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The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave ( French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, [ 1] as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. [ 2]
Cave painting. Cueva de las Manos, Perito Moreno, Argentina. The art in the cave is dated between 7,300 BC and 700 AD; [ a] stenciled, mostly left hands are shown. [ 3][ 4] In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings ), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.
Montreal[ a] ( French: Montréal[ b]) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [ 18] it is now named after Mount Royal, [ 19] the triple-peaked hill around which the early settlement was built. [ 20]
Cueva de las Manos. / 47.15583°S 70.65722°W / -47.15583; -70.65722. Cueva de las Manos ( Spanish for Cave of the Hands or Cave of Hands) is a cave and complex of rock art sites in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km (101 mi) south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is named for the hundreds of paintings of hands stenciled, in ...
Then, after Cave 10 of Ajanta, in chronological order: Cave 3 at Pitalkhora, Cave 1 at Kondana Caves, Cave 9 at Ajanta, which, with its more ornate designs, may have been built about a century later, [165] Cave 18 at Nasik Caves, and Cave 7 at Bedse Caves, to finally culminate with the "final perfection" of the Great Chaitya at Karla Caves.
The deepest known cave—measured from its highest entrance to its lowest point—is Veryovkina Cave in Abkhazia, Georgia, with a depth of 2,204 m (7,231 ft). [17] This was the first cave to be explored to a depth of more than 2,000 m (6,600 ft). (The first cave to be descended below 1,000 m (3,300 ft) was Gouffre Berger in France.)
7-Eleven International LLC. Stripes Convenience Stores. Website. www .7-eleven .com. 7-Eleven, Inc.[ 2] is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas. The chain was founded in 1927 as an ice house storefront in Dallas. It was named Tote'm Stores between 1928 and 1946.
Windows. IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search. [ 5] Proprietary, commercial. Beagle. Linux. Open-source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License.