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- 6591: Michelangelo
- ... Instead of being obedient to classical Greek and Roman practices, Michelangelo used motifs—columns, pediments, and brackets—for a personal and expressive purpose. Michelangelo, a partisan of the republican faction, participated in the 1527-29 war against the Medici and supervised Florentine fortifications. The Medici Tombs While residing in Florence for this extended period, Michelangelo also undertook—between 1519 and 1534—the commission of the for the New Sacristy of San ...
- 6592: Frank Sinatra
- ... s. He then scored his first number one song a little more than a year later, I ll Never Smile Again . Sinatra s popularity began to rise through airtime as a radio singer during World War II. He soon left Dorsey s band for a solo career that lead him to several hits and great success in the 50s and 60s. Young At Heart, All the Way, Witchcraft, Strangers in the ...
- 6593: William Shakespeare
- ... Shakespeare's early plays, unlike his more mature work, are characterized to a degree by formal and rather obvious construction and by stylized verse. His earliest dramatic works are possibly four plays dramatizing the English civil strife of the 15th century. These plays, Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III (1590-1592) and Richard III (1593), deal with evil resulting from weak leadership and from national disunity. Shakespeare's comedies of ...
- 6594: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... 1847), and Mardi (1849) were romances of the South Sea islands. Redburn, His First Voyage (1849) was based on his own first trip to sea, and White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (1850) fictionalized his experiences in the navy. In 1850 Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he became an intimate friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he dedicated his masterpiece Moby-Dick; or ...
- 6595: Marquise de Pompadour
- ... exaggerated, though she did make major decisions at times. She urged the appointment of certain ministers, and was blamed for the alliance between France and Austria and France's disastrous involvement in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). She was also a generous supporter of the arts. She built a private theatre at Versailles where she often performed. Her greatest passion was for building and decorating houses, and in that capacity ...
- 6596: King of Babylonia: Hammurabi
- ... an effective bureaucratic system himself, his ideas were successful in establishing laws in Babylonia. Since Babylon was the world's first metropolis, the large population needed to be bound by a strict set of organized civil laws. The way Hammurabi constructed his laws is influential to the world today, because laws can be more easily understood by the people. Bibliography "Code of Hammurabi." Encyclopedia Britannica (1989), X, 682. "Hammurabi." Grolier Multimedia ...
- 6597: Francesco Petrarch
- ... the Venetians. This cause a great amount of distress for Petrarch. He wrote letters to both sides, the Doge of Venice and the Counsel of Genoa, urging them for peace. They were ignored and the war continued. Even though the Archbishop was unaware of how he felt towards him, he considered Petrarch a very honorable man. Petrarch was included in numerous missions set forth by the Archbishop. Petrarch was included in ...
- 6598: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... various schools in England. In 1914, Lewis began studying Latin, Greek, French, German and Italian under the private tuition of W. T. Kirkpatrick. He then moved to Oxford where his studies were interrupted by World War I (1917). Two years later he was back in Oxford resuming his studies. In 1924, Lewis was "elected" to teach Literature and Language at Magdalen College, Oxford and remained there till 1954. During this time ...
- 6599: Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia
- ... to the distantGanges River by a mutiny of the soldiers. Turning south he marched down to the mouth of the Indus River, were he engaged in some of the heaviest and bloodies fighting of the war. He was nearly killed while assaulting a town. On reaching the Indian Ocean he sent a Greek officer named Nearchus with a fleet to explore the coastal route to Mesopotamia. Part of the army returned ...
- 6600: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... 1867 and died on April 9, 1959. It was a standard of his passion and commitment to his field of work that he continued working right up to the time of his death. After studying civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to Chicago in 1887, where he went to work as an apprentice for Louis Sullivan. He began there to design and independently build private houses for some ...
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