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Bob Ross Master Paint Set: Joy of Painting Master Set and Videos
| August 19, 2010 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
Let Bob Ross, host of tv’s popular joy of painting show get you started painting beautiful landscapes.
Laban Dance Center, London
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
Designed for a well-respected dance academy, the Laban Dance Center takes its cues form its neighbourhood, Lewisham in southeast London, and draws inspiration from the abstract movement of dancers through space, a key interest of the academy’s founder, Rudolf Laban. It also exemplifies Herzog & de Meuron‘s gift for dramatically manipulating light, views, forms, and…
Mosques in Turkey
| February 6, 2010 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
Sehzade Mosque – Istanbul When Constantinople (Istanbul) was invaded around 1450, Hagia Sophia suddenly went from being a Christian church to being an Islamic mosque. And a hundred years later, when the great Ottoman engineer and architect Sinan undertook the design of several new imperial mosques, he undoubtedly looked to Justinian’s one-thousand-year-old creation for inspiration…
The Mughals of India
| February 5, 2010 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
Babur conquered Delhi and established the Mughal Empire early in the sixteenth century. It became one of the largest and most successful centralized states in early modern world history – greater in extent than the other great Muslim empires, the Ottoman and the Safavid. At the height of their power, the Mughals ruled what in…
Iran’s Cultural Legacies
| January 2, 2010 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
Birthplace of Zoroastrianism Around 1000 BC the prophet Zarathustra preached his revelation: a supreme deity existed among the gods being worshipped – Ahura Mazda. Creator of all that is good, Ahura Mazda calls on humans to join the cosmic battle against evil. Basically monotheistic, Zoroastrianism was the dominant faith in Iran until the arrival of…
Indian Art and Culture
| December 6, 2009 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
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The area that includes the vast country of India and its neighbors (Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) is often called the Indian subcontinent. This area forms a triangle of land, or peninsula, that juts out into the sea. Within this peninsula, there are many different landscapes. More than one billion people live in the…
A History of Aviation in Photographs and Paintings
| September 7, 2009 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
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First successful flight of the Wright Flyer, by the Wright brothers. The machine traveled 120 ft (36.6 m) in 12 seconds at 10:35 a.m. at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. For thousands of years, people dreamed of flying like birds, but it was not until the 15th century that Leonardo da Vinci designed an ornithopter, a…
World War II
| August 5, 2009 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
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The causes of World War II lay in Adolf Hitler’s expansionist military and foreign policies. In 1936 he reoccupied the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone between France and Belgium. In March 1938 he forced Austria to unite with Germany and then took over part of Czechoslovakia. Each time, Britain and France did not resist. Their policy…
