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- 1701: The Finger Lakes
- ... Finger Lakes Region pulls in some of the highest figures in annual snowfall in the Northeast. The enormous lakes are not forgotten by the changing seasons as they freeze over and seem to transform into great barren white deserts. Even the biggest winter enthusiasts welcome springtime which can truly be compared to a rebirth as wildlife and civilization seems to bud out of the melting snow. Lake residents construct their docks ... are often strong enough for remarkable sailing and windsurfing, although crafts such as jet-skis and sleek speed boats definitely outnumber the wind-powered vessels. Paddling a canoe or kayak can be fun and a great workout, especially in the early morning before the power boats head out for the day. Eating lunch on your boat while dangling your feet into the cool water and drinking the locally produced, caffeine packed Jolt Cola, is a great way to take in your mid day meal. Fast food restaurants like Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonalds cater to boaters as well as some feature docks along with a conventional parking lot for automobiles. ...
- 1702: What Is Basketball Without Mic
- ... this is not hard to comprehend. At this time in his life, Jordan wants to devote all of his time to his friends and family. Now that he has left the world of basketball a great void has been left. Many questions have rose as to what is going to happen now that he s gone. What will happen with the NBA? What will happen to the Chicago Bulls dynasty? Who ... days, said Peyser. With such slogans as Be Like Mike and It s gotta be the shoes, companies have attempted to make consumers believe that if they buy their products they too can be as great as Michael Jordan. Now that Jordan has left the NBA, many are speculating on how well his endorsements will do. Experts say that a retired athlete even Jordan can t compete with a guy who ... where it is without him and now that he s gone many can t imagine basketball without him. Everyone is wondering, if there ever be another Michael Jordan. The chance of someone accomplishing the same great feats as Jordan is nearly impossible in today s NBA. But that doesn t mean it won t happen. When Julius Erving left the league many people were asking the same questions. Will there ...
- 1703: Robert E. Lee
- ... S. Grant. Robert Edward Lee was born to parents, Henry Lee of Leesylvania, and mother Ann Hill Carter of Shirley, in Stratford Hall near Montross, Virginia, on January 19, 1807. He grew up with a great love for country living and his state, which would be instilled in him for the rest of his life. He was a very serious boy and spent many hours in his father's library reading ... months at Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island, Georgia. In 1831 the army transferred Lee to Fort Monroe, Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her family home in Arlington on a hill overlooking Washington D. C.. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington ... Early in the war, Lee supervised the construction of bridges for Wool's march toward the Mexican border. He then did excellent work on scouting trips. Lee later was helping General Winfield Scott plan a great battle. The Army was about to attack Vera Cruz, a large Mexican town on the sea. Soldiers fired huge guns at the walls of Vera Cruz. One of the men at the guns happened ...
- 1704: Mesopotamian Art And Arquitecture
- ... 24th century BC; under Sargon I (about 2335-2279 BC), they extended their rule over Sumer and united the whole of Mesopotamia. Little Akkadian art remains, but what has survived is endowed with technical mastery, great energy, and spirit. In the Akkadian cities of Sippar, Assur, Eshnuna, Tell Brak, and the capital at Akkad (still to be found), the palace became more important than the temple. The most significant Akkadian innovations ... buildings, ships, chariots, horse trappings, hunting equipment, weapons, ritual libations, and costumes through the skill of Assyrian sculptors. The various ethnic groups inhabiting Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine in the 1st millennium BC are depicted with great realism and can be identified by their dress, facial features, and hairstyles. Between the 9th-century BC Nimrud reliefs and the 7th-century BC Nineveh reliefs, stylistic changes took place. In the earlier scenes, armies ... of the highest standards, probably because of Egyptian competition. Phoenicians sold their wares all over the Middle East, and the spread of Middle Eastern style and iconography, like the alphabet, can be attributed to these great traders of antiquity. The Babylonians, in coalition with the Medes and Scythians, defeated the Assyrians in 612 BC and sacked Nimrud and Nineveh. They did not establish a new style or iconography. Boundary stones ...
- 1705: Robinson Crusoe
- ... towards the national church. When he was producing the novel Robinson Crusoe, he was already over sixty years of age. The novel was presented out of a real story of a seaman and it gained great popularity as soon as it was published. It goes beyond any literary codes or restrictions. Deniel Defoe with great independence of creativity made his novels a model of a completely new literary style and just because of this he was awarded as the father of the English and European novels. In the novel, Robinson Crusoe was a young Englishman with great interests in traveling in sea. He abandoned the peaceful life of his hometown village and went out to the sea. Unfortunately their ship was attacked by a storm. However Robinson was the only one ...
