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• Puppets I INTRODUCTION Punch and Judy Punch and Judy are characters in an English hand puppet show that first appeared in 1662.

  Rod puppets are controlled by rods attached to their limbs, heads, and bodies. Although the traditional rod puppets of Belgium and Sicily are worked from above, likemarionettes, most contemporary rod figures are operated from below. In theaters, rod puppeteers are frequently concealed from view by drapery or stage flats (fabric stretched across frames). On television and in films, rod and hand puppeteers usually hold their figures either above their heads or in front of their faces. In the lat...

• Inca Empire - history.

  rediscovered the site in 1911.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Inca society was strictly organized, from the emperor and royal family down to the peasants. The emperor was thought to be descended from the sun god, Inti, and hetherefore ruled with divine authority. All power rested in his hands. Only the influence of custom and the fear of revolt checked the emperor’s power. The emperor had oneofficial wife, but he had many royal concubines and his children by these wives often numbe...

• Barack Obama of Illinois

  Pre -Election Career 1988: Obama is a summer associate in a the Chicago law firm 1992: Obama graduates from Harvard and returns to Chicago . 1996: H e is elected to the Illinois Senate , which is controlled by Republicans. 1999: Obama begins running for Congress . 2000: Obama loses his challenge for the congressional seat held by Rep. Bobby Rush. 2003 -2004: Obama amasses his legislative record and serves as chair of the Health and Hu...

• Cubism I INTRODUCTION Cubism, movement in modern art, especially in painting, invented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in 1907 and 1908.

  Mont Sainte-Victoire by CézanneFrench artist Paul Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain near his home in Provence in southern France, onmany occasions. Over time, the images he produced became flatter, less realistic, and more abstract. In this late version,painted from 1902 to 1904, patches of color barely indicate the mountain, sky, and foreground, while creating a rhythmicpattern across the painting’s surface. The mountain and sky, both intensely blue, appear almost to merge.Philad...

• Shaka.

  IV EVALUATION Many powerful myths surround Shaka’s life, making it difficult for people to appraise him rationally. As the founder of the Zulu kingdom—a kingdom whose traditionsand influence survive to this day—Shaka is celebrated for his military prowess, and he serves as a potent symbol of Zulu national pride. For many Europeans, however,he has always epitomized the stereotypical savage African tyrant. Indeed, oral traditions regarding his cruelty have been preserved among the descendants of...

• Armenia (country) - country.

  because of ethnic tension brought on by a secessionist conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited predominantly by Armenians in western Azerbaijan. In thereverse direction, many Armenian refugees entered Armenia from Azerbaijan during the conflict. Armenia’s official state language is Armenian, an Indo-European language with no surviving close relatives. It has a unique 38-letter alphabet that dates from the early5th century. Of its many spoken dialects, the most important are Eastern or Y...

• Army. I INTRODUCTION Army, military land forces of a nation, assembled, drilled, disciplined,

  disappearance for several centuries of large standing armies in Europe. A Middle Ages Feudalism was based on a concept of local defense, each baron or landowner governing land that had been given him by the king, and each lord having his ownpersonal protective forces recruited from among men who worked for him. In return, each lord and his men were pledged to annual service to the monarch and couldbe called on in special instances, as in the defense of Christendom during the Crusades. National...

• Baumgardt, David

  In his unpublished History of Modern Ethics Baumgardt essayed a synoptic view of the ethical theories of the past two hundred and fifty years. He was especially drawn to the utilitarianism of Bentham , which he came to know well in England. His book Bentham and the Ethics of Today (1952) included hitherto unpublished writings of Bentham, and Bentham's utilitarianism provided the point of departure for his own ethical hedonism. Seeking to rehabilitate a philosophical tradition stigmati...

• French and Indian War.

  Virginia as well as the French governor-general of Canada had attempted to seize their lands. After receiving large presents of supplies and arms, the Iroquoisgrudgingly renewed their alliances with the British colonies. Delegates then moved on to plan other defensive measures. An important topic was a plan of union developed by Benjamin Franklin. The Albany Plan, as it became known, proposed a single institution to govern all of the Britishcolonies in America. Under the plan, each colony would...

• French and Indian War - Canadian History.

  Virginia as well as the French governor-general of Canada had attempted to seize their lands. After receiving large presents of supplies and arms, the Iroquoisgrudgingly renewed their alliances with the British colonies. Delegates then moved on to plan other defensive measures. An important topic was a plan of union developed by Benjamin Franklin. The Albany Plan, as it became known, proposed a single institution to govern all of the Britishcolonies in America. Under the plan, each colony would...

