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- 19591: Gothic Architecture
- ... Romanesque and Gothic styles of architecture were some of the few symbols of civilization in the poverty stricken and often depressing Middle Ages. These cathedrals represented faith, dedication, and cooperation; a sane place in a world of anarchy. Gothic and Romanesque styles of architecture were related in various ways, yet they also contrasted in style in some ways. Romanesque and Gothic architecture, although having many similarities, also have many differences. This ...
- 19592: Charlie Chaplin
- ... was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would become the most famous person in the world. A sign of this was when he was five years old and sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken for crazy. The audience apparently loved him and hurled their money ...
- 19593: Czar Nicholas II
- ... brushing his mustache up with the back of his hand. In time, this gesture would become his distinct signature. Because of his sheltered life under the fear of terrorists, Nicholas grew up secluded from the world. Unfortunately, this caused him to never had the self-confidence and self-reliance he would need later in his life as the last czar of Russia. Though seemingly weak, his first love was Russia and ...
- 19594: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... readings and, after his return to America, he obtained employment at the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. Dunbar married Alice Ruth Moore on March 8, 1898. She was a teacher and writer from New Orleans. They separated in 1902. Dunbar to suffer emotional depression and at the same time he developed tuberculosis. Dunbar returned to Washington and continued to write despite persistent health problems. In 1904 he returned to ...
- 19595: Greek And Roman Art
- The Greek Theater: "The arts of the western world have been largely dominated by the artistic standards established by the Greeks of the classical period" (Spreloosel 86). It is from the Greek word theatron, meaning a place for sitting, that we get our word ...
- 19596: Opium Wars
- ... event in European history, possibly, just possibly, overshadowed by the excesses of the Third Reich in the twentieth century. By the 1830's, the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth century in sheer size of criminality. Growing opium in India, the East India Company shipped tons of opium ...
- 19597: Once And Future King
- ... trial and error to complete tasks that should take only a small amount of thought. Wart saw this occur when an ant tried with difficulty to organize three cadavers in a small burial chamber. " The new ant put down the cadaver vaguely and began dragging the other two in various directions. It did not seem to know where to put them. Or rather, it knew that a certain arrangement had to ...
- 19598: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774). In 1770 he began designing and building Monticello, which would occupy him on and off for some 35 years. Here in 1772 he brought his new wife, Martha Wyles Skelton; together they had six children, only two of whom survived into maturity; she herself died in 1782. Jefferson was among those who called the First Continental Congress in 1774; as a ...
- 19599: Oliver Twist
- As one of the world s greatest writers, Charles Dickens has written some of the greatest classics such as: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist. In these works, Dickens often uses past experiences in his life ...
- 19600: Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Justice
- ... T. L. Simmons to urge her fellow constituents to withdraw opposition for the post but on the other hand not support him either. The main concern with Thomas was had he forgotten his roots? His new policy was to do away with Affirmative Action programs saying “if he supported these set aside programs he would be doing the same racial in-justice to whites as they had done to him as ...
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