On the official Eton website, an elegant sales brochure with pictures of sunlit old school walls and pupils in their ancient, photogenic uniforms, there is an extensive section on "famous Old Etonians".
Joachim and Anne is an old-school school, with towering ceilings, school uniforms, an ancient public-address system, and a principal, Linda Freebes, who acts as a kind of air-traffic controller not just for the school but for the neighborhood.
Guards in khaki uniforms wield ancient British rifles as men in crisp white dhotis and women in colourful saris direct the flow of customers toward the 14,000 people who work here, at the Mumbai branch of the State Bank of India.
The players representing two ancient rivals wore classic uniforms, to be sure — the Yanks in their standard road grays; the Tigers in their dazzling old whites, with that Gothic "D" over the heart — but it was intensity, not style, that seemed to wash away all colors and the noise of the crowd, everything except the outcome.
Had Kepler's investigation ended with the establishment of this architectonic principle, he might have continued to search for other sorts of harmonies; but his work would not have broken with the ancient Greek notion of uniform circular planetary motion.
The troops, dressed in wrinkled Soviet-era uniforms and carrying ancient bolt-action rifles, goose-stepped for a time and then gave up, and the music rose and fell away.
And most startlingly, he uses Santisimo Cristo de las Tres Caídas, a Sevillian band with 26 buglers and drummers in full military uniform, to play ancient, cacophonous processionals that are customary during Holy Week.
The sequences were largely uniform among the ancient samples muskoxen although in one sample, among several clones sequenced, one unequivocal NuMt sequence was detected.
But state schools that ape ancient private ones by adopting fancy uniforms have had a mixed reception.
One holds women's period costumes, another has men's period costumes and the third contains all manner of uniforms, from those of ancient Rome to theU.S. Navy's most up-to-date camouflage.
