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Valley Relics Museum. / 34.21222°N 118.50083°W / 34.21222; -118.50083. Valley Relics Museum is a museum located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The LA Weekly named the Valley Relics Museum one of its 2017 winners of "Best Of L.A.: Arts & Entertainment". [1] Founded in 2013 by Tommy Gelinas, Valley Relics Museum's collection ...
Over 1,400 Indus Valley civilisation sites have been discovered, [2] of which 925 sites are in India and 475 in Pakistan. [3] Only 40 sites on the Indus valley had been discovered in the pre- Partition era [4] by archaeologists . The most widely known Indus Valley sites are Mohenjo-daro and Harappa; Mohenjo-Daro is located in modern-day Sindh ...
Relics are an important aspect of some forms of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, shamanism, and many other religions. Relic derives from the Latin reliquiae, meaning "remains", and a form of the Latin verb relinquere, to "leave behind, or abandon". A reliquary is a shrine that houses one or more religious relics.
Tail o’ the Pup is an iconic Los Angeles, California hot dog stand actually shaped like a hot dog. Built in 1946, the small, walk-up stand has been noted as a prime example of "programmatic" or "mimetic" [1] novelty architecture. It was one of the last surviving mid-20th century buildings that were built in the shapes of the products they sold.
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The Indus Valley civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. [5] [note 1] Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilizations of the Near East and South Asia, and of the three, the most ...
The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses ( / wɔːlˈdɛnsiːz, wɒl -/ ), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation. Originally known as the Poor of Lyon in the late twelfth century, [1] [2] [3] the movement spread to the Cottian Alps ...
Attu. / 52.90250°N 172.90944°E / 52.90250; 172.90944. Attu ( Aleut: Atan, [1] Russian: Атту) is an island in the Near Islands (part of the Aleutian Islands chain). It is the westernmost point of the U.S. state of Alaska. The island became uninhabited in 2010, making it the largest uninhabited island that is part of the United ...