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    The Unicorn in the Garden The story ‘Unicorn in the Garden’ has two characters which revolve around the event of sighting a Unicorn in the garden by the husband. The story portraits the husband as a mild characterised person and the wife as mean spirited. At first the husband’s character comes to the reader as somewhat not in touch with reality. Then it further progresses to the wife’s character and portraits the wife as demeaning towards the husband. The story starts with highly imaginable and

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    The Unicorn Tapestries

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    The unicorn tapestries is the title given to a set of six full tapestries‚ as well as three fragments of an additional tapestry‚ that depict the hunt of a unicorn. The tapestries are currently being housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tapestries have a long and complicated history‚ of which much is left in the dark. The tapestries were woven in the Southern Netherlands around the year 1500 (Colburn 2010‚ 97). Five of the seven unicorn tapestries were speculated by James J. Rorimer to have

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    Last Unicorn

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    in his book The Last Unicorn. A unicorn embarks on a journey to save all the other unicorns and along the way she meets Schmendrick‚ a failed magician‚ and an old maiden named Molly. Together they travel to King Haggard’s castle to search for the unicorn’s enemy‚ red bull‚ who is holding all the other unicorns captive. During her journey to the castle‚ the unicorn learns about the joys and sorrows of being human before meeting her true love Prince Lir. In the end‚ the unicorn is forced to leave her

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    The Last Unicorns

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    Novel “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle is a timeless classic story about love and loss. The story has a mesmerizing hold on the reader‚ drawing you in on its beautifully simplistic storyline. A unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind and sets out to find out what happened to the others. Along the way she meets a few friends that aid her on her quest. It turns out that all the unicorns have been captured by an evil king and his Red Bull‚ so they set out to save the Unicorns from this dreadful

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    Unicorn Myths

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    horse or donkey and is famous for its magical horn. Yes‚ I’m thinking of the Unicorn. The Unicorn is a Creature that that can be found throughout history‚ possesses many magical abilities and has many different relationships with different creatures.

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    The Hunt Of Unicorns

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    Unicorns are fascinating beasts‚ they are seen everywhere. They are seen in movies‚ literature‚ statues‚ and paintings. What distinguishes Unicorns from other fascinating magical beasts is its single horn or alicorn. It was widely believed that the alicorn could heal one from poison and can clean water. The blood of the Unicorn is also believed to have healing properties. Unicorns were first described in the writings of a popular physician‚ Ctesias in the 5th century BCE. On Ctesias description of

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    Honda Unicorn

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    Honda Unicorn * Honda Unicorn Grand Prix Edition This bike with powerful 4 stroke 150 cc engine delivering output of 13.3 bhp engine clubbed with many other high end equipments like Constant Volume (CV) Carburetor‚ pulse exhaust system‚ offset crank and 2 way air jacket. Honda Unicorn   ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form | | Bottom of FormHonda Unicorn Facts:»  On Road Price Starts From : Rs. 55‚000  »  Top Speed : 110 kmph »  Mileage in City : 60.00 kmpl.View

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    History of Art

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    the evolution of the idea of beauty through the history of art. The idea of beauty‚ the perfect human body‚ is a result of culture: religious functions‚ advertisements‚ economy‚ and other factors. The definition of beauty is not an inherent concept‚ since every age‚ place and social class formed its own ideal of it. This evolution of beauty is shown explicitly through the history of art. Art‚ in different periods‚ was influenced mainly by history and religion. I will discuss this transition from

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    Art History

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    and the building of the pyramids but as I got older I always started to wonder what the time was really like. Going over chapter three I found that that time period was actually very important in a lot of ways but even more important was their use of art and the forms they used it in‚ all the amazing monuments that were built by them‚ the writings and drawings on the walls full of stories and different interpretations. The time of these great accomplishments span over three millennia. Even years after

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    Art History

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    ART HISTORY LECTURE NOTES 1 AH1.1 (I) Early Civilizations: PRE-HISTORICAL ART -art before historical documentation 3 periods of Pre-Historical art (The Stone Ages/Megalithic) -Paleolithic (32000-15000BC) -Mesolithic (15000-8000BC) -Neolithic (8000-1500BC) Forms of art -cave wall painting -chattel art -mobilary: figurings Characteristics -crude and unrefined -organic and of earth pigments Contents -bisons‚ horses -hunting‚ tribal wars -funeral scenes Important sites

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