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- 961: ANwar Sadats DEcision To Make
- ... prepared to sacrifice one million soldiers in the destruction of Israel (Bard, http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/73_War.html). The Suez War(1956), which followed the Israeli War of Independence, the British, French, and the US agreed not to supply the Israeli or Arabs with any needed weapons. Since they could not get weapons from those countries, Egypt made an arms deal with Czechoslovakia. Now, with their weapons, Egypt was able to invade Israel constantly. Egyptian President Nassar nationalized the Suez Canal, and did not allow Israel, or the French and British to use it, since they were supplying Israel with armaments. The three nations, Britain, France, and Israel attacked Egypt, and immediately defeated the Egyptians. The French and British protected and occupied the canal. The next war fought was the Six Day War(1967), which was fought between Israel and three other countries. In the south, Israel fought the Egyptians. In ...
- 962: Thomas Edison
- ... was pulled back beneath the stylus. In December 1877 Edison unveiled the tinfoil phonograph, which replaced the strip of paper wrapped in tinfoil. Many people would not believe what they were hearing including a leading French scientist who declared it to be a trick device of a ventriloquist. The publics amazement was quickly followed by universal approval. Edison became famous all around the world and was dubbed the Wizard of ... to be the best-known American in the world. When he died he was the venerated and mourned as the man who, more than any other, had laid the basis for the technological and social revolution of the modern electrical world.
- 963: Pablo Picasso
- ... York City) and also the "Dwarf Dancer". Suddenly, the 20-year-old painter, who now signed himself "Picasso", his mother's maiden name, moved toward a symbolism of great anguish and misery, inspired by the French painter Maurice Denis and the Spanish painters Isidro Nonell Y Monturiol and El Greco. This was his Blue Period, so called because most of these paintings were dominated by various shades of blue. During this ... to depict the subject simultaneously from several points of view." Analytical Cubism: "The arbitrary arrangement and interrelation of contours and fragments of contours without necessary reference to natural objects or their structure." Synthetic Cubism: "A French abstract art movement embracing analytical cubism from about 1906 to 1912 and synthetic cubism from 1913 into the following decade." Blue Period: This style emphasized a variety of Grey-Blues. The figures were mostly long ... Montmartre) nicknamed the "Bateau-Lavoir" because of its flimsy construction. The bateaux-lavoirs were well-known washing sheds for clothes, moored along the Seine river in Paris. 1907-1914 After developing a friendship with the french painter Georges Braque, Picasso begins his Cubist period, which will last until 1914. 1917 At the invitation of the Russian choreographer Diaghilev, Picasso travels to Rome to prepare the sets and costumes for the ...
- 964: Oliver Cromwell
- ... to ally with France against Spain. He sent a naval expedition to the Spanish West Indies, and in 1655 conquered Jamaica. As the price for sending a fleet to Spanish Flanders to fight alongside the French he obtained possession of the port of Dunkirk. He also interested himself in Scandinavian affairs; although he admired King Charles X of Sweden, his first consideration in attempting to mediate in the Baltic was the ... complex. (Sherwood, 1997) When Cromwell's first Parliament met he justified the establishing of the Protectorate as "healing and settling" the nation after the civil wars. Arguing that his government had prevented anarchy and social revolution, he was particularly critical of the Levellers who, he said, wished to destroy well-tested institutions "whereby England hath been known for hundreds of years." He believed that they undermined "the natural magistracy of the ...
- 965: King Arthur
- ... Lancelot, who would eventually betray him by the conducting of an illicit affair with Guinevere, is not mentioned in any part of the Celtic material. He is first found as the central hero in the French Vulgate Cycle, written between 1215 and 1230. Sir Thomas Malory went to the last three parts of this to find the material for his own work; Lancelot which follows the knight's lone adventures, the ... the Mort Artu from which he took the romance of Lancelot and Guinevere and how it brought the downfall of Arthur and Camelot. Tristram also enters Malory's saga from much the same source, another French collection of tales again from around 1230, called the Prose Tristan. From here also comes the romance of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbin, daughter of King Pelles, which resulted in the birth of the perfect knight, Galahad. It was Galahad who was to succeed in what his father had failed in persuing, the mystical Holy Grail. Malory draws again from the French work for the other Elaine, Elaine le Blank, the maid of Astolat, who died for love of Lancelot after finding he was willing to be no more than her friend. Tennyson made her sad ...
