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Qwominer William Osborne
Dr Qwominer William Osborne, OBE (usually referred to as Q.W. Osborne or William Osborne) was a British Virgin Islander politician and physician. His political career started in the 1963 general election, when he was elected to the seat for the 5th District. Prior to 1967 elections to the Legislative Council of the British Virgin Islands were on a non-party basis, and legislators who were elected governed collectively. However, the 1967 general election introduced party politics into the British Virgin Islands, and Osborne founded and became leader of the VI Democratic Party. Ultimately that party would come second in the election to the BVI United Party led by Lavity Stoutt. Osborne thereby became the first ever Leader of the Opposition in the British Virgin Islands. In the subsequent 1971 general election he led his party to the highest number of overall seats, but short of an outright majority. Faced with potentially ruling as a minority government, he formed a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting Of QW Osborne
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
