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Lower Pecos River Region — Amistad National Recreation Area, Texas
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More than 300 pictograph sites have been documented in the caves, overhangs, and rocks in the Lower Pecos River Region.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
The temporal framing for the exhibition, 1780s to 1920s, comes from the pictograph in which each year is marked by a picture or a glyph that marks an important event that happened in that year.
—Carin Schoppmeyer, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
Winter counts follow the tradition of creating a pictograph, a record in which a single image or glyph each represent important historical events within a certain community
This is a Northern Plains creation and catalogs more than 130 years, spanning 1785 to 1922.
—April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 12 Sep. 2024
They are woven into the California tribe’s stories and appear in ancient pictographs painted by ancestors on the walls of a rock shelter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
The temporal framing for the exhibition, 1780s to 1920s, comes from the pictograph in which each year is marked by a picture or a glyph that marks an important event that happened in that year.
—Carin Schoppmeyer, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
Winter counts follow the tradition of creating a pictograph, a record in which a single image or glyph each represent important historical events within a certain community
This is a Northern Plains creation and catalogs more than 130 years, spanning 1785 to 1922.
—April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 12 Sep. 2024
They are woven into the California tribe’s stories and appear in ancient pictographs painted by ancestors on the walls of a rock shelter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictograph
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While police work to identify those responsible, the town faces the challenge of restoring a cherished symbol of holiday cheer.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
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With a ton of different options to choose from, this charm bracelet can be customized with engraved charms tailored to initials, dates, symbols, and more.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
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Mega Millions 02-24-25-52-58, Mega Ball: 09, Megaplier: 2 Check Mega Millions payouts and previous drawings here.Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
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Triple Twist 04-06-26-27-28-30 Check Triple Twist payouts and previous drawings here.Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Here are some more advantageous attributes shared by many Sagittarius children.Holly Garcia, Parents, 22 Nov. 2024
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Other studies suggest peer support fosters belonging, community, social connectedness, resilience, belief in oneself, hope, and empowerment—all of which can contribute to overall well-being, even if those attributes are harder to measure than clinical symptoms.Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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America’s most popular airline routes (by Melvin Backman) SURPRISING DISCOVERIES Fifty years ago this weekend, scientists radioed a distant cluster of stars a pictogram using binary code.Melvin Backman, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024
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The Indus Valley people carved about 400 symbols into stone seals—some animal pictograms, others abstract shapes.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
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The royal’s look included black jogger pants, a white T-shirt with a red logo and a matching red windbreaker with white emblems for the charity embossed on the breast and sleeve.Julia Teti, WWD, 18 Nov. 2024
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Imagine your charming Lowcountry cottage captured in a single, elegant emblem.Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
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Unlike those painters, however, Mathieson had to create his images on location with an army of collaborators and the challenge of crafting beautiful images when Scott’s preference is to shoot with as many cameras as possible — something Mathieson says makes lighting exponentially more difficult.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 23 Nov. 2024
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Untitled shows a half-length image of a distressed-looking figure seemingly wearing a laurel wreath, a symbol of triumph in classical iconography.Brian Boucher for ArtNews, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
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He’s dressed in all black today — aside from the silver Prada logo over his left breast.Selome Hailu, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
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The royal’s look included black jogger pants, a white T-shirt with a red logo and a matching red windbreaker with white emblems for the charity embossed on the breast and sleeve.Julia Teti, WWD, 18 Nov. 2024
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After being picked up earlier this year at a barn sale in the Hamptons for just $50 dollars by an eagle-eyed art dealer, a painting later revealed to be a rare artwork by Emily Carr has sold at auction in Toronto for $250,000 ($349,000 CAD), the CBC reports.The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 22 Nov. 2024
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According to Bacardi, 71% of bartenders have been using culinary arts as inspiration when deciding what new drink to concoct.Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Pictograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pictograph. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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