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Alternative name [The] Wailing Wall [The] Kotel Al-Buraq Wall الْحَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق (Ḥā’iṭ al-Burāq): Location: Jerusalem: Coordinates: Type: Ancient limestone wall
17th-century Dutch interior with gold leather hangings, Pieter de Hooch (c. 1665), Metropolitan Museum of Art Detail of gold leather hangings at Skokloster Castle, 1660–1700 Andrea Brustolon sofa with black slaves covered with cordovan, National Museum in Warsaw
Longbowmen archers of the Middle Ages.. Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was probably developed in Africa by the later Middle Stone Age (approx. 70,000 years ago). It is documented as part of warfare and hunting from the classical period (where it figures in the mythologies of many cultures) [1] until the end of the 19th century, when bow and arrows was made functionally obsolete by the ...
360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.
Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork based ...
Leather is a highly sought-after material due to its resistance to tearing, flexing, and puncture. [1] It is also an effective insulator of heat, as it prevents the passage of airflow.
An archery competition. Target archery is the most popular form of archery, in which members shoot at stationary circular targets at varying distances. All types of bow – longbow, barebow, recurve and compound – can be used.
Archery competition in June 1983 at Mönchengladbach, West Germany A Rikbaktsa archer competes at Brazil's Indigenous Games Tibetan archer, 1938 Master Heon Kim demonstrating Gungdo, traditional Korean archery (Kuk Kung), 2009 Archers in East Timor Japanese archers Archery in Bhutan Archer in Benin