36 résultats pour "tower"

• Eiffel Tower - geography.

• Leaning Tower of Pisa - geography.

• Tower Bridge - architecture.

• Tower of Babel

• TOWA Marcien (vie et oeuvre)

• Tower Bridge - architecture.

• Commentaire de texte: Marcien Towa : Essai sur la problématique philosophique dans l’Afrique actuelle

  Corrigé proposé par MARDIE Aimé Adelphe – PLEG Philosophie 2 - Eviter le débat sur l’absolu comme le fait l’ethno -philosophie est normale. Emmanuel Kant : Dieu n’est pas un objet de connaissance, c’e st une idée de la raison. Réinterprétation - La valeur de ce texte réside au fait qu’elle nous invite à remettre la question de Dieu sur la table du débat public. Peut -être que nous pourrions trouver la nature du vrai Dieu compte tenu de la pluralité d...

• John Hancock Center Standard Oil Building World Trade Center Sears Tower Banque de Chine

• Leaning Tower of Pisa - art.

• Tower of London, England - art.

• États-Unis. Reflets d'immeubles à Dallas dans la Reunion Tower.

• From The Hunchback of Notre Dame - anthology.

  If then we were to attempt to penetrate through this thick and obdurate bark to the soul of Quasimodo; if we could sound the depths of this bungling piece oforganization; if we were enabled to hold a torch behind these untransparent organs, to explore the gloomy interior of this opaque being, to illumine its obscure cornersand its unmeaning cul-de-sacs, and to throw all at once a brilliant light upon the spirit enchained at the bottom of this den; we should doubtless find the wretch in some mi...

• exposé dnl The London Tower

  The Tower of London What is the history of this place ? The famous Tower of London is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It’s situated next ti the the famous Tower Bridge. Its construction began towards the end of the year 1066 as part of the Norman conquest of England.In the 1070s, William the Conqueror, fresh from his victory but nervous of rebellion, began to build a massive stone fortress in London to defend and proclaim his royal power. Nothing...

• Wireless Communications.

  were large, heavy units. After the invention of the transistor in 1948, radios shrank in size to small handheld radio transceivers. Public two-way radios with severalfrequency options are widely available as well. Usually limited in range to a few miles, these units are great aids for such mobile professionals as construction workers,film crews, event planners, and security personnel. Simpler two-way radios, called walkie-talkies, have been popular children’s toys for years. Most walkie-talkiesb...

• TOUR (La) [The Tower]. (résumé et analyse)

• CHAPITRE 3, ESSENTIALISME CULTUREL ET TRANSCENDANCE, « IDENTITÉ ET TRANSCENDANCE » DE MARCIEN TOWA

  CHAPITRE 3, ESSENTIALISME CULTUREL ET TRANSCENDANCE, « IDENTITÉ ET TRANSCENDANCE » DE MARCIEN TOWA Les deux premiers chapitres ont montré intentions méthodologiques de deux auteurs, Bylden et Senghor. Ils caractérisent l'état de la culture donné fondé et formulée, puis considéré globalement comme un tout sous l'angle de l'éternité et de l'intemporalité. Senghor explique la passivité du « l'âme noire comme émotionnelle-féminité, tandis que Bylden se réfère à « l'âme noire », comme celle q...

• Londres.

  édifices de Londres : le palais de Westminster, siège du Parlement britannique, avec sa célèbre tour de l'Horloge (98 m de haut) et son carillon (Big Ben) ; Whitehall (siègedu gouvernement) ; l'abbaye de Westminster ( XIIIe-XVe siècles) ; Buckingham Palace, résidence officielle de la famille royale ; les Law Courts (palais de justice), la National Gallery et la Tate Britain. C'est là aussi que s'étend Hyde Park, le plus grand espace vert de Londres, qui mène à l'ouest vers les quartiers de Knigh...

• London (England) - geography.

