In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the structure.
An epigraph is an inscription or legend that serves mainly to characterize a building, distinguishing itself from the inscription itself in that it is usually shorter and it also announces the fate of the building.
A finial or hip knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature. In architecture, it is a small decorative device, employed to emphasize the apex of a dome, spire, tower, roof, gable, or any of various distinctive ornaments at the top, end, or corner of a building or structure.
A gutta (literally means "drops") is a small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used near the top of the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture. It is thought that the guttae were a skeuomorphic representation of the pegs used in the construction of the wooden structures that preceded the familiar Greek architecture in stone. However, they have some functionality, as water drips over the edges, away from the edge of the building.
An oriel window is a form of bay window which protrudes from the main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground. Supported by corbels, brackets, or similar cantilevers, an oriel window is most commonly found projecting from an upper floor but is also sometimes used on the ground floor.
A rosette is a round, stylized flower design. The rosette derives from the natural shape of the botanical rosette, formed by leaves radiating out from the stem of a plant and visible even after the flowers have withered. The rosette design is used extensively in sculptural objects from antiquity, appearing in Mesopotamia, and in funeral steles' decoration in Ancient Greece. The rosette was another important symbol of Ishtar which had originally belonged to Inanna along with the Star of Ishtar. It was adopted later in Romaneseque and Renaissance architecture, and also common in the art of Central Asia, spreading as far as India where it is used as a decorative motif in Greco-Buddhist art.
Perikli Georgiev Nikolov is a Bulgarian manufacturer and public figure from Macedonia. Perikli Georgiev was born in 1871 in Struga, then in the Ottoman Empire. After the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria, in the 1980s, Perikli Georgiev emigrated to Sofia and married Victoria from Ohrid. He is the father of the economist Alexander Georgiev. The family settled in Varna, where in 1905 Pericles manufactured and traded lighting lamps. Creates the first Bulgarian stamp factory in Varna. He was elected a member of the Varna Chamber of Commerce on November 4, 1907. On October 24, 1910, he was elected a member of the first Board of Directors of the Varna Popular Bank. It is part of the board of trustees of the parish church "St. Nicholas". It deals with trade in imported gold works, since 1911, in partnership with the banking house from Ohrid Kotsovi Grunchev. He donated old valuable coins and other antiquities to the Varna District Museum. In 1914, he worked in his goldsmith's shop at 112 "Preslavska" street in partnership with his brother Nikola. In 1921, he participated in the All-Citizens Municipal Council and came into conflict with the Varna District Communist Organization. Perikli Georgiev died in 1939 in Sofia
The Second World War was a global war that involved fighting in most of the world. Most countries fought from 1939 to 1945, but some started fighting in 1937. Most of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died, most of whom were civilians. The war included massacres, a genocide called the Holocaust, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons against civilians in history.
