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Retro Style Fashion and Home Decor

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: General

Welcome to Retro Graphic 17. We do retro style designs for apparel and home decor. Retro Graphic 17 is always open to suggestions and special requests. We also do personalized items. If you need a custom design, just message me. We will do my best to fulfill your wish.

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Steampunk Panel – Gears and Pipes – Brass Fingernail Decals

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: Fashion

Looking for a lovely way to add flair to your look? Nail art can complement your outfit for a special event or provide a unique way to express your personality every day. While very detailed nail art is best left to professionals, there are a number of designs you can create yourself. Try duotones, glitter and jewels, polka dots, blended colors, marbling or stamping to create a stunning effect.

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ComboBox: Using VBA to Programmatically Populate the List

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: 400 Planets

This article discusses applying VBA to Windows MS Access 2007 form controls.

A ComboBox is a Windows control made of two parts: a text portion and a list. A text box is used to display a selection made from a list of items. A list box displays a list of items, usually in one column, but a list box can also be configured to display more than one column.

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Defining Post-Impressionism

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: Art

Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.

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Why Congress Should Pass HR 40

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: Current Events

HR 40 is a bill sponsored by Representative John Conyers Jr., introduced on 1989, in a previous session of Congress. Each year since then it has been put up before Congress and each year Congress fails to pass it. HR 40 is a bill to study American slavery and the devastating effects of slavery after it was abolished.

You may ask: Why should Congress Pass HR 40?

    Answer:

  1. Why is black American wealth what it is relative to white wealth?

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The Berlin Wall: A Short History

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: Culture

The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany.

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Last Minute Halloween Party Planning

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: General

It’s that holiday time of year again. Before you know it, it will be Halloween, with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve stampeding in right behind. In the whirlwind that is the holiday season, you need to plan early for holiday parties.

And by early, I don’t mean a couple of weeks. During holiday party season, entertainment gets scheduled early. So, if you are planning a corporate holiday party or a New Year’s Eve party, get your entertainment lined up in advance so you aren’t scrambling to find something at the last minute.

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Letters of Vincent van Gogh

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: Art

Butterflies and Poppies is one of the unfinished paintings van Gogh did in the year before he died.

After spending the better part of October creating designs for Zazzle’s new treats product line, I decided it was time to do a new design for my main store, 400 Planets. My Fine Art category needed to be updated, so I added a new subcategory for Vincent van Gogh, and chose his Butterflies and Poppies as the first design for this category.

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Early Images of Santa Claus

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: General

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Designing Your Own T-Shirt with POD

By tosopFriday - April 24th, 2015Categories: Fashion
This graphic tee is a great gift for documented and undocumented immigrants, undocumented students, undocumented veterans, undocumented business owners, undocumented taxpayers, and American citizens who support the DACA kids.

Printed T-shirts were in limited use by 1942 when an Air Corps Gunnery School T-shirt appeared on the cover of Life magazine. In the 1960s, printed T-shirts gained popularity for self-expression as well for advertisements, protests, and souvenirs.

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