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- 4151: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
- ... full of jealousy and sorely smitten with love. When the dance came to an end, Ichabod was attracted to some sager folks, who, along with old Van Tassel, were gossiping over former times about the war. All of these tales could not compare to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that had succeeded the conversation. The neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow is rich in legendary treasures of the kind. Several of the ... Headless Horseman. He say s It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever an anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. The ghost rides forth to the seen of the ...
- 4152: Bram Stoker
- ... in the theater and his involvement with the rising action Henry Irving, whose performance he had critiqued as a student at Trinity. After graduation from college, and in his father's footsteps, he became a civil servant, holding the position of junior clerk in the Dublin Castle. His literary career began as early as 1871 and in that year he took up a post as the unpaid drama critic for the ... mixed with romance, nightmares and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again, this time in the role of Hamlet, 10 years after Stoker's Trinity days. Stoker, still very much the critic (and still holding his civil service position), gave Irving's performance a favorable review. Impressed with Stoker's review, Irving invited Stoker back stage and the resultant friendship lasted until Irving's death in 1905. The Stoker/Irving partnership solidified ...
- 4153: Marco Polo
- ... From Sudak, around 1260, another uncle, Maffeo, and Marco's father, Niccolω, made a trading visit into Mongol territory, the land of the Golden Horde(Russia), ruled by Berke Khan. While they were there, a war broke out between Berke and the Cowan of Levant, blocking their return home. Thus Niccolω and Maffeo traveled deeper into mongol territory, moving southeast to Bukhara, which was ruled by a third Cowan. While waiting ... court of Kublai Khan(Stefoff 13). They were accompanied not by one hundred wise men but by two Dominican friars, and the two good friars turned back at the first sign of adversity, another local war in the Levant. Aside from the pope's messages, the only spiritual gift Europe was able to furnish the great Kublai Khan was oil from the lamp burning at Jesus Christ's supposed tomb in ...
- 4154: The Ice Storm
- ... sexually curious Wendy Hood in a neighbor s empty swimming pool. Surrounding them all is the sour stench of a disgraced President Nixon on his last political legs and a nation withdrawing from an unpopular war in Vietnam. As they wont for nothing material, their detachment from the daily struggles of life fuels their growing separation from each other and themselves. They are forever going to talk about it in the ... maybe the fish does rot from the head down. Many lessons were learned in 1973, and some, like Mike Carver and the soldiers in Vietnam, lost their lives learning them. During the Depression and World War II, women s work became much more than tasks performed at home. The go where you want to go, do what you want to do mantra of the 60s showed women who felt there was ...
- 4155: The Golden Age Of Greece
- ... is represented as the god of justice and mercy, the protector of the weak, and the punisher of the wicked. As husband to his sister Hera, he is the father of Ares, the god of war; Hebe, the goddess of youth; Hephaestus, the god of fire; and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. At the same time, Zeus is described as falling in love with one woman after another and resorting to ... common to the details of sculpture of this period. The Blinding of Polyphemus. Polyphemus, a Cyclops, the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and of the nymph Thoφsa. During his wanderings after the Trojan War, the Greek hero Odysseus and his men were cast ashore on Polyphemus's island home, Sicily. The enormous giant penned the Greeks in his cave and began to devour them. Odysseus then gave Polyphemus some ...
- 4156: Teenage Parenthood
- ... also banned for general use, but can be prescribed by doctors. It is illegal to buy, sell, grow, or possess marijuana in the United States. Marijuana prohibition comprises a large part of the federal governments War on Drugs. Law enforcement officials made 600,000 marijuana-related arrests in 1996, and 800,000 in 1998-four out of five arrests being for possession alone. Under federal and state laws, many of which ... choreographed by these lawyers. They often call in NORML s national advisors-Lester Grinspoon, MD and Thomas Ungerleider, MD-for the hearings. For many years these two psychiatrists have been major activists in the marijuana war. Dr. Grinspoon declares that marijuana is a wonderful medicine and finds it useful for almost everyday malady. Users who have major medical problems are featured witnesses at hearings. These patients declare that they would be ...
- 4157: The Great Gatsby 14
- ... a photograph of a half a dozen men in blazers loafing in an archway through which were visible a host of spires. (71) And then again he reached into his pocket and pulled out his war momento, To my astonishment the thing had an authentic look. (71) showing that he was obviously trying to impress t Nick and prove himself correct so that he could fit in and look like a ... though he almost achieves this it fails for him in the end. This act of having things his way is serious because he was so determined about getting Daisy back like it was before the war that he almost succeeded in stealing her away from her husband since he convinced her into saying that she no longer loved Tom. An example that shows how powerful Gatsby is and what he thinks ...
- 4158: The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
- ... would allow the cavalry to be released in open country and sweep all before them to the coast. Haig, who had been trained as a cavalryman firmly believed that cavalry had a place in modern war; he was a very stubborn unimaginative man who completely disregarded the effects of barbed wire, machine guns, shells and fire from aircraft on the very vulnerable horses. An attack in Flanders would also hold down ... and were unable to escape the filthy, foul-smelling glutinous mud, sinking deeper to their deaths as they struggled. For 76 years, the name of Passchendaele has been synonymous with all that is loathsome in war, it certainly represents the futility and stupidity of warfare. Siegfried Sassoon wrote: "...I died in Hell (they called it Passchendaele) my wound was slight and I was hobbling back; and then a shell burst slick ...
- 4159: Auschwitz
- ... not because of all the rumors being spread that the Jews were being gassed there, but because Auschwitz was a factory complex which was producing some goods that was an imporatant part to the Nazi war effort. " The allies were particularly interested in the nearby camp called Auschwitz III where there was a factory for the production of synthetic rubber". (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) During the years of the war, rubber was scarce and the Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz ...
- 4160: The Reformation
- ... from spreading or maybe even stop them period. Many strives were taken to bring back power within the Roman Catholic Churches. These battles between the Protestants and the Roman Catholics eventually caused the Thirty Years War. The Thirty Years' War was a conflict that involved most Western European countries, and in the end, left Germany devastated (Http://www.calvin). In the end, the reformation had a very big influence on the people then, the people ...
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