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Hellenistic art 
 Daphnis of Miletus made the design for it at the end of the fourth century B.C. (about 300  B.C.) but it was never finished.
Hellenistic art 
 The columns are the Ionic kind, almost 20 metres tall, with much complex stone art on the bases and tops.
Hellenistic art 
 Attalus I (269-197 BC), to commemorate his victory at Caicus against the Gauls — called Galatians by the Greeks — had two series of votive groups sculpted:  the first, consecrated on the Acropolis of Pergamon, includes the famous Gaul killing himself and his wife, of which the original is lost (the best copy is in the  Massimo alle Terme museum of Rome, see illustration); the second group, offered to Athens, is composed of small bronzes of Greeks, Amazons, gods and giants, Persians and Gauls.
Hellenistic art 
 Artemis Rospigliosi of the Louvre is probably a copy of one of them;  as for copies of the Dying Gaul, they were very numerous in the Roman period.
Hellenistic art 
 The expression of sentiments, the forcefulness of details — bushy hair and moustaches here — and the violence of the movements are characteristic of the Pergamene style.
Hellenistic art 
 These characteristics are pushed to their peak in the friezes of the Great Altar of Pergamon, decorated under the order of Eumenes II (197-159 BC) with a gigantomachy stretching 110 metres in length, illustrating in the stone a poem composed especially for the court.
Hellenistic art 
 The Olympians triumph in it, each on his side, over Giants most of which are transformed into savage beasts: serpents, birds of prey, lions or bulls.
Hellenistic art 
 Their mother Gaia, come to their aid, can do nothing and must watch them twist in pain under the blows of the gods.
Hellenistic art 
 Another phenomenon appears in Hellenistic sculpture:  privatization, which involves the recapture of older public patterns in decorative sculpture.
Hellenistic art 
 However, we can study the Hellenistic influences in Roman frescoes, for example those of Pompeii or Herculaneum.
Hellenistic art 
 Certain mosaics provide a pretty good idea of the "grand painting" of the period:  these are copies of frescoes.
Hellenistic art 
 An example is the Alexander Mosaic, showing the confrontation of the young conqueror and the Grand King Darius III at the Battle of Issus, a mosaic which adorns the walls of the House of the Faun at Pompeii.
Hellenistic art 
 It is believed to be a copy of a work described by Pliny the Elder (XXXV, 110) which had been painted by Philoxenus of Eretria for King Cassander of Macedon at the end of the 4th century BC.
Hellenistic art 
 The mosaic allows us to admire the choice of colours, the composition of the ensemble with turning movement and facial expressivity.
Hellenistic art 
 Archeological discoveries at the cemetery of Pagasae (close to modern Volos), at the edge of the Pagasetic Gulf, or again at Vergina (1987), in the former kingdom of Macedonia, have brought to light some original works.
Hellenistic art 
 For example, the tomb said to be that of Philip II has provided a great frieze representing a royal lion hunt, remarkable by its composition, the arrangement of the figures in space and its realistic representation of nature.
Hellenistic art 
 The Hellenistic period is equally the time of development of the mosaic, particularly with the works of Sosos of Pergamon, active in the 2nd century BC and the only mosaic artist cited by Pliny (XXXVI, 184).
Hellenistic art 
 trompe l'oeil (optical illusion) and the effects of the medium are found in several works attributed to him such as the "Unswept Floor" in the Vatican museum, representing the leftovers of a repast (fish bones, bones, empty shells, etc.)
Hellenistic art 
 and the "Dove Basin" at the Capitoline Museum, known by means of a reproduction discovered in Hadrian's Villa.
Hellenistic art 
 One of them is watering herself while the others seem to be resting, which creates effects of reflections and shadow perfectly studied by the artist.
Hellenistic art 
 The most common vases are black and uniform, with a shiny appearance approaching that of varnish, decorated with simple motifs of flowers or festoons.
Hellenistic art 
 It is also the period when vases in relief appeared, doubtless in imitation of vases made of precious metals:  wreaths in relief were applied to the body of the vase, or again the one shown here received veins or gadroons.
Hellenistic art 
 The shapes of the vases are also inspired by the tradition of metal:  thus with the lagynos (pictured here), a wine jar typical of the period.
