28 résultats pour "brick"
- Le Gray (Gustave), Brick - photographie.
- Définition: BRICK, substantif masculin.
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Iranian Art and Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
Iranian Art and Architecture, the visual arts of Iran.
The first great development of ancient Persian architecture took place under the Achaemenid dynasty during the Persian Empire, from about 550 to 330 BC. Remains of Achaemenian architecture are numerous, the earliest being ruins at Pasargadae, the capital city of Cyrus the Great. These ruins include two palaces, a sacred precinct, acitadel, a tower, and the tomb of Cyrus. The palaces were set in walled gardens and contained central columnar halls, the largest of which was 37 m (111 ft) in length...
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Egyptian Art and Architecture - USA History.
The kings of the 1st Dynasty (2920 BC-2770 BC) were buried in the cemetery of their ancestors at Abydos in southern Egypt. Their burial sites were built of mud brick (bricks baked in the sun) and consisted of two parts: a tomb in the desert where the king was buried, and a rectangular funerary enclosure at the desert's edge, whererituals were performed. A pair of stone slabs called stelae marked the tombs and bore the name of the royal occupant. In the 2nd Dynasty (2770 BC-2649 BC), most r...
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Pyramids (Egypt) - geography.
limestone debris left over from the construction work. When the workers had completed the pyramid and installed the pyramidion, or cap stone, ramps still covered the surface of the pyramid. As the workers dismantled the ramps from the top down, they slowly exposed the pyramid’s stone surface, which stonemasons smoothed and polished. When the ramp was gone, the pyramid wasdisplayed in its full majesty. B Interior The interior of the Great Pyramid is complex, with a series of passages leading t...
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Pyramids (Egypt) - History.
limestone debris left over from the construction work. When the workers had completed the pyramid and installed the pyramidion, or cap stone, ramps still covered the surface of the pyramid. As the workers dismantled the ramps from the top down, they slowly exposed the pyramid’s stone surface, which stonemasons smoothed and polished. When the ramp was gone, the pyramid wasdisplayed in its full majesty. B Interior The interior of the Great Pyramid is complex, with a series of passages leading t...
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Greek Art and Architecture - USA History.
The struggle between these two city-states and their allies ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which Sparta won. Despite this conflict, the 5th century, often called the Classical period, is usually considered the culmination of Greek art, architecture, and drama, with its highest achievements being the Temple ofZeus at Olympia, the Parthenon in Athens, and the plays of Athenian dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The 4th century, or Late Classical p...
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House (architecture)
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INTRODUCTION
Trulli in Alberobello, Italy
Alberobello, in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy, is noted for its unusual limestone houses known as trulli (from
Greek trullos, dome).
Fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, PompeiiThe Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy (built about 50 bc), featured a large hall with this mural encircling it. The mural ispainted in the Second Style of Roman painting. (Historians of art recognize four periods or styles in Roman wall painting.)The mural in the Villa of the Mysteries is thought to depict the initiation rituals of a mystery religion. For this reason, it hasbeen conjectured that the hall was used for cult rituals.Bridgeman Art Li...
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Greek Art and Architecture - history.
powerful independent city-states. From 334 to 323 BC, Alexander the Great extended his father's empire into Asia Minor (now Turkey), Syria, Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan, and as far as India. D The Hellenistic Period (323-31 BC) Although Alexander the Great extended Greek civilization far beyond the Greek mainland and the boundaries of the Aegean Sea, his empire did not survive his death in 323.After Alexander died, his generals and successors divided the empire into a number of kingdoms: Ptolem...
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Indian Art and Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
Art on the Indian Subcontinent
This map highlights places in India and Pakistan where prominent examples of Indian art and architecture have been
produced.
Sun Temple of KonarakThis 13th-century relief depicting a wheel of the chariot of Indian sun god Surya is situated in the Konarak temple. Thetemple, dedicated to Surya, is situated at Puri in the Gulf of Bengal.Keren Su/Corbis The arts of India expressed in architecture, sculpture, painting, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, and textiles, were spread throughout the Far East with the diffusion ofBuddhism and Hinduism and exercised a strong influence on the arts of China, Japan, Myanmar (formerly known...
