Many peoples made dugout canoes, by carving out a single piece of wood; either a whole trunk, or a slab of trunk from particularly large trees.. Constructed between 8200 and 7600 BC, and found in the Netherlands, the Pesse canoe may be the oldest known canoe. Excavations in Denmark reveal the use of dugouts and paddles during the Ertebølle period, (c. 5300–3950 BC).

Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London.Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff.. The hospital is closely associated with King's College London and, in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and …

Dame Katherine Jane Grainger DBE (born 12 November 1975) is a British former rower and current Chair of UK Sport.She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion. She served as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University between 2015 and 2020, and is currently Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.

A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated 4x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing.It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each hand.. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly semi-circular in cross-section in order to reduce drag.

Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat.Rowing is divided into two disciplines: sculling and sweep rowing.In sculling, each rower holds two oars—one in each hand, while in sweep rowing each …

Olaf Karl Tufte (born 27 April 1976 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian representative rower, firefighter and farmer.He is a seven time Olympian, and as a single sculler he was twice the Olympic champion and twice the world champion. He's been consistently selected in the Norwegian men's senior national rowing squad since 1996 including his selection as a 2021 Tokyo Olympian …

Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the stern.A long, narrow boat with sliding seats, rigged with two oars per rower may be referred to as a scull, its oars may be referred to as sculls and a person rowing it referred to as sculler.. Sculling is distinguished from sweep rowing, whereby each boat crew ...

The Marilyn Diptych is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe.. The monumental work is one of the artist's most noted of the movie star. The painting consists of 50 images. Each image of the actress is taken from the single publicity photograph from the film Niagara (1953). The underlying publicity photograph that Warhol used …

Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion.Rowing are functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically attached with the boat, and the rower drives the oar like a lever, exerting forces in the same direction of the boat's travel; while paddles are …

Tolkien's artwork was a key element of his creativity from the time when he began to write fiction. The philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien prepared illustrations for his Middle-earth fantasy books, facsimile artefacts, more or less "picturesque" maps, calligraphy, and sketches and paintings from life.Some of his artworks combined several of these elements to support his fiction.