The old name of DHAKA is JAHANGIRNAGAR. It is the capital and the largest city of Bangladesh. Dhaka is located in the geographic center of the country .With its colorful history and rich cultural traditions‚ Dhaka is known the world over as the city of mosques and muslin. Its fame attracted travelers from far and near throughout the ages. Today it has grown into a mega city of about 10 million people becoming the hub of the nation’s industrial‚ commercial‚ cultural‚ educational and political activities
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Fillipo Brunelleschi promised to build not just one dome‚ but two domes nested inside each other; and he would do it without using expensive scaffolding. Initially he was not taken seriously because he would not share how he would do it‚ for fear of his idea being stolen. But he won the contest. Brunelleschi
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Cathedral’s dome. Brunelleschi had no formal architectural background but when the contest for creating Santa Maria’s dome was announced with a prize of 200 gold florins and possible eternal fame‚ Brunelleschi grabbed at the opportunity. Filippo Brunelleschi was determined to win the contest and have his double dome design used for the cathedral. Brunelleschi was certain that his design would win because it solved all of the questions being asked. People were asking‚ “how can a dome be built 150
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mythical tone‚ "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure dome decree." The poem does not give specifics to nature of the construction of the palace. It just states that Khan decreed the palace be built and then begins describing the palace. The poem’s method of creating a vision of the "pleasure dome" is similar to the biblical tale of the creation of the garden of Eden. As Eden was created by the word of God‚ the "pleasure dome" created was by the power
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pleasure dome decree." The poem does not give specifics to the construction of the palace. It just states that Khan decreed the palace be built and then begins describing the palace. The poem’s method of creating a vision of the "pleasure dome" is similar to the biblical tale of the creation of the Garden of Eden. As Eden was created by God‚ the "pleasure dome" created was by the power of Kubla Khan. The use of the word "decree" implies that it was Khan’s will that created the pleasure dome. The
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Frederick Douglass: His Slavery Years Richard Goode History 2301 Wayland Baptist University San Antonio‚ TX December 14‚ 2011 During the 18th and 19th centuries‚ the United States was a young nation divided by numerous philosophical and political differences. Arguably‚ slavery was the most divisive issue at the time. There were individuals who spoke out against slavery; perhaps the most eloquent anti-slavery voice belonged to Frederick Douglass. Douglass was an American abolitionist
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and necessity together as when Nightingale and Nancy were married. This brings up the point that marriages very often went against parents’ wishes and that parents’ wishes were not always honorable ones as in the insistence of Western insisting that Sophia marry young Blifel even though she plainly detested him and he only consented to aggrieve Tom. Marriages were sometimes not undertaken because they were deemed to be odious. A woman of beauty and independent means‚ with her pick of paramours‚ might
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telekinesis‚ life in prison‚ trucks coming to life‚ and the end of the world. In 1999‚ a car accident almost ended Stephen King’s life. After his recovery‚ he published five novels that were received with poor sales and unkind reviews. When Under the Dome was released in 2009‚ it showed that Stephen King was returning to a formula that worked so well for him in a previous book called The Stand. To understand these two books‚ one must first understand their author. Stephen King was born September 21
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The hemispheric domes of the past and present have many symbolic meanings; which many may argue sprouted from the inspiration of the Pantheon. The dome feature could be used for many different purposes and these thoughts are inspected in the hope of revealing some truth. The Pantheon‚ in classical architecture‚ was a Roman temple dedicated to all the Gods‚ or possibly‚ in this case it was devoted to those Gods with no distinct temple created to honor them. The Pantheon‚ also known as the rotunda
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are Martini‚ Simone and Lippo Memmi‚ Annunciation with Saints Ansanus and Margherita (1333) and Brunelleschi‚ Filippo‚ Dome of Florence Cathedral (1420-36). The reason I chose these are because they relate to the Catholic religion in different ways. The Annunciation with Saints Ansanus and Margherita was the beginning of the Catholic art during the Gothic time period while the Dome of Florence Cathedral was not only a masterpiece of artwork it was also a breakthrough for the construction during that
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