Category: Destinatios
Art Deco, Pere-Lachaise With the modern age has come a lack of ornament and hard, clean lines. By now, the age of ornament has passed (although, from time to …
Weaponry The possession and use of weapons constituted an important aspect of life during the colonial period. Mozambique Map Tourist Attractions Weapons provided the colonists with a measure of …
Military Career Washington appeared at the Second Continental Congress in his Virginia militia colonel’s uniform, advertising his military experience to a Congress in search of a commanding general. Tunisia …
Modern Classicism, Pere-Lachaise Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century from this architectural morass was Art Nouveau. The style had a relatively short run on the scale of …
Gothic, Montmartre Not all architecture fits into the customary architectural styles. Architects often blended totally unrelated styles and sometimes created styles of their own. At the end of the …
The other significant military operations during the War of Jenkins’ Ear occurred along the disputed Florida-Georgia border. Tanzania Map Tourist Attractions British General James Oglethorpe, leading a combined force …
Byzantine Revival, Crematorium, Pere-Lachaise Perhaps no style of architecture is so closely associated with cemeteries as Gothic. Its towers, spires and flying buttresses are the stuff of ghost stories, …
Eighteenth-century warfare took place in the age of the flintlock firearm, and both muskets and rifles were employed by combatants. Sapporo Subway Map The term flintlock refers to the …