Persian styles. The Mughals constructed excellent mausoleums‚ mosques‚ forts‚ gardens and cities. The Mughal buildings show a uniform pattern both in structure and character. The main characteristic features of Mughal architecture are the bulbous domes‚ the slender minarets with cupolas at the four corners‚ large halls‚ massive vaulted gateways and delicate ornamentation. The few mosques and palaces built by Babar and Humayun are not of much architectural significance Sher Shah of the Sur Dynasty
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reinvention. Starting with the vision he never lost - of the London skyline marked by a grand dome landmark - he endured the problems of building such a complex structure and the short-sighted criticisms of the all-too traditional clergy through dedication and persistence. In this essay I will analyze the evolution of his constant experiments which led up to the final design. Although only partial drawings and half of the original model remains‚ we have knowledge of what Wren’s intentions were for his
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his way. In the book Under the Dome by Stephen King‚ James Rennie‚ known as “Junior” is this bully. The song I chose to describe Junior You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch‚ written by Dr. Seuss. The Grinch and Junior share many common traits‚ and are both not very friendly people. Junior however‚ may be a bit more violent than The Grinch‚ as so far he has been responsible for multiple deaths in the book‚ including two girls who had “bullied” him in school before the dome days. Many people simply would avoid
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Volcanologists have named four stages of volcanic activity‚ Ape Canyon‚ Cougar‚ Swift Creek‚ and Spirit Lake. These stages are separated by dormant intervals. Little is known about the Ape Canyon stage (300-35 thousand years ago) (ka). During this stage‚ lava domes in two distinct periods‚ one from 300 to 250 thousand years ago (ka) and a second from 125-35 ka. Geologists have found layers of ash and rocks that were changed hydrothermally‚
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the land is one of man-made "pleasure"‚ there is a natural‚ "sacred" river that runs past it. The lines describing the river have a markedly different rhythm from the rest of the passage:[29] In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph‚ the sacred river‚ ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. (lines 1–5) The land is constructed as a paradisical garden‚ but like Eden after Man’s fall‚ Xanadu is isolated by walls. The finite
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However over the course of history there have been some grand domes. The Pantheon in Rome with the largest dome in the world‚ with a diameter of 43.3 metres and built between 118 and 125 AD by emperor Hadrian. This building was frequently illustrated and this is how Wren learnt about Roman and Italian architecture. The next greatest dome could be the one in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul‚ with a span of 31 metres‚ but with its attached half-domes on each side enclosed much more space the Pantheon. It was
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terms like the lack of a major statue or indeed a prominent courtyard serves to expound the clarity of the existing features‚ the portico‚ the pediment and the dome. The dome remains the central feature in compliance with the originality of design as even after nearly 2000 years it still remains the world’s greatest unreinforced concrete dome. A succession
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The Pantheon One of the more inspiring and brilliantly conceived and constructed dome structures in the world is the Pantheon of Rome. This example imposes a magnificent strength of ingenuity and dominance over their surrounding landscape‚ and the Pantheon deserves to be researched and admired for its architecturally innovative and bold design of its time. The building was accommodated with serious technical impediments that required a thorough and scrutinizing attention to detail in order to
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July day in California. The sun was shining and the crisp clean air of the west coast beaches was wafting up from the ocean mist. My family and I were going on a hike along the California coast. Once we got to the trailhead for Landon Overlook we realized that the hike was a proximate twelve miles long‚ round trip. My outlook on this hike was very negative and I was very stand offish about it. But the fact that my dad loves when my sister and I go hiking with him was a dead give away that I would
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’Kubla Khan‚’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ is one of the most enigmatic and ambiguous pieces of literature ever written. Allegedly written after a laudanum (an opiate) induced dream‚ the author claims to have been planning a two hundred to three hundred line poem before he got interrupted by a ’man from Porlock‚’ after which he had forgotten nearly all of his dream. This may have been merely an excuse‚ and the poem was scorned at the time for having no poetic value‚ one critic even going so far as
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