• Louis Battles Schmeling.

  overpowered, Schmeling managed only to land three lackluster blows. “It was no fight,” wrote a New York Daily News reporter. “It was a slaughter, so one-sided and ending so abruptly, expert and customer alike felt cheated of thrills.” To the endless delight of most Americans, this time it was Schmeling who could not leave the ring under his own power. Louis's savage body blows literally brokeSchmeling's back in two places. Schmeling's performance was so disastrous that his handlers disable...

• Wordsworth/Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (Sprache & Litteratur).

  And how she wept and clasp’d his kneesAnd how she tended him in vain –And ever strove to expiate The Scorn, that craz’d his Brain. And that she nurs’d him in a Cave;And how his Madness went awayWhen on the yellow forest leaves A dying Man he lay; His dying words – but when I reach’dThat tenderest strain of all the Ditty,My falt’ring Voice and pausing Harp Disturb’d her Soul with Pity! All Impulses of Soul and SenseHad thrill’d my guileless Genevieve,The Music, and the doleful Tale, T...

• Johnson Wins Olympic Gold.

  Johnson rewarded himself with a solid jump but faltered a bit on his fourth step. Fredericks took full advantage, grabbing an early lead. Johnson recovered, firstpassing Boldon and then, at the 80-meter mark, overtaking the Namibian. A twinge of pain shot through Johnson's right hamstring as he neared the tape (the injury would keep him out of the 4 x 400 relay), but by then victory was secured.He erased the final 100 meters in a blazing 9.2 seconds, leaning into the tape a comfortable 5 met...

• Asmus, Valentin Ferdinandovich

  Schelling, Fichte and Hegel. He argues that it was Kant who first grasped the significance of dialecticalcontradiction, though he mistakenly confined its influence to the realm of thought. Hegel, in contrast, correctlydiscerned that the development of being itself is dialectical, but his account is belied by his idealist metaphysics andteleological conception of history. It was Marx and Engels, Asmus argues, who identified the true empirical contentof Hegel's system and turned dialecti...

• Shaka.

  IV EVALUATION Many powerful myths surround Shaka’s life, making it difficult for people to appraise him rationally. As the founder of the Zulu kingdom—a kingdom whose traditionsand influence survive to this day—Shaka is celebrated for his military prowess, and he serves as a potent symbol of Zulu national pride. For many Europeans, however,he has always epitomized the stereotypical savage African tyrant. Indeed, oral traditions regarding his cruelty have been preserved among the descendants of...

• Bacon, Francis

  Elizabeth, who recognized his abilities but seems to have found his personality unappealing. Burghley was more concerned to advance the career of his own son Robert, later Earl of Salisbury, and Bacon attached himself to Elizabeth 's last favourite, the brilliant but insubstantial Earl of Essex. Essex's attempt in 1601 to restore his fortunes by staging an insurrection proved a complete fiasco, and made him liable to prosecution for treason. Bacon adroitly changed sides and prosecuted his for...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: EMPEDOCLES

  Whether or not Empedocles was a wonder-worker, he deserved his reputation as an original and imaginative philosopher. He wrote two poems, longer than Parmenides' and more fluent if also more repetitive. One was about science and one about religion. Of the former, On Nature , we possess some four hundred lines from an original two thousand; of the latter, Purifications , only smaller fragments have survived. Empedocles' philosophy of nature can be regarded as a synthesis of the thought o...

• Church, Alonzo

  principal expression of this language is an abstraction operator which is used to construct an expression for a function from an expression for an arbitrary value. For example, ' ¸x:x 2 ' denotes the function which takes any number to its square. The rules of transformation (conversion) of the calculus provide a guide for derivations among expressions of the above type. The ¸-calculus has had a significant effect on the development of logic. It was shown that the original formulation of the...

• Babylonia - USA History.

  Pharmacology, too, doubtless had made considerable progress, although the only major direct evidence of this comes from a Sumerian tablet written several centuriesbefore Hammurabi. C Legal System and Writing Law and justice were key concepts in the Babylonian way of life. Justice was administered by the courts, each of which consisted of from one to four judges. Often theelders of a town constituted a tribunal. The judges could not reverse their decisions for any reason, but appeals from their...

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Sets Career Points Record.

  Play stopped as Abdul-Jabbar was swarmed by players, coaches, photographers, and reporters. During the ceremony he thanked his family and fans. He left the gamewith 22 points on 10-of-14 field-goal shooting and 2-of-2 free-throw shooting, along with 5 rebounds and 3 assists. The Lakers won the game, 129-115. Among the many basketball figures offering praise for Abdul-Jabbar's achievement was Kansas City Kings head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons. “Kareem scored 15,000of his points with skyhooks, du...

