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a 6 x 9 view of e interior of the louvre hung with the masterpieces of the louvre which he chose himself. and he had to build a contraption of a scaffold in order to get up very high because many of these paintings he was copying were up extremel high. and he would move this from place to place inside the louvre. you can imagine what a spectacle that was. and people would come and watch d itas an attraction in itself. rris went every... cooper went everyday, every afternoon to sit with morris while he worked, kid him, talk to him, encourage him. but particularly when there was a horrific cholera outbreak. where people we dying the thousands in the streets of paris all through the spring and summer,8,000 people died before it was over in paris alone and morris thought as he wrote in letters to his brother, he thought he was going to die at any point. everybody who could get out of the city left. morris wouldn't leave because he was determined to finish the painting and he was running out of money and he knew he had no money to come back. cooper didn't leave because his wife was too ill to
a 6 x 9 view of e interior of the louvre hung with the masterpieces of the louvre which he chose himself. and he had to build a contraption of a scaffold in order to get up very high because many of these paintings he was copying were up extremel high. and he would move this from place to place inside the louvre. you can imagine what a spectacle that was. and people would come and watch d itas an attraction in itself. rris went every... cooper went everyday, every afternoon to sit with morris...
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. >> reporter: you're kind of the louvre of lint art.last supper painted on a dime. >> there's the last sup he were painted on a butterfly. >> reporter: is that a real butter flee? >> that's a real butterfly. we have the last sup he were painteded on a grain of rice. >> reporter: honestly? >> honestly. >> reporter: but even he was astonished by this rendition. >> it was a no-brainer for me. i had to have it. >> reporter: laura bell, of michigan, spun lint into gold. edward meyer paid her $12,000 for her lint last supper. this is the artist at work in her studio. how long did it take you to do it? >> three-and-a-half months. 200 hours into the project. >> reporter: not counting time spent harvesting lint from scores of colorful wal-mart towels from 80 loads. you would save the lint for.... >> i save approximately seven months. then i had to create lint with different colors. you have the pinks and the maroons and the teams and the blues. i can do a dark shade with a light shade of blue and come up with a medium color blue. >> reporter: re
. >> reporter: you're kind of the louvre of lint art.last supper painted on a dime. >> there's the last sup he were painted on a butterfly. >> reporter: is that a real butter flee? >> that's a real butterfly. we have the last sup he were painteded on a grain of rice. >> reporter: honestly? >> honestly. >> reporter: but even he was astonished by this rendition. >> it was a no-brainer for me. i had to have it. >> reporter: laura bell, of...
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direction directional louvres. make sure you can direct them to push the cool air in the part of the room you're doing the most living in. also, three cooling fan speeds is important. you don't always want to operate at high or low. but be able to monitor and manipulate the controls to optimize the best usage in your room. >>, and again, another way to save money on that electric bill. here's the large one, and as we talk about this, i want to make sure that people understand the best way to put this, to install it in their home. >> this is a two-person job. do not attempt this by yourself, because these are very top-heavy, they tend to be unwieldy, so use two people. also, it comes with that accordian gasket that goes into the window. make sure you use the screws to secure that inside the window, because if someone mistakenly picks up the window, you run the risk of this falling out and obviously we don't want to think about what's going to happen with that. washable antimicrobial filter in this. also, it has very
direction directional louvres. make sure you can direct them to push the cool air in the part of the room you're doing the most living in. also, three cooling fan speeds is important. you don't always want to operate at high or low. but be able to monitor and manipulate the controls to optimize the best usage in your room. >>, and again, another way to save money on that electric bill. here's the large one, and as we talk about this, i want to make sure that people understand the best way...
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working on his painting and creating one of the great master peeves his career, the gallery of the louvrelegraph and when he went back to patent it in france, he sought first photograp photographs. he brought home three separate events of major consequence. charles sumner, the great voice of abolitionism, saw black students treated at the sore upon, was treated like everybody else, he decided the way we treated black people here was wrong, wasn't part of, as he said, part in order of things, came home determined to do something about it and almost at the cost of his life, because he was the one who was almost beaten to death by congressman preston bush. >> and mark twain? >> mark twain was with a group of people traveling and it was working on -- his travels would result in his innocence abroad which was the most popular novel he ever wrote. he was there but briefly. he has a walk-on, joe, so to speak in my book. >> that's okay. mark twain that's what you need. that's what you need. >> i hate to keep going through the cast, oliver wendell holmes, truly great justices in the history of ame
working on his painting and creating one of the great master peeves his career, the gallery of the louvrelegraph and when he went back to patent it in france, he sought first photograp photographs. he brought home three separate events of major consequence. charles sumner, the great voice of abolitionism, saw black students treated at the sore upon, was treated like everybody else, he decided the way we treated black people here was wrong, wasn't part of, as he said, part in order of things,...
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the louvre pursuing yucca mountain, d.o.e.establish a blue ribbon commission to consider alternative waste disposal strategies. a stunned passport, we've identified three categories of alternatives. the first alternative is keeping the waste on site at about 80 different types, both commercial and defense sites in the u.s. this is the path of least resistance option since it is their current policy for disposal. however, it does not address commitment to the u.s. government to take session of the waste as has been pointed out, taxpayers have paid nearly a billion and legal judgments because of the government's inability to meet its obligation. estimates are that another teen billion dollars will be paid out by 2020 with the bill estimated to be 25 billion a year after that coming from the taxpayers to department of justices find. also with continued on-site storage, d.o.e. may not be able to meet commitments to state stream of defense-related states. this could have negative impacts such as jeopardizing navy shipments of spent
the louvre pursuing yucca mountain, d.o.e.establish a blue ribbon commission to consider alternative waste disposal strategies. a stunned passport, we've identified three categories of alternatives. the first alternative is keeping the waste on site at about 80 different types, both commercial and defense sites in the u.s. this is the path of least resistance option since it is their current policy for disposal. however, it does not address commitment to the u.s. government to take session of...