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- 2391: Jazz
- ... which was more calm and smooth than other types of jazz. The present has brought back all the forms of jazz, and now is experimenting with the many different instruments from the orchestra, including the french horn, bassoon, or violin. There are so many styles in jazz that jazz could not be defined clearly without ignoring one of its forms. It included vocals, ragtime, blues, New Orleans jazz, Chicago and New ...
- 2392: The Beatles
- ... more balanced as Lennon began writing more cogent songs, and collaborating on a song-by-song basis with McCartney. Their songs varied from a slow ballad in McCartney's "Blackbird" to the bizarre and intriguing "Revolution #9) by Lennon. Yet McCartney was needed to control Lennon when he recorded the original version of "Sexie Sadie" with the verse: You little twat Who the fuck do you think you are Who the ...
- 2393: D-Day
- ... had shifted from the regions of the Balkans and Norway to the Pas de Calais. The concentration of Allied troops was so great, that an invasion of France seemed inevitable. Bombing attacks, sabotage by the French Resistance and false messages from compromised German agents all focused on the Pas de Calais with only minimal attention to Normandy. Also, German intelligence thought that the Allies had 90 divisions ready for the invasion ...
- 2394: Alfred Nobel
- ... his family moved to St. Petersburg in Russia. Since his father was an influential inventor and industrialist the family moved from country to country. Alfred gained the fluency in 5 different languages, Swedish, Russian, English, French, and German, but was always proud of his Swedish Background. In his teens his father sent him to learn chemistry in France. He gained interest in explosive nitroglycerin. And studied until he founded the first ...
- 2395: Sports and Nationalism
- ... that are presently taking place in Yugoslavia. It is interesting to note however, that most of the examples that are mentioned when talking about the subject of nationalism often follow the path of conflict or revolution. In this context, it may be difficult for one to believe that nationalist sentiment can be portrayed without eventually leading to some type of political or armed conflict. However, an alternative vehicle for nationalist sentiment ...
- 2396: The Absurd and Camus
- The Absurd and Camus The Absurd is a much misunderstood philosophical category, primarily due to its sense of linguistic finality both in French and English. To use the expression "that's absurd!" brings with it an automatic negative judgement and a feeling that all further discussion is thereby closed. For Camus, "absurdity" is the given premise of all ...
- 2397: The Bicycle: From Wood to Metal.
- ... wheel and a small rear wheel, nicknamed the (Penny-farthing) after the largest and smallest English copper coins of the period. He developed a gear that allowed the wheel to be turned twice for each revolution of the pedals. He lightened the wheels by making them of iron with wire spokes under tension. His spokes were single reel of wire looped through holes in the rim and the hub to which ...
- 2398: The History of Ice Hockey
- ... s and national sport. The Alogonquins who inhabited the shores the St. Lawrence River played an ice game that was similar to lacrosse called "baggataway," played without skates and with an unlimited number of participants. French explorers who visited the St. Lawrence River area and northern areas of United States in the 1700s witnessed these matches. (Hubbard & Fischler, page17) According to the dictionary of language of Micmacs Indians, published in ...
- 2399: Tourism
- ... to find out the benefits of tourism. It's usually us people from the richer countries in the west that travel abroad as tourists. This became possible during the early twentieth century, when the industrial revolution had reached most western countries in a big way, and the governments had begun to get more and more democratic. They started to have governmental foundings with the intention of giving people who worked in ...
- 2400: Maroons
- ... from the plantations on which they were forced to work. These people known to the Spanish as Cimarrones from the Spanish word "maron," meaning fierce and from the Spanish term for wild cattle. To the French they were known as Marrons, a term anglicized later to "Maroons: the name they are referred to today. Maroons originated in Hispanola, and would runaway from their slave owners and to the mountainous terrain of ...
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