- 1706: Domus Aurea, Golden House Of N
- ... fire construction was begun on Neros Golden House. It would continue until AD 68 (Wheeler 142). In fact the Domus Transitoria would soon become part of the new Domus Aurea. The architects of this great project were more engineers than they were architects. Their names were Severus and Celer (Picard 116). They were more like Italian bosses heading up a team of technicians who came to Rome in hordes due ... ceiling to show a different ceiling during different courses of the meal. In his banquet hall, Suetonius tells us: circular, and constantly revolving, day and night like the heavens. It is now a topic of great discussion whether the entire room actually revolved, or if it was just the ceiling. Either way, it would have required a large power source for this and would have required the latest technology (Grant 175 ... before it had been completed. At its dedication, Nero said that he could finally live like man was intended to. Unfortunately and ironically, he hardly got to enjoy it. While the Domus Aurea was a great architectural work in their time, it had left a sort of bitter taste in their mouths that they wanted to avenge. After Otho short reign of protecting this monument, Vitellius became emperor for an ...
- 1707: Early Western Civilization
- ... Weeks and his friends have seen, along with thousands of artifacts such as beads, fragments of jars that were used to store the organs of the deceased, and mummified body parts which tell historians a great amount about ancient Egypt during the reign of its most important king. "Egyptians do not call him Ramesses II," Sabry Abd El Aziz, director of antiquities for the Qurna region said. " We call him Ramesses al-Akbar which means Ramesses the Great." During his 67 years on the throne stretching from 1279 B.C. to 1212 B. C., Ramesses could have filled an ancient edition of the Guinness Book of Records all by himself: he built more ... any other pharaoh in history. He presided over an empire that stretched from present-day Libya to Iraq in the east, as far north as Turkey and southward into the Sudan. Today, historians know a great deal about Ramesses and the customs of his day. However, the newly explored tomb suddenly presents scholars with all sort of puzzles to ponder. For one thing, many of the tombs in the Valley ...
- 1708: The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
- ... but no one knows it yet. Guilt is very powerful. Some people after awhile give in to this guilt and confess what they did. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale commit a great sin. Because of this great sin, it causes them immense guilt and sadness though out the rest of the book. One of the main character's that is affected the most is Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale handles it in a different ... in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!" Because Chillingworth's sin was the blackest his fate was the most horrible of the three. To overcome this great guilt the character's handle it in there own way. Hester Prynne handles it by trying to hide nothing, trying to show the world, see what I did and I'm proud of it! ...
- 1709: A Biography on Carl Sandburg
- A Biography on Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was a great man. His life was one of fame, once he began writing. He inspired many people. He also became an American Marvel. His works still remain read even today, 30 years after his death. His life ... accepted into songbooks, such as The Songbag, and The New American Songbag. Sandburg was then transformed into an American Marvel. he was very interested in the Ideas of Democracy and Liberty. He was inspired by great men, such as Abraham Lincoln, who was shot eighteen years before Sandburg's birth. He was so inspired that he wrote a book about the man's life. It was called Abraham Lincoln: The war ... prize. Some of his all- American works include the following: The Chicago race chariots(1919), Mary Lincoln , Wife and Widow(1932), Rootabaga Country(1922), and Potato Face(1930). In summary, Sandburg was and all-American great guy. He led a life of many social statuses and worked his way to the top. He wrote many great works. And finally he proved himself to be an American marvel. Carl Sandburg was ...
- 1710: Film Score Music
- ... put there on purpose to create a certain feeling, emphasize a point, give more life to a character or sometimes to simply add humour. What the average moviegoer does not usually realize is that a great deal of time and thought goes into writing the score for a film and choosing the background music for a scene. None of the music is arbitrary; themes and sub themes have been created with ... way for the recorded film score, known as a talkie or canned music. The 1930's was the time that saw the rise of the symphonic film score. This was the time in which many great composers began to write the scores for films. The scores were not simple little symphonies or pieces but rather enormous projects that took a great deal of time and thought. It was also in this era that the click track was developed. This was a technique first used in the scoring of cartoons, however as the scoring for life ...
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