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- 7511: Druids
- ... constructed Stonehenge located in South Central England as a astronomical use. But the current formation was made in 1500 BC the Celtic civilization did not start almost a millennium before the Celtics. In Ireland and Great Britain, there are many ancients "Druid" alters, bed, rings, stones, stone circles and temples. Druids may have used these megalithic monuments, but they did not build them. Another place of worship is Woodhenge, which is ...
- 7512: Dionysus The Peoples God
- ... insanity. He wandered until he met the Rhea, who cured him of his madness and made him the Olympian god he was destined to be. This brief history of the coming of Dionysus has a great effect on how he rules as a god. Dionysus, other than his famed title of God of Wine, was also a go of birth and rejuvenation for all life. One of the major components of ...
- 7513: The McDonaldization of Society
- ... for Human Technology Ritzer's discussion combines these last two elements of the McDonaldization process. ...these two elements are closely linked. Specifically, replacement of human by nonhuman technology is often oriented towards greater control. The great source of uncertainty and unpredictability in a rationalizing system are people-either the people who work within those systems or the people who are served by them. (Ritzer 1994:148) Everything is pre-packaged, pre ...
- 7514: Dave Matthews Band, The Most Compelling Band Around
- ... DMB Info File). Another contribution to their success is the message their songs give out through its lyrical content and poetic influences. The theme of a song gives off emotion, aiding it in becoming a great piece of music. The song Tripping Billies is about a day during Dave’s childhood, that he was hanging with his friends, and was being chased be the police. The song gives off a bouncy ...
- 7515: Dying And Surviving In Virgini
- ... had to go back and forth across the Atlantic sea to get more supplies in which each trip took almost three months. Unfortunately, on their way back to Roanoke, their supplies ships sank during the great seastorm and seven out of eleven chiefest colonists were drowned. The rest of the crews, after experiencing this disaster, lost their faith and hope. However, they managed to get to Roanoke some time much later ...
- 7516: Darwins Sea Change
- ... did not just effect the friendship between him and Fitzroy. Darwin began to do more research and experiments. It is also believed that Darwin's five years at sea could have turned him into the great scientist that he was. There is also the belief that Fitzroy was the cause of Darwin's change. For five long years Darwin would listen to the boastful captain. In many of the conversations that ...
- 7517: Comparison Of Two Paintings
- ... that caught my eyes because of the composition and contents in the paintings. Somnambulist Mall Walking was painted in 1995 by Lynn Randolf and Golconda was done in 1953 by Margaritte. Eventhough there is a great difference in the length of time when these two paintings were done, there are some similarities and certainly lots of visual differences in them. From the paintings one can tell the period of their creation ...
- 7518: Dea Sea Scrolls Imperfection
- ... The scribe is the same way. He will stay awake for hours upon hours, slaving away at his obligation to complete the copying of the scroll. Fatigue is sure to fall upon him after some great length of time and his eyesight and judgement are liable to get a bit hazy. Say this is a religious setting and the scribe has a pretty good knowledge of the book that he is ...
- 7519: The Chicago Fire of 1871
- ... including one of seventeen steam fire engines and a hose cart. Nearly half of Chicago's 185 firemen fought this fire and many were on duty all day, so they were already exhausted when the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 struck. Some people think that the fire was started by Mrs. O'leary's cow kicking over a lantern. Others have different theories, but one thing is for sure,on the ...
- 7520: Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Dead Sea Scrolls are documents of great historical and scholarly value, found in 1947 and later in caves above the North West Dead Sea. Archaeologists have shown that the scrolls stored in jars in the first cave at QUMRAN were written or ...
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