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- 2331: Octavio Ocampo
- ... The national Palace, and in the private collections of the last three presidents. In Europe, the late Florence Gould had a landscape of the New York skyline from her apartment, at her house at Cap D’Antibes. HM, the king of Spain, is also an admirer of Ocampo’s work. Octavio is admired for his ingenuity and uniqueness from other modern artists. He is known mainly throughout the North American art ... years after the Aztec capital of Tenochitlan fell to Hernán Cortés and his Conquistadors, the first Roman Catholic missionaries arrived to begin the religious conquest of Mexico. Near the place where Mexico City would one day stand, there was a small village. Now it came to pass that the Bishop of the village wanted to build a cathedral in honor of the Virgin Mary. But neither the Bishop nor the other ... America and lived in poverty and were treated little better than slaves. One man among them was named Juan Diego, his passion in life was to serve God to the best of his abilities. One day while working in the fields, he met a beautiful lady who seemed to have a warmth and radiance about her. When he came closer, she spoke to him and said “Tell the Bishop that ...
- 2332: Compaq Computers
- ... three-person "office of the president" is running the organization. Board Chairman Benjamin Rosen and board members Frank Doyle and Ted Enloe are heading this office. The three are currently overseeing the computer maker's day-to-day operations in an "office of the chief executive". A concern for the company is the need to execute better along with the need to improve the speed of decision-making in order to stay ahead ... Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa Andreas Barth directs all of the company's business activities across Western and Eastern Europe, middle east and Africa. Senior Vice President Information Management and Chief Information Officer Michael D. Capellas oversees Compaq's worldwide information systems operations. Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Environment Hans Gutsch is responsible for the company's worldwide human resource functions and environmental policies. . Senior Vice President and ...
- 2333: Romeo And Juliet - Time And Fate
- ... a genuine coincidence that Romeo and Juliet were at the same place, at the same time. Some days after the ball, Benvolio and Mercutio are conversing, in regard to the quarrelsome weather. Benvolio declares, "The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,/ And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl,/ For now these got days is the mad blood stirring." (III, i, l 2-4) At this point, Tybalt, who ... losses of Tybalt and Mercutio, the Prince must penalize Romeo. However, the Prince agrees that Romeo was acting in self defense. Juliet, who desires not to wed Paris, asks for Friar Laurence's assistance. The day before the wedding, Juliet is to drink the poison, which will make her appear to be dead. In forty two hours she shall awake, with Romeo by her side. Romeo will then bring her to ... Friar Laurence that he was seeking another Franciscan, who was visiting the sick, to accompany him to Mantua. He says, "Suspecting that we both were in a house/ Where the infectious pestilence did reingn,/ Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;/" (V, ii, l 9-11) Friar John tells that he could find no one to deliver the letter, for fear they may catch the infection. ...
- 2334: Shakespeare
- ... a genuine coincidence that Romeo and Juliet were at the same place, at the same time. Some days after the ball, Benvolio and Mercutio are conversing, in regard to the quarrelsome weather. Benvolio declares, "The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,/ And if we meet we shall not ‘scape a brawl,/ For now these got days is the mad blood stirring." (III, i, l 2-4) At this point, Tybalt, who ... losses of Tybalt and Mercutio, the Prince must penalize Romeo. However, the Prince agrees that Romeo was acting in self defense. Juliet, who desires not to wed Paris, asks for Friar Laurence’s assistance. The day before the wedding, Juliet is to drink the poison, which will make her appear to be dead. In forty two hours she shall awake, with Romeo by her side. Romeo will then bring her to ... Friar Laurence that he was seeking another Franciscan, who was visiting the sick, to accompany him to Mantua. He says, "Suspecting that we both were in a house/ Where the infectious pestilence did reingn,/ Seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth;/" (V, ii, l 9-11) Friar John tells that he could find no one to deliver the letter, for fear they may catch the infection. ...
- 2335: Abortions
- ... into the uterus. The tube is connected to a suction machine that empties the contents of the uterus, this procedure takes about five minutes. In the second trimester, a similar procedure called dilation and evacuation (D&E) is the most common method. The reason a different procedure is because the fetus is larger and the cervix must dilate. The process of dilation can take several hours or even overnight. Once the ... die from this procedure so why even put yourself though this instead use your head before you loose your life. When performing a late term/partial-birth abortion a technique called the Dilation and Extraction (D&X) is used. This involves two days of dilation of the cervix. Then an ultrasound probe is used to find the lower extremities of the unborn baby. Large grasping forceps are worked through the mother ... the mother's fault and the baby has no chance. Abortions should be illegal no one except rape or incest patients should have them. After finding out that nearly 4,400 legal abortion occur each day in the United States, this is a very high number of babies that never make it into the world they are just killed. Reference Brooklyn Woman Dies from Legal Abortion, Police Engage in Cover ...
