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It is conjectured that he was born in around 150.
As most people suffer a mild ( i. e. non-pathological ) epileptic episode regularly ( e. g. a hypnagogic jerk, the sudden " jolt " that frequently, but not always, occurs just prior to falling asleep ), it is conjectured that a similar ( mild ) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of déjà vu, resulting in an erroneous sensation of memory.
It has been conjectured that the name Esther is derived from a reconstructed Median word astra meaning myrtle.
The legend then states that Chūai died soon after and his widow, Jingū, conquered the promised land, which is conjectured to be part of modern day Korea.
His widow, Jingū, then spent three years in conquest of a promised land, which is conjectured to be Korea, but the story is largely dismissed by scholars for lack of evidence.
Within the framework of the approach a theory was proposed in which the physical vacuum is conjectured to be the quantum Bose liquid whose ground-state wavefunction is described by the logarithmic Schrödinger equation.
Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick.
It is conjectured that yew trees were commonly planted in English churchyards to have readily available longbow wood.
Most notable is the inclusion of two songs from Thomas Middleton's play The Witch ( 1615 ); Middleton is conjectured to have inserted an extra scene involving the witches and Hecate, for these scenes had proven highly popular with audiences.
* It is also conjectured that omega-3 fatty acids may have a mood stabilizing effect.
Although it has been conjectured that she is the same person as the Mary mother of John Mark, this is generally considered to be unproven.
A Raetic variant is conjectured to be at the origin or parallel evolution of the Elder Futhark ᛟ.
Over a millennium after Euclid, Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ) circa 1000 AD conjectured that every even perfect number is of the form 2 < sup > p − 1 </ sup >( 2 < sup > p </ sup >− 1 ) where 2 < sup > p </ sup >− 1 is prime, but he was not able to prove this result.
Based on the tables by Anton Felkel and Jurij Vega, Adrien-Marie Legendre conjectured in 1797 or 1798 that π ( a ) is approximated by the function a /( A ln ( a ) + B ), where A and B are unspecified constants.
Both Legendre's and Dirichlet's's formulas imply the same conjectured asymptotic equivalence of π ( x ) and x / ln ( x ) stated above, although it turned out that Dirichlet's approximation is considerably better if one considers the differences instead of quotients.
In a handwritten note on a reprint of his 1838 paper " Sur l ' usage des séries infinies dans la théorie des nombres ", which he mailed to Carl Friedrich Gauss, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet conjectured ( under a slightly different form appealing to a series rather than an integral ) that an even better approximation to π ( x ) is given by the offset logarithmic integral function Li ( x ), defined by
Originally conjectured by Henri Poincaré, the theorem concerns a space that locally looks like ordinary three-dimensional space but is connected, finite in size, and lacks any boundary ( a closed 3-manifold ).
In what is called the second superstring revolution, it was conjectured that both string theory and a unification of general relativity and supersymmetry known as supergravity form part of a hypothesized eleven-dimensional model known as M-theory, which would constitute a uniquely defined and consistent theory of quantum gravity.
He conjectured that it is solvable, relying on the hypothesis that any set of tiles, which can tile the plane can do it periodically ( hence, it would suffice to try to tile bigger and bigger patterns until obtaining one that tiles periodically ).
The round hemisphere is conjectured to be the optimal ( least area ) filling of the Riemannian circle.

is and bronze
There is a bronze wreath on the wall.
Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.
Ranking from the very few bronzes survived to us is the masterpiece bronze Piraeus Apollo.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.
Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.
While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.
A large hieratic bronze of Innocent X by Algardi is now to be found in the Capitoline Museums.
By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.
* Red brass is both an American term for the copper-zinc-tin alloy known as gunmetal, and an alloy which is considered both a brass and a bronze.
Many have similar tin contents to contemporary bronze artefacts and it is possible that some copper-zinc alloys were accidental and perhaps not even distinguished from copper.
However, since " bronze " is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term " copper alloy " instead.
The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.
Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.
The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.
There are many different bronze alloys but modern bronze is typically 88 % copper and 12 % tin.
Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.
The Benin Bronzes are really brass, and the Romanesque Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is described as both bronze and brass.
Bismuth bronze is a bronze alloy with a composition of 52 % copper, 30 % nickel, 12 % zinc, 5 % lead, 1 % bismuth.
Typically bronze only oxidizes superficially ; once a copper oxide ( eventually becoming copper carbonate ) layer is formed, the underlying metal is protected from further corrosion.

