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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
[10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]
Palace of the Masks detail. 2002 photo Map of the Kabah Maya archeological zone. The most famous structure at Kabah is the "Palace of the Masks", the façade decorated with hundreds of stone masks of the long-nosed rain god Chaac; it is also known as the Codz Poop, meaning "Rolled Matting", from the pattern of the stone mosaics. [1]
The kiswa (Arabic: كسوة الكعبة, kiswat al-ka'bah) is the cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is draped annually, though the date of draping has changed over the years. [1] A procession traditionally accompanies the kiswa to Mecca, a tradition dating back to the 12th century.
It is approximately 15 m (49 ft 3 in) high with sides measuring 12 m (39 ft 4 in) × 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in) wide [89] (Hawting states 10 m (32 ft 10 in). [90] Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of marble and limestone. The interior walls are clad with tiled, white marble halfway to the roof, with darker trimmings along the floor.
The tradition of the Sultan sending a sitara to cover the Prophet's Tomb began in the 10th century. [10] A white sitara was provided for the tomb in the 12th century by the Fatimids . [ 11 ] Being away from direct sunlight, the Medina textiles have been replaced less frequently than the Kaaba textiles; in the 15th century, this was every six or ...
Saleh Al-Talib, appointed Imam and Khatib in 2002 and served until July 2018, got imprisoned by Saudi Authorities for criticizing their actions in August of 2018 and is serving 10 years in jail since then; Khalid al Ghamdi, retired as Imam and Khatib of Masjid Al Haram in September 2018, 10 years after appointment.
The size of the stones varies from 2.90 by 2.10 by 0.48 metres (9 ft 6 in by 6 ft 11 in by 1 ft 7 in) to 1.10 by 1.08 by 0.56 metres (3 ft 7 in by 3 ft 7 in by 1 ft 10 in); however in the west wall, there is a flat stone that is 4.40 metres (14 ft 5 in) long. [2] Vertical and horizontal cross sections of the structure