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What Would You Find in the Heart of an Amphibian

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What would you find in the heart of an amphibian?

Understand the impact of wars between Native American tribes and their consequences on the power dynamics in the Northeast.
Identify reasons for the early problems and failures of British colonies in North America.
Comprehend the motivations behind the founding and settlement of Jamestown and other colonies.
Recognize the economic challenges and reasons for the failure of joint-stock companies in colonial ventures.

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Metopes

The square spaces, often decorated with relief sculpture, between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze.

Doric

One of the two systems (or orders) invented in ancient Greece for articulating the three units of the elevation of a classical building—the platform, the colonnade, and the superstructure (entablature). The Doric order is characterized by, among other features, capitals with funnel-shaped echinuses, columns without bases, and a frieze of triglyphs and metopes. See also Ionic.

Twisting Torso

A skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, characterized by its unique twisting, sculptural form inspired by the human body in motion.

Archaic

The artistic style of 600–480 BC in Greece, characterized in part by the use of the composite view for painted and relief figures and of Egyptian stances for statues.

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