See Also: Foreign Ministers, Council of(encyclopedia)
Lascaux Grotto(encyclopedia)
Lascaux(dictionary)
grotto(dictionary)
grotto(dictionary)
Grotto on State(tourism)
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple(tourism)
Chua Huong - Huong Tich Grotto(tourism)
council of war(dictionary)
council tax(dictionary)

Foreign Ministers, Council of (sh) and Lascaux Grotto (sh)


Foreign Ministers, Council of (sh)




Organization of the foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet Union
the World War II Allied Powers.

In meetings between 1945 and 1972, they attempted to reach postwar political agreements. They produced treaties of peace with Italy, Hungary, Romania, Finland, and Bulgaria and resolved the Trieste problem in 1946. They convened the Geneva Conference on the Korean War in 1954, and in 1955 agreed on an Austrian treaty. They recessed after failing to agree on German unification in 1959; in 1972 they paved the way for both East and West Germany to enter the UN.


Lascaux Grotto (sh)




Cave near Montignac, Fr.

, that contains perhaps the most outstanding known display of prehistoric Art. Discovered in 1940, it consists of a main cavern and several steep galleries, all magnificently decorated with engraved, drawn, and painted animals, some of them portrayed in a "twisted perspective." Among the most notable images are four great aurochs bulls, a curious unicorn-type animal that may represent a mythical creature, and a rare narrative composition involving a bird-man figure and a speared bison. About 1,500 bone engravings have also been found at the site, which has been dated to the late Aurignacian period (งใ 15,000 BC). Because of heavy tourist traffic, the cave was closed to the public in 1963, but a full-scale facsimile, Lascaux II, was opened in 1983. See also rock Art.