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  2. Terrace (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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    A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created successively down the terrain in a pattern that resembles the steps of a staircase.

  3. Banaue Rice Terraces - Wikipedia

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    The difficulty of planting kalinayan and other rice varieties with the soil type in these areas leads to the building of the rice terraces entailing construction of retaining walls with stones and rammed earth which are designed to draw water from a main irrigation canal above the terrace clusters. Indigenous rice terracing technologies have ...

  4. Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal - Wikipedia

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    A linear terrace is set close to the riverbank with low-level rooms set below the main building opening on to the river. Both ends of the terrace were emphasised with towers. This form was brought to Agra by Babur and by the time of Shah Jahan, gardens of this type, as well as the more traditional charbagh, lined both sides of the Jumna river ...

  5. Terrace (building) - Wikipedia

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    The roof terrace of the Casa Grande hotel in Santiago de Cuba. Terraces need not always protrude from a building; a flat roof area (which may or may not be surrounded by a balustrade) used for social activity is also known as a terrace. [2] In Venice, Italy, for example, the rooftop terrace (or altana) is the most common form of terrace found ...

  6. Terrace (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Sediments underlying fluvial terrace exposed in cutbanks along the Manú River, Peru. In geology, a terrace is a step-like landform. A terrace consists of a flat or gently sloping geomorphic surface, called a tread, that is typically bounded on one side by a steeper ascending slope, which is called a "riser" or "scarp".

  7. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras - Wikipedia

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    The rice terraces of the Cordilleras are one of the few monuments in the Philippines that show no evidence of having been influenced by colonial cultures. Owing to the difficult terrain, the Cordillera tribes are among the few peoples of the Philippines who have successfully resisted any foreign domination and have preserved their authentic tribal culture.

  8. Café Terrace at Night - Wikipedia

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    Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (Café, le soir). Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed ...

  9. On the Terrace at Sèvres - Wikipedia

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    On the Terrace at Sèvres (French: Sur la terrasse à Sèvres) is the title of at least two 1880 oil-on-canvas paintings with the same subject by French artist Marie Bracquemond. A larger version (88 × 115 cm) is held by the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva, Switzerland , while a smaller version (56.8 × 64.5 cm) is held by the Artizon Museum ...