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    originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries. Court musicians and dancers collaborated to make flowy dances. These were just the roots, if you were to watch a tape of this early form of ballet (which you can't) you would notice that it looks absolutely nothing like anything that you see today. Every ballet of the time was not choreographed and often had the audience partake in the festivities. As the 15th century went on Ballet evolved into choreographed steps and the dance

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    Agritourism Activity - Domestic Zoo Introduction The idea of agritourism urges guests to experience agricultural life at first hand. Agritourism is gathering strong backing from little groups as rural people have realised the advantages of sustainable development achieved by similar types of nature travel. Visitors have the chance to work in the fields alongside real farmers and wade knee-somewhere down in the ocean with fisherman pulling in their nets. Agritourism incorporates a wide assortment

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    originally had the meaning of being carefree, happy or lighthearted for quite a long time, but this slowly changed conveying a series of different meanings, and in Modern English the word refers to homosexuality. The word itself dates back to the 12th Century although uncertain; it originates from the Old French word gaie that means joyful or merry which seems to be Germanic in its origin (Nardi 248). The word has several cognates in other languages such as Old Provencal gai, Old Frankish gahi. The Old

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    Paintings: El Castillo cave in Spain has the oldest known cave painting of 40,800 years ago. These western paintings show a continuous disrupted tradition from antiquity. In the early 19th century, painting was primarily concerned with the classical and representational mode of productions and later in late 19th century conceptual, abstract, and modern forms became popular. Western painting developments are historically parallel to those in Eastern painting. Sculpture: The first European sculpture was

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    or Medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. The medieval period is subdivided itself into Early, High and late Middle ages. In these periods miracle plays and mystery plays are developed. It focused on Bible song and Bible stories. They developed from 10th to 16th century rise of the professional theatre. During 15th and 16th centuries the plays were more famous in Europe. English renaissance was the period of 14th to 17th century. It acts as the bridge between the middle age and

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    What is strategy? Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets. A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a specific goal or series of goals within an organizational framework. Shipping A shipping service is a business of transporting commodities, merchandise goods and cargo aboard or transportation of goods through

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    properties may be deduced. In the past, mathematics was regarded as the science of quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry, or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the generalization of these two fields, as in algebra. Toward the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the science of relations, or as the science that draws necessary conclusions. This latter view encompasses mathematical or symbolic logic, the science of using symbols to provide an exact theory

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    History of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent * Outline of South Asian history * History of Indian subcontinent | Stone age (7000–3000 BC)[show] * Mehrgarh Culture (7000–3300 BC) | Bronze age (3000–1300 BC)[show] * Indus Valley Civilization (3300–1700 BC) *  – Early Harappan Culture (3300–2600 BC) *  – Mature Harappan Culture (2600–1900 BC) *  – Late Harappan Culture (1700–1300 BC) * Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (from 2000 BC) * Swat culture (1600–500 BC) |

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    Europeans of his day. The route was first established by the Chinese in search of horses and trade. It dates back to the second century BC. From that time, it became a regular journey for traders seeking to make a small fortune. In the following centuries, the route fell under control of different political groups, but was always well used until the 15th century AD when sea trade dominated. From early days, silk was exported from China to Italy where it became immensely popular. Grapes and

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    test soundings in order to determine the age of the accumulations at various points and to fix the approximate levels at the time of the last major reconstruction – in the middle of the sixteenth century A.D by Suleiman the Magnificent. The wall of the Old City of Jerusalem was rebuilt in the sixteenth century by the Ottoman Turkish ruler Suleiman the Magnificent. As such, Hamilton decided to determine the age of the accumulations of earlier construction sites by cleaning up the outside area of the

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