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1753 In Architecture
The year 1753 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings * Horse Guards (building), Horse Guards in London, designed by William Kent and John Vardy, is completed. * Independence Hall, State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton (lawyer), Andrew Hamilton, is completed. * New Branicki Palace, Warsaw, designed by Johann Sigmund Deybel, is completed. * First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival 'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed. * Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, designed by Jacob Fortling for himself, is completed. * Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed. * Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened. * Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in Schwetzingen Palace, Baden-Württemberg, designed by Nicolas de Pigage, is opened. * Confidencen theatre in Ulriksdal Palace, Sweden, with interio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse Guards 2004
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, ''Eohippus'', into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies ''caballus'' are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior. Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
