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- 1281: Rome
- ... and early eighteenth century. In 1809 Rome an d the Papal States were alienated by France by Napoleon the first, but papal rule was restored in 1814. After a republic was declared Rome in 1849, French troops got in the way to restore the pope. When the kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861, it included most of the Papal States, but not Rome, which remained a virtual French protector under Napoleon the third. After Napoleon the third's fall, Rome became the Italian capital, but the conflict between the pope and Italy was not solved until the Lateran treaty in 1929, which gave ...
- 1282: John F. Kennedy In Vietnam
- ... any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." From the 1880s until World War II, France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina, which also included Cambodia and Laos. The country was under the formal control of an emperor, Bao Dai. From 1946 until 1954, the Vietnamese struggled for their independence from France during the first Indochina ... divided into North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam came under the control of the Vietnamese Communists who had opposed France and aimed for a unified Vietnam under Communist rule. Vietnamese who had collaborated with the French controlled the South. For this reason the United States became involved in Vietnam because it believed that if all of the country fell under a Communist government, Communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia and further ...
- 1283: Coco Chanel
- ... the 1920's and formed a strong capital investment for herself even after her death. Born into a destitute Auvergnate family August 19, 1883, Gabrielle Chanel was destined to be a notable face in the French and global fashion scene. She was given the very fitting middle name of Bonheur, meaning happiness, by a nun in the convent hospital where she was delivered. The young Gabrielle enjoyed being in the company ... of her childhood. The years of 1911 and 1912 were the happiest times in her life (Chanel, A Woman of Her Own 58). Her hats were seen publicly when Gabrielle Dorziat, an up and coming French actress, got the leading role in Guy de Maupassant¹s Bel-Ami (58). Although Dorziat wore the clothing of the most famous couturier in Paris, Jacques Doucet, Mlle Chanel persuaded the actress to wear her ...
- 1284: Simone Martini
- ... the Sienese school and successfully captures the expressive emotions of the moment. Simone’s final years were spent in Avignon, “a Provencal city then the seat of papacy” (111). There, Martini gained a proclivity for French Gothic painting and began to spread the International Gothic style. “The Carrying of the Cross is one of six panels of a portable polyptych which has now been dismantled (other panels are in Antwerp and ... colours, stamped gold and a linear elegance, all of which mark the art of the most brilliant representative of Gothic painting in Italy” (Louvre). In Simone’s final years his style captured the naturalistic and French Gothic mannerism. As Hartt notes, Simone’s late style helped develop a “new naturalism” and transformed the stylistic methods of painters in Northern Europe. Hartt, Fredrick. History of Italian Renaissance Art, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Fourth ...
- 1285: Samuel Adams
- ... miserable sharers of the event." - Samuel Adams Thesis: Few people realize the effect Samuel Adams has had on our country, they know of him only that he was a politician at the time of the revolution, but he is indeed the father of American independence. “Among those who signed the Declaration of Independence, and were conspicuous in the revolution, there existed, of course, a great diversity of intellectual endowments; nor did all render to their country, in those perilous days, the same important services. Like the luminaries of heavens each contributed his portion of ...
- 1286: Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
- ... Forge Military Academy, which is located in Pennsylvania. While enrolled in Valley Forge, Salinger's IQ level was tested at 115, which is slightly above average but far from the "genius" or even "superior" category (French 45). At Valley Forge, however, Salinger's grades rose considerably and he earned a scholarship to New York University. Salinger attended New York University for two years and went on to Ursinus College and then ... that while Hemingway was serving as an author-correspondent, he visited Salinger's regiment "and that Salinger became disgusted when Hemingway shot the head off a chicken to demonstrate the merits of a German Lager "(French 25). The incident so affected Salinger that he incorporates it into his short story, "For Esme: with Love and Squalor," with a corporal named Clay shooting the head off a cat and constantly dwelling upon ...
- 1287: All Quite On The Western Front
- ... questioned the values that he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war. After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front. During an attack, Paul killed a French soldier. After discovering that this soldier had a family, Paul was deeply shattered and vowed to prevent other such wars. Paul's unit was assigned to guard a supply depot of an abandoned village, but ... from his family and his childhood. With the return to his unit he again felt the presence of belonging. Soldiers had become his family. The mental anguish was again vividly displayed after Paul killed a French soldier; discovering that the soldier had a family, Paul slipped into a deep agony vowing to prevent such wars from again occurring. The depth of the emotions that soldiers experienced created a very believable example ...
- 1288: Dante's Inferno
- ... believing it should only be involved in spiritual affairs. At the turn of the century, Dante rose from city councilman to ambassador of Florence. His career ended in 1301 when the Black Guelph and their French allies seized control of the city. They took Dante's possessions and sentenced him to be permanently banished from Florence, threatening the death penalty upon him if he returned. Dante spent most of his time ... able not only to write better poems, but poems that say much more than we have been able to say, while at the same time seeming to say less."(452) In 1953, Jacques Maritain, a French philosopher, theologian, educator, and essayist, wrote "The Three Epiphanies of Creative Intuition", in his book, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. He wrote about how Dante's Divine Comedy is at the same time poetry ...
- 1289: Personal Computers
- In the 1990s the personal computer revolution turned into the social computer revolution. The thrill of having sophisticated computer power on your desktop turned out to be just the beginning, once your machine could connect to everyone else's via telephone lines. There is a global computer the ...
- 1290: Albert Camus
- Albert Camus was a French-Algerian novelist, essayist, dramatist, and journalist and a Nobel laureate. He was born in Algeria to a French father and Spanish mother. After his father was killed in WWI, he was raised in poverty by his grandmother and mother. He was forced to end his studies and limit his life in theatre as ...
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