; but quails vaunt their flight. (tr. Hawkes 1985: 277) Four other Chuci poems mention Bian He's jade-disk.
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The verses in which the claims of Mongán's divine parentage and tutoring are made are described by Charles- Edwards are "literary conceit" and by Carney as "poetic hyperbole", the presumed original intent being to vaunt Mongán's seamanship.Carney, pp. 504–504; Charles-Edwards, p. 202; MacKillop, pp.
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Duke's Vaunt Oak () is a notable tree approximately 1,000 years old. It was once hollow and in girth. In 1760 it had a door and a lock and was capable of sheltering "twenty boys".From Forest Life 2002, magazine of the Forestry Commission Note 2 The tree is badly split now, but survives.
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The estimated cost of both was in excess of £3500. These were deemed too expensive. However, the Archdeacon and his fellow trustees were not unmindful of the connection between the architectural style of a building and the status of the activities it contained. They wrote to the Colonial Secretary pointing out the need for "some architectural pretension to vaunt the importance of education".
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Today most AR devices look bulky, and applications such as navigation, a real-time tourist guide, and recording, can drain smart glasses' batteries in about 1–4 hours. Battery life might be improved by using lower- power display systems (as with the Vaunt), wearing a battery pack elsewhere on the body (such as a belt pack or companion smart necklace).
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Some myths present Garuda as so massive that he can block out the sun. The text Garuda Purana is named after him. Garuda is presented in the Mahabharata mythology as one who eats snake meat, such as the story about him planning to kill and eat Sumukha snake, where Indra intervenes. Garuda in anger, vaunt about his feats and compares himself to Indra's equal.
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He does nothing at all. Immediately after him, Annius speaks. He is the natural predator for idling nobles, for he is a forger of antiquities (named for Annio di Viterbo) who teaches the nobles to value their false Roman coins above their houses and their forged Virgil manuscripts above their own clothing. He serves Dulness by teaching her servants to vaunt their stupidity with their wealth.
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Diomedes answered, "Hector will talk among the Trojans and say, 'The son of Tydeus fled before me to the ships.' This is the vaunt he will make, and may the earth then swallow me." Nestor responded, "Son of Tydeus, though Hector say that you are a coward the Trojans and Dardanians will not believe him, nor yet the wives of the mighty warriors whom you have laid low." Saying these words, Nestor turned the horses back.
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After Duthil Parish Church was reconstructed in the 1830s, and a former family vaunt was closed, Francis William Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield had a new self-standing Mausoleum built 1837-39 immediately beside the church in the churchyard. The coffins of both John Charles and Ian Charles were interred here and the Countess Dowager then had a second, twin, Mausoleum built, located just outside the existing churchyard. Here James Ogilvy-Grant, 9th Earl of Seafield was interred in 1888. The Rev.
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1 March 1673, Wiltshire and Swindon Archive Catalogue, Wiltshire Council These three farms, and many more which followed in later years, are shown on a map drawn in 1812. They are situated mainly to the west of the present day forest, at Clench Common. Levett's and Culley's are shown on the O.S. map of 1998, whilst Compton's is possibly marked as "The Old Chapel". Note 2: The Duke's Vaunt was surrounded by a new planting of conifers in the 1980s.
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As with Theatre of Tragedy's previous albums, the lyrics are written in Early Modern English (except "Venus", in Latin) which sounds very different from modern English: Vaunt! - Devil tyne - Wadst thou wane fore'ermae? (from the song "Angélique"). The subject matter is drawn from a range of European folklore and history: Venus and Poppæa are from Roman sources; Aœde, Cassandra, Bacchante and Siren are drawn from Greek mythology; while Lorelei refers to a Nix from German stories, and Angélique is inspired by medieval poem Orlando Furioso.
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They deal with Major Vaunt, a superhero with a huge ego, and he and his ego ultimately gets killed by the first supervillain, the Empress of Evil, since the Shadow War. After a fight between Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, the Empress of Evil kidnaps Dyna Girl and Electra Woman has to save her. They find out that the Empress of Evil is their annoying neighbor, Bernice, from back in Ohio. With the help of Frank, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl escapes the kidnapping and prepare to fight the Empress of Evil.
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In 2018, Intel announced Vaunt, a set of smart glasses that are designed to appear like conventional glasses, which use retinal projection via a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser and holographic grating. Intel gave up on this project, and sold the technology to North. In the same year, QD Laser, a Japanese laser maker spun off from Fujitsu, developed the first commercialized true VRD RETISSA Display. In the following year, the firm started to sell the successor VRD RETISSA Display II which featured a higher resolution equivalent to 720p.
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At first she tells him that he can never understand what it means to live in harmony with the universe, but his declaration of love sways her, and she imparts a kiss to his forehead, granting his desire. The air is filled with the voices of the scent of flowers, and Good Hope succumbs to their enchantment, sinking unconscious to the ground. Daybreak illuminates the citadel in the sky built by the birds. Led by the Hoopoe and Loyal Friend, the birds vaunt their lofty achievement and their imminent dominion over all living things.
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Lord Thomas's nephew, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, referred to his death in a poem to "his Geraldine" (Lady Elizabeth Fitsgerald):— If you be fair and fresh, am I not of your hue? And for my vaunt I dare well say, my blood is not untrue; For you yourself doth know, it is not long ago Sith that for love one of the race did end his life in woe, In Tower both strong and high, for his assured truth, Whereas in tears he spent his breath, alas, the more the ruth! This gentle beast so died, whom nothing could remove, But willingly to seek his death for loss of his true love.
