thousands of years. The Lascaux Cave paintings were an enlightening discovery giving us a broader view of ancient life. The caves are about one hundred meters long and are filled with paintings of bison, stag, ox, and many other animals. Artists used charcoal to make the outlines for their paintings. To color them in they used chunks of red and yellow ocher ground into powder and applied using animal hair made into paint brushes or blown onto the cave wall using hollowed out bones. Researchers may suspect
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Natural Energy Energy is the ability to perform work, forces, movements, etc ..., we cannot see it, just notice its effects. It happens allowing almost everything in the universe. When man evolved, he began to use energy in many different ways, most of the time this caused contamination and damage to nature because resources are used in a non-renewable way. Exploration for and production of petroleum have caused major detrimental impacts to soils, surface and ground waters, and the local ecosystems
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Art Test Review Chiaroscuro – Shading from light and dark Visual elements – Color, value, texture, shape, form, space & line Line – basic means for recording and symbolizing ideas, observations and feelings. Extension of a point. Shapes are also known as mass and form Space – the interval or measureable distance between points Value – or tone refers to the relative lightness and darkness of surfaces Hue and intensity – refers to a particular wavelength of spectral color to what we give
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scare-off enemies in the time of war. Gunpowder was discovered in the tenth century by Chinese medicine men that were looking for the secret to immortality. Chinese scientists discovered that an explosive mixture could be produced by combining sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter (potassium nitrate). They thought that gunpowder could be used as a medicine of some sort. The invention of gunpowder gave the Chinese a distinct advantage over their enemies, changing the nature of warfare. Gunpowder in Chinese
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socially vulnerable while ensuring supply of skilled labor for trafficking - while the demand for this workforce maintains the trade of people. This cycle attracts intermediaries such as "cats" (contractors who draw people to be exploited on farms and charcoal), the "coyotes" (who specialize in transporting people across the border between Mexico and the United States) and other "animals" that profit on those seeking a better life. This is a trade that takes place around the world, involving women, youth
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national dish, mainly stuffed, can be made in different form like (fried,uncooked,cooked with yogurt) Kibbeh nayye - raw kibbeh eaten like steak tartar. Kofta or Kafta - fingers, stars or a flat cake of minced meat and spices that can be baked or charcoal-grilled on skewers. SALADS Fattoush Salad A traditional Lebanese salad, with romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, parsley, sumac & toasted pita croutons, tossed in our lemon olive oil dressing. Tabbouli Salad Freshly chopped
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was long and varied, covering many different styles of painting from Impressionism to near Abstraction Painted in 1917 it an oil painting Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint. Oil paint is usually mixed with linseed oil, artist grade mineral spirits or other solvents to create a thinner, faster or slower drying paint. A basic rule of oil paint application is 'fat over lean. This means that each additional
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Carbon Monoxide can be dangerous, if used wrong. One way that it is dangerous is that you can burn yourself by spilling it on yourself. You can also poison yourself by ingesting it. You can even burn those around you by being careless. You can even leave it out by accident and hurt your friends because they might not know what it is. it is called the silent killer because it is colorless and odorless. If you inhale it, it binds to your blood and it will prevent the oxygen from binding to your blood
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now has better buildings, more knowledge, and new ways to make art then when the country was founded. For example our buildings are sturdier and they have electricity, a/c, and clean running water. Back then we could only make art with paint and charcoal, lead, etc., now we can make art virtually. Intellectual achievements by the USA is the ability to go to school, In some countries certain people are not allowed to go to school but in America it doesn’t matter your gender or color you are able
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sporadically through the chronicled records of different societies. Maybe the to begin with genuine rockets were mishaps. In the to begin with century A.D., the Chinese allegedly had a straightforward frame of explosive made from saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal clean. To make blasts amid religous celebrations, they filled bamboo tubes with a blend and hurled them into fires. Maybe a few of those tubes fizzled to blow up and instep skittered out of the fires, moved by the gasses and sparkles created by the
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