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- 2341: Walt Whitman 2
- ... 3). For some reason, Whitman enjoyed many of the strong workers that did the manual labor for the steel mills, and many other strenuous jobs. This time in American history was nowhere near the homosexual revolution, so by saying this, Walt was ahead of his time. Him being gay and all made him even more of activist, and more outspoken to the public. After the war had occurred, the South began ...
- 2342: The Opening of the Crusades: Pope Urban II
- ... Gaul, in Auvergne, in the city which is called Clermont. Over this Pope Urban II presided, with the Roman bishops and cardinals. This council was a famous one on account of the concourse of both French and German bishops, and of princes as well. Having arranged the matters relating to the Church, the lord pope went forth into a certain spacious plain, for no building was large enough to hold all ...
- 2343: William Blake
- ... he worked in a shop until the age of 14. His family ran this shop, and later his brother and he acquired the store through inheritance. Despite those misgivings, he taught himself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Italian. His English was to be often strikingly original through other people's eyes. In 1767, he wanted to become an artist at the young age of 10. In pursuit of this dream, he ...
- 2344: Warren G. Harding
- Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality...." A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo ...
- 2345: Buddhism
- ... physicists attempting to develop new theories, we can apply the same conclusions to the situation that would be faced by Siddartha Guatama in modern day North America. Traditionally, western thought can be summed up by French philosopher RenJ Descartes' famous saying, "Cogito ergo sum" or "I think therefor I exist". That is, typically, western man has always equated identity with his mind, instead of his whole organism (Capra 23). This same ...
- 2346: Halloween and Christianity
- ... began to wear masks on that date and visited local Catholics during the night demanding beer and cakes for their celebration. This is the root of what has become known as "trick or treat!". As French and Irish Catholics immigrated into the colonies, they began to inter- marry. The combination of their traditions mixed with people of other nationalities is what led to the current way we celebrate Halloween. In conclusion ...
- 2347: Christmas History
- ... fire and the entire process was carefully timed to last the entire Yule season. The Christmas tree has never been particularly popular in France, and though the use of the Yule log has faded, the French make a traditional Yule log-shaped cake called the "buche de Noel," which means "Christmas Log." The cake, among other food in great abundance, is served at the grand feast of the season, which is ...
- 2348: Apocalypse
- ... September 1997, even after a warning from the pope about the consequences of another world war, Russia will suddenly invade Western Europe, starting WWIII. As a Russian naval fleet from Murmansk positions itself along the French coast, Paris will be demolished overnight by the Russian Air Force. American troops will be sent to counter the invading Russian and Moslem forces, and battles will take place all over southern France. After fleeing ...
- 2349: Confucianism and Christianity
- ... 68).² To accomplish this divinity, five relationships must be honored: ruler and minister, father and son, husband and wife, elder and younger brother, and friend and friend (Hopfe). These relationships led a push for a revolution of the political system to adopt the methods of Jen. Confucius sought to revive the ancient Chinese culture by redefining the importance of society and government. He described a society governed by ³reasonable, humane, and ...
- 2350: The Roots of Christianity
- ... into 3 kingdoms the areas which make up modern day France, Germany, and part of Italy. The Frankish rulers were divided and weak against Viking attack. The King of France offered the Viking Rollo the French providence of Normandy to leave the rest of France in peace. Thus, Rollo's descendants were known as Normans. Their next land to conquer was to be England. William the Conqueror brought the Norman way ...
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