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Yemen - country.
port. Al Ḩudaydah (155,110), in the Tih āmah, is the second largest port. Ta‘izz, (178,043), in the highlands above Aden, is an important commercial and light industrialcenter. Among Yemen’s larger towns are Şa‘dah, far to the north; Dham ār, Yarim, and Ibb, in the middle region; Al Mukall ā, on the southern coast; and in Hadhramaut,the towns of Shib ām, Say‘ ūn, and Tar īm. C Language Nearly all Yemenis speak Arabic. However, the country’s extremely rugged terrain, widely separated population...
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Chapitre 21
LA MORT DE BELLOT
La température, pendant les journées du 3 et du 4 juillet, se maintint à cinquante-sept degrés
(+ 14° centigrades) ; ce fut le plus haut point thermométrique observé pendant cette
campagne.
parages avaientétélethéâtre ; ledocteur, suivantsademande, leprévint dumoment précis auquel le brick se trouvait par75°30’ delatitude. – C’est là !c’est bienlà !s’écria Johnson ; voilàcette terrefuneste ! Et, enparlant ainsi,leslarmes venaient auxyeux dudigne maître d’équipage. – Vous voulez parlerdelamort dulieutenant Bellot,luidit ledocteur. – Oui, monsieur Clawbonny, decebrave officier detant decœur etde tant decourage ! – Et c’est ici,dites-vous, quecette catastrophe eutlieu ? – Ici-même, su...
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reviendrai plus.
donc cequ’il convient defaire. Hatteras dépliasurlatable l’unedeces excellentes cartespubliées, en1859, parordre de l’Amirauté. – Veuillez mesuivre, jevous prie.Sile détroit deSmith nousestfermé, iln’en estpas demême du détroit deLancastre, surlacôte ouest delamer deBaffin ; selonmoi,nous devons remonter ce détroit jusqu’à celuideBarrow, etde làjusqu’à l’îleBeechey ; laroute aété cent fois parcourue pardes navires àvoiles ; nousneserons doncpasembarrassés avecun brick à hélice. Unefoisàl’île Bee...
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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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Charlottetown - Geography.
Royalty. In 1864 Charlottetown was the site of the Charlottetown Conference, a meeting between representatives of most of the British North American colonies to discussConfederation. The meeting was a success, and led eventually to the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Charlottetown was incorporated in 1855, with a population of 6500. On July 16, 1866, the city experienced its worst of several fires. “The Great Fire” broke out in an oldbuilding near the waterfront. It was thought...
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Chapitre 3
LE DOCTEUR CLAWBONNY
Richard Shandon était un bon marin ; il avait longtemps commandé les baleiniers dans les mers
arctiques, avec une réputation solidement établie dans tout le Lancastre.
véritablement danslesmers boréales ouaustrales, jel’ignore, ils’agit peut-être dequelque nouvelle découverte àtenter. Ausurplus, ildoit seprésenter unjour oul’autre uncertain docteur Clawbonny, quiensaura sansdoute pluslong, etsera chargé denous instruire. Nous verrons bien. – Attendons alors,ditmaître Johnson ; pourmapart, jevais memettre enquête desolides sujets, commandant ; etquant àleur principe dechaleur animale, commeditlecapitaine, je vous legarantis d’avance. Vouspouvez vousenrapporter...
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Hatteras essayait de percer le rideau de brume, car, d'après
défavorables ! – Eh bien, capitaine, s’ilfaut hiverner, noushivernerons ! Autantvautcetendroit qu’unautre ! – Sans doute, fitHalteras àvoix basse ; maisilne faudrait pashiverner, surtoutaumois dejuin. L’hivernage estplein dedangers physiques etmoraux. L’espritd’unéquipage selaisse vite abattre parcelong repos aumilieu devéritables souffrances. Aussi,jecomptais bienn’hiverner que sous unelatitude plusrapprochée dupôle ! – Oui, mais lafatalité avoulu quelabaie deBaffin fûtfermée. – Elle quis’est t...
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Ancient Egypt - history.
The Nile River runs through the ancient city of Thebes in eastern Egypt. For a time, beginning in 2040 bc, Thebes was the capital ofEgypt.Farrell Grehan/Photo Researchers, Inc. According to inscriptions and documents found by archaeologists, the Egyptians called their country Kemet, meaning “the Black Land,” a reference to the dark, fertile soil that remained after the Nile floodwaters had receded. They also used another term, Deshret, or “the Red Land,” a designation for the desert sands th...
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Excerpt from Oliver Twist - anthology.
Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so instead of responding to this open-hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendousshake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle’s. “Lor, only think,” said Mrs. Mann, running out—for the three boys had been removed by this time,—“only think of that! That I should have forgotten that the gatewas bolted on the inside, on account of them dear children. Walk in, sir, walk...
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Toys.
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Toys, objects that serve as playthings for children. Although the
clay. These readily available elements were also used to make more elaborate toys as human society advanced. Archaeologists have found primitive, handmade toys such as wooden or cloth dolls, clay marbles, and terracotta figures that date back thousands of years. In ancientEgypt, Greece, and Rome, people placed dolls or clay figures in the graves or tombs of children for them to play with in the afterlife. The yo-yo may seem like a 20th-century fad, but it actually dates back at least 2,500 years...
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Fire - chemistry.
were usually natural caves. Eventually people learned to dip branches in pitch to form torches. They created crude lamps by filling a hollowed out piece of stone withmoss soaked in oil or tallow (a substance derived from animal fat). By cooking with fire, prehistoric people made the meat of the animals they killed more palatable and digestible. They learned to preserve meat by smoking it over a fire,vastly decreasing the danger of periodic starvation. Cooking also enabled them to add some for...
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CH. LE GOFFIC (1863-1932). Soir de Saint-Jean
I. — L'ensemble. — L'évocation d'un soir de Saint-Jean en Bretagne : 1° Cette scène est-elle localisée en un pointspécial de la Bretagne? (Non, le poète esquisse 3 tableaux des soirs de Saint-Jean en Bretagne, qui pourraient aussibien être situés en un village qu'en un autre (est-ce à Saint-Gille, au Huelgoat, à Goudelin..., est-ce àGurunhuel...), montrant ainsi combien la fête de la Saint-Jean est universellement célébrée en Bretagne); 2° Quellessont les cérémonies et les réjouissances...
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Dictionnaire en ligne:
EMBARQUER, verbe.
aventure : Ø 3. — « Le plus rigolo », reprit Bouvier, avec un rire étouffé, « c'est qu'ils croient nous embarquer dans une guerre nationaliste! Ils ne se doutent pas que, avant un mois, ce sera la guerre civile! » ROGER MARTIN DU GARD, Les Thibault, L'Été 1914, 1936, page 618. · Emploi pronominal réfléchi. Il serait peut-être imprudent de m'embarquer dans ce sujet [la pédérastie] (CHARLES DU BOS, Journal, 1927, page 360 ). — Être embarqué (souvent dans un contexte négatif). Être entraîné dans...
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Mesopotamian Art and Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
Mesopotamian Art and Architecture, the arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that developed in the area (now Iraq) between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th century
BC.
arts. III EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD Figures from Tell AsmarCreated around 2700 bc, these stone figures are from the city of Tell Asmar in what today is Iraq. From the Temple ofAbu, the statuettes stood in watchful prayer with the wide, staring eyes often found in Sumerian sculpture. The figuresare in the Iraq Museum, Baghdād, Iraq.Art Resource, NY The first historical epoch of Sumerian dominance lasted from about 3000 BC until about 2340 BC. While earlier architectural traditions continued, a ne...
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Ancient Egypt.
around 4500 BC. The style and decoration of the pottery found at these sites differ from those of pottery found in Upper Egypt. The northern type eventually fell out of use. Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, thelatter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs. B Unification and Early Dynastic Period By 3500 BC, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank...
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Railroads.
III GAUGES The gauge of track is the distance between the inner edges of the rails at points 1.59 cm (0.626 in) below the top of the heads. In the United States, Canada, theUnited Kingdom, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, and much of continental Europe, the standard gauge is 143.51 cm (56.5 in). Why this measurement became the standard isa matter of speculation. Probably the tradition is inherited from early tramroads built to accommodate wagons with axles 1.5 m (5 ft) long; some of the early edge rail...
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Ancient Egypt.
around 4500 BC. The style and decoration of the pottery found at these sites differ from those of pottery found in Upper Egypt. The northern type eventually fell out of use. Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, thelatter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs. B Unification and Early Dynastic Period By 3500 BC, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank...
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Ancient Egypt - USA History.
around 4500 BC. The style and decoration of the pottery found at these sites differ from those of pottery found in Upper Egypt. The northern type eventually fell out of use. Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, thelatter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs. B Unification and Early Dynastic Period By 3500 BC, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank...