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• Canadian Architecture I INTRODUCTION L'Anse aux Meadows In around ad 1000 Norse Vikings sailed from Greenland to North America and set up a village on the tip of what is now the island of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula.

  IglooSome Inuit peoples in the Arctic regions of Canada live in domed houses of snow, or igloos, which provide good insulationand protection from wind. The word igloo comes from the Inuit iglu, meaning “house.”George Holton/Photo Researchers, Inc. Canada’s original inhabitants are known as the First Nations. At the time of European arrival, about 40 nations were scattered across Canada. Many of them lived alongthe coasts, where they could fish. These nations can be classified into five major gro...

• Industrial Revolution I INTRODUCTION Industrial Revolution, widespread replacement of manual labor by machines that began in Britain in the 18th century and is still continuing in some parts of the world.

  The most important advance in iron production occurred in 1784 when Englishman Henry Cort invented new techniques for rolling raw iron, a finishing process thatshapes iron into the desired size and form. These advances in metalworking were an important part of industrialization. They enabled iron, which was relativelyinexpensive and abundant, to be used in many new ways, such as building heavy machinery. Iron was well suited for heavy machinery because of its strength anddurability. Because of t...

• Henry VIII I INTRODUCTION Henry VIII (1491-1547), king of England (1509-1547), the image of the Renaissance king as immortalized by German artist Hans Holbein, who painted him hands on hips, legs astride, exuding confidence and power.

  that was completed by 1540. The crown then took possession of all their property, paying small pensions to the approximately 10,000 monks and nuns who weredeprived of their homes. In a reversal of roles, many towns were forced to assist the same people who had once provided charity to the less fortunate. To pay for hiscontinued wars, Henry sold the former monastic lands to nobles and gentry, who thereby gained an interest in the success of Henry’s reformation and becamedependent upon the king. T...

• Rock Music I INTRODUCTION Carlos Santana Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana became a superstar in the late 1960s with a string of hits and an appearance at the famous Woodstock rock festival in 1969.

  point (a single pitch sustained through a progression of chords), and the parallel movement of chords, derived from a technique on the electric guitar known as bar-chording. Many elements of African American music have been a continuing source of influence on rock music. These characteristics include riffs (repeated patterns), backbeats (emphasizing the second and fourth beats of each measure; see Musical Rhythm: Pulse and Meter ), call-and-response patterns, blue notes (the use of certain...

• Chinese Music I INTRODUCTION Classical Peking Opera Of the many major forms of regional theater in China, Peking opera is by far the most famous.

  World Music TourClick on the instruments to hear music from around the world.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. However, the Confucian beliefs about music were constantly eroded throughout Chinese history by a long tradition of popular entertainment music, favored both at thecourt and by the common folk. Although excluded from official ritual performances for several thousand years, Chinese women musicians and entertainers had a centraland formative role in this entertainment music as...

• Proserpina Roman Queen of the Underworld (2) and the consort or wife of Dis, the Roman god of the underworld.

• Galileo I INTRODUCTION Galileo (1564-1642), Italian physicist and astronomer who, with German astronomer Johannes Kepler, initiated the scientific revolution that flowered in the work of English physicist Sir Isaac Newton.

  V WORK IN ASTRONOMY During most of his time in Padua, Galileo showed little interest in astronomy, although in 1595 he declared in a letter that he preferred the Copernican theory that Earthrevolves around the Sun to the assumptions of Aristotle and Ptolemy that planets circle a fixed Earth ( see Astronomy: The Copernican Theory ; Ptolemaic System). A Observations with the Telescope In 1609 Galileo heard that a telescope had been invented in Holland. In August of that year he constructed a t...

• Education in Great Britain ? Education is compulsory from the age of 5 (4 in Northern Ireland) to the age of 16.

  Child ren study English, M athe matics, Science , Inf orm ation technolo gy, hist ory, Geog raphy , Mo dern foreign languag es, Art, Music, Phy sical Education a nd religio us Education.  In Great Britain pa rents ha ve a choice b et ween State schools an d In depend ent schools. State schools ar e scho ols run by th e g ov ern ment. The y a re financed b y p ublic funds: t he money com es fro m the n ational a nd local taxes .In depend ent schools , als o ca...

• American Music I INTRODUCTION American Music, the folk, popular, and classical music of the United States--created by American-born or American-trained composers, or originating in American culture, or written primarily for American audiences.

  The country's first permanent orchestra was the New York Philharmonic Society, founded in 1842. Among the first symphonic and operatic composers the mostprominent was William Henry Fry, who composed the first opera by an American ( Leonora, 1845). Fry is best remembered, however, for four symphonies written in the 1850s and 1860s. George F. Bristow wrote the first opera on an American theme; his Rip Van Winkle was performed in New York City in 1855. Town bands, a popular form of community mu...

• Édouard Manet I INTRODUCTION Manet: Tradition and Innovation French impressionist painter Édouard Manet shocked art audiences in Paris with Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass; 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which depicts a nude woman at a woodland picnic.

  Le Déjeuner sur l’herbeLe Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) by Édouard Manet was painted in 1863. When it was first displayed, therough brushwork and undefined areas of color were as distressing to the public as the nude woman who was neither aclassical goddess nor a symbol in an allegory. Manet claimed that the real subject of the painting was light, and it was thatphilosophy that gave birth to impressionism.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York After his father died in 1862, Manet...

• William Blake I INTRODUCTION William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, and engraver, who created an unusual form of illustrated verse; his poetry, inspired by mystical vision, is among the most original, lyric, and prophetic in the language.

  Your spring & your day are wasted in play,And your winter and night in disguise. Both series of poems take on deeper resonances when read in conjunction. Innocence and Experience, “the two contrary states of the human soul,” are contrasted insuch companion pieces as “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” Blake’s subsequent poetry develops the implication that true innocence is impossible without experience,transformed by the creative force of the human imagination. III BLAKE AS ARTIST The LambThe Lamb...

• At the end of 1994, the opening of negotiations between Ireland and the United Kingdom about the autonomy of Northern Ireland marked a development in a situation deadlocked since 1920, the date of partition by the British into Catholic majority Ireland and Protestant majority Northern Ireland.

• personal gods Roman The earliest Romans, those living on the hills that would eventually form the center of the great city and those living in nearby regions in the 700s and 600s b.

• George Frideric Handel I INTRODUCTION Handel's Water Music In addition to his popular operas and oratorios, German-born composer George Frideric Handel wrote music in the 1700s for the church and for royal celebrations.

  During the 1720s and 1730s Handel worked primarily as a composer and producer of operas for the London stage. This extremely productive phase of his career beganwith the opening of the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1719. The Royal Academy was founded with the support of the king and aristocratic subscribers for theproduction of Italian operas. Its directors sent Handel to continental Europe to hire some of the world’s greatest singers. Handel was not the only composer writingoperas for Aca...

• Country Music I INTRODUCTION Willie Nelson Country singer and musician Willie Nelson gained national popularity during the 1970s for a string of country hits, including the 1978 hits "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Georgia On My Mind.

  Singer and mandolin player Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass music. A virtuoso mandolin player, Monroe combined traditional folk ballads and gospel songswith string-band music played at very fast tempos. Monroe, with his band The Blue Grass Boys, performed from the mid-1920s until Monroe’s death in 1996. Otherwell-known bluegrass performers include banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with Monroe during the 1940s; the Osborne Brothers, a duo from Kentucky known forits work during...

• Robert Frost I INTRODUCTION Robert Frost Usually set amid the natural beauty of rural New England, the concise, direct poetry of American poet Robert Frost conveys a wide range of emotions.

  Frost's Collected Poems (1930) won him his second Pulitzer Prize. And his next two collections— A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942)—also won Pulitzers. He then wrote two plays in blank verse. The first, A Masque of Reason (1945), received lukewarm praise from critics. The second, A Masque of Mercy (1947), which is a modern treatment of Christian biblical figures, was more successful. Frost's final volumes of poetry were Steeple Bush (1947) and In the Clearing (1962). Th...

• Game Theory I INTRODUCTION Game Theory, mathematical analysis of any situation involving a conflict of interest, with the intent of indicating the optimal choices that, under given conditions, will lead to a desired outcome.

