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Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
... his majesty considered to be an offense, ranging from breach of etiquette to high treason. Louis demanded total loyalty to the throne
and discretion in public and private behavior. (Dumas, Afterword). Louis was born on September 5, 1638. It was also an event that fell just short of being miraculous, for the king and queen had been married for twenty-three years and they detested each other. After all these years of unfruitful marriage, everyone had become resigned to the idea that the reigning couple, Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, would remain childless. This meant that the King's brother, Gaston d'Orleans would eventually inherit the throne. The birth o ...
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Michelangelo
... was a strong influence of humanism in the city, which influenced and captured his thoughts.
Although he had no artistic background, decided he wanted to be an artist. At first, this angered his father, who really was just in search of money. Then, after many debates, 's father gave in and allowed him to take an apprenticeship under Domenico Ghirlandaio. His work at the hands of his teacher caught the eye of Lorezno Medici the Magnificent, the power in Florence. Lorenzo invited to sculpt for him. This visit allowed to meet many people who immersed in him in the principles of humanism.
During his visit, sculpted the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the ...
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Gillian Anderson
... and read, for that matter, about.
Gillian Leigh Anderson began her life in Cook County, Chicago on August 9, 1968. By the time she was only a mere 6 months old, her and her family were residing in Puerto Rico. At the age of 1, she relocated once again, this time in London, England. At this point, it is safe to say that the Anderson family was somewhat nomadic. Now being an inhabitant of England, the family moved several more times. At the age of 5, Gillian was living in Crouch End in north London, where she attended her first school. By this time Gillian had spent most of her life in London but had picked up her parents’ American accent. Her classmates ...
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Ferdinand Magellan
... 1506, Magellan went on an expedition sent by Almeida to the east coast of Africa to strengthen Portuguese bases there. The next year, he returned to India, where he participated in trade and in several naval battles against Turkish fleets.
In 1509, Magellan sailed with a Portuguese fleet to Malaka, a commercial center in what is now Malaysia. The Malays attacked the Portuguese who went to shore, and Magellan helped rescue his comrades. In 1511, he took part in an expedition that conquered Malaka. After this victory, a Portuguese fleet sailed farther to the Spice Islands which were called the Molucca Islands. Portugal claimed the islands at this time. Magellan̵ ...
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The Good Times Of Clark Gable
... (1930). Although the screen tests that followed were unproductive, Gable was eventually offered his first motion-picture role as a villain in a Western, The Painted Desert (1931). He was immediately in great demand and he made a total of 12 films that year, including Sporting Blood, which was his first leading role, Free Soul and Possessed.
During the 1930’s, he was under contract with MGM, where he ended up working for 23 years. Clark Gable tended to play opposite virtually every MGM female star- Greta Carbo, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Myrna Loy; in such films as No Man of Her Own (1932), Red Dust (1932), Strange Interlude ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
... and his family split up. He was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. From then on, he was driven by hatred and a desire for revenge.
The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in h ...
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
... from 1 to
100. 10 year old Gauss put his paper with answer on the teacher's desk first
and he was the only who has got the right answer. From that day Gauss was
popular in the whole school.
On October 15, 1795, Gauss was admitted to Georgia Augusta as "matheseos
cult."; that is to say, as a mathematics student. But it is often pointed out
that at first Gauss was undecided whether he should become a mathematician or a
philologist. The reason for this indecision was probably that humanists at that
time had a better economic future than scientists.
Gauss first became completely certain of his choice of studies when he
discovered the construction of the regul ...
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Adolf Hitler
... he joined and reorganized the group called the Nazi party. He got into some trouble later that would send him to jail. He got out of jail in 1923 when he purchased a villa in Berchtesgaden.
By 1930 the Nazi party was the second largest party in the country. Because of his power in speeches he was appointed chancellor of the Nazis in 1933. Within a year he was made full leader of the Nazi Party. In 1938 Hitler takes over Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1939. World War 2 begins with Hitler and his troops marching in to Poland. By this time Jews were dying by the thousands. Europe was almost completely taken over by the Nazis. In 1941 Germany had taken over t ...
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Jesse Louis Jackson
... him as his own son.
Reverend Jackson finished tenth in his high school class and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago.
In 19 ...
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History Of Ozzy
... 1887, a man by the name Emile Berliner replaced Edison’s phonograph with the gramophone and in 1947 Goldmark introduced the LP, or Long-playing record(143-4).
Working in the recording industry takes a lot of time, patience, and money. Starting with making records, to 8 tracks, to 4 track tapes, and now to CD’s, there have been many changes in bettering the production. There are five separate levels of responsibility the industry must go through before it reaches the public(148). One is the Artists and repertoire, which develop and coordinate talent. The Operations manage the technical aspects of the recording, such as: sound technicians, musicians, ...
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