One of the most beloved pieces Matisse made during those last few years is an abstract take on "One Thousand and One Nights, " the famed collection of Middle Eastern folk tales relayed by the fictional Scheherazade each evening to avoid death at the hands of a murderous Persian king.
And so on for a thousand and one nights, a new cliffhanger each dawn.
In August two thousand and one seventeen year old Valerie Heron jumped off a third floor balcony.
Increased funding is only on the table, although that idea will have to compete with the thousand and one other ideas on the Democrats' plate.
"The Thousand and One Nights" is divided into five main panels.
Around the same time as "The Thousand and One Nights, " Matisse was overseeing the construction of the so-called Matisse Chapel on the French Riviera and the artist's self-proclaimed magnum opus.
Instead of grooving on the likes of ravioli with lambs' sweetbreads or rump of Dornoch hogget, we're in a room that seems to have been decorated by a serial killer with a penchant for expensive malts, choosing from a menu of a thousand and one open sandwiches.
Some five thousand people were killed in the war last year, including a hundred and ninety-one foreign troops and at least a thousand civilians.
"Chromebooks are in use today by more than one-thousand K-12 schools, and they make an ideal on-to-one device because they're more cost effective, easier to manage and maintain than traditional laptops or tablets, " said Caesar Sengupta, director of product management, Chrome OS, Google.
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It has created radio and television programmes for international networks and to date has publicly presented more than one thousand musical works by women living and working in every part of the world, commissioning over 30 new works each year.
One thousand journalists and topic experts produce content with highly customized tools.
Over the years, nearly one thousand unique, and often threatened, heritage properties have been identified.
In the first three months, the Times attracted two hundred and eighty-one thousand digital subscribers.
Her writing life was oddly self-contained, even if, by the end of the Potter series, she was receiving between one and two thousand pieces of mail a week.
Hennessy earned six hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars in salary from Stanford last year, but he has made far more as a board member of and shareholder in Google and Cisco.
Undercover Nurse follows on from the broadcast of A Carer's Story in 2003, which generated nearly one thousand calls, letters and emails.
Put a thousand of these threads in one pipe, and, as Everett Dirksen might have said, soon you're talking real bandwidth.
Let a thousand flowers bloom, and see which one wins Dr Venter's Grand Prix.
One hundred and fifty-five thousand people downloaded the mobile game, and 70, 000 redeemed the coupon in stores.
After all, what is it worth being able to drive across bridges without fear of plunging to certain death? (By my calculations our bridge failure rate is one in three hundred and fifty thousand).
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One-hundred-and-eighty thousand volunteers have been working three-hour shifts in the swing states to squeeze out every last voter.
Three thousand men owned 100 or more, and one Georgia planter boasted 1, 500 human chattels spread over several properties.
For example, learning the arcana of California disability law requires the same amount of time and expense for one employee as for one thousand.
There was a line for Santa and a line for the women's bathroom, and one woman, after asking me a thousand questions already asked, which is the line for the women's bathroom?
One thousand lumens from a CFL is visually harsh and makes food (and people) look ugly, compared with the same 1, 000 from Edison's incandescence.
Wine is a more complex substance than one might think, and, above two thousand metres, and at close to zero degrees centigrade, it displays interesting behavioral anomalies.
It weighs only 185 grams, has a battery life up to one month, and holds up to a thousand eBooks, with storage of up to 30, 000 books with expandable memory.
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And with one trice, they added another twenty thousand.
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As the lists are generated by country the numbers vary widely: eight thousand downloads will get one into the top ten in Australia and Italy, but ten times that number are needed to get into the American top ten.
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