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Following the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, the United Nations gave several tons of blue paint to a Belgian artist, so he could commemorate it by painting a line of boulders in the Sinai Desert blue. Boulders Beach: A beach on the Southern African coast, near an urban residential area, known for being home to a colony of several thousand penguins.
A security camera catches a Coca-Cola truck driver attempting to grab a Pepsi out of a cooler; only to have all the cans spill out of the cooler and in front of the Coke driver. Hank Williams 1952 song, Your Cheatin' Heart, provides the soundtrack to the ad.
This is a list of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd-edition monsters, an important element of that role-playing game. [1] [2] [3] This list only includes monsters from official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition supplements published by TSR, Inc. or Wizards of the Coast, not licensed or unlicensed third-party products such as video games or unlicensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition ...
The cyanotype was discovered, [2] and named thus, by Sir John Herschel who in 1842 published his investigation of light on iron compounds, [3] expecting that photochemical reactions would reveal, in form visible to the human eye, the infrared extreme of the electromagnetic spectrum detected by his father William Herschel and the ultra-violet or 'actinic' rays that had been discovered in 1801 ...
Notable female artists include French painter Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Italian pastel artist Rosalba Carriera, and Swiss artist Angelica Kauffman. Also during that century, before the invention of photography, miniature portraits―painted with incredible precision and often encased in gold or enameled lockets―were highly valued.
Arizona [b] is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.It also borders Nevada to the northwest and California to the west, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succeeding the Second Agricultural Revolution.