Hellenistic art 
 In parallel there subsisted a tradition of polychromatic figurative painting:  the artists sought a greater variety of tints than in the past.
Hellenistic art 
 The fragility of the pigments preventing frequent use of these vases, they were reserved for use in funerals.
Hellenistic art 
 The most representative copies of this style come from Centuripe in Sicily, where a workshop was active until the 3rd century B.C.  These vases are characterized by a base painted pink.
Hellenistic art 
 The figures, often female, are represented in coloured clothing: blue-violet chiton, yellow himation, white veil.
Hellenistic art 
 The style is reminiscent of Pompei and is situated much more on the side of the grand contemporary paintings than on the heritage of the red-figure pottery.
Hellenistic art 
 Progress in bronze casting made it possible for the Greeks to create large works, such as the Colossus of Rhodes, with a height of 32 meters.
Hellenistic art 
 Many of the large bronze statues were lost - with the majority being melted to recover the material.
Hellenistic art 
 Fortunately, during Hellenistic Greece, the raw materials were plentiful following eastern conquests.
Hellenistic art 
 The work on metal vases took on a new fullness:  the artists competed among themselves with great virtuosity.
Hellenistic art 
 At Panagyurishte (now in Bulgaria), skilfully sculpted gold vases have been found: on an amphora, two rearing centaurs form the handles.
Hellenistic art 
 In Derveni, not far from Salonica, a tomb has provided a great krater with bronze volutes dating from approximately 320 BC and weighing 40 kilograms (Derveni krater).
Hellenistic art 
 It is decorated with a 32-centimetre-tall frieze of figures in relief representing Dionysus surrounded by Ariadne and her procession of satyrs and maenads.
Hellenistic art 
 The neck is decorated with ornamental motifs while four satyrs in high relief are casually seated on the shoulders of the vase.
Hellenistic art 
 The jewellers of the time excelled at handling details and filigrees:  thus, the funeral wreaths present very realistic leaves of trees or stalks of wheat.
Hellenistic art 
 Thus emerged the theme of the "negro", particularly in Ptolemaic Egypt: these statuettes of Black adolescents were successful up to the Roman period.
Hellenistic art 
 Sometimes, they were reduced to echoing a form from the great sculptures:  thus one finds numerous copies in miniature of the Tyche (good luck) of Antioch, of which the original dates to the beginning of the 3rd century BC.
Hellenistic art 
 Previously reserved for religious use, in Hellenistic Greece the Greek terracotta figurine was more frequently used for funerary, and even decorative, purposes.
Hellenistic art 
 The refinement of molding techniques made it possible to create true miniature statues, with a high level of detail.
Hellenistic art 
 In Tanagra, in Boeotia, the figurines, full of lively colours, most often represent elegant women in scenes full of charm.
Hellenistic art 
 At Smyrna, in Asia Minor, two major styles occurred side-by-side: first of all, copies of masterpieces of great sculpture, such as Farnese Hercules in gilt terra cotta.
Hellenistic art 
 In a completely different genre, there are the "grotesques", which contrast violently with the canons of "Greek beauty": the koroplathos (figurine maker) fashions deformed bodies in tortuous poses — hunchbacks, epileptics, hydrocephalics, obese women, etc.
Hellenistic art 
 One could therefore wonder whether these were medical models, the town of Smyrna being reputed for its medical school.
Hellenistic art 
 It was in the Hellenistic period that the Greeks, who until then only knew molded glass, discovered the technique of glass blowing, thus permitting new forms.
Hellenistic art 
 The art of engraving on gems hardly advanced at all, limiting itself to mass-produced items that lacked originality.
Hellenistic art 
 It concerns cutting in relief on a stone composed of several colored layers, allowing the object to be presented in relief through the effects of color.
Hellenistic art 
 The Hellenistic period produced some masterpieces like the Gonzaga cameo , now preserved at the Hermitage Museum.
Interest 
 Usually, this is fixed as a percentage of the amount of money borrowed (which is called interest rate).
Interest 
 If simple interest of 1 percent is paid each year at the end of 100 years the borrower would have paid $100 in interest, $1 each year, and would still owe $100.
Interest 
 If compound interest of 1 percent is paid on a loan of $100 each year the amount of interest paid will slightly increase and after 70 years the amount owed will have grown to $200 and the interest payment will have increased to $2.
