Landscape Elegance: Garden Water fountains

Since garden water fountains are no longer hooked on a nearby pond, it is possible to install them close to a wall. Nowadays, you can do away with excavations, complicated installations and cleaning the pond. There is no plumbing necessary with this kind of self-contained water feature. Consistently adding water is the only necessity. Empty the wat

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Archaic Greek Artistry: Outdoor Statuary

Up right up until the Archaic Greeks introduced the first freestanding statuary, a remarkable success, carvings had mostly been accomplished in walls and pillars as reliefs. Most of these freestanding sculptures were what is known as kouros figures, statues of young, attractive male or female (kore) Greeks. The kouroi, viewed by the Greeks to symbo

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Basics of Hydrostatics

Liquid in a state of equilibrium applies pressure on the objects it touches, including its container. There exist two types of force, hydrostatic energies and external forces. When applied against a level surface, the liquid exerts equal force against all points of that surface. An object that’s extensively submerged in a fluid tha

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The Early, Unappreciated Water-Moving System

In 1588, Agrippa’s water-lifting innovation captivated the notice and approval of Andrea Bacci but that turned out to be one of the last mentions of the mechanism. Merely years afterward, in 1592, the earliest modern Roman aqueduct, the Acqua Felice, was hooked up to the Medici’s villa, possibly making the device o

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