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Armory Show Armory Show
Armory Show international exhibition of modern art held in 1913 at the 69th-regiment armory in New York City. It was a sensational introduction of modern art into the United States. The estimated 1,600 works included paintings representing avant-garde movements in Europe. Duchamp's Nude Descending... Read more
Vietnamese Vietnamese
Vietnamese PRONUNCIATION:vee-et-nuh-MEEZ LOCATION:Vietnam POPULATION:70–80 million LANGUAGE:Vietnamese RELIGION:Confucianism; Taoism; Buddhism, Roman Catholicism; Cao Daism 1 • INTRODUCTION The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as Vietnam, is ... Read more
Lord Henry Home Kames Lord Henry Home Kames
Henry Home Kames, Lord , 1696-1782, Scottish judge and philosopher. A man of broad interests and a wide-ranging intellect, his works included dissertations on Scottish law, agriculture, and problems of moral and aesthetic philosophy. Among his writings were Introduction to the Art of Thinking ... Read more
Merovingian art and architecture Merovingian art and architecture
Merovingian art and architecture . This period is named for Merovech, the founder of the first Germanic-Frankish dynasty (c.AD 500-AD 751). The Merovingian period was marked by the gradual decline of the classical tradition and by the absorption of a radically new element into the artistic... Read more
RMS RMS
RMS, the prefix, short for Royal Mail Ship, placed before the name of a British merchant ship with a licence to carry the Royal Mails. It was the granting of mail licences to commercial shipowners during the 19th century which gave so great a fillip to British shipbuilding and made possible the... Read more
aesthetics aesthetics
aesthetics , the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of art and the criteria of artistic judgment. The classical conception of art as the imitation of nature was formulated by Plato and developed by Aristotle in his Poetics, while modern thinkers such as Immanuel Kant, F. W.... Read more
intubation intubation
intubation (in-tew-bay-shŏn) n. the introduction of a tube into part of the body for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment. endotracheal i. introduction of an endotracheal tube to maintain an airway in an unconscious or anaesthetized patient. gastric i. intubation performed to keep the... Read more
Swiss Swiss
Swiss PRONUNCIATION:SWIS LOCATION:Switzerland POPULATION:About 7 million LANGUAGE:Schwyzerdütsch (Swiss-German dialect); French; Italian; Romansh; English RELIGION:Protestantism; Roman Catholicism 1 • INTRODUCTION Switzerland is located at the crossroads of... Read more
big big
big Big Apple an informal name for New York City.big bang the explosion of dense matter which according to current cosmological theories marked the origin of the universe. In the beginning a fireball of radiation at extremely high temperature and density, but occupying a tiny volume, is believed to... Read more
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French PRONUNCIATION:frEHNch LOCATION:France POPULATION:About 57 million LANGUAGE:French; also Breton, Flemish, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Provençal, and English RELIGION:Roman Catholicism; Protestantism; Islam; Judaism 1 • INTRODUCTION France, which has existed in... Read more

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