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- 12321: Christian or Hypocrite
- ... him. Tom begins to talk about God and how much he cares for Legree. Tom is thinking about helping Legree even though he is about to kill Tom. "O, Mas'r! don't bring this great sin on your soul! it will hurt you more than't it will me! Do the worst you can, my troubles 'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, your's won't ...
- 12322: Egypt
- ... is a very hard lifestyle. The mighty Nile River is the longest in Africa & it was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt. Every Year it over flowed & made rich black soil along each bank providing a great crop growing land. The Old Egyptians called their country Kemet the word means black land. It also provided irrigation. The River also provided a transportation system. For all of these reasons, The Ancient Greek Historian ...
- 12323: The Lowell Observatory
- ... M. Slipher to discover evidence of receding galaxies. The Lowell Observatory was mainly founded because of Dr. Percivals' interest in discovering life on mars. Lowell observatory was the first observatory in Arizona. It is a great family attraction with its location being in the popular Tourist City of Flagstaff; the observatory looks over the city. You are guided through a tour and experiments, and also are allowed to use the telescopes ...
- 12324: The Country of Italy
- ... his greatest works. Galileo Galilei who was an astrologer made many sky maps, and discovered nebulas and created the theory that the earth rotates around the sun. Dante Alighier who is know for his many great works, and Giacomo Puccini which were the most revered musicians at the time. ITALY IN THE ANCIENT TIMES Ancient Italy was a time of life, death, and rebirth. Italy was a big trading post for ...
- 12325: Lord Kelvin
- ... to adapt to its environment over this time. Kelvin did not accept Darwin's theory because he claimed that the temperature of the sun and earth approximately a million years ago would have been too great to have supported life. Kelvin started work in 1854 on the project of laying transatlantic cables, having been asked the question on how long it took for electrical signals to traverse long cables. His idea ...
- 12326: Australia
- ... crunching game called Australian Rules Football draws wildly enthusiastic fans. Many years ago, the British brought cricket to Australia. Tennis courts attract some of the best professional games to Sydney. Horse racing is also a great sport in Australia. This also brings in gamblers. A very unique sport in Australia is boomerang throwing. Another quite unique sport is wet grass skiing, due to the mild winters of the country; lack of ...
- 12327: Louis Riel
- ... part of Canada. It was the Canadian who denied the Metis s right and did not try to understand their condition. Summing up the above, it was evident that Louis Riel was not only a great leader, but also a real patriote.
- 12328: Culture, and Arts of Argentina
- ... to modern music. Astor Piazzolla, a prolific 20th- century tango composer, bandleader, and performer, incorporated jazz and classical influences in his works. Argentina has a lot of history behind its complex traditions. Many of the great minds of history came from the county of Argentina. Without Argentina's contributions to history we would be without titles like "the Slaughterhouse." Much of the culture came from the Europeans. But some did come ...
- 12329: Rome, Italy
- ... grow steadily by attracting new settlers and the promise of a better future. As the Roman Empire expanded, Rome emerged as an Administrative Center as it came to be acknowledged as the capital of the great Roman Empire. The city also began to acquire new settlers for religious purposes. In the sixteenth century the Church of Rome accepted the term Catholic to apply as a title for Protestant and Reformed Churches ...
- 12330: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- ... whose name in fact originally appeared on the title page of the Eroica Symphony. When Beethoven heard that Napoleon had declared himself Emperor, however, he tore the page out and substituted 'In Memory of a Great Man'. What raises Beethoven's genius in music to the level of Shakespeare's in literature is his supreme mastery of musical form. He was able to create vast and complex musical structures stemming from ...
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