Heros Of The Sixties Counter C
.... they set up a “free” store on Haight street, held a funeral for the “death of money”, and engaged in daily street theater. Though their activist style contrasted sharply with the more laid back hippie lifestyle, they were respected for their passionate dedication to what they believed was the greater good, and their ability to get things done. Many of their members were talented artists, poets, and street actors, among them Peter Coyote.
Allen Ginsberg-Allen Ginsberg was a charter member of the 1 .....
|
|
Tombs And Temples
.... was originally encased in smooth white limestone
which must have caught the sun light and reflected its rays. It has the distinction
of being the site of the first large stone structure built in the world. The
place where humans began to strive for the impossible, where the imagination
gained the power to transform reality.
Some of the loveliest works of art
ever seen can be found at Saqqara, in the tombs of the nobles. The limestone
walls are delicately incised with myriads of animals, fish, bir .....
|
|
ARAB-ISRAELI WARS
.... Jaffa, and Jerusalem. British
military forces withdrew to Haifa; although officially neutral, some
commanders assisted one side or the other.
After the British had departed and the state of Israel had been
established on May 15, 1948, under the premiership of David BEN-GURION, the
Palestine Arab forces and foreign volunteers were joined by regular armies
of Transjordan (now the kingdom of JORDAN), IRAQ, LEBANON, and SYRIA, with
token support from SAUDI ARABIA. Efforts by the UN to halt the .....
|
|
China
.... obtain cast iron from iron ore. This was 1200 years before the first blast
furnace showed up in Europe. The reasons that the author gave to explain the reasons
why the Chinese developed this technology are simple. The Chinese had access to large
amounts of clay, the key ingredient in making blast furnaces. The Chinese also figured out
that by adding a substance they called :Black Earth,” they could lower the melting point of
iron.
Another major invention of the Chinese, that led to othe .....
|
|
The Roots Of Communist China
.... have
been necessary to cope with the superior science, technology, economic organization, and
military force that expanding West brought to bear on it. The general sense of national
weakness and humiliation was rendered still keener by a unique phenomenon, the
modernization of Japan and its rise to great power status. Japan's success threw China's
failure into sharp remission.
The Japanese performance contributed to the discrediting and collapse of China's
imperial system, but it did lit .....
|
|
Caesar And Naopoleon
.... Gaul, which included
modern France, Belgium, and portions of
Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the
Rhine. For the next eight years,
Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman
legions and tribes
in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar
was a Roman
general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition
from
republic to empire (Duggan 84).
Caesar's principles were to keep his forces
united; to be vulnerable at no point, to
strike s .....
|
|
Charles Et Secondat, Baron De
.... values
were. Even though the technique used in this witty book was previously
used by other writers, Montesquieu did a great job making fun of the
European values. At that time he already believed in the immorality of
European practices such as religious prosecution. The book gave roots
for Montesquieu's later arguments and ideas.
When in 1728 Montesquieu, with the help of his Parisian connections he
got elected to the French Academy, he was happy to sell his office of
president a mortier. I .....
|
|
History Of Popular Culture
.... of
November (St. Martin) and culminated in a big festival of 'Dranck,
pleijsier ende vrouwen' (Drink, fun and women) at the end of the Carnival
period, preceding the period of Lent.
Festivals were meant to take the minds of the people off their everyday
life , off the hard times and their work. Everyday life in Early Modern
Europe was filled with rituals, both religious and secular. Songs and
stories played an important role in their lives, although they sometimes
adjusted the details of the .....
|
|
Galileo Galilei
.... advantage of the celebrated leaning tower, he laid the
foundation experimentally of the theory of falling bodies and demonstrated the falsity of
the peripatetic maxim, which is that an objects rate of descent is proportional to its weight.
When he challenged this it made all of the followers of Aristotle extremely angry, they
would not except the fact that their leader could have been wrong. Galileo, in result of
this and other troubles, found it prudent to quit Pisa and move to Florence, the origin .....
|
|
Henry VIII
.... (Arthur's)
widow, Catherine of Aragon. Many wifes would follow after her.
During most of his early reign, Henry relied on Thomas Cardinal
Wosley to do much of the political and religious activities. Henry soon got
tired of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, so he decides that he doesn't
want to be married to her anymore, so he tells Thomas Wosley to talk to the
pope so he can divorce Catherine. But, Cardinal Wosley wasn't able to
convince the pope, so in 1529 Henry to .....
|
|
The Rise And Fall Of Hitler Re
.... earlier. The money would be enough for tuition and board at the art school in Vienna. The Vienna School of Fine Arts had strict entrance requirements. After taking the
preliminary examination, the applicant was asked to submit drawings. Biblical drawings were most preferred. Hitler’s drawings were returned saying they were "too wooden and too lifeless." He was rejected. He tried three months later and did not get past the preliminary exam. His artist career was over. His mother died two months .....
|
|
Hieroglyphic Writing
.... kings and queens were surrounded by an outline which archeologists call a “cartouches”. The ancient Egyptians either engraved the hieroglyphs in the stonework of their temples or painted them on the walls of the burial chamber or inscribed them with a reed pen on rolls of papyrus, the antecedent of our paper.
.....
|
|
Louis XIV, The Sun King
.... claimed supreme authority in France.
Not since Henry IV had such a claim been made. Louis saw himself as God's representative
on earth, therefore, infallible. He oversaw roadbuilding, court decorum, defense,
and disputes within the church.
He had the support initially
of his ministers, then that of the French people. He had given France the image
it desired -- youth and vitality surrounded by magnificence. Louis won the
favor of the nobles by making it evident that their future .....
|
|
The Use Of Propaganda In The N
.... party deemed it necessary to monopolize the communications, media,
and entertainment industries, Germany already had a strong anti-Semitic background.
European
anti-Semitism is an outgrowth of Christianity. Since the time of the Roman
Empire, Christian leaders preached boundlessly against Jews. It escalated
from generation to generation, for as long a the Jews rejected Jesus as their
Messiah, the Jews "challenged" the whole belief system of Christianity. The
idea that it was the Jews that kille .....
|
|
Marco Polo
.... fear
everywhere by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods
brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up
trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols
discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people
than to kill them
outright, and this policy too stimulated trade(Hull 23).
Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders ventured,
including the family of Marco Polo. The Polos had long-establi .....
|
|
|
|