Interest 
 The rule can be used to figure out how fast anything that always  grows exponentially at the same rate will double in size.
Interest 
 Suppose a kangaroo grows 10 percent a year; dividing 10 into 70 gives 7, so the kangaroo will double in size in 7 years.
Interest 
 At some times in the past, or in some places today, it has been illegal to make a person pay interest on a loan.
Interest 
 If someone cares about something, they "have an interest" in that thing, or they "find it interesting".
Interest 
 If someone has a legal right to something (usually money or property) they have an interest in that thing.
Interest 
 This is also true for someone who shares a right with others, or a person who has a future right to something.
Interest 
 For example, if some brothers and sisters will be given a house after their parents die, each of them "has a financial interest" in the house, even if the parents are still living.
Newcastle, New South Wales 
 Newcastle was started in 1804 by Lieutenant Charles Menzies and was for convicts who mined the coal.
Era 
 It is made up of the Paleozoic era (from the Greek for "oldest life"), the Mesozoic era ("middle life") and the Cainozoic era ("latest life").
Drowning 
 Near drowning is the survival of a drowning event where the person is unconsciousness (passed out) or breathes in a dangerously large amount of water, and can cause serious problems, including death, later on.
Drowning 
 Secondary drowning is death caused by chemical or biological changes in the lungs after a near drowning incident.
Drowning 
 Drowning happens when a person spends too much time underwater or with their nose and mouth submerged in a liquid to the point where they are unable to breathe and their lungs are full of liquid.
Drowning 
 Many people drown in countries where there is a lot of water, especially if they swim in dangerous waters.
Drowning 
 For example, in the United Kingdom there are about 450 drownings each year (that is: 1 per 150,000 of its people), and in the United States there are about 6,500 drownings (or around 1 per 50,000 of its people).
Drowning 
 Many people choose to take their children to swim in areas that have security cameras or lifeguards.
Drowning 
 Pool fencing - Private pools should always be fenced when they are not being used if there are children around so they do not fall inside the pool, and so they don't use the pool without another adult watching them.
Drowning 
 Diving - a person can be knocked out and drown if they dive into a pool and hit their head on the bottom.
Schrödinger's cat 
 Erwin Schrödinger suggested it in 1935, in reaction to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics.
Schrödinger's cat 
 In simple terms, Schrödinger stated that if you place a cat and something that could kill the cat (a radioactive atom) in a box and sealed it, you would not know if the cat was dead or alive until you opened the box, so that until the box was opened, the cat was (in a sense) both "dead and alive".
Schrödinger's cat 
 However, there are some physical interactions which it does not explain; for instance, how light can be turned into electricity.
Schrödinger's cat 
 The Copenhagen interpretation is used to explain what is happening to the smallest part of an atom (a sub atomic particle) without looking at it (observing it or measuring it).
Schrödinger's cat 
 A particle could be described as being 50% likely to be in one place at one time, or 50% likely to be in one place at another time.
Schrödinger's cat 
 Up until the point that you observe it, the Copenhagen Interpretation says that the particle is there and is not there.
Schrödinger's cat 
 While this makes sense in quantum physics, it does not make sense in classical (real world) physics.
Schrödinger's cat 
 Schrödinger wanted to show that this way of thinking about quantum mechanics would lead to absurd situations.
Schrödinger's cat 
 A Geiger counter which counts the amount of radioactive decay and a little bit of a radioactive element are in the room.
Schrödinger's cat 
 Within one hour, one of the atoms of the radioactive material might decay (or break down because the material is not stable), or it may not.
Schrödinger's cat 
 If the material breaks down, it will release an atomic particle, which will hit the geiger counter, which will release poison gas, which will kill the cat.
Schrödinger's cat 
 Schrödinger says that according to the Copenhagen Interpretation, as long as the door is closed, the cat is dead and alive.
Schrödinger's cat 
 By looking at the experiment the person has influenced the experiment, therefore it may not give us the correct answer.
Schrödinger's cat 
 The thought experiment was invented by Schrödinger to demonstrate the foolishness of thinking about quantum states for large objects.
Wollongong, New South Wales 
 It is on the eastern coast of Australia, , just over one hour from the south of Sydney and 2.5 hours from Canberra.
Yule 
 Yuletide" celebrates the birth of the Sun and also celebrates the "Mother" at the height of her "Greatness".
