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In 2016, Vention was founded in Montreal, Canada by Etienne Lacroix, a former General Electric Co. product manager and McKinsey consultant, [5] and Max Windisch. [2]In 2017, Vention raised $3.5M USD with support from White Star Capital, Bolt, and Real Ventures. [6]
AncientFaces is a free online vintage photograph sharing service [1] which aims to build a "portrait of our past" by offering members the opportunity to share and view vintage photographs of their ancestors. [2] AncientFaces was founded in 2000 in California, [3] by Daniel J. Pinna and Carlos Filipe Medeiros.
"The Terms Wende-Winde, Wendisch-Windisch in the Historiographic Tradition of the Slovene Lands". Slovene Studies. 12 (1): 93– 97. doi: 10.7152/ssj.v12i1.3797. Knox, Ellis Lee (1980). The Destruction and Conversion of the Wends: A History of Northeast Germany in the Central Middle Ages. Department of History (Master's thesis). University of Utah.
Little was known about the Shu kingdom until a farmer stumbled across a series of sacrificial pits containing otherworldly masks, sculptures and ornaments.
The name Windic is derived from Wends (German: Wenden), the name for Western Slavs settling in the Germania Slavica contact zone. The medieval German term Windisch referred to the Slovene language, but also to Slavic languages in general.
There are everyday examples of hidden faces, they are "chance images" including faces in the clouds, figures of the Rorschach Test and the Man in the Moon. Leonardo da Vinci wrote about them in his notebook: "If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad ...
The Mšecké Žehrovice Head, Bohemia, c. 150–50 BC. The earliest European stone idols appeared in the Nordic countries during the late Bronze Age, where they continued to be produced, including in Iceland, until the end of the Viking Age in the 11th century AD.
Max Hecker (1879–1964), Austrian-born Israeli President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Eric Kandel (born 1929), neuroscientist; Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), jurist (father of the Austrian constitution) Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), pioneer of genetics