The architecture of Mali is unique in Africa and the world. It comprises adobe buildings such as The Great Mosque of Djenne or the University of Timbuktu. It can be found all over the Sahel region of Africa. Malian architecture developed during the Ghana Empire which founded most of Mali’s…
Read moreMountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing. While some scholars identify mountaineering-related activities as climbing (rock and ice) and trekking up mountains, others are also adding backpacking, hiking, skiing, via ferrata and wilderness activities, and still others state that mountaineering activities also include indoor climbing, sport climbing and bouldering. However,…
Read moreA hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a type of hybrid vehicle that combines a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) system with an electric propulsion system (hybrid vehicle drivetrain). The presence of the electric powertrain is intended to achieve either better fuel economy than a conventional vehicle or better performance. There…
Read moreThe Florentine Romanesque style is the Romanesque architectural style that developed in Florence between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, with extremely peculiar characteristics. The Florentine Romanesque style spread only in the countryside of the city, which in the XII extended into a restricted territorial area, in a period in which…
Read moreColor recovery (or color restoration) is a process which can restore lost color, specifically to television programs which were originally transmitted in color, but for which only black & white copies remain archived. Not to be confused with colorization, color recovery is a newer process and is fundamentally different from…
Read morePont-Aven School encompasses works of art influenced by Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term applied to works created in the artists’ colony at Pont-Aven, which started to emerge in the 1850s and lasted until the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the artists were inspired by the works…
Read moreSocialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is characterized by the glorified depiction of communist values,…
Read moreBuddhism played an important role in the development of Japanese art between the 6th and the 16th centuries. Buddhist art and Buddhist religious thought came to Japan from China through Korea and Buddhist art was encouraged by Crown Prince Shōtoku in the Suiko period in the sixth century and by…
Read moreA conventional idea of a sustainable fishery is that it is one that is harvested at a sustainable rate, where the fish population does not decline over time because of fishing practices. Sustainability in fisheries combines theoretical disciplines, such as the population dynamics of fisheries, with practical strategies, such as…
Read moreMuseo Casa de Cervantes, located in city Valladolid of autonomous community Castile and Leon, Spain, is the house where the novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes lived in the year 1605. Currently it is a museum. The building was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural on 9 June 1958.…
Read moreNeon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Light-emitting tubes form colored lines with which a text can be written or a picture drawn, including various decorations, especially in advertising and commercial signage. By programming sequences of switching parts on…
Read moreIn commercial aviation, a red-eye flight is a flight scheduled to depart at night and arrive the next morning. While any overnight flight may be considered a red-eye, the term is most commonly used for west-to-east flights that take advantage of time differences in order to move passengers long distances…
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