Yule 
 Pagans celebrate Yuletide in many ways, most will decorate a "Yuletide" tree, keep it in their homes until most of the leaves fall off then burn the Yule log.
Yule 
 Many Wiccans will decorate their alters with Yule colours and items and generally just honour the Goddess.
Yule 
 The Christian holiday, Christmas, was created by the Christian Romans based around the polytheistic (many Gods) Sun God festival (Sol Invictis) on the winter solstice, and people in northern Europe combined it with their Yule festival.
Yule 
 Yule is celebrated on the 25th of December by most Northern Europeans and the 21st of December, by Wiccans and many non religious groups.
Yule 
 The Wiccan ritual includes thanking the Goddess for the past year and asking for a happiness in the year to come.
Yule 
 Rouche, Michel, "Private life conquers state and society," in A History of Private Life vol I, Paul Veyne, editor, Harvard University Press 1987
Warrnambool, Victoria 
 The name Warrnambool is an Indigenous Australian word meaning "water between two rivers", "two swamps", or "plenty of water".
Warrnambool, Victoria 
 There are daily trains to Melbourne, via Geelong, and buses to Ballarat, Hamilton and Mount Gambier, South Australia.
Warrnambool, Victoria 
 There is a wrecked ship in the sand dunes near Warrnambool which historians believe is an early Portuguese ship.
Warrnambool, Victoria 
 The first recorded exploration of this part of the Victorian coast was by the French explorer Nicholas Baudin in 1802.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 It is often used as a selection method in a similar way to coin flipping or drawing straws to randomly select a person for some purpose.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 However, unlike truly random selections, it can be played with skill if the game extends over many sessions, as a player can often recognize and exploit the non-random behavior of an opponent.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 Sportsmen often use RPS (both officially and unofficially, in place of a coin toss) to decide on opening plays.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 It is also often used as a method for creating appropriately non-biased random results in live action role-playing games, as it requires no equipment.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 The exact name of the game can vary, with the three components appearing in a different order, or with "stone" in place of "rock".
Rock–paper–scissors 
 Non-English speakers may know the game by their local words for "rock, paper, scissors", although it is also known as Janken or Yakyuken in Japan, Kawi Bawi Bo in Korea, Pierre-Papier-Ciseaux in France, Ca-Chi-Pun in Chile, and in South Africa as Ching-Chong-Cha, the words used in the 'count'.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 On the third count, or on a further beat after the third count (saying "shoot"), the players change their hands into one of three gestures, which they then "throw" by extending it towards their opponent.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 In some variations of the game, the winner of each round "uses" the weapon on the opponent's weapon, to demonstrate that they have won.
Rock–paper–scissors 
 RPS is frequently played in a "best two out of three" match, and tournament players often prepare sequences of three gestures ahead of time.
Darwin 
 Charles Darwin (1809–1882), the person who developed the biological theory of evolution by natural selection
Katie Leung 
 After her parents got divorced, she lived with her father in a £400,000 house in Motherwell, Scotland.
Katie Leung 
 Leung has been named as Scotland's most stylish female and as the hottest Scotswoman by The Scotsman.
Film noir 
 Film noir is a term used to describe crime drama movies from Hollywood that are often focused on sex, crime, and corruption.
Film noir 
 Film noir movies were mostly made from the early 1940s to the late 1950s in the United States, and they were usually filmed in black-and-white.
Film noir 
 Film noir movies include many different genres of movies, such as gangster movies, police movies, and detective movies.
Film noir 
 Film noir movies were often filmed so that there were many dark shadows in the movie, even on characters' faces.
Film noir 
 The Hollywood film noir movies were influenced by German film directors such as Fritz Lang, who used dramatic lighting techniques.
Film noir 
 Another influence on film noir movies was 1930s French books or movies about heroes who would die at the end of the story or stories with sad endings.
Film noir 
 Film noir movies were also influenced by crime fiction, such as the detective and crime stories by Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler.
Film noir 
 Some important film noir movies are: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); The Maltese Falcon (1941) Double Indemnity (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); Key Largo (1948);Kiss Me Deadly (1955), and Touch of Evil (1958).
Film noir 
 The important actors from Hollywood film noir movies were Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Peter Lorre.
