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  2. Tapestry - Wikipedia

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    Weaving a small tapestry on a high-warp loom, 2022, New Zealand One of the tapestries in the series The Hunt of the Unicorn: The Unicorn is Found, circa 1495–1505, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Normally it is used to create images rather than ...

  3. Culturally relevant teaching - Wikipedia

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    Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development and sharing of guidelines and associated teaching ...

  4. Tapestry lawn - Wikipedia

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    Tapestry lawn freshly mown, Reading University. The traditional practice of mowing is the key management tool for tapestry lawns. The need for a tapestry lawn to be mowed is reduced by up to two-thirds compared to traditional mowing regimes [6] because of the absence of grasses and the growth patterns of forbs. A consequence of this is that ...

  5. Cultural diversity - Wikipedia

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    37th General Assembly of UNESCO in 2013, Paris. Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture.It has a variety of meanings in different contexts, sometimes applying to cultural products like art works in museums or entertainment available online, and sometimes applying to the variety of human cultures or traditions in a specific region, or in the ...

  6. Holy Grail tapestries - Wikipedia

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    The six original tapestries illustrate the story of the Grail quest as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur.Like other Morris & Co. tapestries, the Holy Grail sequence was a group effort, with overall composition and figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, and foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle.

  7. Multiculturalism - Wikipedia

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    People in diverse communities "don't trust the local mayor, they don't trust the local paper, they don't trust other people and they don't trust institutions," writes Putnam. [57] In the presence of such ethnic diversity, Putnam maintains that, "[W]e hunker down. We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined.

  8. Tapestry (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King, a multi-artist tribute album honoring Carole King, 1995; Tapestry, an album by Bob Belden, 1997; Tapestry, an album by Keith Getty, 2002 "Tapestry", a song by Protest the Hero from the 2011 album Scurrilous "Tapestry", a song by Hillsong United from the 2013 album Zion

  9. Devonshire Hunting Tapestries - Wikipedia

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    The Deer Hunt is the smallest of the four tapestries at 13 ft 4.5 in by 28 ft 5.5 in. [3] Woolley points out that the finished tapestry is the result of several reworkings and additions. [2] The reweaving has diminished the quality of the tapestry. [1] On the left side of the tapestry, a deer is actively being hunted by men and hounds. [3]