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Tongkonan is the traditional ancestral house, or rumah adat, of the Torajan people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tongkonan has a distinguishing boat-shaped and oversized saddleback roof. Like most of the Indonesia's Austronesian-based traditional architecture, tongkonan is built on piles. Its construction is a laborious task, and it is usually ...
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in the post-war era in Western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. [1]
Distinctive shaped lumbung (rice barn) of southern Bali. The simplest type of Balinese house compound. Legend: 1. Natah 2.Sanggah Kemulan 3.Bale daja or meten 4.Bale dangin or sikepat 5.
According to the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, consumer prices rose 2.3% in October from a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That is up from just 2.1% in ...
The REO Speedwagon name is no more. On Saturday, Dec. 21, the legendary rock band played their final show as REO Speedwagon at the Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas. At the concert, frontman Kevin ...
PALM BEACH GARDENS - A West Palm Beach man is accused of beating to death a 65-year-old man with a golf club, choking him on the first hole of a public golf course and holding his head in a pond ...
Shaykh Nuruddin ibn Ali ar-Raniri. Nuruddin ibn Ali ar-Raniri (Arabic: نورالدين بن علي الرانيري) (also transliterated Nur ud-Din ar-Raniri / Randeri, died 1658) was an Islamic mystic and scholar from Rander in Surat province [1] of Gujarat, in India, who worked for several years in the court of the sultan of Aceh in what is now Indonesia.
A U.S. appeals court has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's request to revisit its decision upholding her conviction for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse ...