Domes

The softest jolt stirred Tristaric from troubled dreams into unpleasant heat and humidity. Clamminess under his arms disgusted him and he touched the plates of his staff changing the environment within the cabin. It was two days since leaving the capital and the four magii should have propelled his carriage halfway across the Empire to his destination by now. Snapping his fingers and pointing to the window, one of the six servants pulled back the curtain. Searing sunlight poured in. Recoiling, a…

is a friendly greeting, while Miigwech (pronounced mee-gwetch) means “Thank you.” The Chippewa pursued a nomadic life. They live in dome-shaped houses of 15-20 ft. These houses are called wigwams. These were built by women and given a small hole in the roof to allow smoke to escape, just like tepees. They were made of saplings and sticks lashed together to make a dome, then the saplings and poles were covered in birch bark left over from the tree. Their best craftsmanship was the birch bark…

On June 15, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo erupted. Volcanologists successfully predicted the eruption and issued a warning ahead of time, which allowed minimal casualties. The stakes for failing to predict an eruption accurately are high. If one fails to predict an eruption and it happens then lives and property can be lost; however, if one does predict and eruption and it does not happen then one’s personal reputation can be damaged or destroyed. In the case of Mt. Pinatubo, the U.S. volcanologists…

intimate, more pick and choose relationship to its gods. In Athens, Pericles and Phidias made very sure that their names were associated with their great triumph. But the Emperor Hadrian and his architect preferred not to claim credit for the largest dome in the world - their inscription just puts it down as a restoration of an earlier structure, no big deal. Personally, I find this tendency to massive understatement to be one of the more appealing, sympathetic features of Roman…

surrounded by lagoons and sandy beaches, is a 5-star resort hotel consisting of over 400 guest rooms and various public spaces. Michael Graves used abstract and historical elements such as domes, vaults, balcony palisades and wooden lattice-work in many different functions around the hotel. Variations of dome shapes include the hemisphere, a bell-shape and the doughnut-shape with opening covered by a projecting cylinder above (Figure 2.6). In addition, the hotel has a spectacular and imposing…

the sky and the sky itself. In Genesis 1:6-8 Moses describes God’s creations on the second day by saying, “And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.” The second day is just as important as the first day, and just as…

were semi-permanent shelters with very long strips of cedar bark covering a normal stick structure. Some different tribes called the cedar bark teepee the “kecha kachumat” or “pointed house”. The grass mat house was a dome shaped house usually made of willow poles bent into a dome frame thatched with grass mats made from the stems of tule (Southern Bulrush). The winter pit house is made of a wooden frame completely covered with earth. They slept on mats or rugs made of deer, elk, or bear coats.…

forests to dissipate. About one million to two hundred and fifty thousand years ago one and possibly more glacial advances filled up Yosemite Valley all the way to the very top. During this time, it was projected that Half Dome was about nine hundred feet above the ice, Half Dome was one of the very few peaks that was not engulfed by the ice. Most of the streams that flowed into the Merced River were then changed to cascades that were high above the valley. Thirty thousand years ago during the…

architecture, and poetry. Suleyman idolized the Hagia Sophia and dreamed of building a unique mosque just like it. Based off of the Hagia Sophia, Suleyman hired Sina, a great architect, to build “The Mosque of Suleyman”. The mosque was a complex of domes and half domes, including schools, libraries, a bath, and a hospital. It was completed in 1588 and was used to pray to Allah, the mosque represented Suleiman's legacy. Suleyman greatly improved the civilization for the Ottomans by completing…

into Spanish. When Muslims accelerated into the Byzantine world they began to become inspired from their art work and their art began to become more abstract. In the 690’s if you look at the picture of the Dome of the Rock, you can see the Byzantine architectural influence, by looking at the Dome like structure. These events and experience between all three regions throughout the Mediterranean Sea region are a perfect…