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- 1421: Niccolo Machiavelli
- ... Alexander VI) as a new Pope, Machiavelli was sent to Rome. While in Rome he watched Valentino's faith closely, found an opportunity to figure out the new Pope's nature. After the defeat of French at Garigliano he was again sent to France and stayed there till March 1504. It is thought that his work Decenale Primo (first ten years) which was printed in 1506 was finished in those years ... that in these times he wrote his work “Decennale Secondo” (Second Ten Years) which gives information about the Venice wars. Machiavelli went to France two times (1510-1511) for political purpose. He told about the French style clothing and politics in the letters he sent to Florence and his work “Scenes from France”. By these times Florence was in trouble after the war of Rovenna. Spanish were walking towards Florence and ...
- 1422: Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
- ... a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh. In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather ... Alto was the world s first personal computer, seams overstated; his strictly technological, mine involving price and marketing. However, in writing the book Hiltzik drew on the recollections of those who participated in the technological revolution of the 1970 s He interviewed all the obvious suspects and not a few innocent bystanders. Long before IBM launched its PC and laid the foundation for Microsoft s Windows with a prototype graphical user ...
- 1423: Comedy
- ... after being mistreated by his two other daughters. It was said that, "now and then an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek."(IV,iii, ln 12-13). Cordelia then orders for some of the French soldiers to bring Lear to her so that she can look after him before the war between Britain and the French soldiers begins. Her love was further displayed when she says, "But love, dear love, and our aged father's right. Soon may I hear and see him!"(IV,iv, ln 28-29). Because of all ...
- 1424: Marie Curie
- Marie Curie LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie(1867-1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre, who was also a French physicist, are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie, originally named Marja Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw, Poland on Nov.7, 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught ...
- 1425: Immigration Experience
- ... This was because of Samuel Nunes, a Jewish doctor who helped to stop a disease that had already killed many people. Even then, Jews were given land away from the main town. In the American Revolution Jews did not take any specific sides. Some believed that the freedom that they had gained under the English rule would be lost. Other felt that the taxes were too high and joined the Patriots ... Jews in Eastern Europe (before World War I), which was legal. There were also laws which discriminated against Jews. In Russia, a czar had been assassinated, and Jews were blamed out of fear of a revolution. This caused a flood of immigrants into the United States. Most of America's famous people are descended from immigrants if they are not immigrants themselves. People, like Albert Einstein, a famous physicist, and Henry ...
- 1426: Gas Laws (cemistry)
- ... that substance. The melting point of ice to water was taken as 0oC and the boiling point of water was taken as 100oC to give our common Celsius scale of temperature. The measurements of the French chemists used the very similar Reaumur scale (water freezes at 0oRe and boils at 80oRe) to establish the law of Charles. The study of the effect of temperature upon the properties of gases took considerably ... study of the effect of pressure, primarily because the development of a quantitative scale of temperature was a difficult process. However, once such a scale was developed, the appropriate measurements were made, primarily by the French chemist Jacques Charles (1746 - 1823). The experimental data were formulated into a general law which became known as the law of Charles or Charles' law: At any constant pressure, the volume of any sample of ...
- 1427: Violins
- ... was considered an instrument of low social status. In the early 1600s, however, the violin gained prestige through its use in operas such as Orfeo (1607), by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, and through the French king Louis XIII's band of musicians, the 24 violons du roi ("the king's 24 violins," formed in 1626). This growth in stature continued throughout the baroque period (circa 1600-c. 1750) in the ... and Ludwig van Beethoven in the baroque and classical eras; the Austrian Franz Schubert, the Germans Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann, and the Russian Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky in the romantic era; and the French Claude Debussy, the Austrian Arnold Schoenberg, the Hungarian Béla Bartók, and the Russian-born Igor Stravinsky in the 20th century.
- 1428: American Parties From The Civi
- ... modern sense. Federalism was a frame of mind, a set of attitudes that included belief in a strong and activist central government, public credit, the promotion of commerce and industry, and strict neutrality in the French Revolutionary Wars. Opposition arose on all these points and became largely organized around James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Federalists began to adopt the tactics of the opposition Democratic-Republicans in response to attacks on Jay ... Britain (1794). Although parties were widely regarded as inimical to free government, and although Washington, Hamilton, and Adams deplored their rise (together with the tendency toward a North versus South and pro-British versus pro-French polarization of political opinion), parties were an established fact by the presidential election of 1796. While Adams was president, the Federalists attempted to stifle dissent by the Alien and Sedition Act (1798). These, however, had ...
- 1429: China (food)
- ... has his own t.v. show called “Yan Can Cook” which now airs in 70 countries for the past 19 years. He recently took a trip to Boston to have a cooking duel with a French chef named Jacky Robert. In Boston Yan turned similar sets of ingredients into magnificent French and Chinese dishes. Yan says “You don’t want to confuse people because you basically make a mess.” Yan says “Cooking is not just a science, but also an art.” Yan chose a Boston favorite ...
- 1430: Architecture Set In Motion
- ... airy decor, that develops into a profession of interior design. Rococo is the revolt against complicated Baroque that decorated the interior of Versailles, in revolt against the palace and after the death of Louis XIV, French women who had city houses in Paris inspired a new lightened airy style of decor and architecture. As seen in the Salon de la Princess, the structure of the room has virtually been covered up ... 29), and he inspired other designers as Hoare who at Stourhead, incorporated the romantic idea of the picturesque to form a garden as if nature herself had created it. However, with the inspiration of the French landscape painter Claude, the landscape at this Palladian estate is completely manmade, with hills, lakes, trees, meant to look as nature had created it, and as in Claude’s’ landscapes it can be divided up ...
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