Film noir 
 In the 1960s and 1970s, there were movies like The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Chinatown (1974), which were influenced by the film noir movies from the 1950s.
Film noir 
 In the 1980s and 1990s there were movies that were a bit like film noir movies, like Body Heat (1981), Basic Instinct (1992), Kill Me Again (1989), Red Rock West (1992), and Fargo (1996).
Film noir 
 There are also science fiction movies that look a bit like film noir movies because they look dark and they have a lead character who does some bad things, such as Soylent Green (1973); Blade Runner (1982), which starred Harrison Ford; and Minority Report (2002), which starred Tom Cruise.
Film noir 
 Film noir movies are often shot in cities at night, and the stories often take place in bars, nightclubs, gambling clubs, casinos, and cheap hotels.
Film noir 
 This makes film noir movies look very dark, because the scenes are shot at night, or inside dark places like a bar or hotel.
Film noir 
 Film noir movie scenes often have a lot of shadows, such as the shadows of window frames, blinds, or stair banisters.
Film noir 
 The characters in film noir movies are often private detectives or police officers who are investigating crimes committed by bad criminals and gang members such as murder, gambling or prostitution.
Film noir 
 In film noir movies, there are often stories about robberies, heists, extortion of money (which is called "blackmail"), or murder.
Film noir 
 For example, the hero of a film noir movie may help an innocent man or woman who is being threatened by a criminal, or rescue a woman from a criminal gang.
Film noir 
 Yet the hero or lead character may also do bad things, such as commit crimes, hurt or threaten people, or tell lies.
Film noir 
 Often, the hero or lead character of a film noir film will be bitter, sad, lonely, or depressed, because of bad things that happened to them.
Film noir 
 The person watching the movie has to decide if they think that a hero who does both good and bad things is a good person or not.
Film noir 
 The stories from film noir movies can make the audience think about how people should act, or how people should make choices in their life.
Film noir 
 A good man with a wife might need money for their rent, and borrow the money from a criminal gang leader, because the good man has no other way of getting the money.
Film noir 
 People who watch film noir movies like to see stories about people who have to make hard choices, or people whose lives have sad things happen in them.
Film noir 
 Real life is not a romantic comedy; people often have to make hard choices or have sad things happen.
Film noir 
 Robert Ottoson wrote a book in 1981 about film noir called A Reference Guide to the American Film Noir: 1940–1958.
Jazz fusion 
 In the late 1960s jazz musicians such as Miles Davis and a band called The Tony Williams Lifetime began using electric instruments such as electric bass and electric piano in their jazz music.
Jazz fusion 
 As well, jazz musicians began adding rhythms or beats from soul music, rhythm and blues, and rock music into their jazz music.
Jazz fusion 
 It became more popular, so more people began listening to jazz fusion and going to jazz fusion concerts.
Jazz fusion 
 In the 1970s, jazz musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Jan Hammer and Chick Corea began using electronic synthesizers in their songs.
Jazz fusion 
 Steve Vai was an icon of jazz fusion in the 1980s and played extensive guitar based jazz fusion instrumentals.
Arc de Triomphe 
 The Arc de Triomphe (meaning arch of victory),  at the centre of the place de l'Étoile and the western end of the Champs-Elysées, is a very famous monument in Paris.
Traffic light 
 Yellow light on: This tells drivers to stop when it is safe to, because the light is about to turn red.
Traffic light 
 Lester Wire was credited with the invention of the electric traffic light in 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Traffic light 
 Garrett Morgan, an African-American inventor, also developed a traffic signaling system, and was one of the first people to get a patent for a traffic light.
Railway signal 
 A railway signal or just signal is a mechanical or electrical machine that gives train drivers or engineers information about the line ahead.
Railway signal 
 These traffic signals say whether the train must stop or may continue and what speed the train may go.
Railway signal 
 Some signals can show two yellow lights, known as a "double yellow" and are warnings to the driver that the next signal is showing a yellow.
Railway signal 
 These are poles with a coloured bar at the top, which can be moved so that it is either horizontal, or at an angle.
Railway signal 
 When a red bar is horizontal this means that the train must stop, and when it is pointing diagonally up or down it means that it's safe for the driver to continue.
Railway signal 
 There are also signals with yellow bars which give warnings in the same way as yellow lights on newer signals.