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  2. Window valance - Wikipedia

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    A window valance. A window valance(or pelmet in the UK)[1]is a form of window treatmentthat covers the uppermost part of the window and can be hung alone or paired with other window blinds, or curtains. Valances are a popular decorative choice in concealing drapery hardware. Window valances were popular in Victorian interior design.

  3. Country Curtains - Wikipedia

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    Country Curtains was a retail home curtain business founded in 1956 by Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick in Whitman, Massachusetts. They started their business from their dining room table selling unbleached narrow muslin curtains. It was Jack’s idea to sell unbleached muslin ruffled curtains through the mail, reminiscent of their Vermont heritage.

  4. Bed hangings - Wikipedia

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    Bed hangings or bed curtains are fabric panels that surround a bed; they were used from medieval times through to the 19th century. Bed hangings provided privacy when the master or great bed was in a public room, such as the parlor. They also kept warmth in, and were a way of showing one's wealth. When bedrooms became more common in the mid ...

  5. Lace curtain and shanty Irish - Wikipedia

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    As lace curtains became commonplace in Irish-American working-class homes, "lace curtain" was still used in a metaphorical, and often pejorative, sense. In the early 20th century, James Michael Curley , a famously populist Boston politician who was called "mayor of the poor", used the term "cut glass Irish" to mock the Irish-American middle ...

  6. Rooster of Barcelos - Wikipedia

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    The Rooster of Barcelos is sold as a souvenir from Portugal. The folk tale of the rooster of Barcelos, [ 1] tells the story of a dead rooster's miraculous intervention in proving the innocence of a man who had been falsely convicted and sentenced to death. The story is associated with the 17th-century calvary that is part of the collection of ...

  7. California judge halts hearing in fight between state ... - AOL

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    A California judge has temporarily blocked a hearing from taking place in a dispute between one of the state's most influential agricultural companies and the country's biggest farmworkers' union.

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