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61Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
62UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… …
63SS France (1961) — The SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l Atlantique shipyard at Saint Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962. At the time of her construction in… …
64Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
65Mexican ceramics — Woman selling pottery items at the Feria de Texcoco, Texcoco, Mexico State Ceramics and pottery in Mexico date back thousands of years before the Pre Columbian period, when ceramic arts and pottery crafts developed with the first advanced… …
66Mary Knowles — self portrait done in Needlework of Mary Morris Knowles, c.1776 (Royal Collection) Mary Knowles (1733–1807), née Morris, was an English Quaker poet and abolitionist. She spoke out in favour of choosing her own spouse, argued on behalf of… …
67Velázquez, Diego — ▪ Spanish painter Introduction in full Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez baptized June 6, 1599, Sevilla, Spain died August 6, 1660, Madrid the most important Spanish painter of the 17th century, a giant of Western art. Velázquez… …
68Carl Larsson — Infobox Artist bgcolour = name = Carl Larsson imagesize = 204px caption = Brita and I , self portrait (1895) birthname = birthdate = May 28, 1853 location = Stockholm, Sweden deathdate = January 22, 1919 deathplace = nationality = Swedish field …
69Holy Sepulchre — • The tomb in which the Body of Jesus Christ was laid after His death upon the Cross Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Holy Sepulchre Holy Sepulchre …
70metalwork — metalworker, n. /met l werrk /, n. objects made of metal. [1840 50; METAL + WORK] * * * Useful and decorative objects fashioned of various metals. The oldest technique is hammering. After с 2500 BC, casting was also used, molten metal being… …
