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Christopher Columbus 2
Number of words: 407 - Number of pages: 2

.... make an impression on the king. Another problem was the fact that Columbus had never actually been a captain on a ship, only a passenger. There was also not a huge market for a Trans-Atlantic voyage. The fact that the idea of the world being round was a somewhat new aspect. It was amazing that this trip had started at all. The price of this trip included several boats, manpower, and survival supplies. This was all he needed to do the trip. This was not enough. Christopher wanted 10% commission on all commerce between his discoveries and the mother countr .....


The Life And Work Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of words: 641 - Number of pages: 3

.... madly. Because of one sip, one normally would not become unstable. Yet with this condition of the character and with the same condition associated with the author, this reflects the alcoholic temperament. Another detail of retrospect can be noted in Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher". The idea of incest is insinuated here. The character Roderick Usher has taken his sister for his wife. Poe has not married his sister but his cousin however the subject of incest still remains. Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was only 13. Poe's wife in 1843 ha .....


Julius Caesar
Number of words: 2011 - Number of pages: 8

.... leaders of the populares, his uncle Marius and Cinna. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna's daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius' enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter's return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter memory that long survived. Caesar left Ro .....


Charles Manson
Number of words: 2794 - Number of pages: 11

.... fourteen, Manson left his mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National .....


Twiggy
Number of words: 1263 - Number of pages: 5

.... Leonard put her picture in his shop window, and a short time later that picture was featured in the London Daily Express with a caption that read �This is the face of 1966� (Wilson). Davies, who preferred to be called Justin De Villeneuve, was quite an interesting character with his past resume containing ex-model, ex-antique dealer, and ex-hairdresser. After he discovered her, he (age 25) became �s (age 15) agent and boyfriend. He took her to Paris and a short while after her popularity grew, she was put on the cover of Elle Magazine, as well as Paris Match and .....


Artist: Turner: Outline
Number of words: 365 - Number of pages: 2

.... supported abolition and painted “The Slave Ship” between 1833 and 1840 the emancipation of the slaves in the British colonies began. b) Turner wanted to have a marriage between art and industry and painted “Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway, “yet artists disliked the industrial revolution saying it was repulsive. 3. The changing style of Turner. a) Turners’ works have changed greatly throughout his career and now his late works have been regarded as highly as his earlier works. b) Many of his later exhibi .....


Donatello
Number of words: 1389 - Number of pages: 6

.... The "David" was originally made for the cathedral but was moved in 1416 to the Palazzo Vecchio, a city hall where it long stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. From the sixteenth century on, the gigantic “David” of Michelangelo, which served the same purpose, eclipsed it. More of 's early works which were still partly Gothic are the impressive seated marble figure of St. John the Evangelist for the cathedral and a wooden crucifix in the church of Sta. Croce. The full power of first appeared in two marble statues, "St. Mark" and "St. George" which we .....


King Henry VIII
Number of words: 696 - Number of pages: 3

.... woman could succeed to the English throne. Then too, Henry had fallen in love with a lady of the court, Anne Boleyn. When the pope (Clement VII) would not annul his marriage, Henry turned against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon announced that he had married Anne Boleyn. The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court .....



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