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The 1936 Berlin Olympiastadion as it appeared in 1993. Ruin value (German: Ruinenwert) is the concept that a building be designed in such a way that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all.
Salamis, Ancient Greek ruins in Cyprus.. Ruins (from Latin ruina 'a collapse') are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate destruction by humans, or uncontrollable destruction by natural phenomena.
Wiki Loves Monuments is the successor to Wiki Loves Art, which was held in the Netherlands in 2009. The original WLM contest for "Rijksmonuments" (Dutch for "national monuments") encouraged photographers to seek out Dutch National Heritage Sites. The Rijkmonuments include architecture and objects of general interest recognized for their beauty ...
Herculaneum [a] is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
An image estimating the size of a printed version of Wikipedia as of February 2022. (Up-to-date image using volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica)Currently, the English Wikipedia alone has over 6,943,076 articles of any length, and the combined Wikipedias for all other languages greatly exceed the English Wikipedia in size, giving more than 29 billion words in 55 million articles in 309 ...
Wikiwand, formerly stylized as WikiWand, [2] is a commercial proprietary interface developed for viewing Wikipedia articles. [3] Its interface includes a sidebar menu displaying the table of contents, a navigation bar, personalized links to other languages, new typography, access to previews of linked articles, display advertisements, and sponsored articles. [4]
Mimicking his photo on the Wikipedia page for shrug, "Shrug Guy" re-creates his 2006 shrug photo at Depths of Wikipedia's Boston show in 2022. A Wikipedia editor herself, [ 1 ] Rauwerda has hosted an edit-a-thon , welcoming new contributions to the encyclopedia, [ 2 ] and enjoys taking photos to add to the Wikimedia Commons . [ 7 ]
RimWorld is a construction and management simulation video game developed by Canadian game designer Tynan Sylvester and published by Ludeon Studios. [3] Originally called Eclipse Colony, it was initially released as a Kickstarter crowdfunding project [4] in early access for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in November 2013, and was released on October 17, 2018.