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Attitude (art), the posture or gesture given to a figure by a painter or sculptor Attitude (ballet position), in which the dancer stands on one leg with the other leg raised and turned out
Silat Melayu (Jawi: سيلت ملايو ), also known as Seni Persilatan Melayu [1] ('art of Malay Silat') or simply Silat, is a combative art of self-defence from the Malay world, that employs langkah ('steps') and jurus ('movements') to ward off or to strike assaults, either with or without weapons.
Alchemy (from the Arabic word al-kīmīā, الكیمیاء) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. [1]
Sikap (also known as Mimbar-politik sikap) was an Indonesian newspaper published in Jakarta in the 1950s during the Sukarno era. Sikap was published by the Education and Propaganda Section of the Socialist Party of Indonesia. L. M. Sitorus was the editor of the newspaper. [1]
A fourth-generation Californian of English descent and an only child, Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III was born on January 22, 1934, in San Francisco, California. [4] His father, Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby II, was a store clerk. His mother, Jane (née McFarland) Bixby, was a senior manager at I. Magnin & Co.
The height of horses is measured at the highest point of the withers, where the neck meets the back. [23] This point is used because it is a stable point of the anatomy, unlike the head or neck, which move up and down in relation to the body of the horse.
The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies published by Edwin Hubble in 1926. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is often colloquially known as the ...
The word falāfil (Arabic: فلافل) is Arabic and is the plural of filfil 'pepper', [3] borrowed from Persian felfel (فلفل), [4] cognate with the Sanskrit word pippalī (पिप्पली) 'long pepper'; or an earlier *filfal, from Aramaic pilpāl 'small round thing, peppercorn', derived from palpēl 'to be round, roll'.