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- 681: Joan of Arc
- Joan of Arc A French saint and a heroine in the Hundred Years' war was Joan of Arc. This farm girl helped save the French from English command and was often called the Maid Orleans and the Maid of France. Her inspiration led the French to many victories. Joan Of Arc (In French Jeanne d'Arc) was born around 1412, in the village of Domremy, France. She was a peasant girl who, like many girls of that time, could ...
- 682: Irene Joliot-curie
- ... director of the Curie Laboratory, a member of the Commissariat of atomic energy, and a professor at the Sorbonne. Although she won many awards for her contributions to science, she was never admitted to the French Academy of Science. In 1911, the Insititut de France voted to maintain it's all male status. This approved institutional policy denied a seat in the Academy to Marie Curie. This same restrictive policy would ... in Paris in 1937 and afterwards Director of the Radium Institute in 1946. Being a Commissioner for Atomic Energy for six years, Irene took part in its creation and in the construction of the first French atomic pile (1948). She was concerned in the inauguration of the large centre for nuclear physics at Orsay for which she worked out the plans. This centre was equipped with a synchro-cyclotron of 160 ... money for Spanish refugees. Although she had a valid visa, it was the time of McCarthyism and red scares. Irene was forbidden entry and was kept in a detention center on Ellis Island until the French embassy in Washington could intervene. Irene Joliot-Curie died from leukemia on March 17, 1956, still being denied membership in the French Academy of Science. The discoveries that she made would ultimately be used ...
- 683: Crusades 4
- ... Armies from France and Germany set out to meet once again in Jerusalem and join forces. However, the German crusaders were ambushed during their voyage depleting their supplies and cavalry. The few remaining joined the French fleet in Jerusalem, and together attempted an attack on Damascus. Being badly defeated, the French army returned home, while the Germans remained with the colonies of the former crusaders. The states established by the crusaders were slowly being destroyed, and thus, the failure of the second crusade led into a ... in an attack to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. In early October, Saladin defeated the crusaders and gained control of Jerusalem. Pope Gregory VIII then called for a third crusade. Frederick I, Roman Emperor, Philip II, French king, Richard I of England, all joined together to assemble one of the most powerful armies during the time of the middle ages. However, due to the many misfortunes the crusaders faced, they were ...
- 684: Advertising And Promotion Camp
- ... s Springfield and Women's Secret chains. The promotion was created by Think for Sale and is supported by an outdoor ad campaign and leaflets. 8 Coca-Cola started "Suma Oros" promotion in Spain with French publisher Hachette. Consumers can trade in coupons from Fanta bottles for subscriptions to Hachette magazines including Elle, Diaz Minutos, Regazza and Quo; the promotion is handled by McCoy and supported by TV and print from ... times more on advertising in Germany than in France; Germans, however drank four times more Coke (per person) than in France. Since, the early 80's, however, Coca-Cola has spent ten times more on French advertising, attempting to build market share. However, this strategy has had little influence on this imbalance in consumption between the two countries. 22 Coke realizes that cultural differences exist in each country and that they have to overcome those differences in their advertising and promotional campaigns to be successful. Aside from the Germans, who are the primary soft drink consumers of the European Union and the French, who drink relatively large amounts of mineral water and wine, other EC countries have strong culturally tied beverage preferences as well. The Dutch consume a significant amount of soft drinks; the British: tea and ...
- 685: Charles Lindbergh
- ... land to be the southern tip of Ireland. The Spirit of St. Louis is 2.5 hours ahead of schedule and less than three miles off course. 12:52 P.M. wanting to reach the French coast in daylight; Lindbergh increases air speed to 110 mph. The English coast appears ahead and Lindbergh is now wide-awake. 2:52 P.M. The sun sets as the Spirit of St. Louis flies over the coastal French town of Cherbourg. Lindbergh is only two hundred miles to Paris. 4:22 P.M. the Spirit of St. Louis touches down at the Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris, France. Local time is 10:22 P ... M. Total flight time is 30 hrs, 30 min. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours. At 10:22 P.M. Paris time, Charles Lindbergh touched down ahead of schedule. He thought that some French aviators and, perhaps, a handful of reporters might be on hand to meet him. He did not have a visa, so he was a little worried about customs. He had even brought letters of ...
- 686: Animal Farm - George Orwell
- ... he had a hatred of Communism, he was a socialist. Orwell died at the age of forty-seven of a lung problem, leaving behind several unfinished works. Animal Farm is a parody of the Communist revolution in Russia, and as a result its themes are the evils of totalitarianism and selfishness, and also the importance of hard work. Animal Farm tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, but from a viewpoint slightly more comical: that of a farm in England. The story begins in a barn, where a boar on the farm named Old Major has gathered the other animals ... farm. Not long after, he dies, but the animals keep his ideas of Animalism (which is essentially Communism) alive and the pigs, who are the most clever animals on the farm, begin to plan a revolution. One day, the workers on the farm forget to feed the animals, and so some of the more powerful horses break down the door to the barn where the feed is stored, and the ...
- 687: Animal Farm
- INTRODUCTION: Animal Farm was first published in 1945. Animal Farm is a satire on Stalinism and the Russian revolution. As Russia was an allied of England in 1945, Orwell had a hard time publishing it. The British author George Orwell, pen name for Eric Blair , achieved prominence in the late 1940's as the ... accurate description of the farm and we do not know when the story takes place. When he started writing his book, he did not want people to know that he was writing about the Russian revolution. Many publishers who declined to publish Animal Farm in Britain and America did so because they considered there was no market for childrens books. MAIN CHARACTERS: The novel Animal Farm is a satire on the Russian revolution, and therefore full of symbolism. General Orwell associates certain real characters with the characters of the book. Mr Jones: Mr. Jones is Orwell's chief (or at least most obvious) villain in Animal Farm. ...
- 688: The Go Between
- ... a tenant farmer on Trimingham s land. He led an ordinary life like Leo s before he came to the hall. Now that he is at the hall he is classed as a villager. The French that Marcus and Leo use in the book also indicates money. The only reason Leo and Marcus are at the same school is because Leo is on a scholarship. Marcus is better at French than Leo is because he has a French governess. French was one if the few subjects which Marcus was better than I was, He had had a French governess who had given him a good accent; he had also, unlike me, been ...
- 689: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... her mother to Newport, Rhode Island (22-23). The government source also indicates that Jackie attended Miss Porters School for Girls in Connecticut and Vassar College where she excelled in history, literature, art and French. Her junior year she spent at the Sorbonne in Paris, studying French and learning more about the French culture. She then returned to the United States and earned a degree in French literature from George Washington University and graduated in 1951. Jackies favorite interest as a child and young adult were ...
- 690: The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk
- ... Eric Foner's book on the reconstruction was the first major study of the period since Du Bois's book on the period fifty years earlier.Footnote11 The reconstruction which Foner terms America's unfinished revolution could also be called American invisible revolution due to the lack of scholarship on the area. The most striking examples of the theme of the veil and invisibility is in literature about Blacks struggling with their identity and with oppression. In Beloved ... Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) 212-318. Footnote9 Ibid., 318. Footnote10 Bell Hooks, Ain't I a Women: black women and feminism (Boston: South End Press, 1981) 20. Footnote11 Eric Foner, Reconstruction America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper & Row Company, 1989) xix-xxvii. Footnote12 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Random House Publishing, 1990) 3. Footnote13 W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Bantam ...
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