• Bachelard, Gaston (en anglais)

  understanding not only his own work, but also that of Althusser and the followers of Lacan . In France, Bachelard has been criticized by postmodernists for remaining faithful to some of the methods of critical philosophy, and by Marxists for his humanism. His works on poetics inspired many of the French New Critics (see French philosophy of science §§1-2 ). 2 The new scientific spirit To have taught science in the early part of the twentieth century is to have experienced dramatic ch...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE CHARACTER AND ORGANIZATION OF THE SCIENCES - COMTE

  the different sciences, and their interrelations, we can improve the organization of scientific research. For newwork, especially that requiring several disciplines, will be suggested by various features of the general scheme andbe fitted into it appropriately. We shall not, for example, waste energy in grappling with topics such as psychologyfor which there is, and can be, no positive science. The other ground is that the scheme aids us to renovate oursystem of theoretical education; the st...

• Social Psychology.

  During the 1960s, American psychologist Stanley Milgram studied a form of social influence stronger than conformity: obedience to authority. In a famous series ofexperiments that attracted controversy about human research ethics, Milgram put each of 1,000 subjects into a situation in which they were ordered by anexperimenter to administer painful electric shocks to a confederate (who did not actually receive any shocks). The subjects in these studies were led to believe that theywere acting as '...

• Mazeroski's Home Run Wins the Series.

  Capitalizing on a break of their own the Yankees tied the score in the top of the ninth inning. With one run in and one out, smart baserunning by Mantle robbedPittsburgh of a double play and allowed pinch-runner Gil McDougald to score. The bottom of the ninth brought the Forbes faithful to its feet and Mazeroski to the plate. A steady but not spectacular hitter, the 24-year-old West Virginian hadearned more of a reputation for his sparkling fielding. Years later a noted statistician gave Maz...

• Religion.

  By the end of the 19th century, scholars were making religion an object of systematic inquiry. Müller’s comparative approach was adopted in many European andJapanese universities, and as a result the common features of world religions (such as gods, prayer, priesthood, and creation myths) were the subjects of sustainedscholarly investigation. In addition, field anthropologists had begun to compile firsthand accounts of the religions of peoples who previously had been dismissed assavages. The stu...

• Excerpt from The Pickwick Papers - anthology.

  “Two or three veeks,” replied the man. “Weeks!” said Mr. Pickwick in astonishment—and out came the note-book again. “He lives at Pentonwil when he's at home,” observed the driver, coolly, “but we seldom takes him home, on account of his veakness.” “On account of his weakness!” reiterated the perplexed Mr. Pickwick. “He always falls down when he's took out o' the cab,” continued the driver, “but when he's in it, we bears him up werry tight, and takes him in werry short, so as heca...

• sherlock

  think he's closer to a psychopath than a detective. Sherlock takes place immediately on the affair. He starts then the survey by studying the body of the woman and by executing brilliant demonstration of his science of the deduction. With his genius he is fast going to discover numerous indications which are going to allow him to move forward in the survey, and he inferred a suitcase is missing on the crime scene. Wh...

• Essay The great Gatsby/bluest eye

  Gatsby's heart easily. Consequently, after this scene and the car accident she was implicated in, she withdrawswith Tom in her materialistic world, forgetting for ever Gatsby without any remorse. However, Gatsby still believesthat she will call him again, he is pathetic and in total delusion, he cannot accept that his dream as faded awayand that he totally overestimated Daisy and her love for him. Finally, in the very end, Gatsby's incorruptible faith in his dream leads him to protect Daisy from...

• How does Shakespeare establish the character of Richard in the first two scenes’ of Richard the III?

  combined with the skill he has demonstrated in the scene, the audience knows he will achieve his diabolic plans. The question is how. In the next scene, Richard’s ability of being one step in front of people is confirmed. The obstacle he has the overcome in this scene, Anne’s hatred, seems to be hopeless and unachievable. Shakespeare portrays Anne’s animosity towards Richard with the help of actions “she spits at him”, “she looks scornfully at her” but also castigates him as an inhuman, un...

• the legend of dorian gray

  summary : Painter Basil Hallward and college friend dandy Lord Henry Wotton befriend Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man. Basil finds inspiration in painting Dorian. Lord Henry seeks to influence him with his philosophy of New Hedonism. Dorian, spellbound by Basil's portrait and Lord Henry's wit and wisdom, expresses the desire to be forever young, and a willingness to give his soul for it. Dorian meets an actress Sibyl Vane, is smitten with her performances of Shakespearean heroines an...

• Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club Charles Dickens Chapter I -- The

  “ That this Association cordially recognises the principle of every member of the Corresponding Society defraying his own travelling expenses; and that it sees no objection whatever to the members of the said society pursuing their inquires for any length of time they please, upon the same terms. “ That the members of the aforesaid Corresponding Society be, and are, hereby informed, that their proposal to pay the postage of their letters, and the carriage of their parcels, has been deliberated u...

• Biographie George Orwell en Anglais + Resume court de Animal Farm

  Animal Farm is a short political fable based on Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. It was published in 1945. The animals of the Manor Farm live in a bad situation because their farmer Mr. Jones, a mean and always drunk man, exploits them. One day Old Major, an old pig, called a meeting of all the animals and told them about a dream that he had had the previous night. He had dreamed about an old song 'Beasts of England' that started a resistance against the human beings. Everyone...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: ETERNAL RECURRENCE - Nietzsche

  an imagined escape from the course of becoming.The element of challenge is just as evident in a powerful chapter of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Third Part, ‘On theVision and the Riddle'). Zarathustra describes an episode in which he confronts his enemy, the dwarflike ‘spirit ofgravity', and initiates a contest of riddles. He points out a gateway which stands between two lanes, stretchingforwards and backwards into an infinite distance. The gateway, at which they come into conflict, has a name:‘Mom...

• al-Suhrawardi, Shihab al-Din Yahya

  astronomy. The major portion of al-Suhrawardi's writings is devoted to this last stage of rational analysis andsystematization, although he sometimes relates his visions. His symbolic narratives in Persian are in some sense arecord of these, although in them al-Suhrawardi, the author, is never explicitly the first person. The narratives havea pedagogic function, and are guides to the kind of experiences to be encountered by the seeker and to theirinterpretation; indeed a central figur...

• Star Wars :

  twins and dies on board Bail Organa's ship. The twins are a boy, Luke, and a girl, Leia. Later, Luke learn by Darth Vader that he is his father. At the end, the dark lord attempted to kill Luke with Force lightning, a sight that moves Vader to turn and kill his master, suffering mortal wounds in the process. Redeemed, Anakin Skywalker dies in his son's arms.  

• Miami (Florida) - geography.

  VI EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS Colleges and universities in the area include the University of Miami, Florida International University, Barry University, St. Thomas University, and Florida MemorialCollege. Miami-Dade Community College, one of the nation’s largest two-year colleges, has six campuses in the region. Leading museums include the Historical Museumof Southern Florida, the Miami Museum of Science, the Miami Art Museum, the Lowe Art Museum on the campus of the University of M...

• Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities - anthology.

  “Good day, citizeness.” “Good day, citizen.” This mode of address was now prescribed by decree. It had been established voluntarily some time ago, among the more thorough patriots; but, was now law foreverybody. “ Walking here again, citizeness?” “You see me, citizen!” The wood-sawyer, who was a little man with a redundancy of gesture (he had once been a mender of roads), cast a glance at the prison, pointed at the prison, andputting his ten fingers before his face to represe...

• Berlin, Isaiah

  assumption. The denial of a fixed human nature comes to saying first, that there are many different and no canonically correct expressions of these potentialities; second, that what expressions these potentialities might receive cannot be recognized in advance of historical experience; third, that these two points hold good for the future, so that there can be no Hegelian (or - more particularly for Berlin's concerns - Marxist) total realization of human possibilities (see Hegel, G.W.F. ; Ma...

• Animal Courtship and Mating - biology.

  activity. These animals frequently copulate in water, and the penis helps transfer sperm before it is carried away by the currents Ostriches and rheas also contain apenis within the cloaca. Virtually all snakes and lizards display yet another variation of internal fertilization. Located in the tail are two penises, called hemepenes, which are covered by spinesand knobs that help lock it into place during mating. The male uses one hemepene at a time for copulation. Male salamanders secrete large...

• Sir John Abbott.

  nonetheless tarnished a number of Conservative reputations. Mainly, however, these charges succeeded only in keeping the government on the defensive. The party'srelative success was due partly to Thompson's debating powers and partly to the conveniently timed defeat of the Liberals in Québec because of similar charges ofcorruption. V RETIREMENT In November 1892, Abbott's doctors warned him that he must retire. In his letter of resignation he advised the governor-general to send for Thompson. Ab...

