Greek Sculpture (BBC: How Art Made The World)

How greek art created something more human than human. Excerpt from the BBC documentary "How Art Made The World" concerning greek sculpture. Presented by Dr Nigel Spivey (University of Cambridge). Music: "Enfer (La Double Vie De Veronique)" by Zbigniew Preisner.

Architecture Project 109 - (Cat Stevens - Wild World) (HD)

See project: proiectecasetip2.wordpress.com ;arh. Dan Mihalache: dannarchitect@gmail.com, tel.: 0770/694.945; 0748/371.353; architecture office: united architects, Iaşi, România. Brick (or wood) dwelling house ground floor and attic realized in AutoCAD. Locuinţă parter şi mansardă din cărămidă sau lemn. Proiect realizat în AutoCAD. Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948 in London, England), originally and commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam. His early 1970s record albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified as Triple Platinum by the RIAA in the United States; his 1972 album Catch Bull at Four sold half a million copies in the first two weeks of release alone and was Billboard's number-one LP for three consecutive weeks. He has also earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in consecutive years for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit single for five different artists. Stevens converted to Islam at the height of his fame, in December 1977, and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars away for charity Steven Georgiou was the third child of a Greek-Cypriot father, Stavros Georgiou (b. 1900), and a Swedish mother, Ingrid Wickman (b. 1915). He has an older sister, Anita, and brother, David. The family lived above Moulin ...

Sarah Travel Diary - Petra Jordan ( one of the wonders of the world) Part one

Well I never thought I would ever go to Jordan it wasnt really one of the places I had ever wished to go but wow what an amazing place. It is said to be one of the wonders of the world. Its this amazing place which has been built out of cliffs and gorges and its so hard to explain really what it is like.. Harrison Ford did film a triology of films of course very famously. Petra* UNESCO World Heritage Site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Treasury at Petra State Party Jordan Type Cultural Criteria i, iii, iv Reference 326 Region** Arab States Inscription history Inscription 1985 (9th Session) * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. ** Region as classified by UNESCO. Petra (Greek "πέτρα" (petra), meaning rock; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor[1] in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. Petra is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The Nabataeans constructed it as their capital city around 100 BCE.[2] The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced to the West by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon ...