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Clive Hart, Kites an Historical Survey
“However it originated, the kite rapidlyaquired religious, magical, and ceremonial significance in many of those parts of the world to which it spread. In at least some civilizations, including the …
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Author of the authoritative, Kites, An Historical Survey, Hart has written extensively on the pre-history of flight. He is a professor of literature at the University of Essex in Colchester, …
Read more2 Scholarly German Kite Volumes
Having flown kites in his boyhood, writer Walter Diem, of Hamburg, Germany, became involved with them again after studying David Pelham’s Kites and Clive Hart’s Kites: An Historical Survey when …
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Burma/Myanmar is mentioned in Clive Hart’s Kites, an Historical Survey as one of the places where kites first traveled along early trade routes. It is logical that kites would have …
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Read moreHeaven and the Flesh Imagery of desire from the renaissance to the rococo
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Read moreEssays on Kite Word Origin and Patents
To the best of present knowledge, the word “kite” stems from the Old English “cyta,” meaning a bird of prey of the hawk family and distinguished by long pointed wings …
Read moreJust How Old Is This Kite Cave Painting?
For several years now there has been talk in international kite circles of a primitive cave painting in Indonesia showing kite flying. The cave is on Muna Island, off the …
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