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Watch Free Documentaries Online | Documentary-Log.com. Knotology, the art of creating spheres from strips of paper. Projects The second project: A sphere of colored strips. Take 6 strips with a length of 12 times the with. In our example we will use 6 strips of 2cm x 24cm in the colors purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Because of the fact that these strips also need diagonal folds, you can make witches ladders at a different way.

We will make one witches ladder from one strip. Fold the strip in half. Take 5 strips, leave the 6th. First we are going to make the "northpole". You will get 5 pyramids, with triangular bases, who will meet in one point. The 6th strip we call the equator. CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective : Home. Macro Photography in Singapore. Online Diagram Software and Flowchart Software - Gliffy. Sightsmap.

Sanskrit alphabet, pronunciation and language. Sanskrit is the classical language of Indian and the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It is also one of the 22 official languages of India. The name Sanskrit means "refined", "consecrated" and "sanctified". It has always been regarded as the 'high' language and used mainly for religious and scientific discourse. Vedic Sanskrit, the pre-Classical form of the language and the liturgical language of the Vedic religion, is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family.

The oldest known text in Sanskrit, the Rigveda, a collection of over a thousand Hindu hymns, composed during the 2nd millenium BC. Today Sanskrit is used mainly in Hindu religious rituals as a ceremonial language for hymns and mantras. Efforts are also being made to revive Sanskrit as an everyday spoken language in the village of Mattur near Shimoga in Karnataka. Since the late 19th century, Sanskrit has been written mostly with the Devanāgarī alphabet. Sample text in Sanskrit. Read-Magazines - magazines online free.