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- 4351: The Golden Age Of Greece
- ... were composed in ancient Greece: the personal and the choral lyric. The personal lyric was developed on the island of Lesbos (modern Lésvos). The poet and musician Terpander, who was born on Lesbos but lived much of his life in Sparta, introduced the seven-string lyre and set the poems of Homer to music. Most of his poems were nomes, or liturgical hymns, written in honor of a god, especially ...
- 4352: Early Western Civilization
- ... Let’s hope the tomb yields a whole lot of new bodies. Then, medicos can get to work on them, and find out what therse princes were like, whether they had toothaches, how long they lived." Weeks’team plans to return to Tomb 5 for the month of July. Their goal is to get enough inside to explore the staircases and lower level. Weeks stimates that it will take at least ...
- 4353: Herman Melville
- ... U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among the natives, who were cannibals. He escaped aboard an Australian trader, leaving it at Papeete, Tahiti, where he was imprisoned temporarily. He worked as a field laborer and then shipped to ...
- 4354: Julius Caesar
- ... Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in the history of the city of Rome. The city was assaulted twice and captured by Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares ...
- 4355: Canada- Facts And Figures
- ... Alaska. Some of them settled in Canada, while others chose to continue to the south. When the European explorers arrived, Canada was populated by a diverse range of Aboriginal peoples who, depending on the environment, lived nomadic or settled lifestyles, were hunters, fishermen or farmers. First contacts between the native peoples and Europeans probably occurred about 1000 years ago when Icelandic Norsemen settled for a brief time on the island of ...
- 4356: Communism
- ... and Joseph Stalin. In the original Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, the orignal idea of and socialism was to form a perfect proletariat society, where there were no classes and all people lived as equals together. Over the years, the original idea of peace and equality for all was transformed and molded to fit a certain person or groups personal interests. The peaceful society idea never worked out ...
- 4357: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... the year 1970, which marked Lenin’s 100th birthday. Khrushchev mentions that Kennedy was a great loss for the Americans and identified him as a true “statesman.” He also feels that if he lived through his term, that relations between the Soviet Union and the United States would have been better because Kennedy wouldn’t have allowed the US to be defeated in Vietnam in the later years to ...
- 4358: Rise Of Communism
- ... changed little in the way the government was run. There was still a single leader with total control over the government. There was still little freedom or happiness amoung the citizens of Russia who still lived in fear of the government. Russia had attempted what many call an impossible task of ridding the world of capitalism and replacing it with a happier socialistic society. Some blame the rulers of Russia during ...
- 4359: Hee
- ... would immediately write down his experiences and observations. Frequently King would place his friends and family into childhood fantasy tales. And one would always know how Stephen felt about them because of how long they lived in the story. It was not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned ...
- 4360: Constantinopolis
- ... for instance, has not rendered brick obsolete. Although design and construction have become highly sophisticated and are often computer directed, this complex apparatus rests on preindustrial traditions inherited from millennia during which most structures were lived in by the people who erected them. The technical demands on building remain the elemental ones-to exclude enemies, to circumvent gravity, and to avoid discomforts caused by an excess of heat or cold or ...
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