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Frogger: Ancient Shadow is a platforming video game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 2005 by Konami as a sequel to Frogger's Adventures: The Rescue. It is based on the original 1981 Frogger arcade game, and contains similar hop-and-dodge style gameplay.
Gaki zōshi (餓鬼草紙, "Scroll of Hungry Ghosts").A gaki condemned to shit-eating watches a child wearing geta and holding a chūgi, c. 12th century.. Shit stick means "a thin stake or stick used instead of toilet paper" for anal hygiene and was a historical item of material culture introduced through Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism.
Ancient Domains of Mystery is a roguelike video game designed and developed by Thomas Biskup and released in 1994. The player's goal is to stop the forces of Chaos that invade the world of Ancardia. The game has been identified as one of the "major roguelikes" by John Harris.
Chinese home furniture evolved independently of Western furniture into many similar forms, including chairs, tables, stools, cupboards, cabinets, beds and sofas. Until about the 10th century CE, the Chinese sat on mats or low platforms using low tables, but then gradually moved to using high tables with chairs.
These stools might represent temples or the god's seat on Earth. [23] In Ancient Sumeria doors would be made out of wood or red ox-hide. [24] A variety of furniture dedicated to relaxing existed in Ancient Mesopotamia. Some ancient art depicts people lounging on sofas. [25] The legs of the sofas had iron panels that depicted women and lions. [7]
A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
Stool with woven seat, 1991–1450 BC, wood and reed, height: 13 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lattice stool was the most popular type of stool in ancient Egypt.It is rectangular in form with a combination of features.
The origins of stools are obscure, but they are known to be one of the earliest forms of wooden furniture. [1] [need quotation to verify] The ancient Egyptians used stools as seats, and later as footstools. [2] The diphros was a four-leg stool in Ancient Greece, produced in both fixed and folding versions.