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Manet
Number of Words: 1154 / Number of Pages: 5
... late 1850’s when was serving as a naval cadet in Rio de Janeiro, that he met a number of slave girls, had openly admitted in letters to his friends the extend to which he found their tropical beauty alluring. Yet, is was not until returned to France that he reveled the true extent of his relationships with these girls, and confessed to the fact that he had been using his time to relate to the girls in an adult way.
The answer lies in the artists life long ill-health, it was in fact himself who first diagnosed although now medically proven to be wrong that the physical pain from which he suffered on ...
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The Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of Words: 1433 / Number of Pages: 6
... Italian Renaissance master named Andrea del
Verrocchio. He remained there until 1476 and Leonardo had picked up a
variety of skills. He spent several years there practicing a variety of
things, drafting engineering, architecture, and building, but most of all
he study painting and drawing. The education Leonardo received from
Verrocchio was very practical. For his first project, Leonardo was
assigned to build a golden sphere and cross to sit on top of the domed
cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiori. It was a huge undertaking that
required complicated mathematical calculations and casting techni ...
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Babe Ruth 3
Number of Words: 1288 / Number of Pages: 5
... the field, was an excellent pitcher and had the ability to hit the ball very well. By his late teens Ruth had developed into a major league baseball prospect. On February 27, 1914, at the age of nineteen, the Baltimore Orioles signed Babe to his first professional baseball contract. Because Ruth’s parents had signed over custody of him to St. Mary’s, he was supposed to remain at the school until he was twenty-one. To go around this, Dunn, the man who signed him, became Ruth’s legal guardian.
Just five months after being signed by the Baltimore Orioles, Babe Ruth was sold to the Bost ...
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William Lyon Makcenzie
Number of Words: 1503 / Number of Pages: 6
... to sway the opinions of the voters in the next election.
On June 8, 1826, a group of fifteen, young, well connected Tories disguised themselves as Indians, and broke into Mackenzie’s York office in broad daylight. They smashed his printing press, then threw it into the bay. The Tories did nothing to compensate him, so it was clear that they were involved. Mackenzie ntook them to court, and seeing that their "disguise" had been seen through, they offered Mackenzie £200. He refused, and after a bitter trial, the court awarded him £625.
In March of 1829, Mackenzie went to the United States ...
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Abigail Adams
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... or making sure that his sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the
help of her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long
lasting friendship.
Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she
learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to
read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson.
Abigail's father knew John Adams by working with him and she grew rather close
to him starting a wedding. This now made her name Abigail Adams. Their wedding
was held on October 25, 1764, a month before her twenti ...
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Louis XIV, The Sun King
Number of Words: 1025 / Number of Pages: 4
... Louis saw himself as God's representative on earth, therefore, infallible. He oversaw roadbuilding, court decorum, defense, and disputes within the church.
He had the support initially of his ministers, then that of the French people. He had given France the image it desired-youth and vitality surrounded by magnificence. Louis won the favor of the nobles by making it evident that their future depended on their ability stay on his good side. This weakened the nobility, and would eventually weaken France.
Louis had among his supportors a wide spectrum of individuals. Writers such as Moliere were orde ...
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Rupert Mccall
Number of Words: 1188 / Number of Pages: 5
... such as cricket, AFL and proud Australian moments such as the Australian Rugby team winning the World Cup. If an immigrant from Italy was to read Ruperts poetry, they would not appreciate it. Because he writes about Australian issues that only true Australians would understand. So they would think that he has a screw loose or something.
The three poems featured in this anthology are “Green and Gold Malaria”, “The Tubby Little Trooper” and “A Land of Backyard Cricket”.
Green and Gold Malaria tells a story of an Australian man who comes home from overseas and go ...
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Number of Words: 3016 / Number of Pages: 11
... and the glass blower taught him about the art of glass making. Another large influence in Dmitri’s life had been his sister, Olga’s, husband, Bessargin. Bessargin had been banished to Siberia because of his political beliefs as a Russian Decembrist, (Decembrists, or Dekabrists as they were known in Russia, were a group of literary men who led a revolution in Russia in 1825.), so he spent most of his time teaching Dmitri the science of the day. From these people, Dmitri grew up with three key thoughts: “Everything in the world is science,” from Bessargin. “Everything in the world is art,” from Timofei ...
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Katherine Anne Porter
Number of Words: 1030 / Number of Pages: 4
... named Miranda, gets very upset when she sees a clown, with a horrid expression on his face, almost fall off a thin wire high in the air. Dicey, Miranda's older relative, is ordered by Miranda's father to take Miranda home. Dicey is very upset about missing the circus. Later that evening, Miranda's family returns joyfully. Miranda and Dicey have to hear all about the magnificent circus they missed, which causes Miranda to burst into tears and run to her room. Then Dicey must console Miranda for the horrid nightmare she has during the night, about the clown at the circus. Miranda believes that Dicey ...
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John Paul Jones
Number of Words: 1489 / Number of Pages: 6
... large port across the Solway Firth. There he signed up for a seven year seaman's apprenticeship on The Friendship of Whitehaven, whose captain was James Younger, a prosperous merchant and ship owner. His first voyage took him across the Atlantic Ocean to Barbados and Fredericksburg, Virginia at which he stayed with his older brother William, a tailor, who had left Scotland for America over thirteen years before, and who now was living comfortably and flourishing.
John Paul was released from his apprenticeship at age 17 after which he went straight into the slave trade as third mate on King George of ...
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