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Kente Cloth
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...Blue was obtained from the indigo plant, red from dried cam wood, brown from Indian tamarind, and green from boiled spinach leaves. With increased trade, imported silks and cottons were unraveled to extend the color range. Colors convey mood, dark...
Color Vision and Art
The French Revolutionary Calendar
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Calendars exhibit Webexhibit HomeYears & monthsVarious CalendarsOur WeekTimelineAbout Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... The French Revolutionary Calendar (or Republican Calendar) was officially adopted in France on October...
Calendars Through the Ages
What causes layers in the sunrise and sunset?
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...Clouds cover most of the United States. (B) A closer view of the terminator in this view from Apollo 11 in 1969 of Ethiopia and the Indian Ocean. (C) An even closer view of the earth’s "limb" lit by...
Causes of Color
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
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...You will be interested, for instance, in Boyd Houghton's “Mormons,” “Indians,” some London sketches and a number of sheets about “Paris during the Commune,” perhaps thirty pieces in all. And some large compositions, “Emigrants” and “Mormon Prayer Meeting.” I...
Van Gogh Letters
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
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...After which they annexed the two isles, which then became unutterably lugubrious!! Those tattooed races, Negroes, Indians, all of them, all, all are disappearing or degenerating. And the horrible white man with his bottle of alcohol, his money and his...
Van Gogh Letters
The Islamic Calendar
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Calendars exhibit Webexhibit HomeYears & monthsVarious CalendarsOur WeekTimelineAbout Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... The Kabba. Mecca, Saudi Arabia. According to Islamic tradition, the cube-shaped Kabba dates...
Calendars Through the Ages
Visual poetry background
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...Sumerian, Indian, Chinese, Egyptian, Chaldean, and Hebrew poets all painted word-pictures with their song-poems before the Greek and Roman empires emerged, and the Persians famously wrote and illustrated Alexandrine odes and other books with a marvelous display of...
Poetry Through the Ages
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
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...Well, lad, if you do not think any more about America, nor I of Harderwijk [The place where Volunteers for the East Indian army enlisted] I hope things will work themselves out, I admit your explanation of C. M.'s...
Van Gogh Letters
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
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...There is only that kernel, Christ, who seems superior to me from an artistic point of view, at any rate rather different from Greek, Indian, Egyptian, Persian antiquity, though they were so far advanced. But Christ, I repeat, is more...
Van Gogh Letters
What does a Jewish year look like?
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Calendars exhibit Webexhibit HomeYears & monthsVarious CalendarsOur WeekTimelineAbout Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... Rabbi with Arba'at Ha-Minim. During the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, one fruit...
Calendars Through the Ages
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
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...but later he went to America, and I know drawings of his of Quakers, and a Mormon church and Indian women, etc., and immigrants. In such a barricade scene, for instance, he had something ghostly, or rather mysterious, like Goya...
Van Gogh Letters
Article by Benno J. Stokvis
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...Van Gogh's son, “who had drawn.” “Drawn?” was the counter-question. “You mean to say he was drawn into the East Indian army?” Though such intellectual agility on the old lady's part may provoke laughter, from a psychological...
Van Gogh Letters
What is the Long Count?
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Calendars exhibit Webexhibit HomeYears & monthsVarious CalendarsOur WeekTimelineAbout Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... El Castillo. Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. This Mesoamerican step pyramid’s platform, along with...
Calendars Through the Ages
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
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...from them are impure? Why didn't the other nations under the great sun over there, the Egyptians, the Indians, the Ethiopians, Babylon and Nineveh, record their annals with the same care? Well, anyway, the study of it is beautiful...
Van Gogh Letters
Some Other Calendars
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Calendars exhibit Webexhibit HomeYears & monthsVarious CalendarsOur WeekTimelineAbout Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... Ethiopian Persian (Iran) Balinese Baha'i Ethiopian The Ethiopian calendar is based on the...
Calendars Through the Ages