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Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:01:57 +0000

The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors are green, orange and purple.

Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:01:33 +0000

The world’s largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors would have to walk 15 miles to see the 322 galleries which house nearly 3 million works of art.

Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:01:10 +0000

The painting, “American Gothic” depicts the sister and the dentist of artist Grant Wood as rural farm folk.

Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:00:50 +0000

The only one of his sculptures that Michelangelo signed was the “The Pieta,” completed in 1500.

Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:00:30 +0000

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hung Matisse’s ‘Le Bateau’ upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error.

Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:00:07 +0000

The Mona Lisa, by daVinci, is 2′6″ by 1′9″.

Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:59:48 +0000

At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.

Arts Trivia

toofaani — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:59:18 +0000

Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women’s feet.

English Alphabets And Numbers !

toofaani — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:08:33 +0000

Do you know?

First 4 alphabets ( ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’) which are quite commonly used; do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 ! (Letter ‘d’ comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 ! (Letter ‘a’ comes for the first time in thousand)

Letters ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 ! (Letter ‘b’ comes for the first time in Billion)

And Letter ‘c’ does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting

Shared By : Ashok Chauhan

What Planet Has The Most Tilted Axis Of Rotation ?

toofaani — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:23:10 +0000

In our solar system, the planet whose axis is most tilted to its orbit is Uranus, a distant, blue-green gas giant. Its extreme tilt of 97.86 degrees means that each pole of the planet faces the Sun directly for about one quarter of its 84-year orbit.

No one knows how Uranus got tipped so far out of alignment with the rest of the solar system. One theory is that an encounter with another large planet twisted its spin billions of years ago. That other planet was, perhaps, flung out of the system in the encounter.

Because of its extreme tilt, Uranus also has the most extreme seasons. It is now early spring in the northern hemisphere, and gigantic storms have just been seen for the first time in the planet’s thick atmosphere. As big as continents on Earth, these huge storms are the first of a number of weather changes that will occur as Uranus enters its next long, slow season.