  C Zero-Sum Games A game is said to be a zero-sum game if the total amount of payoffs at the end of the game is zero. Thus, in a zero-sum game the total amount won is exactly equal tothe amount lost. In economic contexts, zero-sum games are equivalent to saying that no production or destruction of goods takes place within the “game economy” inquestion. Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern showed in 1944 that any n-person non-zero-sum game can be reduced to an n + 1 zero-sum game, and that such n...

• Vincent van Gogh I INTRODUCTION Church at Auvers by Van Gogh Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh spent the last months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr.

  III PARIS Van Gogh's Self-PortraitThe burning eyes of this Self-Portrait are an example of how 19th-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh attempted tocapture the human essence and emotions of his subjects. During the last several years of his life, van Gogh created anumber of self-portraits. The expressive brushstrokes and vibrant colors in these paintings are typical of this later style.Bridgeman/Art Resource, NY In 1886 van Gogh went to live with Théo in Paris, where he became familiar with...

• Nestor Greek King of Pylos (on the west coast of Messenia, in the Peloponnesus) and, at 60 years old, the oldest and most experienced of the chieftains who fought in the Trojan War.

• Styx, River Greek The principle river, or system of rivers, in Hades, the Greek Underworld (1); named for the goddess who carried the same name, Styx.

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  about black and white friendship; one-on-one friendship has portrayed in movies can not erase the four hundred years of slavery and white supremacy. In the movie, Skeeter a young white woman newly graduated journalist, returns in her hometown of Jackson where she works in a small local newspaper the "household". In search of an original subject for her article, she asks, Aibileen and Minnie to black maids for help by telling her the stories of their lives as...

• Every day I wake up to my phone whose alarm is the theme song of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, I walk to my bathroom and with every step, I hear another Jojo reference, I try to live a normal life saying I'm deaf but I lie, I can hear everything but everything is a Jojo reference, I tried to masturbate but with every stroke when my hand comes in contact with the base of my dick I don't hear a simple clap intead I hear a Jojo reference I tried to commit suicide but when I pulled the trigger

  of agony.Every day I wake up to my phone whose alarm is the theme song of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, I walk to my bathroom and with every step, I hear another Jojo reference, I try to live a normal life saying I'm deaf but I lie, I can hear everything but everything is a Jojo reference, I tried to masturbate but with every stroke when my hand comes in contact with the base of my dick I don't hear a simple clap intead I hear a Jojo reference I tried to commit suicide but when I pulled the trigger...

• Hell espont (Dardanelles) Greek The long narrow channel or strait leading from the Aegean Sea into the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.

• Nereids Greek The Nymphs of the sea, specifically the Mediterranean Sea; the daughters of Nereus, an ancient sea god, and Doris, a daughter of Oceanus.

• Epigoni (Descendants, the younger generation) Greek The sons of the Seven Against Thebes, an expedition launched by Adrastus and Polynices to capture the throne of Thebes.

• Gigantes (Giants) Greek The offspring of Gaia and the blood of the wounded Uranus.

• Pirithoüs Greek Son of Zeus and Dia, the wife of Ixion; king of the Lapiths, a mythical people inhabiting the mountains of Thessaly; friend of the hero Theseus.

• Nessus Greek The Centaur who caused the death of the hero Heracles.

• Dictynna (Lady of the Nets) Greek An ancient Cretan goddess, perhaps the goddess of Mount Dicte, which was later known as the birthplace of the Greek god Zeus.

• Helicon, Mount Greek The highest mountain in Boeotia, in the southern part of the Greek mainland.

• Hyperion (The One Above) Greek One of the Titans; son of Uranus and Gaia; father with Theia of Helios, Selene, and Eos (the Sun, the Moon, and Dawn).

• History Of The Flag

  The flag of England is a red cross on a white background Story of the flag The flag of England is less used today, after the unification of England and Scotland, but is integrated into the design of the flag of the United Kingdom. The cross of the flag refers to the cross of St. George Origin of the flag UKOrigin of the flag UK

• Nicolaus Copernicus I INTRODUCTION Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, best known for his astronomical theory that the sun is at rest near the center of the universe, and that the earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the sun.

• Holy Grail I INTRODUCTION King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table The semilegendary King Arthur is probably the most well-known king in all of English literature.

