8 résultats pour "arch"
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Définition:
ARCH(É)-, ARCHI-2, (ARCH-, ARCHÉ-) élément préfixe.
(Dictionnaire fran?ais de m?decine et de biologie (ALEXANDRE MANUILA, LUDMILLA MANUILA, M. NICOLE, H. LAMBERT) tome 1 1970) archic?r?bron - Synonyme?: archenc?phalon (Dictionnaire des termes techniques d'entomologie (EUG?NE S?GUY) 1967) archic?phalon. - Synonyme?: archenc?phalon (Dictionnaire des termes techniques d'entomologie (EUG?NE S?GUY) 1967) archicervelet. - " Partie primitive du cervelet correspondant au lobe flocculonodulaire " (Dictionnaire fran?ais de m?decine et de biologie (...
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Définition:
ARCH(É)-, ARCHI-2, (ARCH-, ARCHÉ-) élément préfixe.
(Dictionnaire fran?ais de m?decine et de biologie (ALEXANDRE MANUILA, LUDMILLA MANUILA, M. NICOLE, H. LAMBERT) tome 1 1970) archic?r?bron - Synonyme?: archenc?phalon (Dictionnaire des termes techniques d'entomologie (EUG?NE S?GUY) 1967) archic?phalon. - Synonyme?: archenc?phalon (Dictionnaire des termes techniques d'entomologie (EUG?NE S?GUY) 1967) archicervelet. - " Partie primitive du cervelet correspondant au lobe flocculonodulaire " (Dictionnaire fran?ais de m?decine et de biologie (...
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Roman Art and Architecture - History.
Racecourses or circuses were also built in many cities for holding chariot races and horse races. Rome’s circus-shaped Piazza Navona occupies the site of one that wasbuilt during the reign ( AD 81-96) of the emperor Domitian. The largest circus in Rome, the Circus Maximus, held about 200,000 spectators. E Public Baths Large cities and small towns alike also had public baths ( thermae ); under the Republic they were generally made up of a suite of dressing rooms and bathing chambers with hot- ,...
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Theater
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The Art of Theater
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Theater at EpidaurusAncient Greek dramas were performed in open-air theaters like this one in Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed byPolyclitus the Younger in 350 bc. A festival of ancient Greek drama is still held in the summer in this 14,000-seat theater.Roger Wood/Corbis Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; in fact, the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron , meaning 'seeing place.' Throughout the history of world cultures, actors have used...
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Billiards.
One of the most important snooker players in history was Joe Davis of England, who retired in 1946 after dominating the game for 20 years. He made runs of 100points or more 687 times. This record was later broken by Australia's Horace Lindrum, whose uncle Walter Lindrum was also a world-class billiards player. The mostsuccessful players in recent years include Ireland’s Ken Doherty, Scotland’s Stephen Hendry, and England’s Steve Davis, Jimmy White, and Mark Williams. IV HISTORY Billiards can b...
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From Paradise Lost, Book I - anthology.
At once as far as angels ken he viewsThe dismal situation waste and wild,A dungeon horrible, on all sides roundAs one great furnace flamed, yet from those flamesNo light, but rather darkness visibleServed only to discover sights of woe,Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peaceAnd rest can never dwell, hope never comesThat comes to all; but torture without endStill urges, and a fiery deluge, fedWith ever-burning sulphur unconsumed:Such place Eternal Justice had preparedFor those rebellious,...
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sherlock holmes
hat. Sherlock shares his home with his best friend Dr. JohnWatson. They live at 221B BakerStreet. Mrs. Hudson is their landlady. Emily Watson is Dr. Watson's niece. Professor Moriarty is Sherlock's arch-enemy
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Gothic Art and Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, was begun in 1163 and completed for the most part in 1250.
and by external arches, called flying buttresses. Consequently, the thick walls of Romanesque architecture could be largely replaced by thinner walls with glass windows,and the interiors could reach unprecedented heights. A revolution in building techniques thus occurred. With the Gothic vault, a ground plan could take on a variety of shapes. The general plan of the cathedrals, however, consisting of a long three-aisled nave interceptedby a transept and followed by a shorter choir and sanctuary,...