The AEX index, derived from Amsterdam Exchange index, is a stock market index composed of Dutch companies that trade on Euronext Amsterdam, formerly known as the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.Started in 1983, the index is composed of a maximum of 25 of the most frequently traded securities on the exchange. It is one of the main national indices of the stock exchange …

The Renaissance of the 12th century was a period of many changes at the outset of the High Middle Ages.It included social, political and economic transformations, and an intellectual revitalization of Western Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots. These changes paved the way for later achievements such as the literary and artistic movement of the Italian …

Renaissance Tower is a 886 ft (270 m), 56-story modernist skyscraper at 1201 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, in the U.S. state of Texas.The tower is the second-tallest in the city, the fifth-tallest in Texas, and the 47th-tallest in the United States. [citation needed] Renaissance Tower was designed by the architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, completed in 1974, …

Cultural movements. Dinosaur renaissance, renewed academic and popular interest in dinosaurs from the late 1960s; Neo-Renaissance, a group of 19th century architectural revival styles; Nuclear renaissance, a possible nuclear power industry revival; In Africa. African Renaissance, the concept that African people and nations shall achieve cultural, scientific, and economic …

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud (born 1949), a former librarian in the London Borough of Croydon. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording …

Le Monument de la Renaissance africaine est un groupe monumental de 52 mètres en bronze et cuivre [1] à Ouakam, une commune d'arrondissement de Dakar, sur l'une des deux collines volcaniques coniques qui surplombent la capitale sénégalaise, les Mamelles, la plus haute portant déjà le phare des Mamelles.

High Renaissance style in architecture conventionally begins with Donato Bramante, whose Tempietto at S. Pietro in Montorio at Rome was begun in 1510. The Tempietto, signifies a full-scale revival of ancient Roman commemorative architecture.David Watkin writes that the Tempietto, like Raphael's works in the Vatican (1509–11), "is an attempt at reconciling Christian …

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") was a list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia), and Catholics were forbidden to read them.. There were attempts to ban heretical books before the sixteenth century, notably in the ninth-century Decretum Glasianum; …

American Renaissance (AR or AmRen) is a white supremacist website and former monthly magazine publication founded and edited by Jared Taylor. It is published by the New Century Foundation, which describes itself as a "race-realist, white advocacy organization". History. The magazine and ...

Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes. Under the broad designation Renaissance architecture nineteenth-century architects and critics went beyond …