1398 résultats pour "who"
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Who am I, who are you
Because friends come in different colors, shapes, nationalities, religions... So please, don't judge a person from the outside! We can learn from each other, About different cultures, We can teach each other, Different languages, And spread love and peace all over the world. Wars were made, People were dead, Concepts were made, Justice was sometimes served, But wars didn't disappear! I wish we can all scream: Yes to love & no to wars! My brother lets hold our hands together, And shout to t...
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Who am I, who are you
Because friends come in different colors, shapes, nationalities, religions... So please, don't judge a person from the outside! We can learn from each other, About different cultures, We can teach each other, Different languages, And spread love and peace all over the world. Wars were made, People were dead, Concepts were made, Justice was sometimes served, But wars didn't disappear! I wish we can all scream: Yes to love & no to wars! My brother lets hold our hands together, And shout to t...
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Tom Jones (1749)
Henry Fielding
Book I -- Chapter 1
An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or
eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all
persons are welcome for their money.
True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest. The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town. Where, then, lies the difference between the food of the nobleman and the porter, if both are at dinner on the same ox or calf, but in the seasoning, the dressing, the garnishing, and the setting for...
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Henry VIII
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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...
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Peter the Great
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Peter the Great or Peter I (1672-1725), tsar and, later, emperor of Russia (1682-1725), who is linked with the Westernization of Russia and its rise as a great power.
V LATER REIGN Before long, however, these and other reform measures had to cede center stage to the prosecution of the Great Northern War (1700-1721) against Sweden. Peter’sjourney west did not result in a great alliance against the Ottomans, but it led to one against Sweden. Russia fought together with Denmark and the union of Polandand Saxony against Sweden to win the Baltic coastline, the 'window into Europe,' and to break Swedish dominance over the northern part of the continent. At the tim...
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Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR).
with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...
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Roma Roman A legendary figure who came to be
worshiped as a goddess, Roma was the personification
of the city of Rome.
became Rome. The first hill people settled appears to have been the Capitoline Hill. Archaeologists have discovered some of the oldest temples to the supreme Roman god, Jupiter, on this hill. According to legend, it was on this hill that Romulus founded his city. The next hill that settlers developed was the nearby Palatine, 1,250 yards to the southeast of the Capitoline Hill. Legend says that Evander, a leader from the Arcadia region of ancient Greece, settled this hill even before Romulus was...
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Native American Architecture
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Native American Architecture, traditional architecture of the peoples of who lived in North America before Europeans arrived.
Mound Builders who resided in the area.John Elk III/Bruce Coleman, Inc. Another mound building culture, named Hopewell, also appears to have originated in Ohio but expanded west to Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma, south to Louisiana,Mississippi, and Alabama, east to Georgia and the Appalachian Mountains, and north to Wisconsin, Michigan, and lower Ontario in Canada. The Hopewell culture lastedfrom about 200 BC to 400 AD. Hopewell people built large, linear mounds to create enclosures in geometrical...
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who lived in the late 1500s and early 1600s, is regarded as the greatest
dramatist in the history of English literature.
Avon, Warwickshire, a prosperous town in the English Midlands. Based on this record and on the fact that children in Shakespeare’s time were usually baptized two orthree days after birth, April 23 has traditionally been accepted as his date of birth. The third of eight children, William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a locally prominent glovemaker and wool merchant, and Mary Arden, thedaughter of a well-to-do landowner in the nearby village of Wilmcote. The young Shakespeare...
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Christopher Columbus
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Italian-born Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making
landfall in the Americas instead.
explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs, merchants, and any others who saw their fortunes tied to the trade winds and ocean currents. Columbus’s brother Bartholomewworked in Lisbon as a mapmaker, and for a time the brothers worked together as draftsmen and book collectors. Later that year, Columbus set sail on a convoy loadedwith goods to be sold in northern Atlantic ports. In 1478 or 1479 Columbus met and married Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, the daughter of a respected, though relatively poor, nob...
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Aristotle
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Aristotle (384-322
BC),
Greek philosopher and scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers.
succession of individuals. These processes are therefore intermediate between the changeless circles of the heavens and the simple linear movements of the terrestrialelements. The species form a scale from simple (worms and flies at the bottom) to complex (human beings at the top), but evolution is not possible. C Aristotelian Psychology For Aristotle, psychology was a study of the soul. Insisting that form (the essence, or unchanging characteristic element in an object) and matter (the commonu...
