Four Largest Art Museums in the World
Art museums all over the world offer space to display a wide range of art, from sculptures to paintings. This article takes a look at the largest art museums by area.
The Louvre
The Louvre, located in Paris, is the largest art museum in the world. It is considered a historic monument. This building first served as a castile before becoming a royal (皇家的) residence. Under King Louis XIV, it was used to house two art schools. The Louvre Museum was opened with 537 paintings. Today, it is home to around 38, 0000 pieces.
State Hermitage Museum
The Sate Hermitage Museum located in St. Petersburg, Russia, is the second largest art museum in the world. It has a total area of 719, 480 square feet. This museum, one of the oldest in the world, is home to a collection of over 3 million pieces.
National Museum of China
The third largest museum is the National Museum of China. Located beside Tiananmen Square in Beijing, it covers an area of 700,000 square feet. Its chief aim is to educate the public and promote the history and arts of China. The National Museum of China house about 1.05 million pieces in its collection.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The fourth largest museum in the world is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which covers an area of 633, 100 square feet. Today, this museum is in .a building that is 20 times larger than the original and located on the border of Central Park. It is home to more than 2 million pieces. Additionally, it is known for its large collection of musical instruments.
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17-year-old Tibetan girl Cigla is a freshman at Nagqu No.2 Senior High School in Lhasa, which sits 3,650 meters above sea level. She now plays point guard for the school's 12-member female basketball team.
"Practice makes perfect. You get used to the altitude when you love the sport and train hard enough," said the potential basketball star, who has been crazy about the sport since taking it up three years ago.
With outstanding speed and accurate passes, she never fails to shine on the basketball court, even when she competes against the boys. Though she is a freshman in high school, Cigla already has a clear picture of her future—entering a sports college to study basketball. In the eyes of Cigla, who comes from a poor herder's (牧民的) family in northern Tibet, studying in Lhasa, the most developed city in this area, has made it much easier for her to realize her basketball dream.
With an average altitude of over 4,500 meters, Nagqu is among the most uninhabitable places in Tibet. Low-oxygen environments and extreme weather have long influenced the health of Nagqu students, hampering the development of primary education in the area.
Like Cigla, many students at the school are from poor farmers' and herders' families. Dawa Droma, a senior student also on the school's female basketball team, recalled, "I had never touched a basketball before that game but joined the class team anyway. When I scored and heard my classmates cheer for me, I couldn't feel more proud. That's how I fell in love with basketball and never looked back". Reflecting on the influence of basketball on her life, Dawa Droma said the sport had helped her get fit and build up confidence over the years. "Meeting players from different schools has certainly made me a more outgoing person." she said.
There are 195 countries in the world today but almost none of them have purple on their national flags. So what's wrong with purple? It's such a popular color today. The answer is really quite simple. Purple was just far too expensive.
The color purple has been related to royal power and wealth for centuries. Queen Elizabeth I didn't allow anyone except close members of the royal family to wear it. Purple's unique position comes from the rarity and high cost of the dye (染料) used to produce it. The dye was from a small sea snail (海螺) that was only found in the Tyre area of the Mediterranean. Over 10,000 snails were needed to create just one gram of Tyrian purple; not to mention lots of work went into producing the dye, which made purple dye so expensive even for some royal families. Third century Roman Emperor Aurelio wouldn't allow his wife to buy scarves made from purple silk because it cost three times its weight in gold. A single pound of dye cost three pounds of gold, which equals 56,000 dollars today. Therefore, even the richest countries couldn't spend that much having purple on their flags.
In 1856, 18-year-old English chemist William Henry Perkin accidentally created a man-made purple dye while attempting to produce an anti-malaria drug. He noticed that it could be used to dye cloth. He patented (获得专利) the dye and mass-produced it. Therefore, everybody could afford it.
Till now, a handful of new national flags have been designed and a few of them have chosen to use purple.
What if a city bench (长凳) could provide a place not just to sit but also to breathe a little easier? That is the idea behind CityTree, a 14-foot-high energy-efficient bench covered with moss (苔藓).
CityTree is the invention of Peter Sanger, 29, a gardening expert and the CEO of Green City Solutions. The company seeks to answer a challenging question: How can we bring nature into the city and use its positive effects on the atmosphere at scale?
The idea struck Sanger when he learned about the cleaning effects of various plants, particularly moss, as a university student. "That's what got me excited—finding that the solution to air pollution lies in nature, he says. "After all, nature has millions of years of experience in making air pure (纯净)."
From the outside, the CityTree looks like a bench with a tower covered in moss. But inside is a fully automated system that provides enough water for moss to grow. The built-in IOT(物联网) technology monitors its performance and conditions, as well as providing environmental data from the surrounding area.
According to Green City Solutions, the CityTree improves the air quality around it by up to 53% and can cool the surrounding air by 4℃. The unit can provide a pleasant period of breathable air in places where people tend to stay." Think of a bus stop on a busy street, a street cafe, even an inner-city schoolyard." he says.
