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Architectural japanning in an early Newport house.
Already in the 1690s, nearly a century before the opening of the American China trade, colonial Americans sailed into the Indian Ocean in search of Asian commodities and wealth. However, in 1698 the English East India Company declared a monopoly on Eastern trade goods, and the American fascination with the Far East had to be satisfied by published accounts, such as Jean Baptiste Du Halde's General History of China (London, 1736), which were found in a surprising number of colonial libraries. (1) If travel accounts such as Johannes Nieuhof's lavishly illustrated An Embassy from the East-India Company ... to the ... Emperour of China (London, 1669) did not make it across the ...
- The Vernon House, Newport, Rhode Island
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- The Vernon house, Newport, R.I., headquarters of Rochambeau.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Illumination.(Collectors' notes)(lacquer art by William Gibbs )
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Gustafson, Eleanor H. February 1, 2007 700+ words
...japanned panels in the Vernon House in Newport, Rhode...have used for the Vernon House panels and mentions...thought. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] One of the motifs...punishments) in the Vernon House is likewise related...yet. [FIGURE 3 OMITTED] Does Gibbs provide...
- Omitted letters in crosswords.
- Magazine article from: Word Ways Morse, Jeremy May 1, 2006 700+ words
...pairs of these crosswords, recording omitted letters for the larger puzzle and for...occasions when the two puzzles together omitted only one letter (F3, J16, Q18, V1...the biggest number of different letters omitted from the larger puzzle was eight, and...
- Correcting for omitted-variables and measurement-error bias in regression with...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the American Statistical Association Marais, M. Laurentius Wecker, William E. June 1, 1998 700+ words
...obstacles include the biasing effects of omitted variables and measurement error, and...information can also be used to correct for omitted-variables bias. Our methods are different...parameters of the measurement errors and omitted variables that cause the bias. The same...
- Memorable show moments.(at the Video Software Dealers Association;...
- Magazine article from: Video Store August 3, 2003 700+ words
...of sales and marketing. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2. In the Ventura suite were Ventura...president Larry Hayes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3. The Latin singing group Soluna performed...2003 opening ceremonies. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 4. Enjoying Artisan's dinner highlighting...
- Comment: problems with using auxiliary information to correct omitted variables...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the American Statistical Association Waternuax, Christine Petkova, Eva DuMouchel, William June 1, 1998 700+ words
...They assume that two predictors are omitted ([X.sub.3] and [X.sub.4...propose a method to adjust both for these omitted variables and for measurement error in...and standard deviations involving the omitted covariates and estimates of the standard...
- Alcohol impairs the cognitive component of reaction time to an omitted...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs Hernandez, Oscar H. Vogel-Sprott, Muriel Ke-Aznar, Vanessa I. March 1, 2007 700+ words
...recent exception is an experiment using an omitted stimulus RT task that showed that a dose...alcohol impaired (slowed) PMRT to an omitted visual or auditory stimulus and had no...frequent accidents (Babarik, 1968). An omitted stimulus RT task requires an immediate...
