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Stonehenge
is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of
Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone
around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide and weighing around 25
tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense
complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several
hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists
believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular
earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have
been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first
bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at
the site as early as 3000 BC.
One of
the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stonehenge is regarded as a
British cultural icon. It has been a legally protected Scheduled Ancient
Monument since 1882 when legislation to protect historic monuments was first
successfully introduced in Britain. The site and its surroundings were added to
UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown
and managed by English Heritage; the surrounding land is owned by the National
Trust.
Stonehenge
could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. Deposits
containing human bone date from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank
were first dug, and continued for at least another five hundred years.
The
Neolithic Britons who built the monument are genetically distinct from the
Modern British. There is evidence to suggest that over 90% of the Neolithic
British DNA was overturned by a population from the Lower Rhine characterized
by the Bell Beaker culture, who likely spoke an Indo-European language. It is
not known if warfare, disease or just continuous large scale immigration caused
their replacement.
The
Neolithic, (also known as the "New Stone Age"), the final division of
the Stone Age, began about 12,000 years ago when the first development of
farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of
the world. The division lasted until the transitional period of the
Chalcolithic from about 6,500 years ago (4500 BC), marked by the development of
metallurgy, leading up to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. In Northern Europe, the
Neolithic lasted until about 1700 BC, while in China it extended until 1200 BC.
Other parts of the world (including the New World) remained broadly in the
Neolithic stage of development, although this term may not be used, until
European contact.
The
Neolithic comprises a progression of behavioral and cultural characteristics
and changes, including the use of wild and domestic crops and of domesticated
animals.
The term
Neolithic derives from the Greek νέος néos, "new" and λίθος líthos,
"stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age". The term was
coined by Sir John Lubbock in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
What
Kind of Clothing Did Neolithic People Wear?
Neolithic
people wore handmade cloaks, shoes and head-dressings. During the Neolithic
transition, when a large portion of the population settled in sedentary farming
communities, advances in textiles, tooling and resources allowed for better
quality clothing to be made.
Furs and
non-cured hides were among the most popular materials used to make clothing
during the Neolithic Age. Furs required the least amount of processing, as they
were pinned together with bone fasteners, rather than stitched. They were also
the best material to provide protection to the body during harsh, cold winter
months.
With the
surplus production in agriculture following the transition to sedentary life,
cultivators began trading their harvest of flax, cotton, wool and goat hair for
specialized services like weaving, making textiles abundantly available. Each
household began to weave its own clothing. Some weavers with specialized skills
began to manufacture excess clothing for trade of grains, milk and meat.
Specialized weavers produced clothing with stitched patterns, dyed textiles and
scraped hides.
As the
Neolithic transition progressed, people began paying closer attention to their
appearance. In addition to better quality clothes, people began enhancing their
looks with jewelry and makeup. Women rubbed hematite on their cheeks and lips
to create a reddish glow. Seashells and string were used by both men and women
to create bracelets, headpieces and necklaces with which they could adorn their
cloaks.
I think
most of you have seen the movie Bohemian Rhapsody with Rami Malek as Freddie
Mercury. The film premiered in London on October 23, 2018, and became a major
box office success, grossing over $879 million worldwide on a production budget
of about $50 million. It became the sixth highest-grossing film of 2018
worldwide, and the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all-time.
Despite mixed reviews for the film itself, Malek's performance received
critical acclaim. He won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture
Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor
in a Leading Role, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the
Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film.
Freddie Mercury and Rami Malek
To
prepare for the role as Mercury, Malek moved to London where he employed a
dialect coach and movement coach and took piano and singing lessons. For four
hours each day, he studied videos of Mercury with his movement coach, Polly
Bennett. This included watching the 1985 Live Aid concert video on YouTube at
least 1,500 times to perfect his performance for the movie. He also had to get
used to singing and speaking with a set of false teeth that mimicked the
singer's overbite. Brian May, Queen's guitarist who often attended filming, is
quoted as saying that Malek's performance was so accurate that "we
sometimes forgot he was Rami".
