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Saint Stephen's Purse (Latin: Sacculum idem Sanctus Stephanus, German: Stephansbursa or Stephansburse) is a rectangular gold 9th-century reliquary studded with gem stones. It is part of the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire. It consists of a purse containing soil that is claimed to be soaked with the blood of St. Stephen. [1]
St Stephen's, Sneinton, Nottingham – has strong links to William Booth and The Salvation Army. The parents of D.H. Lawrence married in the church on 27 December 1875; St Stephen's Walbrook, City of London – first recorded in C11 and rebuilt to Wren's design after the Great Fire; St Stephen's Church, Saint Vincent Street, Edinburgh, Scotland ...
Kōkichi Sugihara (Japanese: 杉原厚吉, born June 29, 1948, in Gifu Prefecture) [1] [2] is a Japanese mathematician and artist [3] known for his three-dimensional optical illusions that appear to make marbles roll uphill, [4] [5] pull objects to the highest point of a building's roof, [6] and make circular pipes look rectangular. [7]
Rowett has presented videos on the YouTube channel Grand Illusions since 2008. In each video, he light heartedly demonstrates and reacts to at least one toy, puzzle, or optical illusion which is either part of his collection or will be stocked through an online toy store, run as part of the Grand Illusions brand (to which he is a director).
Saint Stephen's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Stephen, is a Christian saint's day to commemorate Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protomartyr, ...
Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. [1] Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or swelling or warping.
The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. Hybrid image: A Hybrid image is an optical illusion developed at MIT in which an image can be interpreted in one of two different ways depending on viewing distance. Illusory contours
Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.