Términos

Small language family of tonal languages spoken primarily along the coast of Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea.

The apparent arch or vault above the surface of the earth as perceived by those standing on the surface, whether covered with clouds or clear and blue.

Movimiento centrado en el artista Otto Peine, así como de artistas del Center for Advanced Visual Studies del Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Los artistas de Sky art han utilizado tecnologías modernas como la proyección con laser y los hologramas de transmición solar, así como técnicas más simples como la elevación de cometas, para producir obras de arte temporales en el espacio aéreo, pudiendo ser urbanas o rurales.

Un tipo de recipiente de bebida en forma de una copa profunda, generalmente con dos asas horizontales unidas al labio y un pie integral pequeño. En productos de color negro o no glaseado los skyphos era el tipo más común de copa.

Se refiere a un tipo de skyphos que se distingue fácilmente por sus asas dispares, una horizontal y otra vertical. El cuerpo es similar al skyphos tipo A pero con la parte inferior del cuerpo más cónica y pies más pequeños. Son casi siempre decorados con una lechuza, a menudo en figuras rojas.

Refers to a type of skyphos consisting of a relatively thick-walled cup with sturdy handles and a torus (tire-shaped) foot. The overall proportions are heavier than that of Corinthian type skyphoi.

Se refiere a un tipo de skyphos que consiste en una copa de pared delgada con delicadas asas y un pie de anillo. La forma se originó en Corinto.

Se refiere a un tipo de vidrio fundido moderno que se fabrica vertiendo vidrio fundido en moldes, creando un vidrio grueso que puede tener una superficie de trozos o facetas. Se utiliza fundamentalmente en construcción, por ejemplo para crear suelos o ventanas fijadas en hormigón, a veces semejando vidrio de colores. Fue inventado en Francia alrededor de 1900 como una forma de pavimento.

Tables having a single slab as a top surface, usually having a slab of stone, typically marble or slate but also granite or another type of stone, or of concrete or heavy wood. The slab is set upon a plinth or frame, usually of stone, wood, or metal. The slab top is not enclosed or encased in a supporting structure. For 18th-century tables having a marble top, use the more specific "marble slab tables."

Clappers made of two slabs of wood hinged at one end and clicked together.

Material comprising thin, usually rectangular, pieces of slate and other varieties of stone which split readily into laminae, used especially for the purpose of covering the roofs of buildings.

Relatively short, stout nails made of copper or another nonferrous metal, designed for nailing down slates to a slate roof.

The activity of killing cattle, sheep, or other animals, usually for food.

The culture and style of an Athabascan-speaking tribe of Canada's north country. The name "Slave" is the translation of a Cree term, since these traditional enemies sometimes raided and enslaved them. Another name for them "Etchao-tine," is Chipewyan for "people dwelling in the shelter, or by willows." The Slavey historically occupy territory west of the Great Slave Lake and Mackenzie River in Canada's present-day Northwest Territories, Alberta, and British Columbia.

Those who hold other human beings as property in forced servitude, whether by capture, purchase, or birth.

Culture, nationality, and styles of the Slavic linguistic and ethnic group that came from Asia in the third or second millennium BCE, spread steadily across eastern Europe, and played an important role in the Medieval world, particularly during the Slavic migrations.