Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 2 días · Tom Tobin, “Pre-Raphaelitism in the Nineteenth-Century Press: A Bibliography,” William Morris Archive, accessed May 27, 2024, https://morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu ...
Hace 5 días · The formerly extraparochial land of the Forest of Dean lies mainly at over 200 m. (656 ft.), reaching its highest point, 290 m. (951 ft.), at Ruardean hill in the north. Sometimes described as a plateau but actually comprising steep ridges and the valleys of streams draining to the Severn and Wye, its boundaries with the surrounding cultivated ...
Hace 4 días · Strype describes the Old Sessions House as a fair and stately building, very commodious, and with large galleries on both sides for spectators, "the court-room," he remarks, "being advanced by stone steps from the ground, with rails and banisters, enclosed from the yard before it; and the bail-dock, which fronts the court where the prisoners are kept until brought to their trials, is also ...
Hace 4 días · John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied.
Hace 5 días · Ancient Greek athlete Coroebus of Elis was the first recorded Olympic Games winner in the 192-meter (630-feet) footrace in faraway 776 BC. Coroebus was a cook, baker, and athlete from Elis. He won the stadion race, (or stade race), the only competition in the first recorded Olympic Games. The stadion race was a 180-meter (200-yard) sprint.
Hace 3 días · The Great Wild Goose Pagoda, formerly named the Pagoda of the Ci'en Temple or the Non-Leak Temple, was built in the Sui Dynasty (581-618). In the 21 st year (647) of the Zhenguan reign of the Tang Dynasty, Prince Li Zhi expanded the temple in memory of his dead mother, Queen Wende, and then renamed this temple as the Grand Mercy and Favor Temple.
Hace 3 días · Wildflower Identification by Color. Use the following "flower color" resource as the first step to identifying wildflowers in the schoolyard. Note that not all wildflowers bloom the same time of year. Many bloom in the spring, while some - like goldenrod - are in full color in the fall. This is just a start - using visual cues and is a good ...