- 966: John Paul Jones
- ... to America and changed his name to John Paul Jones of which he was called for the rest of his life. He arrived in America just as the Revolutionary War was starting and joined the revolution effort. He was made a first lieutenant on an American ship and gradually, through his almost unbelievable successes, became captain of his own ship. He successfully completed many missions and raids against the British and ... to the northward. Jones realized that his ship was being shot to pieces and his only hope was to board the enemy. The chance came when the anchor on Serapis caught on Richard and the French marine sharpshooters that Jones had hired prevented the British from cutting it free. Because the American flag had been shot down, Captain Pearson hailed to ask if they were surrendering, "No, I've not yet ...
- 967: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- ... landscape with its wealth of clear-cut forms..." Footnote: Magill, 49. After this journey he wrote Italienische Reise in which he expressed his enjoyment of the Italian landscape. As the years went on, and the French Revolution occurred, Goethe began an active political life. He thought much about German politics, saying that the root of the trouble is the fragmentation of German culture. Surprisingly, as Goethe's life came to its last ...
- 968: James Watt
- James Watt was born 19th January 1736 at Greenock and at this time no one would have even imagined his effect on the Industrial Revolution that was to occur within that century. When James was fifteen he had read books about and become accustomed to Philosophy (similar to modern physics). He had also completed many of his own chemical experiments ... steam engine at that time. Even though Newcomen had already developed the steam engine before James Watt, it was about to be improved substantially without even knowing the results it would have on the industrial revolution. As Watt was fixing the machine he was intrigued on how much fuel it burned. He then thought about ways to reduce the fuel consumption and found out it was mostly caused by the pistons ... in Healthfield. Mrs. Watt lived much longer dying in 1832. James Watt was able to live through his life knowing that even though he only improved an existing invention, he powered much of the industrial revolution in doing so. His innovations also saved many of the mines in those times that were full of water unable to be pumped out by older model steam engines. James also knew that the ...
- 969: George Washington
- ... of the southern district of Virginia, a full-time salaried appointment, carrying the rank of major. He wanted to eventually secure a commission in the regular British army. In 1753, Virginia was alarmed when a French expedition from Canada established posts on the headwaters of the Ohio River. Conflict over this area eventually erupted into the French and Indian War, in which Washington played a major military role that established his reputation as a commander. In the fall of 1758 the French were defeated. In 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy young widow. Washington matured into a solid member of Virginia society. From 1759 to 1774 he served in the House of Burgesses. By ...
- 970: Francois Viete
- ... was able to read the secret correspondence of the enemies. Phillip II, of Spain, thought that the sure code was invulnerable, and that when he heard of it, he complained to the Pope that the French were using some sorcery against him. His tactics in dealing with the people were illustrated by the case of Francoise de Rohan, who was the cousin of Henry III. She had been engaged to Duke ... La Rochelle. Then Viete moved there with his employer and daughter. That was the period of great political and religious unrest in France. Charles IX became King of France in 1560, and in 1562 the French wars of religion began. There was a gross over-simplification to say that these wars were between the Protestants and the Roman Catholics. It was the fighting of various factions would continue on and off ... mathematics and astronomy. For his first published mathematical work appeared in Paris in 1571. While in Paris, Charles IX was authorized to the massacre of the Huguenots. Both who were an increasingly powerful group of French Protestants on August 23, 1572. It must have been a difficult time for Viete. He, though, was not active in the Protestant cause, because he was a Huguenot himself. Charles did not live long ...
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