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Architecture dans Paris dans les années 1980 : Histoire
PARIS: UNE ARCHITECTURE CAPITALE. C'est le projet de Dominique Perrault qui est retenu pour la Très Grande Bibliothèque, ou Bibliothèque de France. Ci-contre: l'architecte avec la maquette de la TGB, sur l'emplacement de la future réalisation, à Tolbiac. © P Durand -Sygma PARIS: UNE ARCHITECTURE CAPITALE. Métal rouge sur herbe verte: la Folie de Bernard Tschumi à La Villette. 1986, tandis que le Zénith s'affirme comme une préfiguration désor mais d...
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David Bowie - Musik.
1983 Let's Dance China GirlLet's DanceCat People 1984 Tonight Loving the AlienTonightBlue Jean 1987 Never Let Me Down Never Let Me DownGlass SpiderToo Dizzy 1989 Tin Machine * Heaven Is HereCrack CityI Can't Read 1991 Tin Machine II * One ShotShopping for GirlsGoodbye Mr. Ed 1991 Tin Machine Live - Oy Vey, Baby* AmazingStatesideYou Belong in Rock & Roll 1993 Black Tie, White Noise I Feel FreeBlack Tie, White NoiseI Know It's Gonna Happen Someday 1993 The Buddha of Suburbia Buddha of SuburbiaSex...
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sociologie de l'identité
de l'enfance et de l'âge adulte (voir définition) ainsi cela nous a donné envie de travailler sur cette période de la vie. Nous nous sommes alors posé la question des choix culturels dans la construction de l'identité. Nous avons pensé que celle ci avait une importance assez forte chez les adolescents, et permettais à ceux ci de construire leur identité. *definiton adolescence: le terme adolescent est un terme récent apparu avec l'industrialisation (XIX iéme siècle). Il désigne une période d...
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Musical - Musik.
auch Musical-Fassungen von Filmen, z. B. Die Schöne und das Biest (1994, nach dem gleichnamigen Walt-Disney-Trickfilm), Der König der Löwen (1997, ebenfalls nach einem Disney-Zeichentrickfilm, Musik von Elton John), Tanz der Vampire (1997, nach Roman Polanskis Horrorfilmparodie von 1967) oder Saturday Night Fever (1998, nach dem John-Travolta-Discofilm von 1977 mit der Musik der Bee Gees). In jüngerer Zeit entstanden zunehmend so genannte „Jukebox-Musicals”, in denen die Handlung eineunt...
- Elvis Presley - Musik.
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Hercules (mythology)
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Pollaiuolo's Hercules et Antaeus
In a wrestling match, Hercules triumphed over the mighty giant Antaeus, who received his strength from his mother, the
Earth goddess Gaia.
Pollaiuolo’s Hercules and the HydraAmong his 12 labors, the mythological hero Hercules had to kill the nine-headed Hydra. Each time Hercules cut off onehead, two more grew in its place. Hercules solved the problem by, as soon as he cut off one head, burning with a torchthe spot where it had been to stop its regrowth. Hercules and the Hydra (about 1460, Uffizi, Florence, Italy) was paintedby Italian artist Antonio Pollaiuolo. Hercules is shown wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, which he had kil...
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Colorado (river, North America) - Geography.
sometime between AD 1300 and 1400, but their descendants, the Hopi and Pueblo people, continue to farm and irrigate using the river's waters. The first European to visit the river was probably Spanish soldier and explorer Francisco de Ulloa, who explored the mouth of the Colorado in 1539. In 1540 and 1541another Spaniard, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, traveled through much of the region around the Colorado River. An exploring party from the Coronado expedition,led by Garcia López de Cárdenas,...
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Byzantine Art and Architecture
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Archangel Michael
This depiction of the archangel Michael, in Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy, is an example of ancient enamel art.
This Byzantine ivory relief shows Christ the Pantocrator, or ruler of the world, raising his hand in a gesture of blessing. Itcomes from the cover of a lectionary, or book containing portions of the scriptures, and dates from the second golden ageof Byzantine art, the late 10th century. The relief is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Mosaics were the favored medium for the interior adornment of Byzantine churches. The small cubes, or tesserae, t...
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Europe - geography.
movement of a segment of the Earth’s crust against the stable shield during the Caledonian orogeny (about 500 to 395 million years ago) raised the mountains of Ireland,Wales, Scotland, and western Norway. Subsequent erosion has rounded and worn down these mountains in the British Isles, but the peaks of Norway still reach 2,472 m(8,110 ft). The second major geological region, a belt of sedimentary materials, sweeps in an arc from southwestern France northward and eastward through the Low Countri...
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Metalwork
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Metalwork, in the fine arts, objects of artistic, decorative, and utilitarian value made of one or more kinds of metal--from precious to base--fashioned by either casting,
hammering, or joining or a combination of these techniques.
Early Bronze DiskThis disk with the head of Acheloos, an Etruscan river god, was made of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, sometime inthe early 5th century bc. It comes from the necropolis of Monte Quaglieri in Tarquinia. Alloys are made by smelting twodifferent metals together.Scala/Art Resource, NY Knowledge of smelting ultimately led to knowledge of mixing different ores together in the smelting process to produce simple alloys. This followed an intermediateperiod, about 3000 BC, when comp...
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Fishing.
directly to the spool and turns the spool one rotation at a time. C Fishing Lines Fishing lines serve as the link between the angler’s reel and the lure or bait. The most popular line used for sportfishing is monofilament nylon line, which is strong anddurable and has a certain amount of stretch, which helps when an angler sets the hook. The line comes in a variety of strengths, from 2-pound test to more than 100-pound test. (Pound test is the amount of pressure that can be put on a line before...
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Ant - biology.
The workers of many ant species carry a stinger within the hind end of the gaster. These ants use the stinger to defend against their enemies. In some species, workerants lack a stinger but use the tip of their gaster to squirt or dab poison at other small animals and when fighting battles with other ants, fending off predators, or killinginsects or other animals that they use as food. III PHYSIOLOGY Ants have a rigid, external skeleton called an exoskeleton that gives the soft, inner body its...
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Utah - geography.
Temperatures decrease from the south to the north in the state. In the mountains the average temperature drops about 0.5°C (about 1°F) for every about 300 m(about 1,000 ft) rise in elevation. Average July temperatures range from less than 16°C (60°F) in the mountains to more than 27°C (80°F) in a few locations insouthern Utah. At Salt Lake City average July temperatures range from a low of 18°C (64°F) to a high of 33°C (92°F). There is a great variation between daytime andnighttime temperatures,...
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Utah - USA History.
Temperatures decrease from the south to the north in the state. In the mountains the average temperature drops about 0.5°C (about 1°F) for every about 300 m(about 1,000 ft) rise in elevation. Average July temperatures range from less than 16°C (60°F) in the mountains to more than 27°C (80°F) in a few locations insouthern Utah. At Salt Lake City average July temperatures range from a low of 18°C (64°F) to a high of 33°C (92°F). There is a great variation between daytime andnighttime temperatures,...
- On the road
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Native Americans of North America.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
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Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
- Midnighters