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- Manuscript (5266 bytes)
1: ...upon a hard material (the original meaning of ''[[graffiti]]''), or in [[cuneiform]] writing, impressed with... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ...led [[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest to both calligraphers and palae...
14: ... sound and meaning ideographically, kana express only sound without regard to meaning. Three types of ...
98: ...nce, they were usually used for secular purposes only.
121: ...rokes lean to the right rather than (as more commonly) to the left, making Nasta'liq writing particula...
130: ..., without much amplitude. It is the one most commonly seen. It's also considered a step up from the Na... - Painting (4567 bytes)
48: *[[Spray paint]] ([[Graffiti]])
70: *[[Graffiti]] - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
17: ... the four sides of the base have a mean error of only [[1 E-2 m|15 mm]] in length, and 12 [[arcsecond|...
22: ...aking it the largest pyramid in Egypt, surpassed only by the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]] in [[Mexico]...
24: ... limestone could be seen miles away even under moonlight.
28: ...kind of granite known as "Red Aswan Granite" and only found some 250 miles South of Cairo.
34: ... and built is not known, although they were certainly not 'air' or 'ventilation' shafts. It is possibl... - Australian Aboriginal art (4187 bytes)
13: ...lly peeled off with the aid of a sharpened tool. Only the inner smooth bark is kept and placed in a fi...
36: ===Graffiti and other destructive influences===
38: ...ed by excessive touching of sites, and worse yet, graffiti. Many sites now belonging to National Parks have ... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
12: ...368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]] of the [[Ming Dynasty]])
24: ...d roads. Sections of the Wall are also prone to [[graffiti]]. Parts have been bulldozed because the Wall is ...
62: ...ond Book of Marvels'' said the Great Wall is the only man-made object visible from the [[moon]]. This...
64: ...ys [but] the Great Wall is almost invisible from only 180 miles (290 km) up." Astronaut [[William Pogu...
66: ...changes in lighting direction. The Great Wall is only a few meters wide - sized similar to highways an... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
9: ...); the new rulers imposed their architecture and enlarged the town. It has been supposed that during t...
20: The only reliable eyewitness account of the event was rec...
36: Pompeii is, in fact, the only ancient town of which the whole topographic stru...
45: Most of the archeological digs at the site only extend down to the street level of the 79 volcan...
55: ...'s earliest known marketing pun, ''Vesuvinum''. [[Graffiti]] carved on the walls shows us real street [[Lati... - Visual arts (2572 bytes)
7: ...ong the traditional [[art school]] set, but certainly can produce "high art" if considered to be a "vi...
24: * [[Graffiti]] - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
4: ...nt tombs in the East Valley. The West Valley has only one tomb open to the public: the tomb of [[Ay]],...
10: [[Graffiti]] on the walls of some of the tombs indicate that... - Maya civilization (25116 bytes)
18: ...ld, hence the name bestowed on this era. We have only hints of the advanced [[painting]] of the classi...
33: ...n, while interior space was entirely secondary. Only in the Late Post-Classic era did the great Maya ...
37: ...pliable enough to be worked with stone tools ... only hardening once removed from its bed. In additio...
41: ... as actual stone carvings used as a facade. Commonly, these would continue uninterrupted around an en...
48: These were commonly limestone platforms of typically less than four ... - Ur (11926 bytes)
1: ...e of marine regression, the remains are now well inland in present-day [[Iraq]], south of the Euphrate...
37: ...ted to about [[2600 BC]]. The finds included the unlooted tomb of Queen [[Puabi]] [2] – her name...
52: ... Hussein]] money bills to genuine rugs. There is only one shop on the actual site.
56: ... around it, and will observe very little damage. Only the top is covered with debris and is at times a...
59: ...the city ? a wall one can scarcely imagine today unless one knows it is there, is nearly totally clear... - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
13: ... West Germany proper was closed in [[1952]], and only in Berlin did the border remain open. The border...
17: ... and the construction of a barrier was permitted only if it were composed at first of [[barbed wire]]....
23: ...s: to attempt to stand up for East Germans would only result in an embarrassing climbdown. Accordingl...
47: ...]s. This version of the Wall is the one most commonly seen in photographs, and surviving fragments of ...
49: ...straߥ]] in central Berlin gave Westerners their only access between West and East Berlin. - History of Greek and Roman Egypt (25856 bytes)
12: ...he later Ptolemies were increasingly feeble. The only Ptolemaic Queens to officially rule on their own...
50: ...uage of government except at the highest levels. Unlike the Greeks, the Romans did not settle in Egypt...
57: ...]) of the native Egyptians, which was suppressed only after several years of fighting. This [[Bucolic ...
61: ...ommon with the other provincials, but this was mainly to extort more taxes, which grew increasingly on...
70: ...any others refused to do so, leaving them as the only sizeable religious minority in a Christian count... - Culture of New York City (6959 bytes)
7: ...ion of immigrants". Among large American cities only [[Los Angeles]] receives more immigrants, but im...
17: Unlike most Americans, although less untypically for ...
21: ...l tourist who does. They are urban cynics who openly mock and deliberately misguide naive tourists un...
25: ...show signs of paranoia. "Mets Suck!" was still [[graffiti]]ed on a scaffold near "[[Ground Zero]]." Cabbie... - Maya (24836 bytes)
18: ...ld, hence the name bestowed on this era. We have only hints of the advanced [[painting]] of the classi...
33: ...n, while interior space was entirely secondary. Only in the Late Post-Classic era did the great Maya ...
37: ...pliable enough to be worked with stone tools ... only hardening once removed from its bed. In additio...
41: ... as actual stone carvings used as a facade. Commonly, these would continue uninterrupted around an en...
48: These were commonly limestone platforms of typically less than four ... - Roman economy (23678 bytes)
6: ...ze). After the reforms Roman coinage consisted mainly of the gold [[solidus (coin)|solidus]] and small...
10: Unlike most modern coins, Roman coins had [[Intrinsic...
12: ...the coins with an intrinsic value and those with only a token value. This is reflected in the infreque...
14: ...e numbers. Since the government required coins mainly as a means to pay its army and officials, it had...
18: ... third century AD. Although initially there were only three, the number was increased by [[Julius Caes...
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