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Rembrandt
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Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch baroque artist, who ranks as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art.
of his collection of art and antiquities, taken before an auction to pay his debts, showed the breadth of Rembrandt's interests: ancient sculpture, Flemish and ItalianRenaissance paintings, Far Eastern art, contemporary Dutch works, weapons, and armor. Unfortunately, the results of the auction—including the sale of hishouse—were disappointing. These problems in no way affected Rembrandt's work; if anything, his artistry increased. Some of the great paintings from this period are The Jewish Brid...
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Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, and one of the supreme figures of world literature, who was admired for the depth of his spiritual vision and for the range of
his intellectual accomplishment.
Dante AlighieriOne of the greatest poets in the history of world literature, Italian writer Dante Alighieri composed poetry influenced byclassical and Christian tradition. Dante’s greatest work was the epic poem La divina commedia (1321?; The DivineComedy, 1802). It includes three sections: the Inferno (Hell), in which the great classical poet Virgil leads Dante on a tripthrough hell; the Purgatorio (Purgatory), in which Virgil leads Dante up the mountain of purification; and the Paradiso(Paradi...
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Martin Luther
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Martin Luther (1483-1546), German theologian and religious reformer, who
VI THEOLOGY Luther was not a systematic theologian, but his work was subtle, complex, and immensely influential. It was inspired by his careful study of the New Testament, but itwas also influenced in important respects by the great 4th-century theologian Saint Augustine. A Law and Gospel Luther maintained that God interacts with human beings in two ways—through the law and through the Gospel. The law represents God’s demands—as expressed, for example, in the Ten Commandments and the golden r...
- Libertas Roman The personification of liberty, considered by some a goddess who protected the freedom and liberty of Roman citizens, even from despots and dictators, and who granted liberty to freed slaves.
- Robigo and Robigus Roman Two deities, a goddess and god, who watched over growing fields of wheat and grain and who, if not treated well, brought rust or mildew to crops.
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- Who Groupe de rock britannique
- Who, The - rock.
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It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life, motion picture about a man who believes he is a failure because he never left the small town where he grew up, based on the story The Greatest
Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern.
When Uncle Billy leaves George’s house drunk he stumbles over what sounds like trash cans, and says “I’m all right, I’m all right…” In fact, actor Thomas Mitchell wasstumbling over some equipment left by the film crew and he was assuring the crew member he was not hurt. Director Capra left the scene as it was. Quotes Man on Porch: “Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death.”Bailey: “You want me to kiss her, huh?”Man on Porch: “Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people!” Bailey: (rega...
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Texte oral bac the rabbits who caused all the trouble
After the wolves announce plans "to civilize" the rabbits if they don't stop causing natural disasters, the rabbits decide to flee to an island. But the other animals living out of harm's way convince the rabbits to stay because "This is no world for escapists" and guarantee them protection against the wolves "in all probability". To be able to eat the rabbits without being threatened by the other animals living in the forest, the wolves have a plan to ruin the rabbits' way of living systematic...
- The Who Sings My Generation [album] - analyse de l'oeuvre musicale.
- Meryl Streep Meryl Streep, born in 1949, American motion-picture actor who is noted for her versatility.
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indigetes (dii indigites) Roman Apparently,
lesser gods of the many people who inhabited Central
Italy in the seventh and early sixth centuries b.
used the term dii indigites to distinguish the many personal gods from the dii novensiles , or newcomer gods, particularly those brought to the Italian peninsula by Greek colonists. Some argue more specifically that the indigetes were the group of gods named in one of the oldest recovered calendars of Roman festivals, inscribed in a stucco wall sometime in the sixth century b.c. and discovered by archaeologists in the early 20th century.
- Tom Hanks Tom Hanks, born in 1956, American motion-picture actor, a two-time Academy Award winner who is acclaimed for both his comic and dramatic performances.
