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- 6741: The Pyramids of Egypt
- ... is why the Egyptians mummified their dead, to preserve the body from decay. Although they needed to preserve the bodies and tried very hard to hide the tombs, few rich burials survived even a relatively short time. There have been many tomb robbers. Egypt could not protect the temples and tombs, then or now, against the greed of robbers or the dedication of archeologists. Another large problem came about with trying ...
- 6742: Chicago: A City of the Senses
- ... Senses Chicago has enjoyed the tourist spotlight over the years, due to its cultural and economical prosperity. The crowded streets, ethnic bakeries, and popular malls add zest and flavor to this enriching city. Since my short visit in May with a high school class, I have dreamed of making the busy commuters, blinding and mind-altering lights, and sheer musical excitement a part of my everyday life. Commuters livened up Chicago ...
- 6743: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- ... white reporter at the Montgomery Advertiser. He said, 'I've got a big story for you and I want you to meet me,' now E.D. doesn't talk in long sentences, he's very short and brusque...He said, 'Can you meet me?' I said, 'Yeah I can meet you.' So we met down at Union Station and he showed me one of these leaflets. And he said, 'I want ...
- 6744: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... Stalin's purges. Briefly, in 1953, Moscow felt comnfortable in allowing Second secretaries of the party, all of whom had been Russian since 1945, to be ethnically represented again. However, this change of heart was short-lived. Russians came back into those positions in Lithuania in 1955, in Latvia in 1956, and in Estonia, a Russianized "Yestonian" was able to hold on from 1953 until 1964. (39) (See Appendix) In 1956 ...
- 6745: Germany
- ... On the front of her outfit is embroidery and artificial gold coins sewn on. A little black hat with a small brim and a white feather is also worn. The boys wear lederhosen, which are short leather pants with a bib, like overalls. These often have embroidery on the front, too. Food The German people eat meals which usually have potatoes and pork, veal or fish. They don't eat as ...
- 6746: T.S. Eliot
- ... they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solistitio brumali, the very dead of winter. T.S.ELIOT A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
- 6747: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- ... on the boundary between several distinctive social formations such as nobility, clergy, and commons, Chaucer participates in all three of them. Interacting within these three groups may have influenced Chaucer's interest in individuality. In short, Chaucer's view of humanity produces the whole range of comic and romantic experience, a range so comprehensive as to make a tragedy a mere episode and so inclusive as to admit the presence even ...
- 6748: Achilles Actions Bring His Eventual Doom Closer To Reality
- ... war, and it is by this questioning of the divine judgment of the gods that he brings doom upon himself. It is known by himself, and by the gods, that he is to live a short, but glorious life, however it is not known how or when his life will come to an end. Achilles himself, wishes to live one of longevity without great glory, and therefore tries to escape his ...
- 6749: T.S. Eliot
- ... philosophy in France from 1910 to 1914, the outbreak of war. In 1915 the verse magazine Poetry published Eliot's first notable piece, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. This was followed by other short poems such as 'Portrait of a Lady'. 'The Waste Land', which appeared in 1922, is considered by many to be his most challenging work (see American Literature). In 1927 Eliot became a British subject and ...
- 6750: The Gothic Novel
- ... why I think the Gothic novelists, with all their faults and failing, have done us infinite service, and proved themselves true friends to those of us who care to withdraw, be it even for a short time, and at rare intervals, from the relentless oppression and carding cares of a bitter actuality"(Summers 198). Maggie Kilgore, in her book The Rise of the Gothic Novel states that: "For Summers, art offers ...
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