The Crime At Compiegne
.... the Dauphin, later Charles VII, king of France,
recapture the city of Orleans and thereby win the Hundred Years' War
against England. Jeanne succeeded in convincing Charles and his board of
theologians that she had a divine mission to save France. Approving her
claims, she was granted a small detachment of troops to command. Dressed
in armor and carrying a white banner that represented God blessing the
French royal emblem, the fleur-de-lis, she led the French to a decisive
victory over the English at Orleans.
Having accomplished this miraculous feat she convinced Charles to
risk the journey to Rheims in order to hold c .....
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Andy Warhol
.... with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie
Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein,
who was a fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In
1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art seriously as a
career. He began his career with commercial drawings of women's shoes. In 1961,
an early manifestation was his Dick Tracy, an enlarged version of the comic
strip that was placed in the window of Lord & Taylor's department store. He
followed in his own footsteps to keep going in the ever-so-famous "pop art"
track. Warhol's use o .....
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Louis XIV
.... to reside and rule in Paris, so against the will
of his advisors he chose a hunting chateau as the site of his new palace.
He also knew from history that the nobles of his domain had in the past
and would continue to cause trouble in the form of uprisings and other
conflicts. Louis XIV sought absolute power, and he knew that he would not
be able to obtain this if preoccupied by civil conflicts. His solution to
this problem was building Versailles and inviting all of the nobles to
reside there. This was a brilliant scheme to keep the nobles out of the
politics of the country. He preoccupied them with tasked normally
associated with .....
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The Life Of Ulysses S. Grant
.... MO marked his leadership and
career in the Army and his role he played in the Civil War. In 1854 Grant
resigned from the army and moved to his cabin with his family. Disaster
struck and the price of crops dropped dramatically. Grant's farm was mainly
crops and he lost all his crops in the price change and lost tons of money
(Encarta, 1995). Since no one was buying crops there wasn't anymore income
for his family. Grant heard about a meeting that was being held to talk
about the war. President Lincoln attended and liked Grant's comments and
enthusiasm and asked him to rejoin the Union forces (WWW Page, 1994). Grant
had no other .....
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The Ideal American: Malcolm Little
.... valued above most everything else. Change and new ideas is
essential to Americans. It is what their country is based on. Fresh ideas,
whether accepted as true or right by the general public are discussed.
Ultimately the new ways may be ridiculed, scorned, outlawed or viewed as
evil and unfit for the country. But first the ideas are always debated and
weighed with a generally open mind. Creative and new ways of looking at
things are judged before being dismissed. People whose ideas are not
accepted may be then be placed in a negative light or even hated. But no
matter how vehemently opposed an American may be to the beliefs of a pe .....
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The Life And Death Of Tupac Amaru Shakur
.... Compton, Watts, Fresno, Long Beach or Sacramento you are
considered westcoast. Why people talk bad bout each other because of their
preference on where to live will never be defined. Just prejudice acts
among people. Tupac was raised in the city of New York before he had rape
charges against him. Then after that he was shot 6 times, somehow living.
After that happened he moved off to the westcoast and signed a deal with
Death Row Records. Suge Knight signed him hoping to make multi millions of
dollars off him. Death Row produces such artists as Snoop Doggy Dogg,
Tupac, Dogg Pound, DJ Quik, Nate Dogg, Danny B .....
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The Life Of Kurt Vonnegut
.... annihilated the city of Dresden in one of the most vicious air
raids ever. The firestorm left over 130,000 people dead and many more
missing. This event became a major influence in his writing career ("The
Biographies of Kurt Vonnegut" 775).
Vonnegut started writing novels in 1947, when he went to work for
General Electric Research Laboratory. The job gave him the storyline for
his first novel Player Piano. In 1951, he resigned from his job at G.E to
pursue a full time writing career. He wrote many short stories, which in
1969 were assembled into a collection called Welcome to the Monkey House.
The next novel was C .....
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J.D. Salinger's Personal Life
.... that is not an easy
thing to do. I refuse to chip away at that shell. Besides, who cares about
his old loves and trips to Europe and family problems and all? That's what
fiction is for, after all!
So, some ask, why do I reveal the 22 "missing" stories and the titles of so
many others? I do it because that IS part of what he has given the world.
He chose to share those with us and they are good enough to share. I'm sure
he would rather have every single fan look up all those old things, even
the somewhat embarrasing ones like The Hang of It, than tramp onto his lawn
all Summer in some crazy, never-ending Woodstock.
Another questi .....
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The Life Of The Great William Shakespeare
.... "private school," and it is commonly accepted
that the children attended Stratford's Grammar School.
"William's education consisted of mostly Latin studies
(learning to read, write, and speak the language almost
fluently), and the study of some of the classic historians,
moralists, and poets. Of course, they also had basic math
and English, but all this was only a minimal education, for
it was assumed that the children would go to the university
to enhance their knowledge toward the field of their
choic .....
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The Works And Life Of Charles Dickens
.... that a boy of that age must face. The reader's
reaction to this may be to feel depressed because Dickens' has not showed
more blissful times in the lives of his main characters. In the ending,
however, Dickens' always seems to leave the reader with a warm feeling
since the last scenes are usually happy. The personal life that Dickens
had when growing up must have been tough due to the harsh tone used in
describing the growing up of his characters.
Dickens' life was that of a well respected author and novelist.
Growing up with a childhood of poverty, Dickens became one of the most
famous and best loved authors of his time. .....
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Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907)
.... taken as second nature. At the time,
heat was thought to have been a fluid of some kind.
Kelvin also maintained an interest in the age of the sun and calculated values
for it. He assumed that the sun produced its radiant energy from the
gravitational potential of matter falling into the sun. In collaboration with
Hermann von Helmholtz, he calculated and published in 1853 a value of 50 million
years. He also had an interest in the age of the earth, and he calculated that
the earth was a maximum of 400 million years old. These calculations were based
on the rate of cooling of a globe of matter after first solidification occurs (
s .....
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A Portrait Of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
.... the better for Duke,
but not for long. In those days, this new music was just beginning to develop and
would later be given the name of jazz. In that time it was considered to be low
and vulgar because it was music that grew directly out of the Black culture. In
those early years, segregation was at one of its all time worst points in
history. I think that is why Duke Ellington was one of the most
important individuals to the growth and development of jazz. During Duke's long
career, the new music slowly spread out of bars and saloons, to dance and night
clubs and then eventually onto the concert stage. In time, jazz became a
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