Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1 in 100,000 births. Cyclopia (named after the Greek mythology characters cyclopes), also known as alobar holoprosencephaly, is the most extreme form of holoprosencephaly and is a congenital disorder (birth defect) characterized by the failure of the embryonic prosencephalon to properly divide the orbits of the eye into two cavities.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing to his tribal land. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by ...
Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi (formerly Cherkassky) is an Israeli artist, born in Kyiv in 1976, who emigrated to Israel in 1991. [1] Her works focus on her personal experiences, including childhood in the Soviet Union and immigrant life in Israel.
W. J. H. B. Sandberg, Daedalus, 1960 Dora Maar found a large enough studio for Picasso to paint Guernica in. Through her connections in the left-wing community, she gained access to a space on Rue des Grands-Augustins, near Notre-Dame. This building had previously served as the headquarters of the ‘Contre-Attaque’ group, of which Maar was a dedicated member. Having listened to anti-fascist ...
Papillequine - A horse or pony with Lepidopteran wings. Lagopus - A ptarmigan with a head and feet of an rabbit. Bo - Horse-like equine with a single black unicorn-like horn, the mouth and paws of tiger’s, and ears of leopard. Bingfeng - A black pig with two heads that has elongated.
The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas, in Dorset, England. It is currently owned by the National Trust, and listed as a scheduled monument of England. Measuring 55 metres (180 ft) in length, the hill figure depicts a bald, nude male with a prominent erection, holding his left hand out to the side and wielding a ...
Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza.It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part, published in 1605, of the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote.
According to oral tradition, she knocked Custer off his horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Buffalo Calf Road Woman, or Brave Woman, (c. 1844 [1] – 1879) was a Northern Cheyenne woman who saved her wounded warrior brother, Chief Comes in Sight, in the Battle of the Rosebud (as it was named by the United States) in June 1876.