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Of the 1,000 electrical products Grainger is adding to its catalog, 660 are electrical products previously offered exclusively on www.grainger.com for online shopping. Those products include fuses, wiring devices, controls and other products. The catalog will add 324 new electrical products, mostly explosion-proof fittings, said Michael Pulick, vice president of product management for Grainger.
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P ercy Grainger was nicknamed "The Inveterate Innovator" because he was constantly evolving new ideas, although letters from this period reveal a physical breakdown of sorts. On the surface he appeared to be well, but he was sleeping poorly, paying no attention to his diet, and constantly overworking. The Graingers traveled to England, where they visited Cyril Scott and Ralph Vaughan
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Grainger had a similar interest in the folk songs of Scandinavia, and was an influential proponent of ethnic musical forms or ‘world music’. While referencing folk songs, Grainger’s compositions were ... notable for their English expression marks; a piece was to be played, for example, ‘clatteringly’, ‘ripplingly’ or ‘bumpingly’. These and other Graingerisms have frustrated performers ever since.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Grainger Foundation has granted The Field Museum $5 million to enhance the Museum's scientific research capacity and public exhibition areas. The grant reflects the growing role innovative natural science research plays in helping humans better understand the Earth and its people. Two new funds w.....
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Dramatic changes to the public face of Grainger Town began in December 1998 with the start of a major programme of environmental improvements including creative lighting, new public art works, new street furniture and re-paving of key areas. The main features of the Public Art programme will be installed during 2003, including the River of Text, a bronze 3D map of the area, a memorial plaque to Thomas Bewick and other schemes. A creative lighting scheme for the main features of Grainger Town's architecture will ... be completed in 2003.
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Living in London, Grainger became inspired by English folk songs. He collected them and from 1906 recorded them on a portable phonograph. They in turn informed his first important compositions such as ‘Hill-Song’ no. 1 and no. 2 (1901–07) and ‘Molly on the Shore’ (1907). The culmination of this process was composing ‘Country Gardens’ (1919) which, much to his annoyance, became his flagship work.
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