223 résultats pour "privation"
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Tennessee (state) - USA History.
The climate of Tennessee is characterized by hot summers, mild winters, and abundant rainfall. C1 Temperature Average July temperatures range from less than 21° C (70° F) in the Blue Ridge region to 27° C (80° F) at Nashville and Memphis. Maximum daytime temperatures insummer often rise above 35° C (95° F) in central and western Tennessee. Daytime temperatures in the mountains rarely rise above 32° C (90° F). Summer nights tendto be warm and muggy in central and western Tennessee, but temperatu...
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Roman Empire .
A Government Augustus did not derive his power from any single office, but from the authority of his name and his victory. In fact, he carefully pieced together a patchwork of powersthat allowed him to be an absolute ruler and yet avoid the hatred Caesar aroused as dictator. In Latin, the name Augustus implies both political authority and religiousrespect. The Romans had for some time called Octavian imperator , a title once awarded to victorious generals that soon became associated with the r...
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Roman Empire - History.
A Government Augustus did not derive his power from any single office, but from the authority of his name and his victory. In fact, he carefully pieced together a patchwork of powersthat allowed him to be an absolute ruler and yet avoid the hatred Caesar aroused as dictator. In Latin, the name Augustus implies both political authority and religiousrespect. The Romans had for some time called Octavian imperator , a title once awarded to victorious generals that soon became associated with the r...
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Schopenhauer sur le bonheur et le désir
insatisfaction ? C'est en substance la question que pose implicitement Schopenhauer - et la réponse est évidemment contenue dans cette qu estion purement rhétorique. Toutefois, c'est par un autre procédé que Schopenhauer nous fait comprendre pourquoi le désir est essentiellement négatif : lorsque nous satisfaisons un désir, ce désir, naturellement, disparaît, et donc avec lui la satisfaction qui en résultait. Le procédé est ici de type aporétique : nous sommes dans une impasse. Nous recherchons...
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Définition:
-IF, -IVE, -ATIF, -ATIVE, suffixe.
b) DROIT. Acquisitive (prescription), adoptif (enfant, parent), afflictive (peine), appr?ciatif (?tat), attributif (acte), commutatif (contrat, justice), confirmatif (arr?t), constitutif (acte, titre), d?claratif (acte, titre), distributive (justice), estimatif (devis), introductif (acte, requ?te), liquidatif (acte), modificatif (note, texte), pr?somptif (h?ritier), privative (peine), suspensif (appel), translatif (acte, contrat). ? [La base est un radical savant] R?cognitif (acte)....
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Définition et usage:
-IF, -IVE, -ATIF, -ATIVE, suffixe.
b) DROIT. Acquisitive (prescription), adoptif (enfant, parent), afflictive (peine), appr?ciatif (?tat), attributif (acte), commutatif (contrat, justice), confirmatif (arr?t), constitutif (acte, titre), d?claratif (acte, titre), distributive (justice), estimatif (devis), introductif (acte, requ?te), liquidatif (acte), modificatif (note, texte), pr?somptif (h?ritier), privative (peine), suspensif (appel), translatif (acte, contrat). ? [La base est un radical savant] R?cognitif (acte)....
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Définition:
EXTÉNUER, verbe transitif.
D'autres se sont exténués pour acquérir; nous nous exténuerons pour maintenir! (JOSEPH DE PESQUIDOUX, Le Livre de raison, 1932, page 44 ). Je connaissais tous les colporteurs, c'est l'heure où ils rentrent avec leurs carrioles... ils tirent, ils poussent, ils s'exténuent... (LOUIS-FERDINAND DESTOUCHES, DIT CÉLINE, Mort à crédit, 1936, page 138 ). 2. [Le sujet désigne une cause concrète ou abstraite] a) [Exerçant son action sur quelqu'un] La privation de vin et la peine m'exténuent (LÉON BLOY, Jo...
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Définition:
CARDINAL2, -AUX2, substantif masculin.
des oiseaux moqueurs, nichés dans les acacias et les lauriers qui environnoient la grotte. FRANÇOIS-RENÉ DE CHATEAUBRIAND, Le Génie du christianisme, tome 2, 1803, page 227. b) Poisson du genre spare (Confer Henri Coupin, Animaux de nos pays, 1909, page 193). c) " Papillon diurne à ailes pourpres " (Dictionnaire général de la langue française (ADOLPHE HATZFELD, ARSÈNE DARMESTETER)); coléoptère couleur de feu (Confer Dictionnaire universel des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts (MARIE-NICOLAS BO...
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FAIM, substantif féminin.
1910, page 16 ). · Rester sur sa faim. Ne pas manger à satiété. Au figuré. Être déçu dans son attente, ses espoirs. Si ému que je sois, et en totale union, bien sûr, avec cette immense foule de jeunes êtres priant et souffrant, cette année, je reste pourtant sur ma faim (FRANÇOIS MAURIAC, Bloc-notes, 1958, page 87 ). · Tromper la/sa faim. Atténuer ou faire disparaître la sensation de faim de façon provisoire ou artificielle. Moi, je suçais des écorces d'orange pour tromper la faim (JULES VALLÈS,...
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Dictionnaire en ligne:
DISQUE, substantif masculin.
GRACQ, Un Beau ténébreux 1945, page 130) : Ø 3.... la lune (...) rose encore et couleur de feu, s'efface, prend une teinte nacrée, et s'enfonce dans la profondeur du ciel comme un disque d'argent, dont la couleur pâlit à mesure qu'il s'enfonce dans une eau profonde. ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE, Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages pendant un voyage en Orient (1832-1833) ou Note d'un voyageur, tome 1, 1835, page 417. ? ) BOTANIQUE. — Partie située entre les bords d'une feuille (ÉLIE-ABEL CARR...