  In the northern part of the West End is Bloomsbury, the city’s traditional intellectual center, with its concentration of bookshops and homes of writers and academics. Inthe early 20th century a number of famous writers, critics, and artists who lived here became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Here, too, is the British Museum, one ofLondon’s chief tourist attractions. Nearby is the giant complex of the University of London, whose various colleges and departments have taken over much ofBloomsbury...

• New York (city) - geography.

  The Bronx is the fourth largest and the northernmost of the five boroughs, and the only one on the American mainland. Even so, it is surrounded by water on threesides: Long Island Sound on the east, the Harlem and East rivers on the south, and Hudson River on the west. Encompassing 109 sq km (42 sq mi), it had 1,332,650inhabitants in 2000. Largely residential, the Bronx includes dozens of vibrant neighborhoods. Fieldston is particularly elegant, with great stone houses set among spacious lawns a...

• London (England) - geography.

  D The East End and Docklands The East End, beyond the City of London and the Tower, has long been the home of London’s docks and immigrants. It has frequently been characterized by slums, poverty,and crime. This is the area where the notorious criminal Jack the Ripper prowled. Some portions, such as Bethnal Green, were slums during the Victorian period. Manypoorer immigrants and working-class Londoners still reside in the East End, but its weekend street markets are very popular, especially Pet...

• Excerpt from The Old Curiosity Shop - anthology.

  'Well!' muttered Quilp, as he marked her earnest look. 'I believe you. Humph! Gone already? Gone in four-and-twenty hours I What the devil has he done with it,that's the mystery!' This reflection set him scratching his head and biting his nails once more. While he was thus employed his features gradually relaxed into what was with him acheerful smile, but which in any other man would have been a ghastly grin of pain, and when the child looked up again she found that he was regarding her with...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Charlemagne - anthology.

  The titles of some of Archbishop Turpin's chapters will show the nature of his history. They are these: 'Of the Walls of Pampeluna, that fell of themselves.' 'Of theWar of the holy Facundus, where the Spears grew.' (Certain of the Christians fixed their spears, in the evening, erect in the ground, before the castle; and found them,in the morning, covered with bark and branches.) 'How the Sun stood still for Three Days, and the Slaughter of Four Thousand Saracens.' Turpin's history has perhap...

• Iranian Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Iranian Art and Architecture, the visual arts of Iran.

  The first great development of ancient Persian architecture took place under the Achaemenid dynasty during the Persian Empire, from about 550 to 330 BC. Remains of Achaemenian architecture are numerous, the earliest being ruins at Pasargadae, the capital city of Cyrus the Great. These ruins include two palaces, a sacred precinct, acitadel, a tower, and the tomb of Cyrus. The palaces were set in walled gardens and contained central columnar halls, the largest of which was 37 m (111 ft) in length...

• Exposé sur "The dynamic Tower" de Divid Fischer

  The Dynamic Tower David Fisher est un architecte israélo-italien vivant à Florence, né en 1948 à TelAviv. Il est diplômé de l’Université de Florence où il a d’ailleurs enseigné l’architecture et l‘ingénierie structurelle. J’ai décidé de vous le présenter parce que j’ai trouvé qu’une de ses architectures était très intéressante ! En effet, il imagine en 2008 une "Tour dynamique" ultramoderne, dont le projet a été dévoilé à New York, qui permettra à ses habitants de modifier l'orientat...

• Berlin - geography.

  boroughs of Wedding and Tiergarten. Other important central areas include Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, now united as the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, andPrenzlauer Berg, now incorporated as a part of the Pankow borough. Tiergarten contains a large wooded park, a zoo, and a variety of public monuments as well as the large, modern Congress Hall and the Reichstag building, which wasbuilt from 1884 to 1894. The Reichstag and the surrounding area have undergone renovation to accommodate the Bun...

