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121Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
122Christianity in the 1st century — Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant.[1] Depicted by 19th century Danish painter Carl Heinrich Bloch is his Sermon on the Mount (c. 30) in which he Expounds on the Law. Some scholars consider this to be …
123Mysore literature — Mysore Palace, completed in 1912, currently holds the royal archives which has a huge collection of records regarding composers under royal patronage, covering a period of over 100 years.[1] …
124WRITING — (Scripts, Materials, and Inscriptions). SCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see alphabet ). Here, the pictographic, cuneiform, and… …
125Æthelred of Mercia — For the later earl, see Earl Æthelred of Mercia. Infobox Monarch name =Æthelred title =King of Mercia reign =675 ndash;704 predecessor =Wulfhere successor =Cenred queen =Osthryth issue =Ceolred Ceolwald ? father =Penda mother =Cynewise|Æthelred… …
126Medieval football — An illustration of so called mob football , a variety of medieval football. Medieval football is a modern term sometimes used for a wide variety of localised football games which were invented and played in Europe of the Middle Ages. Alternative… …
127History of cartography — The Fra Mauro map, one of the greatest memorial of medieval cartography, was made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular world map drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter Cartography (from… …
128Eardwulf of Northumbria — Infobox Monarch name =Eardwulf title =King of Northumbria reign =14 May 796 ndash;806; 808 ndash;? coronation =26 May 796 predecessor =Osbald successor =Eanred issue =Eanred father =Eardwulf date of death =after 808 place of burial =Breedon on… …
