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- 2101: Florence, Italy
- Florence, Italy The Renaissance is finally here at the year of 1350. What does Renaissance mean? It is a French word that means rebirth. But, what is there a rebirth of? The rebirth of art and learning and getting past the dark ages. At first the Renaissance reformed many of the towns in Italy and ...
- 2102: Andy Warhol 3
- ... pictures were being shown there were many other quite disturbing sets of pictures being shown. They were of race riots and many were taken directly from newspaper articles of the Nazi Germany and Castro's revolution in Cuba. (Crone pg 29) One of the last serial sets that Warhol created before moving on from painting was of flowers. The flowers were produced in an extreme variety of sizes and quantities. These ...
- 2103: Ansel Adams
- ... He selfly taught himself how to play the piano, and he enjoyed being around the surroundings of nature. Ansel attended both public and private school. At home his father gave him lessons in math and French. In 1915 when Ansel was 13, his father bought him a season pass to the Panama Pacific Worlds Fair, in which he visited annually. Ansel took much interest in the Armory Show exhibition. This exhibition ...
- 2104: American Attack On Omaha And Utah Beaches During D Day
- ... and British naval guns opened fire on the Normandy coastline (D Este 112). A British naval officer described the incredible spectacle he witnessed that day: "Never has any coast suffered what a tortured strip of French coast suffered that morning; both the naval and air bombardments were unparalleled. Along the fifty-mile front the land was rocked by successive explosions as the shells of ships guns tore holes in fortifications and ...
- 2105: Bach, Johann Sebastian
- ... the chamber music. During the time that Bach was developing his talents as a composer, Germany was going through what most of the rest of Europe was going through. It was going through the Industrial Revolution. This probably had some effect on his works, but probably nothing really significant. A piece that I listened to by Bach is "Concerto for Two violins and Orchestra". The song goes in a fast, slow ...
- 2106: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... disagreed with the measures suggested and stopped the plan. Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Originally Castro was not a communist either and even had meetings with then Vice-President Richard Nixon. Fearful of Castro's revolution, people with money, like doctors, lawyers, and the mafia, left Cuba for the United States. To prevent the loss of more capital Castro's solution was to nationalize some of the businesses in Cuba. In ...
- 2107: Albert Camus
- ... and was plagued with great illness in his short life. Camus is a great role model and idol for us all. Camus was born into poverty on November 2, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria (a former French colony in Africa). His mother, Catherine Sintes, was a cleaning woman, and his father, Lucien Camus, was a farmhand. Only a few months old, Albert lost his father in the horrors of World War I ...
- 2108: Global Warming And The Greenhouse Effect
- ... the United States. The average world temperature has increased one degree Fahrenheit over the last 120 years, making the world hotter than it has been in 100,000 years. From the beginning of the industrial revolution, concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased by 30%, concentrations of methane have doubled, and nitrous oxide has risen by 15%. The increases of these chemicals have enhanced the heat trapping capability of the atmosphere of ...
- 2109: Ben Franklin 2
- ... in 1778 to negotiate the Treaty of Alliance with France. No other American was more involved with the birth of the U.S.. The Treaty of Alliance with France was very important in the American Revolution, it guaranteed the support of soldiers and supplies from France to the U.S., it helped the United States to win the Revolutionary War. Franklin also received most of the credit for the agreement with ...
- 2110: Benito Mussolini
- ... State. In 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany and was greeted cautiously by the Italians. Hitler in turn expressed friendship for the Italian Fascist government. During Germany s annexation of Austria, Italy improved her French relations when she rushed 75,000 troops to the Italo-Austrian frontier announcing that she would intervene if Germany took overt action. Italy drew closer to he WWI allies in 1935 when she protested Germany ...
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