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Cornish heraldry generally conformed with the rules and customs of English heraldry, and therefore with the Gallo- British tradition. However, the use of arms was far more widespread amongst the Cornish than the English and there was far less control over the use of heraldry. The antiquary Richard Carew wrote in the early 17th century, "The Cornish appear to change and diversify their arms at pleasure...The most Cornish gentlemen can better vaunt of their pedigree than their livelihood for that they derive from great antiquity, and I make question whether any shire in England of but equal quantitie can muster a like number of faire coate- armours".Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall, 1602 Jewers in his Heraldic church notes from Cornwall, c.
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A typical Romantic hero of the Napoleonic Wars, he emancipated his serfs and was reputed to live in poverty, in order to emulate the soldiers of Roman antiquity that were his ideal. It has been suggested that Dubrovsky, a protagonist of Pushkin's eponymous novel, was modeled on Kulnev: Dubrovsky is described in the text as "a dark, swarthy 35-year-old, with a moustache and a beard, a genuine portrait of Kulnev". The Russian general is also the subject of Runeberg's poem Kulneff (1848), which is part of The Tales of Ensign Stål: > The Russian host could vaunt the name Of many a seasoned veteran Recorded on > the scroll of fame Before our war began. Barclay, Kamensky, Bagration, Were > household names to every son of Finland.
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The cottages in this part of > Cumberland partake of the rudeness which characterises those of Scotland. > The outside of the house promised little for the interior, notwithstanding > the vaunt of a sign, where a tankard of ale voluntarily decanted itself into > a tumbler, and a heiroglyphical scrawl below attempted to express a promise > of ‘good entertainment for man and horse’." Scott later acknowledged the identity of the inn in a footnote to the 1829-33 ‘Magnum Opus’ edition of the Waverley Novels: > "Note 2. ¬ Mumps’s Ha’: It is fitting to explain to the reader the locality > described in chapter xxii. There is, or rather I should say there was, a > little inn called Mumps’s Ha’, that is, being interpreted, Beggar’s Hotel, > near to Gilsland, which had not then attained its present fame as a Spa.
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Sometimes he seems radical and appears is the advocate of thorough reform; at others he opposes the very things which would more than any other benefit the workers... In the heat of a public debate on the "land question" a correspondent to the Register on 31 July 1888 puts the following to Cotton: Must a man be a landjobber before he can honestly propose land reform? And is the only honest politician the land agent who opposes land nationalisation? And, pray, what right have you to say that all but yourself are catering for the votes of the working men?... You may vaunt as much as you like your love for the "poor man"; there is one thing you dare not do... you dare not be an honest politician.
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To all HATERS OF AFRICA and > AFRICANS, I pronounced an ANATHEMA, I give the Curse of Paul on Alexander > the Coppersmith - I devise the injuction of Aged (2nd Tim. IV:14). David in > re-ultimate fate of Joab and Shimer (1st King 11, 6 & 9) and I BEQUEATH unto > them the plagues of Egypt, the Bubonic of Oko-Awo, and the Yellow Fever of > Ogbomoso! To every full-blooded African, I give and bequeath an annuity of > 365 cheery days, 52 merry weeks and 12 happy months, to commence on the > eighty-second day after my demise. TO "OGEDENGBE" - my pact and tact > TO "NIMBE" - my haunt and vaunt > TO "DOYIN" - my pluck and luck > I give and devise and bequeath unto the Nigerian National Democratic Party > - Longevity and Magnanimity of Spirit, and also the Proprietorship of the > "LAGOS DAILY NEWS" - all other things being equal.
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Queen Constance II of Sicily But the defeat inflicted on her by Peter of Aragon's ostentatious marital fidelity gravely wounded her feminine pride, inciting Macalda to vindictive behavior, with acts of jealousy and emulation toward the court and particularly toward Queen Constance. Macalda began to defy her openly, acting like a royal highness, and made a show of snubbing and degrading going so far as refusing to call her "queen," and limiting her, in her haughtiness, to the reductive title "mother of James." Thus Macalda inaugurated a season of mad and extravagant rivalries with the royal highnesses, which led her to refuse the queen's benevolence; she carefully avoided attending her, though not at the opportunities to vaunt a particular hairdo or to show off some special dress woven with imperial purple. The episodes of this rivalry led to great scandal in the surroundings, putting the queen's kindness and proverbial patience to a severe test.
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They explained this tactic in their petition thusly: > The manner and custom in this country, from time immemorial, is this: that, > whenever any act affecting every one generally, is committed by the > Government, the poor, the aged, the infirm, the women, all forsake their > families and their homes, expose themselves to the inclemency of the seasons > and to other kinds of inconveniencies, and make known their affliction and > distress, that the Government, which is more considerate than our parents, > may observe their condition and extend indulgence to its subjects. The tax collector commented on the nonviolent resistance strategy in this way: > At present open violence does not seem their aim, they seem rather to vaunt > their security in being unarmed in that a military force would not use > deadly weapons against such inoffensive foes. And in this confidence they > collect and increase, knowing that the civil power cannot disperse them, and > thinking that the military will not. The protest began to flag, but was revitalized by government intransigence (it declared the protest assembly illegal on ).
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