Level 2BC/3A Spring 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The longest bridge in China
Hangzhou Bay Bridge (simplified Chinese: 杭州湾大桥) is a long highway bridge with a cable-stayed portion across Hangzhou Bay in the eastern coastal region of China.
It connects the municipalities of Jiaxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang province. At 117028 ft. (22 mi) in length, Hangzhou Bay Bridge is the longest trans-oceanic bridge in the world, but it does not have the longest cable-stayed main span.
The bridge is built in 43 months, from Nov, 2003 to Jun, 2007. It costs about 2.8 billion dollars.
Contributors: Qian, Linxuan
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
THE ART OF EBRU
Some thirty years after the first Turkish tulip bulbs, carefully wrapped in gauze, were taken to Europe, the Europeans similarly became acquainted with the art of paper marbling, or 'Ebru' in Turkish. In those years, a German traveler by the name of Reinhold Lubenau, who happened to be in the Ottoman capital Istanbul from 1586 to 1589, saw and admired several examples of such work on sale in a shop. Dubbing it 'Turkish paper', he sent some back to the House of Hapsburg. Since it consists of designs made on paper, 'Turkish Paper', or the art of Ebru, has also been called 'Marbled Paper' or the 'Turkish art of paper marbling'.
Although it is not known with certainty when the art of creating designs on water originated, it does date back as far as the 8th-9th centuries. The Turks took up the art of marbling in Turkestan in the 15th century and brought it with them across Iran to Anatolia via the Silk Road. The word 'ebre' in the Chaghatay language of Turkestan means 'veined or water-marked'. In Persian, the word 'abru' means 'water surface', while 'ebri' has the meaning 'cloudy'. In the dictionary of the Turkish Linguistic Society, the word 'ebru' is defined as “a sort of water paper on which decorators produce designs in a variety of colors.”
The materials used in ebru include the basin that contains the water, the substances used as thickening agents (gum tragacanth, carrageen, sahlep root), ox bile, the dyes, which are oil-based and not water soluble, the brushes, and the needles of varying degrees of thickness
Tajikistan
Saudi Aribia food recipi
, put the onion , garlic and stir those until become yellow, then add the chicken with all the spices and stir again with flipping the chicken on both sides. After ten minutes put the tomatoes (or the tomato sauce) and add 6 cups water.