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A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"), [1] is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, Taiwan, Russia, and Europe. His last world tour covered the United States in 2004, and he returned to Europe in 2005 and to Australia in 2006. He was one of the world's most renowned mime artists. [14]
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World Mime Day (French: Journée Mondiale du Mime) is a worldwide initiative of the World Mime Organisation to celebrate the Art of Mime and non-verbal communication on March 22, [1] the birth date of French mime artist Marcel Marceau. World Mime Day has been celebrated since 2011 in multiple countries, spanning four continents.
Western Europe was forced to discover new trading routes, as happened with Columbus' travel to the Americas in 1492, and Vasco da Gama's circumnavigation of India and Africa in 1498. The numerous wars did not prevent European states from exploring and conquering wide portions of the world, from Africa to Asia and the newly discovered Americas.
Euratlas is a Switzerland-based software company dedicated to elaborate digital history maps of Europe. [1] Founded in 2001, Euratlas has created a collection of history maps of Europe from year 1 AD to year 2000 AD that present the evolution of every country from the Roman Empire [2] to present times.
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.