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- 7311: Plato Vs. Aristotle
- Plato and Aristotle, two philosophers in the 4th century, hold polar views on politics and philosophy in general. This fact is very cleverly illustrated by Raphael's "School of Athens" (1510-11; Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican), where Plato is portrayed looking up to the higher forms; and Aristotle is pointing down because he supports the natural sciences. In a discussion of politics, the ...
- 7312: Peter The Great 5
- ... ruled over the Orthodox Church of Russia. Educational reforms were also necessary in a fully modern European country. Peter created schools in which all students, whether noble or aristocrat, all children were admitted. The old school was helpless in meeting all the new requirements of state and society. Russia needed new schools, and these schools, which made their appearance during the period of reform, were not so much as a green ...
- 7313: Poore Brothers
- ... their product. Their chips have only one gram of saturated fat. They are able to achieve this small amount of fat by using a variety of sunflower oil that is low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturates (the good stuff). Promotion: Invest in brand equity building marketing programs-They support their brand with radio advertising, outdoor billboards, FSI couponing and are currently executing a consumer promotion with the Arizona Diamondbacks ...
- 7314: Peter The Great 2
- ... had begun. Early in his reign, Peter sent groups of young nobles abroad to England, Holland and elsewhere, to acquire skills such as languages, seamanship, or mechanics. This experiment met with various oppositions. The first school he created was the Academy of Mathematics, later renamed Navigation, in 1701 in Moscow. Peter the Great also established an Academy of Science as both a research institute and an institution of higher education, open ...
- 7315: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria Picasso, was an Andalusian of Majorcan origin. In 1896 Picasso entered the school of fine arts where his father was a professor. In 1900, Picasso visited Paris, at the time the world's centre for art and literature, and became infatuated with its street life, in particular, the ...
- 7316: On J.j. Thomson
- ... who traveled from town to town in the middle nineteenth century delighted audiences by showing them the ancestor of the neon sign. They took a glass tube with wires embedded in opposite ends . . . put a high voltage across . . . pumped out most of the air . . . and the interior of the tube would glow in lovely patterns. In 1859 a German physicist sucked out still more air with an improved pump and saw ...
- 7317: Octavian Augustus
- ... an empire. Octavian used this army to occupy Rome and force the Senate to make him consul. Marc Antony, who had been consul with Caesar, was now forced to create the alliance with Lepidus, a high priest, and Octavian. These three men who would vie for this power: Gauis Pompey, Julius Caesar and Licinius Crassus. These three formed the First Triumvirate, or rule of three men, by dominating Rome with their ...
- 7318: Nikita Sergeyevich
- ... dissent: he supported sending tanks into Budapest in 1956 to brutally suppress a Hungarian rebellion. The Iron Curtain remained in place. In relations with the West, Khrushchev's tenure was marked by a series of high-stakes crises: the U-2 affair, the building of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile crisis. At the same time, he was the first Soviet leader to advocate "peaceful coexistence" with the West, and ...
- 7319: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... Salem witch trials. Nathaniel's surname, when born, was spelled, "Hathorne". After he graduated from college he added the "w" in order to make the spelling conform to the way it was pronounced. Hawthorne hated school, and barely advanced through his studies. Nathaniel entered, and subsequently graduated from, Bowdin College in Salem. Hawthorne was not an outstanding student, and graduated only in the middle of his class in 1825. Nathaniel had ...
- 7320: Napoleon 4
- ... arising because of the continual fog, I also became sick and had to go to the hospital in the fortress of Stettin...When I arrived with several from the regiment, we were placed three stories high under the roof in the hospital. Here twelve to fifteen of the men about me died every day, which made me sick at my stomach...In this fortress of Stettin the Würzburg soldiers were stationed ...
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