Less than two centuries ago, new nations could still be staked out on terra incognita.
It was paved with red terra-cotta tile, and there were a few potted pine trees planted around.
Creation of the terra cotta army required hundreds of conscripted artisans, who mass-produced the soldiers' bodies but gave every face a fine-tuned individuality.
These terra cotta figures, standing in rows in full battle array, constitute an epitome of the military prowess of Qin under the First Emperor and are an indication of its overall national strength.
After the spacecraft landed on terra firma, Shuttleworth and his two partners will be first given a physical exam before boarding a helicopter to fly to Astana in Kazakhstan where they will be transferred to the Russian capital Moscow on the same day.
The former is based on hand-made terra-cotta and coarse terra-cotta clay that has painted and Jomon features, known as the painted pottery culture;
Today I'm writing to you all from Xi An... home of the famous terra cotta soldiers!
Display dishes rather than using silver or mirrors, porcelain, terra-cotta, earthenware, copper or glass receptacles are to be considered.
Many garden centers sell decorative terra cotta POTS for planting in, but they lose water faster than other types of containers.
"Large scale excavation in Lintong county revealed a terra-cotta army buried more than 2,000 years ago near the tomb of Qinshihuang(259-210 B. C.), China' s first emperor. The army became known as the Eighth Wonder of the World."
The name of terra-cotta is originated from Italy which means "burned soil".
Tomorrow I look forward to seeing the terra-cotta warriors, the old city walls, the Muslim quarter.
In addition to stone and terra cotta cats, the newfound Bastet temple housed this bust of Harpocrates, the Greek god of silence.
美國航空航天局terra衞星上的先進星載熱發*和反*輻*儀在2010年5月2日拍攝到這張罕薩河堰塞湖的假**圖像。
Three-colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty and the terra cotta figures.
Again and again, rising up in the near distance, came fantastic, if dusty, terra-cotta-colored medieval hamlets and equally ancient churches and farmhouses.
"The pottery army dates from a period at the end of China's Bronze age when the iron and steel weapons would soon replace bronze ones, so most finds in the Qin terra-cotta army were bronze: bronze spears and swords, and so on."
The terra incognita, usually populated with monsters, mermaids and camels, inspired generations of explorers to set out for adventure.
" The two terra cotta figures are females with exaggerated abdomens and buttocks. They are strikingly similar to prehistoric"earth mother"figures found in Europe and other parts of the world, and they probably played a part in ancient fertility rites."
Quarry tiles (used for flooring) and terra-cotta, made of natural clays, are less hard and more porous But very popular for economic and aesthetic reasons.
The terra preta soils of Brazil are still being farmed, centuries after the biochar was added.
Berlin has potential, power and something of the terra incognita.
After we arrived at the Xi 'an Airport, we traveled to see the terra cotta Warriors, an underground army of thousands of life-sized soldiers made from terra cotta clay.
It is another amazing finding in the Qin archeological excavation after the terra cotta warriors and horses, and the finding has a great academic value, said Guo Weimin, deputy director of the Institute of Archeology of Hunan Province.
因此terra能提供道正在尋找了解的洞察，以讓所有出錯的一切能被矯正。
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