- 2336: Shakespeare And Kingship
- ... Hal, in King Henry IV, as people who were not, or at least did not act like the direct descendants of God. In Macbeth, he commits treason and murder, the two worst crimes of the day, and neither Duncan nor Macbeth were saved by God, who, according to the theory of the divine right of kings, should have saved Duncan and then Macbeth. When they were killed, they were both king ... of man, for none of woman born | Shall harm Macbeth" . However, Macbeth has been tricked by the witches because MacDuff is able to kill him because he was "From his mother's womb | Untimely ripp'd" Because of the witches' prophecies, Macbeth thought that he was assured the power of king, knowing that the only way he could be brought down was when "Great Birnam wood [comes to] to high Dunsinane ... King Henry IV, about a year later. Much of the things that the kings in the plays do may not be an altogether true representation of what they, or even the kings of Shakespeare's day were like. Most of what Shakespeare comments on is his personal opinion - it is he that thinks the kings mistreated and disregarded the common people and he that did not believe in the divine ...
- 2337: Hamlet (william Shakespeare).
- ... haps, my joys were ne'er begun" (IV.iii.67-9). In the scene in his mother's bedroom, Hamlet tells Gertrude that his insanity is assumed: "[I]t is not madness / I have utter'd: bring me to the test, / And I the matter will reword, which madness / Would gambol from" (III.iv.143-6), but even without his confirmation, the queen has seen through his act. While Hamlet is ... rational. In one such speech, Hamlet criticizes himself for not having yet taken action to avenge his father's murder: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I / . . . the son of the dear murder'd, / Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, / Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words" (II. ii. 545, 581-3). Hamlet calls himself a "dull and muddy-mettled rascal" (II.ii.563), a ... test the rejected love theory by "loosing" Ophelia to him, Hamlet acts completely rationally. He greets Ophelia sweetly, gets a little cold when he remembers that he has not seen her "for this many a day," is very hurt when she returns his remembrances, and becomes completely furious, insulting womankind in general, when she lies to him about her father's whereabouts and he realizes he is being spied on. ...
- 2338: JFK And The Warren Commission
- ... accused of having shot Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas school Depository building . Even though Oswald refused to co-operate and denied all knowledge of the assassination, he was formerly charged the next day, on the 23 November. However, he never stood trial as just two days later Oswald himself was shot dead by Jack Ruby, a Dallas night club owner, as he was being taken from police headquarters ... carried a long package in a paper bag from his house that morning. As well as this, one of Oswalds own work colleagues, Buell Wesley Frazier, who had given him a lift to work that day, claimed that he too had seen Oswald carry a large paper bag to the depository on the morning of the assassination. Both witnesses stated that the package Oswald had been carrying was 22-23 inches ... dismiss them and this reinforced their investigation even further. However the events that took place afterwards, played an important part in Oswalds conviction. This incident was another murder, this time of a policeman, Officer J D Tipppit, who was shot through the head at point-blank range. A witness, Mrs Helen Markham, stated that Tippit had stopped to question a man who produced a gun and shot Tippit before running ...
- 2339: Christopher Columbus Voyage
- ... The Purpose of our expedition is to discover a faster route to the East Indies than what current path there is. I plan on the Voyage to take approximately two weeks give or take a day. Recommended way to finance us by Ferdinand and Isabella by making the city of Palos pays back a debt to the crown then by providing two of the ships, and by getting Italian financial backing for part of the expenses. Then the crown would have to pay very little. 2. Food: A) 500 Gallons Water B) 10 Gallons Vinegar C) 60 Bottles Wine D) 30 Gallons Olive Oil E) 5 Gallons Molasses F) 50 pounds Cheese G) 1 Gallon Honey H) 20 pounds Raisins I) 100 pounds Rice J) 5 Jars Garlic K) 10 Jars Almonds L) 10 Dozen ... main masts with four masts, including a small counter-mizzen at the stern with another lateen sail with the ship length at 15 meters, keel length 12 meters, beam 5 meters, and depth 2 meters. D) Basic Essensials • Knife A person • Wooden Bowl A person • Map 3 to a ship • 20 guns to a ship • 3 cooking pans a ship • 1000 feet of rope • 50 Basic ship repair Kits • 50 ...
- 2340: JFK
- ... his congressional district therefore he began his campaign two years before the election, meeting with hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts. "Kennedy defeated Lodge by 70,000"1 votes despite the fact that Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Presidential candidate, carried the state by just over 200,000 votes. As a candidate for the Senate, Kennedy promised the voters that he would do more for Massachusetts than Lodge had ever ... quarantine zone, while Khrushchev and Kennedy discussed the issue through diplomatic channels. Khrushchev, realizing his weak military position, sent one of two messages to Kennedy in which he agreed to remove the missiles. The following day, before the United States could respond to the first note a second was sent by Khrushchev to try and negotiate terms. Kennedy responded to the first message and an agreement was met for the Soviet ... on a horse-drawn carriage from the White House to the Rotunda of the Capitol. Hundreds of thousands of people filed past the coffin of the slain president. A state funeral was held the next day where "representatives of 92 nations attended."7 It has been estimated that as many as "1 million people"8 lined the streets of Washington as the funeral procession made its way slowly to Arlington ...
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