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Seto Inland Sea Folk History Museum, Takamatsu-shi, Japan

The Seto Inland Sea has played an important role in cultural exchange and has been a main artery for marine transports since the old days. Blessed with a warm climate and a relatively small amount of precipitation, the inland sea has been a foundation for the livelihood of the regional…

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Troinex, Geneva, Switzerland

Troinex is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Geneva. A predominantly agricultural village until the last century, Troinex has become a rather residential municipality for about fifty years. However, it still has, in the marsh area at the foot of the Salève, one of the largest market gardening areas…

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Biodynamic architecture

Biodynamic architecture is a new way of architectural thinking, it is a spiral-based architecture-planing-method used in the creating processes and works of SPIRALI art & architecture (2014). Founder Catalin D’arco introduced this term to define a new way of architectural thinking, a new philosophy to connect architecture, nature and biorythm…

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Santa Monica, California, United States

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. A favorable climate, anchoring the Westside of Los Angeles County, Santa Monica is a beachfront city popular with tourists for its expansive beach and its famous pier, which are among the most popular coastal attractions in…

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Eastern rooms, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum

A close coherence between home and collections, between rooms and works of art contained in it: this is the backbone of the rigorous collection and living project that the brothers Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi pursued in their home, inspired by the mansions of the sixteenth century Lombard. For their…

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False color

False color refers to a group of color rendering methods used to display images in color which were recorded in the visible or non-visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. A false-color image is an image that depicts an object in colors that differ from those a photograph (a true-color image)…

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Six-Fours-les-Plages, French Riviera

Six-Fours-les-Plages is a French commune located at the edge of the Mediterranean in the department of Var, in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. It is part of the Toulon Provence Mediterranean metropolis. Its territory, geographically privileged although subject to an important mistral, is characterized by an important wooded part and an…

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Castle of Sully-sur-Loire, France

The Château de Sully-sur-Loire is a castle, converted to a palatial seigneurial residence, situated in the commune of Sully-sur-Loire, Loiret, France. The château was the seat of the Duke de Sully, Henri IV’s minister Maximilien de Béthune (1560–1641), and the later dukes of Sully. It is a château-fort, a true…

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Architecture of Kathmandu

The architectural heritage of Kathmandu city is integral to that of the Kathmandu valley since all monuments have evolved over centuries of craftsmanship influenced by Hindu and Buddhist religious practices. The architectural treasure of the Kathmandu valley has been categorized under the well known seven groups of heritage monuments and…

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Naturalism in art

The naturalism (also idealism) in art is a flow of about 1870 to 1890, in the broadest sense: the tendency to the most complete and absolutely accurate reflection of reality in all its manifestations, details and details. In the visual arts, such a tendency manifests itself constantly, from time to…

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Renewable energy sculpture

A renewable energy sculpture is a sculpture that produces power from renewable sources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric or tidal. Renewable energy sculpture is a flow in the environmental art, combining a sculpture, which produce energy from renewable sources (solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric or tidal). Inspired by the folks…

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Theatre Museum Canada, Toronto, Canada

The Theatre Museum Canada was founded by Herbert Whittaker in 1982, for the purpose of preserving and celebrating Canada’s theatrical cultural heritage. Theatre Museum Canada seeks to share the wonder of Canada’s rich theatre legacy with Canadians and theatre enthusiasts everywhere. Theatre Museum Canada is a registered Canadian cultural charity,…

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Swiss chalet style

Swiss chalet style (German: Schweizerstil, Norwegian: Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditional building designs characterised by widely projecting roofs and facades richly decorated with wooden balconies and carved…

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Multi-junction photovoltaic cell technology

A multi-junction photovoltaic cell is a solar cell with multiple pn junctions of different semiconductor materials. Each pn junction of each material produces electrical current in response to a different wavelength of light. A simple cell produces electrical current of a single wavelength in the spectrum of sunlight. A multi-junction…

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Louis XIV style fashion of women 1680–1700

Fashion in the period 1680–1700, Under the rule of Louis XIV, the style of fashion became more classical, triumphant and ostentatious, profusion decorated.The fashion of 1680 to 1700 announces a new spirit which is translated in the costume by the beginnings of a new feminine fashion. In 1680, The shape…

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Color field

Color field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to abstract expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering abstract expressionists. Color field is characterized primarily…

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Odoardo Fialetti

Odoardo Fialetti (Bologna, July 18, 1573 – Venice, 1637 or 1638), was an Italian painter, printmaker and engraver who began his training during the late Renaissance, and showed distinct mannerist sensibilities in his mid-career, adopting a much looser and more dynamic style in his later life. A posthumous son of…

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Review of Venice Carnival 2014, Italy

The Venice Carnival 2014 last from February 15 to March 4. The romantic water city sometimes covered by dense fog, full of stories and mysteries. This most magical of cities fills with a mass of masked party-goers, posing and preening, dancing and philandering, in a slightly surreal re-invention of a…

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Zhou Fang

Zhou Fang (周昉 730 AD – 800 AD), courtesy name Zhonglang, was an influential painter during the mid-Tang dynasty. Zhou lived in the Tang capital of Chang’an, which is now modern Xi’an, during the 8th century. He came from a noble background and this was reflected in his works, such…

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Alternative energy

Alternative energy is any energy source that is an alternative to fossil fuel. These alternatives are intended to address concerns about fossil fuels, such as its high carbon dioxide emissions, an important factor in global warming. Marine energy, hydroelectric, wind, geothermal and solar power are all alternative sources of energy.…

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