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Garden Of Eden Kubla Khan
1,336 wordsKubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the most enigmatic and ambiguous pieces of literature ever written. Allegedly written after a laudanum (an opiate) induced dream, the author claims to have been planning a two hundred to three hundred line poem before he got interrupted by a man from Pollock, after which he had forgotten nearly all of his dream. This may have been merely an excuse, and the poem was scorned at the time for having no poetic value, one critic even going so far as to...
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The Dome Of Rock Jerusalem Israel
909 wordsThe Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel The Dome of the Rock (also known as Qubbat as-Sarah) is a sacred shrine built in the seventh century (688 to 691 AD) by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik. The exterior of The Dome of the Rock is octagonal. It has seven windows and one door on each side. The interior is circle-shaped. The mosque is made of marble and decorated with mosaics, painted stucco, tile, and gilded wood. It is believed that people, who built the Dome of the Rock, arrived from differen...
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