Masks are used to disguise, confuse, protect, characterize, and give status. They are simple to elaborate and made from all range of materials from common items to precious jewels.

They appear worldwide on young and old faces.

Masks are used in all aspects of arts related susch as:

1. Drama
2. Film
3. Dance or
4. As an Exhibit of Art

I am particularly interested in Venetian style masks as I visited a lot of stores and conversed with the vendor and artists during my trip to Venice.

The Venician Mask

Another Venician Mask

Masks are worn for many reasons

• Religious and social significance concerned with funeral customs, fertility rites or curing sickness.
• Ritual masks generally depict gods, mythological beings, good and evil spirits, spirits of ancestors and the dead, and animal spirits.
• The wearer is protected against these powers or may be able to petition more effectively.
• If a person puts on a mask representing an animal or evil spirits he can become that being he is imitating.

I am also interested on the different Asian Masks like the following:

Karura, bugaku mask, lacquer and painted wood

African-Asian Herbs

The Sri Lanka Asian Mask

Blue Mask of China

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Finally it is what one believed! Because since July 7, 2007, our world has 7 new wonders. To be sure to receive me 7 out of 7 read the continuation! “And the wonders are…” With event symbolic system, date symbolic system.

It is on last 7 July (07/07/07) which were revealed the 7 new wonders of the world. The operation, initiated by the scenario writer and adventurous Bernard Weber, aimed at “bringing up to date” the list of the 7 wonders of the Antiquity whose near total disappeared today (only the Pyramids of Gizeh/Giza still exist).

Pyramids of Gizeh/Giza

The result of the votes of the Net surfers of the whole world was thus revealed on July 7 in Lisbon. And gaining them are… the Great Wall of China, the statue of Christ redeemer in Brazil, the city troglodyte of Petra in Jordan, the mausoleum of Taj Mahal in Agra in
India, Coliseum of Rome, the ruins incas of Machu Picchu in Peru and the old Maya city of Chichen Itza in Mexico.

The Great Wall of China

The statue of Christ redeemer in Brazil

The city troglodyte of Petra in Jordan

Taj Mahal in Agra in India

The Coliseum of Rome

The ruins incas of Machu Picchu in Peru

The old Maya city of Chichen Itza in Mexico

Votes, Show or Trickery?Before even the imposing ceremony of proclamation of the results (with actors, singers, footballers…) the contest had made speak about him. By UNESCO first of all, which disunited event. The organization in load of the 851 sites classified with in the world inheritance of humanity stated to have a “other vision” of the protection of the inheritance, deploring the “very media” character of the operation of Mr. Weber.

In Egypt then, where certain newspapers speak about “conspiracy towards the country and its civilization”, affirming that “the pyramids of Gizeh remain actually the only wonder of the world”.

And finally in the rest of the world, where several voices rose to denounce a vote which holds more of chauvinism than of the direct democracy.

Appointment 08/08/08 Forts of their world success (more than 100 million voters), the organizers do not intend to stop there. Indeed, in spite of many negative reactions, a new election comes to be launched: 7 wonders of nature.

The nominated ones of this new contest will have to be natural sites or monuments in which the man intervened in no point. The list contains already some great names: the Large Canyon, the Lake Baïkal, Kilimandjaro, the Large Barrier of Coral… A your mice thus to vote for your preferred or to propose yours.

Result of the votes: August 8, 2008. This new competition for A-grade officials thus a year to make speak about him and attract participating and detractors. Choose your camp! “the true” club of the Seven the list of the 7 wonders of the world is referred in the book of the author alexandrine Philon de Byzance entitled “In connection with the Seven wonders of the world”.

One also allots this list to Antipater de Sidon, Hérodote, Diodore of Sicily, and Strabon.

The final list, called canonical list, describing the seven wonders of the world was adopted after the reign of Alexandre the Large one (IVe S avt JC) according to fourteen lists coming different authors.

The selected monuments were to meet standards of beauty, size and technical prowess. This list refers to the seven following wonders:

The Pyramid of Kheops, Hanging gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus, the Temple of Artemis, the Mausoleum of Halicarnasse, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Headlight of Alexandria

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