• Hawaii (state) - geography.

  limestone along the coast. The volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are all so-called shield volcanoes, or lava domes. Unlike the volcanoes of Alaska and South America, those of Hawaii were notcreated by very explosive eruptions. Formed mostly by lava flows, they are great rounded mountain masses, rather than steep-sided cones. Mauna Kea, dormant forcenturies, is the highest mountain in the state. It rises to 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level, and its summit is dotted with cinder cones formed by...

• Hawaii (state) - USA History.

  limestone along the coast. The volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are all so-called shield volcanoes, or lava domes. Unlike the volcanoes of Alaska and South America, those of Hawaii were notcreated by very explosive eruptions. Formed mostly by lava flows, they are great rounded mountain masses, rather than steep-sided cones. Mauna Kea, dormant forcenturies, is the highest mountain in the state. It rises to 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level, and its summit is dotted with cinder cones formed by...

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• Cellular Radio Telephone.

  There were more than 120 million wireless subscribers in the United States in 2001, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, with thenumber of new users increasing significantly each year. Forecasters and regulators did not anticipate this growth, however. Network equipment and start-up costs weresubstantial, and the cost to consumers was high. Providers had limited their networks to a small group of high-volume business users. Eventually, the providersrecognized th...

• gratte-ciel.

  Jenney (William Le Baron) Johnson Philip Le Corbusier (Charles Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, dit) Mailly (Jean de) Mies van der Rohe Ludwig mur-rideau New York - La configuration de la ville Nouvel Jean ossature résistance des matériaux Rockefeller Center Seagram Building Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Sullivan Louis Henry verrière ville - Les grands types de villes dans le monde contemporain - Les villes nord- américaines Wright Frank Lloyd Les livres architecture - Marina City, Chica...

• Cleveland (Ohio) - geography.

  III POPULATION According to the national census, the population of Cleveland was 505,616 in 1990, a decline of 11.9 percent from the 1980 population of 573,822. The decrease continuedinto the 1990s, falling a further 5.4 percent between 1990 and 2000. The population was 478,403 in 2000. By 2006, Cleveland's population was estimated at 444,313. Thedecrease was attributed to a continuing flight to the suburbs, begun before 1970 and fueled by racial polarization and public school problems. In 2000...

• Seoul - geography.

  higher learning in South Korea. All of South Korea’s top-ranked universities are in Seoul, including Chung-ang University (1918), Ewha Women’s University (1886),Korea University (1905), Seoul National University (1946), Sogang University (1960), Sung Kyun Kwan University (1938), and Yonsei University (1885). The National Museum features collections of Korean art and artifacts, and the National Science Museum showcases modern Korean technology. The National Library ofKorea, the country’s largest...

• Cairo (Egypt) - geography.

  Prize-winning author and Cairo native Naguib Mahfouz, whose fiction has provided a chronicle of the city. VI POINTS OF INTEREST The pyramids of Egypt, which served as tombs for the ancient pharaohs, and the statue of the Sphinx, which dates from about 2500 BC and is probably the country's most famous monument, are located just west of Cairo in the suburb of Giza. Depite the desert background usually depicted in photographs, the pyramids areextremely close to Cairo and are likely to be affecte...

• Exhibitions and Expositions.

  A Louisiana Purchase Exposition In 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, organized an exposition in celebration of the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. The exposition, which cost about $20 million, attractedalmost 20 million persons and showed a profit of about $25 million. B Panama-Pacific International Exposition The Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the construction and opening of the Panama Canal. More than $50 millionwas spent on this exposit...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...

• La Tour du CN à Toronto

  Les passerelles d'observation , placées à une altitude comprise entre 335,5 et 366 rn, offrent un panorama saisissant de la ville de Toronto. Dotées d'un plancher de verre, elles ont été équipées de télescopes grossissant 200 fois et qui simulent la vision que l'on pourrait avoir depuis un avion lancé à mach 6! Du haut de ces passerelles , la vue P.eut porter jusqu'à des collines situées à 200 km. À l'intérieur se trouve un disp...