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FOOTBALL
a match
two teams playing against each other in a 90-minute game of football
a pitch
the area where footballers play a match
a referee
the person who makes sure that the players follow the rules.
full-time the point of the game when the referee blows the final whistle and the match is over. Normally after 90 minutes and any added injury or stoppage time injury time also called stoppage time, added minutes at the end of the regular playing time at half-time or full-time. Entirely at the referee’s discretion and normally indicated by an official on the sideline (or touchline) extra time if a match has no winner at full-time, 2 x 15 minutes of extra time may be played in some competitions o...
- LE DISCOURS D’UN ROIFrançais Anglais In the first instance, i’m going to recapitulate the movie for those of you who don’t know.
- Mars Roman The god of war who, in his earliest forms, was a god of agriculture and prosperity.
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Chester Arthur
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Chester Arthur (1829-1886), 21st president of the United States (1881-1885), who gained the presidency when President James A.
confidence by reappointing them to the Senate. Despite Arthur's help, the legislature did not reappoint the two men. Conkling and Platt never again held public office. In the middle of the political conflict, on July 2, 1881, Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker. Garfield died 11 weeks later, on September19, 1881. The following morning, Arthur took the oath of office at his home in New York City. IV PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Arthur's record of party loyalt...
- Sibyl (Sibylla) Greek Originally, a young girl, the daughter of a Trojan, who had the gift of prophecy.
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Who
Groupe de rock britannique
Les Who sont à l'origine de chansons qui dominent la musique rock des années 60,...
Who Groupe de rock britannique Les Who sont à l'origine de chansons qui dominent la musique rock des années 60, notamment du célèbre "My Generation" (1965), hymne des teenagers et succès international, où s'exprime par des mots simples et une musique sans fioritures le sentiment de frustration des jeunes. Suivent d'autres succès comme "Substitute", "Pictures of Lily" et "Happy Jack". Le guitariste Pete Townshend (* 1945) est l'auteur de la majeure partie des chansons, le reste étant l'oeuvre du...
- The Teachings of Muhammad During the early 7th century, a trader named Muhammad was meditating in a cave near Mecca in what is now Saudi Arabia, when he experienced a vision of the archangel Gabriel who declared Muhammad to be a prophet of God.
- 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.
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- Political conflicts are becoming increasingly apparent between those who want closer ties with the European Union and those who want more contact with the CIS.
- Numa Pompillius Roman The legendary second king of Rome, who succeeded Romulus to the throne; eventually seen as an agricultural deity.
- Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein (1937-2006), former president of Iraq (1979-2003), who led Iraq into two devastating wars.
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William Blake
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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...
- Lara (Lala; Larunda; The talker) Roman Originally, a Sabine goddess who presided over houses.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American social reformer, who, along with Susan B.
- Scylla and Charybdis Greek Two mythical characters who inhabited the Straits of Messina, between mainland Italy and the island of Sicily.
- Faustulus (Faustus) Roman The shepherd who found the twin infants Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf and took them to his home to give them shelter.
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the man who swapped lives
His firm was in debt, client weren't paying on time. He started to eat too much and dirty too much The police arrested him for drunken driving He was so depressed that he was thinking of committing suicide He ran away. He boarded a train to York, where he stayed in a hotel for a few days under a false name He changed his appearance by cutting his hair and shaving off his moustache He felt relieved and guilty because he couldn't send to his windowed mother a card saying he was ok His wife search...
- Seven Against Thebes Greek The name given to the conflict between the rulers of the kingdom of Thebes and the rebels who challenged the king for the throne.
- Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), American motion-picture actor, who became the most famous international sex symbol of the 20th century.
- John Huston John Huston (1906-1987), American motion-picture director and actor, who created some of the most critically acclaimed films of American cinema in his long and distinguished career.
- Tom Cruise Tom Cruise, born in 1962, American motion-picture actor, who became a celebrity in the 1980s after his performance in Risky Business (1983), a satire of suburban adolescence.
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Galileo
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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...
- Who. groupe de rock britannique. Fondés en 1963 (d'abord sous
- Proteus Greek A minor but ancient sea god who served Poseidon.
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- Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) Greek The horn of the goat-Nymph, Amalthea, who had tended the infant Zeus.
- Melanion Greek A prince of Arcadia who won the hand of the renowned virgin huntress Atalanta.