Rami and his brother Sami
Rami
Said Malek was born in Los Angeles, on May 12, 1981, to Egyptian immigrant
parents, Said Malek and Nelly Abdel-Malek. He has said he is also "an
eighth Greek". His parents left Cairo in 1978 after his father, a tour
guide, became intrigued with Western visitors. They settled in Sherman Oaks,
Los Angeles, mostly staying in the San Fernando Valley and rarely venturing
into Hollywood. His father sold insurance; his mother is an accountant. Malek
was raised in his family's Coptic Orthodox Christian faith and grew up speaking
colloquial Egyptian Arabic at home until the age of four. Malek has an
identical twin brother named Sami who is younger by four minutes; he is an ESL
and English teacher. Malek's older sister, Yasmine, is an ER doctor.
Malek
studied at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California. Future actresses
Kirsten Dunst and Rachel Bilson also studied at the same school. Later, he
studied at University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana. He graduated in
2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Rami Malek
began his acting career playing guest roles in the TV series ‘Gilmore Girls’,
‘Over There’ and ‘Medium’. His important role was in the American sitcom ‘The
War at Home’ (2005–07). It ran for two seasons, earning mostly mixed reviews.
He made
his film debut in 2006 with a supporting role in the comedy fantasy film ‘Night
at the Museum’. He played the role of Pharaoh Ahkmenrah and reprised his role
in the movie’s sequel ‘Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’ in 2009.
Both the films were commercially successful.
He
reprised his role of Pharaoh Ahkmenrah in ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the
Tomb,’ the third installment of the ‘Night at the Museum’ film series, in 2014.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met",
is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,953,927 visitors to its
three locations in 2018, it was the third most visited art museum in the world.
Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among
seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of
Central Park along Museum Mile in Manhattan's Upper East Side is by area one of
the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The
Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive
collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March
18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue on the
Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.
History
The New
York State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of
Incorporation on April 13, 1870"for the purpose of establishing and
maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and
developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to
manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred
subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and
recreations". This legislation was supplemented later by the 1893 Act,
Chapter 476, which required that its collections "shall be kept open and
accessible to the public free of all charge throughout the year." The
founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and
thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education
to the American people.
The Great Hall
The
permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and
ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters,
and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains
extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The
museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes,
and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world.
Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern
American design, are installed in its galleries.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 for the purposes of opening a
museum to bring art and art education to the American people. It opened on
February 20, 1872, and was originally located at 681 Fifth Avenue.
Wim
Mertens (born 14 May 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor
vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist. Mertens'
style has continually evolved during the course of his prolific career,
starting from downright experimental and avant-garde, always gravitating around
minimalism, usually, however, preserving a melodic foundation to the forays
that he makes into the worlds that he is exploring. His compositional quality
has often overweighted the "labelling issue" and reached wider
audiences although stemming from a far-from-mainstream musical.
Maximizing The Audience is the first solo
release of Belgian multi-instrumentalist and composer Wim Mertens, after he
dropped the group name Soft Verdict. The album was composed for the play The
Power of Theatrical Madness by Jan Fabre and premiered in Venice on June 11,
1984
The
Neolithic, (also known as the "New Stone Age"), the final division of
the Stone Age, began about 12,000 years ago when the first development of
farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of
the world. The division lasted until the transitional period of the
Chalcolithic from about 6,500 years ago (4500 BC), marked by the development of
metallurgy, leading up to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. In Northern Europe, the
Neolithic lasted until about 1700 BC, while in China it extended until 1200 BC.
Other parts of the world (including the New World) remained broadly in the
Neolithic stage of development, although this term may not be used, until
European contact. 
With the
surplus production in agriculture following the transition to sedentary life,
cultivators began trading their harvest of flax, cotton, wool and goat hair for
specialized services like weaving, making textiles abundantly available. Each
household began to weave its own clothing. Some weavers with specialized skills
began to manufacture excess clothing for trade of grains, milk and meat.
Specialized weavers produced clothing with stitched patterns, dyed textiles and
scraped hides.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met",
is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,953,927 visitors to its
three locations in 2018, it was the third most visited art museum in the world.
Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among
seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of
Central Park along Museum Mile in Manhattan's Upper East Side is by area one of
the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The
Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive
collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March
18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue on the
Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.
History