• The economy of the Principality is diverse: tourism, industry, property and services, particularly the banking sector.

• The Dalton brothers

  The original Daltons The real names of the four Dalton brothers, Bob, Grat, Bill and Emmett appear in the album Hors-la-Loi . In an unusual way for an episode of Lucky Luke, and according to the historical truth, they die at the end of the episode that ends with a view of their graves. The readers having liked the physical appearance that Morris had imagined for the Daltons, the artist decided to introduce their cousins in the episode of Les Cousins Dalton . Unlike the first ones, the cousins...

• Myrmidons Greek Warlike people of ancient Thessaly, in the eastern part of the Greek mainland, who accompanied the hero Achilles into battle in the Trojan War.

• Virgo (Virgin) Greek One of the constellations; sixth sign of the Zodiac, named for the maiden Erigone, who hanged herself from a tree after finding the grave of her murdered father, Icarius of Attica.

• The Equal Rights Amendment Below is the text of the Equal Rights Amendment.

• The minorities

  protect them for health... Moreover, the risk is that to lost the habits, the language, the customs and the culture from the country because of integration of the minorities. Like in France, there is an arab culture which is somewhat installed, for example it exist mosque for muslims.   To conclude, I think it's important that minorities are integrate in society because we are all equals, we must have the same rights, blacks like whites, woman like man... Nobody shouldn't be rejected or victim...

• Sol Roman In the earliest Roman religion, a sun god worshiped by the Sabines, who introduced the cult of Sol to the Roman people when a Sabine king ruled over that city.

• A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO AN IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEM   The day after the renter and I dug up Dad's grave, I went to Mr.

  longer feltlike Iwas moving inthe direction ofDad. I'mnot even sureIbelieved inthe lock anymore. The lastBlack Ivisited wasPeter. Helived inSugar Hill,which isin Hamilton Heights,whichisin Harlem. Aman wassitting on the stoop whenIwalked uptothe house. Hehad alittle baby onhis knee, whohewas talking to,even though babies don't understand language,obviously. "AreyouPeter Black?" "Who'sasking?" "OskarSchell." Hepatted thestep, which meant Icould sitnext tohim ifIwanted, whichIthought wasnice, butI...

• The Monroe Doctrine In his annual message to Congress in 1823, United States president James Monroe declared that the United States had the right to exclude foreign powers from colonizing in the western hemisphere.

• The French Revolution

  of witnessing a new world based on social justice and equality. They were part of the "Dissenters", which owed them a very bad reputation. The French Revolution was associated to Millenarist ideals: faith in a New Jerusalem, regeneration of humanity. They all saw in the FR a possible apocalypse of the ancient order opening on to a new world which meant a rebirth of society and a new conception of humanity. - Impact on the minds: It really marked the time, as Robert Southey ex...

• positive, so I pointed at the roses in the vase on the table.

  "Do youhave acard foryourself?" He slid out adrawer. "So doyou have acard formy dad?" "Thomas Schell,right!" "Right." Hewent tothe'S drawer andpulled ithalfway out. His fingers ranthrough thecards likethefingers ofsomeone muchyounger than103."Sorry! Nothing!" "Couldyou double-check?" Hisfingers ranthrough thecards again. Heshook hishead. "Sorry!" "Well,whatifacard isfiled inthe wrong place?" "Thenwe'vegotaproblem!" "Coulditbe?" "Ithappens occasionally! MarilynMonroe waslostinthe index for more t...

• The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz, motion picture about a girl from rural Kansas who travels to a magical land, based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.

• Alexander the Great I INTRODUCTION Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), king of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and one of the greatest military geniuses of all times.

• Zeus Zeus, in Greek mythology, the god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods.

• THE PHOTOGRAPH

  been empty even by the standards of the market place. The money tiJey bad acquired wasn't worth much; they bad found that out 111 1929. As for the otber acquisitions-the homes, the furniture, the cars, the pianos, the clotbes, the land-they bad meant nothing. Tbese men who bad cried America, America! as the century died bad come bere looking for freedom and the other hlllti8D things, and ali they bad found for themselves was the...

• is the grass always greener on the other side of the fence