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- 1251: Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
- ... statue of John Paul Jones along with other heroically cast revolutionaries; the Waterworks, a grand architectural achievement, the Lincoln Monument; and Lemon Hill, an estate owned by Robert Morris, Declaration signer and major financier of Revolution. The tour then continued on to the Boathouse Row, a place I wish I could have actually seen with my own eyes. It has a Victorian aspect and supposedly is a very enchanting sight at ... contains many men of historical significance and is a treat to any cemetery enthusiasts. Then, on the other side of the river, came Memorial Hall, dedicated to President Grant. It memorializes the soldiers of the Revolution. It served as the art gallery before the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The next stop was Richard Smiths Smith Civil War Monument, followed by Smith Playground. Then came the Japanese House. It is a ...
- 1252: Nicaragua
- ... severely challenging Spanish hegemony. For a period during and after the middle of the century the Mosquito Coast was considered a British dependency. The so-called Battle of Nicaragua at the time of the American Revolution, however, ended British attempts to win a permanent foothold in the country. Their independence began at the beginning of the 19th century, and Nicaragua declared itself independent of Spain in 1821. A year later it became part of the short-lived Mexican empire of Agustνn de Iturbide, and in 1823, after Iturbide's downfall, it joined the United Provinces of Central America. In 1893 a successful revolution brought the Liberal leader Josι Santos Zelaya to power. He remained president for the next 16 years, ruling as a dictator. Zelaya was forced out in 1909, after Adolfo Dνaz was elected provisional president. Following ...
- 1253: The First Crusade
- ... of Clermont in southern France, "Urban II challenged Christians to take up their weapons against the infidels and participate in a holy war and recapture the Holy Land" (Spielvogel,p344). Pope Urban II addressed the French telling them of the horrors imposed on the Holy Land. He told them all of the destruction and desecration of churches, and the torturous treatment of the Christian inhabitants of the Holy Land. The large ... 000 or 30,000. The number of troops may seem minuscule by today's standards it was " immense in the eyes of contemporaries " ( Hollister,p.189). Pope Urban II appointed Adhemar of Le Puy, a French bishop, to lead the Crusaders into the Holy Land. The First Crusade was underway. There were many reasons for knights to venture out to the Holy Land. Many joined the Crusade for the Pope's ...
- 1254: Different Religions
- ... morals. The word Renaissance means rebirth. The Renaissance period in Europe was a rebirth of ideas. Europe mainly had customs and institutions before the Renaissance, but after the Renaissance period got started, it sparked a revolution. This revolution also created a change in religious beliefs. The morals of many people had started to change. Many people started to feel that the church wasn't for them. These people broke off from the church ...
- 1255: Communism An Overview
- ... too, was flawed and therefore bound to destroy itself like many of the communistic experiments had done years before. It was thought that with the collapse of the capitalism, society would conclude in a political revolution in which the huge number of poor would rebel against their oppressors. The revolution would do away with private ownership of the means of production. Society would be run by and for the people. Marx and Engels expected that this movement would happen in the most highly industrialized nations ...
- 1256: A Study In Contrast The Views Of Catherine Barkley And Brett
- ... injury is cause to question that if Brett truly loved him, she would relinquish her own desires in order to consummate their love. However, it must be acknowledged that Brett is part of a social revolution in which women began to expect the same rights as men. Brett rebels against the undyingly faithful part of Catherine s lifestyle, not purely for the right of being a free woman, but because she ... deceive themselves however, this reflects on how each generation shares at least some characteristics of the generation before. Though primarily diverse, the pre and post 1900 societies shared some of the issues surrounding war and revolution. This changing period in time showed the turn of a new generation of women whose labors and decisions became valuable through war. Through jobs like nursing, women like Catherine were able to experience a new ...
- 1257: Benjamin Franklin 4
- ... drafted the Declaration of Independence. It was adopted on July 4, 1776. Later in 1776, Franklin was elected as the Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention and appointed one of the three commissioners to the French Court. He soon would become the sole minister plenipotentiary at the French court. He then wrote the second part of his autobiography and by 1787 he had been elected President of Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Later on that year he was a delegate ...
- 1258: Chaucer
- ... a method of sharing a fart he has been given equally among all his fellow-friars. Fragment IV The Clerk's Prologue and Tale: a pathetic tale of popular origin, adapted by Chaucer from a French version of Petrarch's Latin translation of a tale in Boccaccio's Decameron. The unlikely and terrible story of the uncomplaining Griselda who is made to suffer appalling pain and humiliation by her husband Walter ... Namoore of this, for Goddes dignitee!" And Chaucer the pilgrim explains that he can do no better in rhyme! Instead "Chaucer" offers to tell a "little thing" in prose, the Tale of Melibee translated from French and covering twenty pages! It is more a treatise than a tale. It contains a vague story, but mostly consists of moral debate full of moral advice in pithy sententiae about the best way of ...
- 1259: Italy
- ... gross domestic product and employs a greater share of workers than any other service industry. Manufacturing accounts for almost a fourth of Italy's gross domestic product. Languages The language of Italy is Italian. Like French and Spanish, Italian is a romance language - one of several languages that evolved from Latin. There are only a few communities in Italy in which Italian is not spoken as the first language. German is the first language of many of the Terntino-Alto Adige region. French is spoken as a first language in portions of the northwestern part of Italy. Solvene, a Slavic language, and Ladin, a language similar to the Romanasch of the Swiss, are spoken in northern sections of ...
- 1260: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... style; many older composers and music pedagogues, not able to accept his new style, called it "fantastic," "hare-brained," "too long, elaborate, incomprehensible, and much too noisy." In fact the style drew much from contemporary French music-the driving, ethically exalted, "grand style" elements combined with the highly ordered yet flexible structure of sonata form.It seems undeniable then that the Heilingenstadt Testament in which Beethoven came to terms with and ... his skills before death should take him. This quest coincided with and perhaps led to his graduation from the Viennese hi-Classic style to the development of his own unique heroic style, a blend of French and Viennese elements. The "Eroica" can be viewed as a deliverance of both his life and his career from despair and futility. Beethoven recreates himself in a new guise, self-sufficient and heroic. The Testament ...
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