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Green Home Building: Vernacular Architecture: Europe
Carolingian and Ottonian empires. Spanish structures from the seventh century through the tenth century set the stage for the development of the Romanesque style, examined in its various ... in Europe. The baroque style of architecture arose from the Mannerist style of the seventeenth century. At its height, it encompassed all the arts and embodied the message of the ...
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Legend of the Diamond Valley
Elysaeus' fantasy of India and Prester John, circa the twelfth century AD (edited by F. Zarncke, Der Priester Johannes II, Pp. 120- ... on alchemy (translated by R Duval, and dated around the tenth century AD), it is also written that lead makes the diamond suffer ... who wrote a treatise on mineralogy in Persian during the thirteenth century, said regarding this point, "On the anvil, the diamond is ...
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Oxus River
Marino Sanudo (1325) and al-Bakuwi (beginning of the fifteenth century) confirm this description. The river changed its course in 1221 ... Gurganj. Evidence: record of ibn al-Athir, xii, 257. From the tenth century to 1221, the Oxus seems not to have flowed to the ... variants in texts; Ibn al-Raqih at the beginning of the tenth century, tells a legendary and thus unverified story; ibn Rustah (writing ...
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Middle East on the Matrix: Mashhad and Northeast Iran
Imam Ali, a Muslim cleric whose martyrdom in the seventh century led to a schism in Islam between the Sunni sect, which predominates today in most ... dry and bleak desert landscapes, occasionally punctuated by mausoleums or other surprising monuments, including the tenth century (Seljuq era) tomb of general Arsalan Jazeb (which can be seen on the Ancient Persia ...
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Middle East on the Matrix: Scenes From Islamic Persia
Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu Khan in the thirteenth century and Tamerlane (Timur) in the fourteenth century. The Seljuq Turks, in particular, were great builders and the architecture of this era is characterized by the elaborate use of brick and the beginning use of glazed tiles. The tenth century ...
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Foreign Affairs - The Unsettled West - Joshua Kurlantzick
Sufi Islam in the tenth century and the later development of the Silk Road trade route, which passed through Xinjiang. ... ,000 Chinese soldiers, prompting a harsh response from the central government. As the twentieth century dawned, China's pacification of Xinjiang remained incomplete. With its central government weakened by ...
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Free Things to Do in Prague @ National Geographic Traveler
Kampa Museum, established in 2002 and housed in a building some scholars date to the tenth century, offers free entry to its permanent exhibition the first Wednesday of every month. The ... a noteworthy attraction, largely because everyone is free to contribute to the mural. Vysehrad, the tenth-century castle ruins and accompanying graveyard, offers free entry to the historic grounds where some of ...
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Johns Hopkins University Press | Journals | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
It covers the broad range of issues that relate to imperialism and colonialism from the tenth century through modern times including the social effects on the population, the political structures under imperial ...
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Larry Agran - Local Politics, Global Issues
Century An Interview with Larry Agran, by Will Swaim One of the ... 1930. You can send an overseas cable for something like a tenth of the 1970 cost, and one-thousandth of the 1860s cost. ... opportunities in the region, a transportation system worthy of the twenty-first century, and a natural environment worthy of a weekend walk. Will: So ...
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Transcript: How Water Scarcity Will Shape the New Century
There has been a very distinct ... from six billion at present to nearly nine billion by mid century. But almost all of the three billion projected growth increase will ... century ago to raise land productivity. These are some of the thoughts that I have on this Monday morning as we open this tenth ...
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