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The painting - entitled Samuel Richardson, The Novelist (1689-1761), Seated Surrounded By His Second Family - is considered one of the most important "conversation piece" paintings, a type of informal portrait in which sitters would appear in domestic or private settings.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Tate buys Richardson portrait
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It perhaps would give Packer a backdoor to owning a piece of the Chicago company if Scoopon required some type of equity in return for the precious webname or buy Scoopon outright.
FORBES: Groupon Facing Battle With Aussie Billionaire Packer
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For my editorial, I claimed the first two columns between the flag and mast, bumped my type up a point, and spread my piece over the whole width.
FORBES: My Best Job Ever
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Meals also usually include malum, a salad of chopped leafy greens and coconut, crispy poppadoms (a large circular piece of thin, spiced bread), dal (a type of lentil stew), coconut sambal (a spicy condiment), home-made chutney and of course, fragrant steamed rice.
BBC: Foodie paradise in Sri Lanka's hill country
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Should RDRAM never gain the wide acceptance the company had hoped for, Rambus' patent claims are an attempt to ensure the company gets a piece of the action through royalty payments, no matter what type of memory takes hold, whether SDRAM, DDR or its preferred RDRAM.
FORBES: Rambus Patent Army Marches On
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His view is that we need to address this in a way that, as I said yesterday, acknowledges that no single piece of legislation, no single restriction on access to a certain type of weapon will solve this problem and that we need to address it more broadly.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,
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If you type "fun facts" into the Google.com search box, you get a random piece of information using a wide variety of sources.
CNN: Google creates another time-waster with 'fun facts'