However, the CityTree is just the beginning. Its next generation is a slimmer model that contains a digital screen on one side and a moss wall on the other.
Floods can strike quickly and with little waning in many parts of the world. Surviving a flood is a matter of preparation and correct action as soon as the disaster begins. .
●Make a flood survival plan.
. Pick several meeting spots in case you need to leave home, such as a friend's home in a safe town or a shelter in your area. Make sure everyone in the family know where these locations are and how to get there. Make sure the shelters and the routes to them are through high ground.
●Escape flood waters.
You may have only a short time to escape. Act quickly, using your planned route. Head to the chosen shelters during flood warnings. When emergency services tell you to leave, follow their advice. Move to higher ground away from water. Whether you are on foot or have to give up your car, higher ground is your best option. If you're stuck at home, head for the roof if you can do so safely.
Avoid crossing through water. Water up to your ankles (脚踝) is enough to be dangerous. When you're not sure of the water depth, don't risk it. . Use it to measure the water's depth and feel for stable (稳固的) ground.
●Follow news and warnings.
Flooding information can be found on your local news or weather station's TV channel or website. . Also, listen to local radio stations for regular updates.
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Roads and other paths may have been destroyed. Stay off bridges. The soil under usual routes will be soft and less able to support the weight of vehicles. Find other routes over high ground or wait for the authorities to indicate which roads are safe.
A. Watch out for damaged areas
B. Protect your home during a flood
C. If you have to go through water, bring a stick
D. Sit down with your family to establish a plan of action
E. If your car gets stuck in water, open or break the windows
F. Here are some tips to help you and your family survive a flood
G. You should receive weather information to monitor changes in the weather
A dog in Virginia jumped into action on Thursday morning to warn a family of danger. Charity Golloway and her two children were able to make it out of their house without 1 and call the local fire department, thanks to Butter, a homeless dog that had 2 a few months before.
Charity had made an outdoor 3 with an electric lamp for the dog, 4 the dog was homeless. The lamp Charity was using to keep Butter warm obviously caught fire, and the doghouse was close to Charity's home. 5, Butter ran to Charity's bedroom window and started barking 6.
"He knew something wasn't right and that someone needed to know it. He is a(n) 7 dog." Charity said. His barking 8, waking up Charity in time for her to hear the sound of the window breaking because of the 9. "The fire just got big really fast." Charity said. "It's actually hard to believe how fast it happened."
The family ran out of the house and were able to 10 the fire before the arrival of the firefighters. Owing to Butter's quick 11, no one was hurt.
When the firefighters arrived, Butter was there to 12 them. "It was a really nice dog." said firefighter Justin Stidham. "It came up and played with all of us. I was sitting there petting it. It was just as nice as it could be."
A 13 of Justin with Butter went viral (走红). That's when Charity learned Butter was not actually Butter. The dog's original owners 14. Butter as Cooper, who had run away from home. Charity said she would give Cooper a steak for his good deed and take him back to his owners. She now believes that animals return the love people show them, especially so during a(n) 15.
Nowadays, we have already reached a time social media are increasingly popular. With billions of users every day, Tik Tok (become) the most popular social media for teenagers since 2016, as it makes it easier for them to share daily life with others. While it comes with many (benefit) like self-expression, the development of talents, it also has some problems like trolls, cyberbully and mental health issues. More and more teenagers are addicted it so that parents are concerned about its effects on teens' safety and health.
(lucky), Douyin, the Chinese version of Tik Tok, is introducing a "teenager mode" to limit the time that children under age of 14 spend online to 40 minutes a day. It's suggested that all Douyin users under 14 register for the app by using (they) real names. Besides, Douyin will not be (access) to teenagers between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. to technically prevent them from staying on it for too long.
Actually, (promote) teenagers' right usage of Douyin will also push other video-sharing apps (take) similar measures.
A pleasant surprise
For a long time, I had been looking for a piano of my own to practise on. There was a piano shop on the street along which I walked every day to school. Whenever I passed the shop, I would stop, looking at the beautiful piano standing in the comer of the shop window. How I had been dreaming, day and night to possess a piano like that!
Unfortunately, my father was just a clerk. Times were tough during the Depression, and there were five mouths to feed, besides buying coal and wood for the stove. In order to save money, even on cold winter days, my father would walk the seven miles every day to get to work. No he could never afford to buy me an expensive piano. Though he knew I wanted to play that piano so much buying it was an extravagance (奢侈品) well beyond our family's income.
One day after school, I went as usual to the shop window to look at the piano. However, to my surprise and disappointment, the piano had gone. I should not have been surprised as others had the right to buy it, if they could afford to. Tears filled my eyes when I thought of not being able to sec that piano any more.
Disappointed, helpless and sad, I wandered aimlessly up and down the street. After about an hour. I returned home. I had just entered into our house, when I heard my mother calling me. I brushed away my tears and followed the sound of her voice into the dining-room.
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I could not believe my eyes.
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As soon as my father appeared, I hugged him tightly.
