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- 3361: William Blake
- ... 1772, he was an apprentice to an engraver, James Basire, who taught him the secrets of the trade very well. Basire sent him to make drawings of the sculptures in Westminster Abbey, which sparked his interest in Gothic art. Blake's father was a hosier, and sent him to the Royal Academy in 1779 as an engraving student. While at school, Blake absorbed the religious symbolism and linear design characteristic of ...
- 3362: William Mackenzie King
- ... and King became a Prime Minister. He set out to regain the confidence of the farmers in Ontario and western Canada who had supported the new Progressive Party, but his Reduction in tariffs and fright rates were not enough, and after the 1925 election the Liberals could stay in the office only with Progressive support. King was an Opposition Leader, keeping his party united as he attacked Bennett for unfulfilled promises ...
- 3363: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... first sided with the Americans; he attacked the Whig banking policy. He continued to attack British topics, such as Martin Van Buren being a British tool in a democratic government. Gradually, such comments, and lagging interest cut the number of readers, and left Mackenzie in even more serious financial difficulty. His trial for breaking the neutrality laws had finally been held in June at 1839. Mackenzie, who fancied himself a legal ...
- 3364: Roy Jones Jr.
- ... developed there s in the city ghettoes. He was the oldest of five. He had three sisters and onr brother. Roy s father Roy Sr. said that he is the one who sparked Roy Jr. interest in boxing, by play sparring with him when he was only five. Roy Sr. said, I d let him pounch me in the head. When I pounched him, he d get mad and run off ...
- 3365: Richard Iii
- ... his career. After he became comfortable in his position, Richard seemed to take for granted the support he had from the people. As his queen, Anne, continued to deteriorate in health, he began to have interest in his niece Elizabeth. As he was well versed in the bible, he only saw wrong in a woman marrying her nephew and no problem with marrying a niece. Luckily his advisors caught wind of ...
- 3366: Rubens
- ... in Antwerp, living primarily at Castle Steen, his country residence. During this final decade he continued executing commissions for the Habsburg monarchs of Austria and Spain. More and more, he also painted pictures of personal interest, especially of his wife and child and of the Flemish countryside. The concerns of Rubens's late style, and indeed of his whole career, are summarized in The Judgment of Paris (circa 1635-37, National ...
- 3367: Prophet Muhammad
- ... from danger and had him arrive to Medina safely and unharmed. The event now is known as Hijra (migration), and the Islamic Calendar starts from this event. . The people of Medina greeted him with great interest in accordance with their pledge made less than a year ago during the annual pilgrimage. One by one those Muslims (men and women) of Mecca who were not physically restrained, and who could make a ...
- 3368: Peter The Great 2
- ... Great adopted Western dress. Two of Peter's close foreign friendships were with Patrick Gordon and Franz Lefort. Their education and their information about ways of life, science, and Western institutions were always of great interest for Peter. He was attracted and enjoyed the company of foreigners mostly because of the greater social, sexual, and intellectual freedom. He recognized his own drives and energy among the ambitious and adventurous foreigners who ...
- 3369: Pablo Picasso
- ... he is. Cιzanne would never have interested me a bit if he had lived and thought like Jacques Emile Blanche, even if the apple he painted had been ten times as beautiful. What forces our interest is Cιzanne's anxiety - that's Cιzanne's lesson... - that is the actual drama of the man. The rest is a sham (Barnes). Although these artists did not stylistically influence Picasso, they spiritually influenced him ...
- 3370: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... wear the scarlet letter on her bosom, they suggest she have it branded on her forehead or even be put to death (Hawthorne 51). Perhaps the most important influence on the story is Hawthorne's interest in the "dark side" (Hawthorne "Introduction" VIII). Unlike the transcendentalists of the time, Hawthorne "confronted reality, rather than evading it" (Hawthorne "Introduction" VII). In retrospect, The Scarlet Letter deals with adultery, a subject that caused ...
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