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List Of ICON Science Fiction Conventions
ICON is the name of at least five science fiction conventions: * ICON (Iowa science fiction convention) is held in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area since 1975, usually in late October or early November, under the auspices of the Mindbridge Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation which also sponsors the Gamicon and AnimeIowa conventions. * I-CON is held in Stony Brook, New York, every spring, on the campus of Stony Brook University since 1981. I-CON (with a hyphen) is short for Island Convention – a reference to its location on Long Island. * ICon festival is the main Israeli annual science fiction, fantasy and role-playing convention (now officially a festival) – standing for Israeli Convention. It has been held in Tel Aviv annually since 1996 during Sukkot. * Icon was the name of the 2005 National Science Fiction Convention in New Zealand. * iCON is an annual science fiction, fantasy and role-playing convention in Turkey, Istanbul held by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ICon 2005 Sign
An icon () is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran churches. The most common subjects include Jesus, Mary, saints, and angels. Although especially associated with portrait-style images concentrating on one or two main figures, the term also covers most of the religious images in a variety of artistic media produced by Eastern Christianity, including narrative scenes, usually from the Bible or the lives of saints. Icons are most commonly painted on wood panels with egg tempera, but they may also be cast in metal or carved in stone or embroidered on cloth or done in mosaic or fresco work or printed on paper or metal, etc. Comparable images from Western Christianity may be classified as "icons", although "iconic" may also be used to describe the static style of a devotional image. In the Greek language, the term for icon painting uses the same word as for "writing", and Orthodox sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
