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2. Murder of the Romanov family - Wikipedia

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   The Russian Imperial Romanov family ( Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [ 2][ 3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.

3. House blessing - Wikipedia

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   House blessings in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country take the form of printed cards, framed and hung on the walls of the sitting room, and trace their origins to similar practices in The Netherlands and Belgium. Blessings, employed by Catholics and Protestants alike, usually incorporate a picture of Christ's crucifixion and a prayer "to the Sweet ...

4. Tokonoma - Wikipedia

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   A tokonoma with a hanging scroll and ikebana flower arrangement Detailed view of a tokonoma and aspects of a Japanese room View from the side of a tokonoma Tokonoma at Tenryū-ji. A tokonoma (床の間), [1] or simply toko (床), [2] [3] is a recessed space in a Japanese-style reception room, in which items for artistic appreciation are displayed.

5. House of Sallust - Wikipedia

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   The House of Sallust (also known in earlier excavation reports as the House of Actaeon) was an elite residence ( domus) in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and among the most sumptuous of the city. The oldest parts of the house have been dated to the 4th century BCE, but the main expansions were built in the 2nd century BCE during the Roman ...

6. Ikebana - Wikipedia

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   Shōka arrangement by the 40th headmaster Ikenobō Senjō, drawing from the Sōka Hyakki by the Shijō school, 1820. Ikebana flower arrangement in a tokonoma (alcove), in front of a kakemono (hanging scroll) Ikebana ( 生け花, 活け花, 'arranging flowers' or 'making flowers alive') is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. [ 1][ 2] It is ...

7. Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut - Wikipedia

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   The lower terrace measures 120 m (390 ft) deep by 75 m (246 ft) wide and was enclosed by a wall with a single 2 m (6.6 ft) wide entrance gate at the centre of its east side. This terrace featured two Persea (Mimusops schimperi) trees, two T-shaped basins which held papyri and flowers, and two recumbent lion statues on the ramp balustrade.