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Striding Edge, an arête viewed from Helvellyn with the corrie Red Tarn to the left and Nethermost Cove to the right. An arête (/ ə ˈ r ɛ t / ə-RET; French:) [1] is a narrow ridge of rock that separates two valleys.
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
Children's Museum of Cleveland: Goodrich–Kirtland Park: Children's Cleveland Grays Armory Museum: Downtown Cleveland: Military History of the Cleveland Grays, a private military company which was founded in 1837, and the military heritage of Greater Cleveland Cleveland History Center: University Circle Multiple
The Old White County Courthouse is a historic county [2] courthouse building [3] in Cleveland, Georgia, and home [4] to the White County Historical Society. It was built in 1859. [ 5 ] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1970.
Arete (Ancient Greek: ἀρετή, romanized: aretḗ) is a concept in ancient Greek thought that, in its most basic sense, refers to "excellence" of any kind [1] —especially a person or thing's "full realization of potential or inherent function." [2] The term may also refer to excellence in "moral virtue." [1]
That same year, it became an independent organization from the Cleveland Library Association. [1] From 1898 until 1938 the society resided at E. 107th St. and Euclid Avenue. [3] WRHS moved to its present location in the late 1930s. [5] In the same period, it acquired the Hay-McKinney mansion, which now hosts the society's museum. [1]
The museum was founded in 1988 in Chicago, moved to Schaumburg, Illinois [1] in 1998, and to Galena, Illinois in 2004. [2] The museum in Galena is located in a former brewery building (Fulton Brewery, later Galena Brewery, Eulberg & Sons). [3] In Schaumburg, the museum occupied an old barn at 190 S. Roselle Rd., before the village evicted it in ...
Olmec Head, Number 8 is a 7-foot (2.1-meter) tall outdoor colossal head sculpture on the east side of the north entrance to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, that was created by Mexican sculptor Ignacio Pérez Solano (b. 1931) and installed in 2000.