is and sculptures
Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.
He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.
The battle between the Athenians and Amazons is often commemorated in an entire genre of art, amazonomachy, in marble bas-reliefs such as from the Parthenon or the sculptures of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
After the death of Legh Keck in 1860 the sculptures where auctioned off, their whereabouts is unknown.
The pediment over the main entrance is decorated by sculptures by Sir Richard Westmacott depicting The Progress of Civilisation, consisting of fifteen allegorical figures, installed in 1852.
The 13th century Terrace of the Leper King is known for its dynamic relief sculptures of demon kings, dancers, and nāgas.
A sword scar wound on the left side of his face is present in his self-portrait and sculptures and corresponds to some of the buccal branches of the facial nerve.
One big focus is put on film, video, contemporary music and architecture, room installments and big presentations of contemporary paintings, sculptures and video art.
It was the potters ' quarter of the city, from which the English word " ceramic " is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the road out of the city towards Eleusis.
On the island of Malta, a variety of limestone called Globigerina limestone was, for a long time, the only building material available, and is still very frequently used on all types of buildings and sculptures.
* It is used in sculptures because of its suitability for carving.
:" At Pergamum there is a great marble altar, high, with colossal sculptures, representing a battle of the giants.
It is notable for its beautiful and unique sculptures, especially the " Twelve Virgins " at the Northern Gate, the depictions of Otto I the Great and his wife Editha as well as the statues of St Maurice and St Catherine.
Named for the god Nergal, it may have been used for some ceremonial purpose, as it is the only known gate flanked by stone sculptures of winged bull-men ( lamassu ).
* The so called Park of the Monsters just outside the city of Bomarzo is a Late Renaissance manieristic garden gallery of sculptures and architecture commissioned in the 16th century by Vicino Orsini.
* Polyphemus is also the subject of a series of sculptures made by the French artist August Rodin about 1888.
Pegasus is the subject of a very rich iconography, especially through the ancient Greek pottery and paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance.
A person who creates sculptures is called a sculptor.
This view is sometimes called the picture theory of language, but Wittgenstein discusses various representational picturing relationships, including non-linguistic " pictures " such as photographs and sculptures ( TLP 2. 1 – 2. 225 ).
* June – September: Den Haag Sculptuur is an open air exhibition of sculptures.
Gas sculpture is a proposal made by Joan Miró in his late writings to make sculptures out of gaseous materials.
Other contemporary sculptures in which fog is used as a medium of expression are: Harbor Fog, a viewer responsive artwork in the parkland above Boston's Big Dig highway ; Cloud RIngs ( 2006 ) by Ned Kahn at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky ; and the interactive landscape of Dillworth Plaza at Philadelphia City Hall ( completion date 2013 ).
At Ft. Garland, Colorado south of the Great Sand Dunes on U. S. Highway 160 the Fort Garland Museum is recommended and further south on Colorado State Highway 159 at San Luis, Colorado, the oldest town in Colorado, the bronze sculptures by Huberto Maestas, depicting the Stations of the Cross.
The city is renowned for its Easter related Holy Week activities and traditions, culminating between Good Friday and Holy Saturday in the Processione dei Misteri di Trapani, colloquially simply the Misteri di Trapani ( in English the Procession of the Mysteries of Trapani or the Mysteries of Trapani ), a day long passion procession organized and sponsored by the city's guilds, featuring twenty floats of lifelike wood, canvas and glue sculptures, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, of individual scenes of the events of the Passion.
The ancient name for these type of sculptures is unknown.

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