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Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1969) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York City. She is known in particular for site-specific ephemeral sculptures, in which thousands of small everyday objects are assembled into fragile, sweeping forms. Her work have been exhibited in solo shows at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the London Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Fondation Cartier in Paris, as well as many group exhibits. She has also more recently installed permanent sculptures in the collections of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2003 she received a Macarthur "genius grant" Fellowship.

Sources

1. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/10/sarahSze.html
2. http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/sze.htm
3. Sarah Sze, by Sarah Sze, Jerome Sans, Jean Louis Schefer, Fondation Cartier; Thames & Hudson (2000), ISBN 050097490X

24.128.50.213 02:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Article created. Thanks for the submission. ×Meegs 08:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Ufficiali di Notte - The Office of the Night

  Removed cut-and-paste from [1] ×Meegs 07:42, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Sources

Forbidden Friendships - Michael Rocke

207.81.117.142 05:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC) Aaron D. McClelland

• Decline. We can not accept copyrighted content taken from web pages or printed source. ×Meegs 07:42, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Carmen bin Ladin

Born Carmen Dufour in Geneva, Switzerland, she was raised in Iran and is of Swiss and Persian heritage.

Carmen was married to one of Osama bin Laden's older brothers, Yeslam bin Ladin, until 1988. They were married in 1974 in Saudi Arabia. She has three daughters, Wafah Dufour, Najia, and Noor.

Published in 2004, Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia is a personal account of her life as a Saudi Arabian wife & mother, in addition to insights on what life is like in the bin Laden family and her relationship with them and her former husband. She claims that no matter how Westernized her ex-husband or other bin Laden family members may be, they still feel strong familial and religious ties and would financially support and shelter Osama bin Laden if necessary.

She also admits that while she had a difficult period of adjustment living in the strict Saudi Arabian society, she was not an average citizen, as the bin Laden's provided an amount of wealth and lifestyle considered privileged in that, and any, society; including posh accomodations, and luxuries like tennis courts, expensive cars, and large sums of money to frivously spend. This describes the amount of power and influence the bin Laden clan has obtained with business and government connections throughout the years.

After she was divorced in 1988, she was able to move to Geneva with her children and continue raising them there. Their father is uninvolved and uninterested in their lives, being quoted in the book as stating he wished he had sons, not daughters. Yeslam obtained a Swiss Passport for the purpose of pursuing a relationship with his children, but as of yet has not done so.

She altered the spelling of her last name in recent years to distance herself from the infamous Osama. In her book she writes that she had only seen Osama on two occasions and that they did not really speak. She emphasizes that the bin Laden family is a large one, and not all family members are directly associated with Osama.

Sources

http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/inside_the_kingdom/ http://www.sundayherald.com/44016 Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen bin Laden, Warner Books 2004.

65.37.105.242 09:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Article created by User:KingJFS, possibly the article's submitter. ×Meegs 22:19, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years

Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years is a television programme first aired on BBC2 in Early 2006.

Presented by business expert René Carayol, the programme is an experiment that aims to find out if ordinary people in the United Kingdom can pay off their mortgage in two years.

Each of the approximately ten episodes aired weekly in 2006 focused on one family or individual, who at the time of filming had already been followed for twelve months, i.e. they were halfway through the experiment. In the follow-up series, expected to be aired in 2007, their experiences in the second year will be shown. The participants are from all ages and from all walks of life, including a couple nearing retirement, families with young children, a lesbian couple and a male ballet dancer.

Success in the experiment requires minimizing expenses as well as maximizing income. To achieve the former, participants sold off possessions, rented out their house or grew their own food, for example. In pursuit of the latter, they tried to develop various business initiatives, such as creating works of art, giving yoga or exercise classes, becoming a Cliff Richard impersonator or buy and renovate houses. In some cases, leaving the "comfort zone" and persevering required hard-nosed presenter Carayol to, in his own words, "push them to their limits". One of the participants, a single woman, gave up and was replaced.

82.210.119.60 10:24, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Article created. Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia! MarkM 09:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Uniforms of La Grande Armee

The uniforms of La Grande Armee, the army of Napoleon I, are described in this article.

Infantry

Infantry of the Line

Typical line infantry of La Grande Armee in 1812

From 1793, the uniforms of the half-brigades of the line infantry wore the blue "National Uniforn" that was to be worn by all soldiers. However, for a long time, line infantry were a mix of the new blue coats worn by the Imperial Guard and the white uniforms of seasoned veterans. The blue dress was named the "National Uniform" and was worn by line infantry by 1796. While headgear and details in cut changed, the uniform remained almost completely the same from the beginning of the French Revolution.

The uniform was made of a blue coat, red piped white collar and cuffs, white piped red lapels, blue piped red cuff flaps and shoulder straps, white turnbacks piped red, and brass buttons. Only the brass buttons had the units identification number stamped on it. The lapels were fasten at the upper chest but sloped away below. The hat, a black felt bicorne, was the standard infantry headress at some of Napoleon's greatest battles. In 1807, the hat was replaced with the shako, which was made of black felt, chevron on the side and visor, a brass diamond shaped plate stamped with the Imperial eagle over the unit's regimental number, white cords, and brass chin scales.

Some units added pompons to the shako as well as plumes. Many units had pompoms with a houpette and the center generally colored white with the company number printed in black or red. The diamond shaped plate with the regimemtal was most common, but some units had the shape of an eagle or the rising sun.

In 1812, the cut of the coat was changed into a coatee that included short tails, a blue crowned N on the turnbacks, and the lapels fastened down to the waist and cut square. The waistcoat was made higher and was therefore not visible. The black gaiters came up to below the knees. The plate on the shako was now a crowned eagle over a semi-circle with the regimental number inscribed on it.

Infantrymen carried the M 277 musket that had a bayonet with a 406 mm blade. The black leather M. 1801 cartidge box held 35 rounds of ammunition and was carried by a white buff shoulder belt, that for fusiliers, had a frog for the bayonet. The cartridge box flap generally had a white linen cover and the forage cap was rolled under the box with red tassel hanging out. The M. 1801 knapsack was made of cow hide with two straps (later three straps) to hold the rolled greatcoat on the top.

Bibliography

• Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Army René Chartrand, Copyright 1996, 2000 Brassey's

It's good start to a beautiful article. If someone creates this then I can expand it more once its created. --24.247.126.44 14:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I created it. Please expand it, give it a proper introduction, and avoid self-references. Thanks for the submission. ×Meegs 22:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)