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- 5951: Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent into Metaphorical Hell
- ... to be born on May 29, but this is not certain. He was born in Florence, the son of Alighiero II, his family was one of lower nobility. His mother died when he was a child and his father when he was eighteen. According to him, the most profound event in his youth was when in 1274 he met Beatrice, whom scholars believe to be Beatrice Portinari, a noble woman. It ...
- 5952: Robert E. Lee
- ... was at her bed when she died. Then on June 30, 1831 Lee married Mary Curtis. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Curtis Lee. Then in 1835 they had their second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all ...
- 5953: The Black Death In Europe
- ... faced. Using vivid imagery, both create pictures of a time in which there was a feeling of desperation due to the fact that there was nothing separating one person from another. Any man, woman, or child had the same possibilities of dying the same horrible death. Both writers display this very well. Works Cited List 1. Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Ed. Louis Landa. London: Oxford University Press ...
- 5954: Life and Times in the Middle Ages
- ... the administration of Arthur's kingdom. Merlin was known to have no human father. According to different legends, Merlin's father was an incubus, an evil spirit that has intercourse with sleeping women. The evil child was supposed to provide a counterweight to the good influence of Jesus Christ on earth. Merlin was baptized early on in his life to get rid of all the evil in his nature. He still ...
- 5955: New Spain Essay
- ... and opportunities than that person would have had in his or her original culture." Everyone was far better off before the Spanish invaded Central America and tried to take control of the land. The senseless abuse of power exhibited by so many of the conquistadors not only limited the decisions of surrounding groups of people, it helped to set the Spanish up for failure.
- 5956: The Spanish Inquisition
- ... Only a handful of the cases dealt by the Inquisitorial Courts were actually dealing with religion. By this time the state was dealing with real criminals through the Inquisitors. The papacy became angry at this abuse, but did not have the power to stop it at the time. The Inquisition gradually came to an end in the mid 1800’s, as Spain completed its task of “purifying the nation”. By this ...
- 5957: The Hundred Years' War
- ... of French sovereignty. He became the French regent and upon Charles VI's death, the King of England would succeed to a dual monarchy. However, when Charles VI died, the King of England was a child. 17 Henry VI was too young and inexperienced to supervise a kingdom and lead an army. As a result, authority did not rest in any one person, but in all of the lords together. This ...
- 5958: The Spanish-American War: What It Meant For Cuba And America
- ... their stories up a bit and even fabricating, for the most part, a story in order to gain more readers. The papers began printing colored comics as well, one being named "The Yellow Kid" a child who always wore a yellow gown. Soon people were calling the World, the Journal, and other papers like them "the yellow press." "They color the funnies," some readers chimed, "but they color the news as ...
- 5959: The Renaissance Period
- ... Again Raphael depicted four Historical events that illustrated salvation by divine intervention with his unparalleled gift For painting Christian paintings. Throughout Raphael’s artistic career, he went back to painting’s portraying the Madonna and child many times. The Madonna’s of this time were usually shown sitting on a throne, but Raphael painted her in the middle of a field which I believe added a realism without shattering her queenly ...
- 5960: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... War II ended in 1945. Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the town of Gori, Georgia, which at the time was part of the vast Russian Empire. He was the third and only surviving child of a cobbler and a housecleaner. In 1888 Stalin began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilisi Theological Seminary in the ...
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