• Sir John Abbott - Canadian History.

  nonetheless tarnished a number of Conservative reputations. Mainly, however, these charges succeeded only in keeping the government on the defensive. The party'srelative success was due partly to Thompson's debating powers and partly to the conveniently timed defeat of the Liberals in Québec because of similar charges ofcorruption. V RETIREMENT In November 1892, Abbott's doctors warned him that he must retire. In his letter of resignation he advised the governor-general to send for Thompson. Ab...

• Classification - biology.

  species based on the fewest number of shared changes that have occurred from generation to generation. IV HISTORY OF CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS Classification is one of the oldest sciences, but despite its age it is still a vigorous field full of new discoveries and methods. Much like other fields of science, greatthinkers have shaped the course of classification. One of the earliest classification schemes was established by Greek philosopher Aristotle, who lived in the 300s BC. Aristotle believe...

• Rocky Marciano's Last Professional Fight.

  Marciano waded in after that, throwing barrages of punches that mostly landed on Moore's arms, shoulders, and head. He staggered Moore in the fourth, and then hitthe challenger with a right to the face just after the bell sounded. Moore responded in kind, popping Marciano with a right, but his punches were beginning to losetheir force: “It was a good thing Moore couldn't see Marciano's face as he came back to his corner,” Liebling wrote, “because the champion was laughing.” Marciano dropped...

• Elizabeth I.

  Catholic challenges and plots persisted through much of Elizabeth’s reign, and Elizabeth reacted to them strongly. In 1569 a group of powerful Catholic nobles innorthern England rose in rebellion but were savagely repressed. The northern earls were executed, their property and those of their followers was confiscated, and theirheirs were deprived of their inheritance. In 1570 the pope excommunicated Elizabeth, sanctioning Catholic efforts to dethrone her. In 1571 an international conspiracywas u...

• Elizabeth I .

  Catholic challenges and plots persisted through much of Elizabeth’s reign, and Elizabeth reacted to them strongly. In 1569 a group of powerful Catholic nobles innorthern England rose in rebellion but were savagely repressed. The northern earls were executed, their property and those of their followers was confiscated, and theirheirs were deprived of their inheritance. In 1570 the pope excommunicated Elizabeth, sanctioning Catholic efforts to dethrone her. In 1571 an international conspiracywas u...

• Cattaneo, Carlo

  States) (1842)), even though he did not ignore the effects of colonialism and its abuses of power ( Dell'India antica e moderna (India, Past and Present) (1846)). Progress, for Cattaneo, is made up of cultural graftings, of conflicts and exchanges of ideas and principles between different peoples and cultures. Social conditions are the source of good or evil. Not for nothing have some critics seen Cattaneo's famous Interdizioni israelitiche (Israeli Interdicts) of 1835 as containing the...

• true love

  or to play games. At the time the first computers were built the people maybe thought they   were dangerous and could get out of control. Even before Asimov, some people wrote   about machines that could become mightier than humans. But those presentations said   that a machine, for example a computer, was like a wild beast that could kill you if you did   not pay enough attention. I think Asimov's thoughts about computers and their future were not wrong. It is true that   we try to improve the ...

• Les politiques de Louis XIV

  Persecution of the Huguenots  1661 – 1679 Huguenot’s made to feel unwelcome:  Restrictions were imposed on their marriages and funerals.  Schools and churches were closed.  Huguenots were bribed to abandon their faith, the revenues of vacant   bishoprics being devoted to this objective.  A special government department, the “casse des conversions”, handled   this business – its leader, Paul Pellison, claimed to have converted fifty   thousand at the rate of 10 livres a head.  In 1668 one o...

• Beauty on Earth Ramuz

  extends beyond the text, literally and figuratively. Translator Bailat-Jones discusses the complications of preserving Ramuz's intent when bringing his French into English; besides moving between past, present, and conditional tenses at dizzying speeds, he uses the pronouns on, vous, and nous?one, you, and we, which are often in English interchangeable ways of talking about a general subject?to mean different, specific things. He speaks not only of ?one? as an abstract third-person, but ?one? as...

• Arcaro Wins the Triple Crown.

  that Citation was the class of the field, regardless of track condition. Citation, the overwhelming favorite at odds of 1-to-10, came out of the gate first, pulled aheadby two lengths on the backstretch, and romped to the finish six lengths ahead of the second-place horse, Vulcan. Arcaro used the whip only twice: at the entrance ofthe backstretch and just outside the eighth pole. According to the New York Times, ”Citation got the idea, and kept pulling away from the others through the final ya...