Title: Four Anecdotes from the Life of Wang Xizhi‚ ca. 1310 By: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese‚ 1254–1322) Type: Handscroll‚ ink on paper Size: 9 5/8 x 46 1/8 in. (24.4 x 117 cm) The artist of this calligraphy scroll‚ Zhao Mengfu‚ was highly praised by the Yuan emperor Renzong as unrivaled traditional Chinese polymath (for a lack of a better word). It is said that the emperor admired him for possessing the following seven outstanding qualities: wide learning‚ Song royal ancestry‚ elegant and charismatic
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EU-Phrates River Got a new lesson for you about ancient Mesopotamia The Euphrates River and Tigris River form the base of civilization Mesopotanians lived long ago Dedicated god’s and had control By the EU-Phrates River (x4) They believed in many gods‚ this is polytheism Shamash was the god of sun; Dagon of vegetation By the EU-Phrates River (x4) Akkadian was what they spoke‚ wrote on clay tablets some call notes They had temples called ziggurat They kept themselves united under Hammurabi’s
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Welcome to our colony‚ Milky Sea Island. We were colonized about 10‚000 years before Earth. As we do not really keep strict time records in our country‚ we are unsure of when that is‚ exactly. We are located in Messier 31 (NGC 224). We are on a small dwarf planet not much bigger than Pluto‚ and we are the only colony on the planet. You may be wondering why our colony is named Milky Sea Island. No‚ we are not named after the Milky Way‚ although we expectantly wait for the expected collision of
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protector concentrating on an unseen threat. I stated in my thesis that each of the Davids we are analyzing are unique in some way but Michelangelo David is the black sheep in comparison with the other’s creations. Where Verrocchio and Donatello made a bronze cast depiction of a life size young and effeminate David‚ Michelangelo created a powerful giant and thoughtful protector. By adding such detail and realism in his depiction of David Michelangelo created one of the most well known and powerful statues
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follows: Kaganapan (1953)‚ Kiss of Judas (1955); The Transfiguration at the Eternal Garden Memorial Park (1979); Fredesvinda in Fort Canning‚ Singapore (1981); Nine Muses at the UP Faculty Center (1994); Sunburst at the Peninsula Manila Hotel (1994); the bronze figure of Teodoro M. Kalaw in front of National Library; Murals in Marble at the National Heroes Shrine‚ Mt. Samat‚ Bataan; 14 Stations of the Cross at the EDSA Shrine; Sandugo or Blood Compact shrine in Tagbilaran‚ Bohol. He also performed the death
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The Cultural Development of ancient Egyptians and ancient Chinese civilizations were fairly similar but were different on certain ideas. From the way historians looked at the number of gods/goddesses each civilization worshipped‚ to the inventions and tools the craftsman made to make life less difficult shows the similarity of the two civilization. Both couture’s buried their dead with items of value‚ practiced ancestor worship‚ had elaborate systems of Bureaucratic systems of administration and
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BCE.‚ tombs known as "hero’s" receive hundreds‚ even thousands of small figurines‚ with rudimentary figuration‚ generally representing characters with the raised arms‚ i.e. gods in apotheosis. Metal figurines Figurines made of metal‚ primarily bronze‚ are an extremely common find at early Greek sanctuaries like Olympia‚ where thousands of such objects‚ mostly depicting animals‚ have been found. They are
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including two silver and four bronze‚ is the country’s best performance to date at the Olympic games. Sports writer V Krishnaswamy looks into the future for team India and how to build on this success. The world it seems has taken the escalator‚ but Indians are still using the staircase. From 1996 to 2004‚ it was one at a time‚ then it became three and now that has been doubled to six medals for India at the Olympic Games. The one gold and two silver swelled to two silver and four bronze and add to that a lot of nearmisses
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(Igbo: Iwaji) which are held for the harvesting of the yam. During the festival yam is eaten throughout the communities as celebration. Yam tubers are shown off by individuals as a sign of success and wealth. NRI KINGDOM Fig 1.9 Bronze from the ninth century town of Igbo Ukwu‚ now at the British Museum. The Nri people of Igbo land have a creation‚myth which is one of the many creation myths that exist in various parts of Igbo land. The Nri and Aguleri people are in the territory
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till date. In comparison with Greek poet Hesiod’s description of stages of humanity‚ the following differences are observed in Ovid’s outlook towards ages of mankind. • The Hesiod’s description of ages involves the basic four ages of Golden‚ Silver‚ Bronze and Iron Age‚ as described by Ovid. However‚ prior to Iron Age‚ the Hesiod’s work elicits an age referred as Heroic Age. This age is assumed to comprise of heroes and demigods like Achilles‚ who fought epic battles like Trojan war. • The Golden age
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