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"Picasso/Manet: 'Le déjeuner sur l'herbe'" explores the multiple inspired studies and paintings created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), interpreting the painting "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" by the French painter Édouard Manet (1832-1883).
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Britons in old time vsed, and that with a kind of herbe like vnto plantine.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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There is an herbe which is sowed a part by it selfe & is called by the inhabitants Vppowoc: In the West Indies it hath diuers names, according to the seuerall places & countries where it groweth and is vsed: The Spaniardes generally call it Tobacco.
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Floridians, when they travele, have a kind of herbe dryed, which, with
An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health 1823
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Granted, there may be prudish types who object to the quantity of female flesh on display in 'Dejeuner sur l'herbe' or the 'Venus of Urbino,' not to mention a thousand other works.
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Granted, there may be prudish types who object to the quantity of female flesh on display in 'Dejeuner sur l'herbe' or the 'Venus of Urbino,' not to mention a thousand other works.
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There is an herbe which is sowed a part by it selfe & is called by the inhabitants Vppówoc: In the West Indies it hath diuers names, according to the seuerall places & countries where it groweth and is vsed: The
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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(M305) There is an herbe which is sowed apart by it selfe, and is called by the inhabitants Vppowoc: in the West Indies it hath diuers names, according to the seuerall places and countreys where it groweth and is vsed: the Spanyards generally call it Tabacco.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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There groweth also a certaine kind of herbe, whereof in Sommer they make great prouision for all the yeere, making great account of it, and onely men vse of it, and first they cause it to be dried in the Sunne, then weare it about their neckes wrapped in a little beasts skinne made like a little bagge, with a hollow peece of stone or wood like a pipe: then when they please they make pouder of it, and then put it in one of the ends of the said
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In this "Report" Hariot says of the tobacco plant: "There is an herbe which is sowed a part by itselfe and is called by the inhabitants
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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