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  2. The Treachery of Images - Wikipedia

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    Surrealism. Dimensions. 60.33 cm × 81.12 cm (23.75 in × 31.94 in) Location. Los Angeles County Museum of Art [1] The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des Images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe [2], Ceci n'est pas une pipe [2] and The Wind and the Song. [3]

  3. Hanoi Architectural University - Wikipedia

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    Hanoi Architectural University (other name: Hanoi University of Architecture, Vietnamese: Đại học Kiến trúc Hà Nội) is the flagship university in architecture, planning, and civil engineering education and research in Vietnam. It was established in 1969 under the administration of Vietnam Ministry of Architecture (now is Vietnam ...

  4. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory - Wikipedia

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    HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the Society for Ethnographic Theory. [1] The Society also publishes HAU Books, [2] a book series with over 42 titles and that is committed to open access anthropology . HAU took inspiration for its name from Marcel Mauss ' usage of the Māori concept ...

  5. To Live (novel) - Wikipedia

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    To Live. To Live ( simplified Chinese: 活着; traditional Chinese: 活著; pinyin: Huózhe) is a novel written by Chinese novelist Yu Hua in 1993. It describes the struggles endured by the son of a wealthy land-owner, Fugui, while historical events caused and extended by the Chinese Revolution are fundamentally altering the nature of Chinese ...

  6. How (greeting) - Wikipedia

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    How (greeting) The word " how " is a pop culture anglicization of the Lakota word háu, a Lakota language greeting by men to men. [1] The term how is often found in stereotypical and outdated depictions of Native Americans, made by non-Natives, in some Hollywood movies and various novels, e.g. those of James Fenimore Cooper or Karl May .

  7. Holy Angel University - Wikipedia

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    www .hau .edu .ph. Holy Angel University is a private Catholic research university in Angeles City, Philippines. Founded in June 1933 by Don Juan Nepomuceno and Fr. Pedro Paulo Santos, who was later named as the Archbishop of Cáceres, is considered the first lay -founded Catholic school as well as the first co-educational Catholic high school. [2]

  8. Hau (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    Hau (anthropology) Hau is a notion made popular by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss in his 1925 book The Gift. [1] Surveying the practice of gifting, he came to the conclusion that it involved belief in a force binding the receiver and giver. The term 'Hau', used by Māori, became a paradigmatic example for such a view. [2]

  9. The Last Day of Pompeii - Wikipedia

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    The Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 on the subject of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.It is notable for its positioning between Neoclassicism, the predominant style in Russia at the time, and Romanticism as increasingly practised in France.