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- 2041: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... orchestral suites. Bach's keyboard music for clavier and for organ is of equal importance and includes the collection of 48 preludes and fugures known as THE WELL- TEMPERED CLAVIER, the GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, and the FRENCH and ENGLISH SUITES. Of his organ music, the most imporant examples are the choral preludes. He also wrote chamber music and songs. Two important works written in the later years illustrate the principles and potential ...
- 2042: FDR
- ... same year, Roosevelt began studies under a Swiss governess, Jeanne Sardoz, which lasted for two years. Sardoz taught him some of the ins and outs of the British lifestyle in addition to teaching him the French language. (Conkin 35) In 1891, Roosevelt and his family traveled to Bad Nauheim, Germany, where he studied at a German public school for a short time. Eventually, they returned to the United States where Franklin ...
- 2043: Woman of the Year: 1953-Queen Elizabeth II
- ... taught by Miss Marion Crawford, a young Scottish woman. At the age of 5, she usually woke up at 6 a.m. and went out for riding lessons. After that, they had lunch, lessons in French, voice and piano. In the afternoon she would play in the garden, usually with her sister and Miss Crawford. She became heiress to the throne at the age of ten. She had to learn court ...
- 2044: Global Warming 2
- ... today would not work. Instead, thanks to greenhouse gases, the earth's average temperature is better, 60°F. But, problems may happen when the amount of greenhouse gases increases. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, great amounts of carbon dioxide have increased nearly 30%, methane concentrations have almost doubled, and nitrous oxide concentrations have risen about 15%. These increases have made the heat-trapping worse in the earth's atmosphere ...
- 2045: Analysis Of King Lear
- ... and later Edmund betrays Gloucester himself, naming him a traitor which results in Gloucester's eyes being put out. Edmund feels not the slightest remorse for any of his actions. Later on, after the invading French army has been repelled, Lear and Cordelia have been taken captive and Edmund gives these chilling words to his captain: "Edmund. Come hither captain; hark. Take thou this note: go follow them to prison; One ...
- 2046: Thomas Jefferson
- ... land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality and acquired the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803. Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. As a French nobleman observed, he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe." Truly, Thomas Jefferson was an American. He had endless devotion and love for his ...
- 2047: Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
- ... America where a peace treaty was sighned in 1905. The following year the president was awarded the nobel peace prize. People had wanted a canal connectiong the Atlantic and Pacific for hundreds of years. A French company, which went bankrupt, had started the pro ject. The company sold the panamanian rights to build the canal to the United States government. Colombia, whose territory included Panama, didn't agree to the terms ...
- 2048: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... orchestral suites. Bach's keyboard music for clavier and for organ is of equal importance and includes the collection of 48 preludes and fugues known as THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, the GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, and the FRENCH and ENGLISH SUITES. Of his organ music, the most important examples are the choral preludes. He also wrote chamber music and songs. Two important works written in the later years illustrate the principles and potential ...
- 2049: Sir Issac Newton
- ... its author could never regain his privacy. In the same year, 1687, Newton helped lead Cambridge's resistance to the efforts of King James II to make the University a Catholic institution, After the English Revolution in 1688, which drove James from England, the University elected Newton one of its representatives in a special convening of the county's Parliament. In the summer of 1693 Newton showed symptoms of a severe ...
- 2050: Marco Polo
- ... man named Rustichello from Persia, who was a writer of romances(Stefoff 21). To pass the time, Marco dictated his observations about Asia to Rustichello, who, in writing them down, probably employed the Italianized Old French that was the language of medieval romances. Their book was soon circulating, since Marco remained in prison only a year or so, very likely gaining his freedom when the Venetians and Genoese made peace in ...
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