(1) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
(2) Even their first win in the north London derby since 1999 is a curio for the statisticians.
(3) • Doubles from €56 B&B, +34 913 694 643, hostalpersal.com Artistic B&B Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artsy Argentinians Paola and Rodolfo renovated a pensión in a 200-year-old building in the city’s Literary Quarter to create this snug, idiosyncratic B&B, decorated with rescued and restored furniture, curios from their world travels and Paola’s ceramics.
(4) On a recent Monday, the market's alleyways, flanked by rows of shops selling curios, were empty of customers.
(5) But without the infrastructure to produce and distribute hydrogen as a fuel, these vehicles are little more than curios.
(6) (Although Zschäpe’s mother later reported that she was concerned when she heard that Mundlos’s grandfather collected Nazi curios.)
(7) He was entitled to the jubilation, but for neutrals his triumph was no more than a statistical curio.
(8) • 100 North San Francisco Street, +1 928 779 6971, hotelmontevista.com 13 The Museum Club, Flagstaff, Arizona This log cabin was built in 1931 as a taxidermy curio cabinet and became a roadhouse in 1939.
(9) More a desert encampment, an assembly of mismatched seating, pallet decking, curios (skulls, art, a mannequin dressed as a pirate), it sits among shrubbery off a sandy track – coloured lights, the sounds of motorbikes and the music of the 1970s are the only clues to its existence.
(10) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
(11) He's right, of course, but it's the history and the curios that most interest Gatiss, with an examination of German expressionism bleeding into a look at postwar France's cinematic self-reflection and beyond.
(12) Gorgeous, snow-topped Switzerland with its adorable cuckoo clocks didn’t allow women to vote until 1971 But foot-binding is not merely a historical curio: although it was banned in 1912, it persisted in some rural areas into the 1930s, and there are still women alive in China today with the crushed arches, deformed toes and rotting folds of skin that characterised bound feet.
(13) And with no home stadium confirmed for the long-anticipated second New York MLS team (and the path towards one strewn with New York political obstacles), the sight of the Yankees pitching mound bisected by a touchline may be less of a curio and more of a blueprint for what Major League Soccer will initially look like when NYCFC starts play in 2015.
(14) Her house was like a studio, bits of art everywhere, big glass cabinet of curios and treasured possessions, a chaise longue – the works.” Her life was quieter later on and her neighbours didn’t necessarily know who Knight was or what she had achieved.
(15) More than £4m was raised and spent on two curios with the justification of "cultural value", yet since your Tories came to power, your nation has been shutting libraries, cutting arts funding and talking about further downsizing the BBC.
(16) In MLS, he had a chance to mature as a player and as a man; rather than disappear into history as a curio, the American would-be striker who had a cup of coffee in the Bundesliga.
(17) There are also quite a few hidden curios, such as the two newspaper cuttings reporting a dramatic incident at the Ballard home in 1959: "Three-year-old Jimmy Ballard and his sister, Fay, two, [were] taken to hospital unconscious after a disused gas pipe fractured in the nursery of their home at The Hermitage, Richmond, today [...] Mr and Mrs Ballard gave the children artificial respiration until the ambulance arrived."
(18) His previous film, well-received horror curio The Orphanage, showed he can handle World War Z-style shocks.
(19) Shops go out of business quickly, but stalwarts include The Cottage of Arts and Jewels, a dusty basement selling vintage Bollywood posters, ancient Indian maps, texts and curios; Elma’s , a quaint tea shop, complete with grandfather clock, lace lampshades and bone china; and Country Collection , an antiques shop selling rare and imaginatively reworked furniture at reasonable prices.
(20) Brian Cannon of the design company Microdot made one notable cassingle curio: the cassette version of Oasis's Cigarettes and Alcohol , made up to look, and open, like a packet of 20 cigarettes.
Peculiarity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
(n.) That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
(n.) Exclusive possession or right.
Example Sentences:
(1) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(2) Structural peculiarities in tubulin polymorphism are considered.
(3) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(5) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(6) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(7) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(8) The peculiar aspects of uncommon causes of IVH are discussed on the basis of a review of the literature.
(9) The qualification for carrying on the isonicotinic acid hydrazide monotherapy in the tuberculosis cutis luposa and verrucosa is proved on the basis of bacteriological, pathologo-anatomical and clinical peculiarities of these forms of tuberculosis of the skin.
(10) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
(11) In 20.2% of the cases with carcinoma the tumor cells showed peculiar intracytoplasmic inclusions, whereas in only 0.43% of the biopsies of the mamma without carcinoma such inclusions were to be found.
(12) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
(13) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
(14) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
(15) The peculiarities of the growth and extracellular accumulation of free keto and amino cids by a barotolerant culture (strain 0798) in culturing on Ran's glucose-mineral medium conditions of 1, 200, 300, and 500 atm were investigated.
(16) Diffuse widening of the subarchnoidal space, diffuse cerebral changes, interhemispheric assymetry of the venous and arterial phases of cerebral circulation: the most peculiar symptoms of the CNS affection in SLE according to CT and EEG and radionuclide studies of cerebral hemodynamics.
(17) One peculiar case of giant ameloblastoma of the mandible is reported in this paper.
(18) Considering the tumour's late occurrence the histological peculiarities of the place of origin as one of the factors of possible histogenesis is stressed.
(19) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(20) They also include difficulties peculiar to the condition of mild mental retardation, including the choice of method of classification whether by IQ testing or administratively; the heterogeneous nature of the individuals so characterised; and the confounding effects of social and biological factors and the changes in the implications for the affected individual of the condition, depending on age, sex and environment.