The arts world has captures the imagination of human endeavor, today, millions of people travel to the Louvre in France to take a look of a picture of a famous woman who is commonly referred to as Mona Lisa. The painting is many centuries old, yet it still mesmerizes the world today
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Events in the last several decades have given rise to new political and social pressures in Latin American society. By the early 1990s, most of the countries of Latin America were moving toward constitutional government. Women are one emerging political force. The struggle for women’s right to vote began in Latin America around World War …
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Beginning in the early 1800s, manufacturers increasingly applied the findings of pure science to their businesses, generating a new wave of industrial growth. Electricity, a tremendous new source of power, was developed and used to run generators, lights, the telephone, and the telegraph. The invention of the internal combustion engine led to the development of …
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Of all the ancient river valley civilizations, the Nile Valley civilization in Africa is probably the best known because most people have seen pictures of its ancient landmarks, such as the pyramids and Great Sphinx. For many, these huge constructions symbolize both the ancient culture that produced them and the modern nation of Egypt, although …
The Greek word eikon (which means image ) retains, even in its restricted sense of religious image, the implication of a true resemblance. In the 6th and seventh centuries of cults of saints, holy persons and their images intensified. This development marks the success of Christianity in reaching ordinary people, who sought a personal …
Before the Industrial Revolution began, Great Britain experienced a revolution in agriculture. This revolution started when British farmers began to fence off, or enclose, common lands into individual holdings efficient for large-scale farming. By the 1800s, because of improvements in agriculture, farmers needed fewer farm laborers. Many unemployed farmworkers moved to the cities, where they …
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Michael Thonet, a German cabinetmaker living in Austria, invented a process that revolutionized furniture making. He used this process in the mid-1860s to craft the bentwood rocker. Thonet’s patent consisted of bending solid wood by steaming it and then clamping a thin strip of steel along one side. The process eliminated complex jointing and carving. …
People have enjoyed going to see plays as a form of entertainment since the earliest times. In ancient Greece and Rome, performances were given in great open-air arenas. In ancient Japan, the Noh plays were popular forms of entertainment. During the Middle Ages, sacred stories and plays with Christian themes, called morality plays, …
In the Middle Ages, paintings did not look particularly realistic. Almost all art was religious, and artists were not interested in drawing attention to the human nature of, for example, Jesus and Mary. Instead, artists tried to visually represent spiritual aspects of their subjects. For example, the relative size of figures or objects often showed …
All over the world, millions of people crowd stadiums each year to watch sporting events. The desire to watch such events-and the need to provide a place where a large number of people can do their watching-is a very old one. The stadium is the best way of meeting that need. The idea …
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The establishment of a silk industry in the Byzantine Empire began in the A.D. 500s with a few hardy silkworms, which were smuggled from China into Constantinople at the request of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. The silkworm secretes a silk thread, which it uses to make a cocoon for itself. Thousands of years earlier the …