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DICTIONNAIRE: de FORMALISME à FUTUROLOGIE
FOURVOYER (SE). v. pron. (de l'ancien français fors, «hors de » et voie, « chemin »). Sens littéraire : s'égarer, se détourner du bon chemin. « Un chien qui s'était fourvoyé par mégarde» (La Fontaine). Sens figuré (le seul actuel) : se tromper complètement ; être pleinement dans l'erreur. A partir d'une expérience fausse, des savants se sontfourvoyés dans une ridicule théorie sur la mémoire de l'eau. Cet idéaliste s'est fourvoyé dans le commerce. FOYER. n. m. (à partir du latin focus, «f...
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Churchill: "The Sinews of Peace"
On March 5, 1946, in a
safeguards to make it effective, these powers would naturally be confided to that world organisation. Now I come to the second danger of these two marauders which threatens the cottage, the home, and the ordinary people—namely, tyranny. We cannot be blind tothe fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are verypowerful. In these States control is enforced upon the common people by variou...
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Insolvenz.
positiver Erträge zu führen, aus denen die Forderungen der Gläubiger erfüllt werden können. Wird das Unternehmen liquidiert, müssen alle Gläubiger ihre Forderungen bis zu einem Prüfungstermin geltend machen. Alle vom Insolvenzverwalter und derGläubigerversammlung für gültig befundenen Forderungen sind berechtigt, aus der Insolvenzmasse bezahlt zu werden. Die Begleichung darf aber nur in Bargeld erfolgen, esmuss also zunächst das vorhandene Vermögen verwertet werden. Dazu werden aus dem Bruttover...
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?La Fontaine, « Les Animaux malades de la Peste », Fables, Livre
Les conséquences : En huit vers (7à 14) sont évoquées les conséquences de la peste. Ce tableau est à la fois dramatique et mis à distance par les allusions à d'autres fables. Le chiasme du vers 7 : « Ils ne mouraient pas tous, / mais tous étaient frappés » met en valeur le pronom « tous » et ce faisant, souligne l'universalité du mal. La symétrie entre "mourir" et "être frappés" souligne la morbidité de la peste : ceux qui lui survivent la subissent quand même. Les négations soulig...
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Résumé de l'Etranger
Meursault le convoque. Il propose de l'envoyer à Paris où il envisage de créer une agence. Meursault montre peud'enthousiasme et son patron lui reproche son indifférence et son manque d'ambition. Le soir Marie vient chercherMeursault et lui demande s'il veut se marier avec elle. Meursault lui explique que cela n'a aucune importance et quesi elle désire ils peuvent très bien se marier. Puis les deux amants se séparent car Marie " avait à faire".Dîner chezCéleste, à la même table qu'une petite fem...
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Rembrandt.
myth that the painting was rejected by those who commissioned it, and led to a decline in Rembrandt's reputation and fortune, it was actually well received. Many of Rembrandt's landscapes in this middle period are romantic and based on his imagination rather than recording specific places. The inclusion of ancient ruins androlling hills, not a part of the flat Dutch countryside, as in River Valley with Ruins (Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Kassel), suggests a classical influence derived from Italy...
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Benin - geographie.
5 VERWALTUNG UND POLITIK Benin gliedert sich verwaltungmäßig in zwölf Regionen. Von 1977 bis 1989 wurde der Staat von einer gewählten Legislative, der Revolutionären Nationalversammlung,regiert. Dieses Einkammerparlament wählte einen Präsidenten, der als Führer des Nationalen Exekutivrates regierte. Die Revolutionäre Volkspartei von Benin ( Parti de la Révolution Populaire du Benin, PRPB), eine marxistisch-leninistische Gruppe, übernahm als Einheitspartei 1972 die Macht. Im Dezember 1989 wand...
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Jakarta - geography.
voluntary movement of families to Indonesia's less populated islands). Jakarta is a magnet for migrants from other areas of Indonesia; during the late 1980s an estimated 250 migrants arrived daily. Most were between the ages of 15 and39 years, many with six years of education or less. There is also a significant number of commuters and seasonal migrants who work in government, manufacturing,and services. In addition, many of these temporary residents are engaged in informal employment as drivers...
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Washington, D.
South of the Federal Triangle is the Mall, a narrow park stretching roughly 1.6 km (1 mi) from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. Although the Mall officially ends at14th Street, landscaped greenery extends to the Potomac. The Washington Monument, whose marble shaft dominates the skyline, stands 169 m (555 ft) high near thecenter of this parkland. The interior of the monument is hollow, and visitors may either climb its 898 steps or ride its elevator 150 m (500 ft) for a magnificent view. A...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Musik.
gezwungen, den Unterhalt seiner Familie mit Kompositionsaufträgen, Privatunterricht (zu seinen zahlreichen Schülern gehörte für kurze Zeit auch der junge Ludwig vanBeethoven) und einer großen Zahl von Privat- und Subskriptionskonzerten zu sichern. Für die oft auf eigenes Risiko veranstalteten Subskriptionsakademien, bei denen er als Pianist und Improvisator auftrat, schrieb Mozart in den ersten Wiener Jahrenzahlreiche Klavierkonzerte. Daneben entstanden in dieser Zeit einige seiner bedeutendsten...
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Kolkata - geography.
area, and trains have north-south lines with a few east-west connections. There are two major train terminals: Sealdah in the east central part of Kolkata and Hāoraacross the river from the Central Business District. Electric trams operate in Kolkata proper. The aging buses, trains, and tram cars suffer from overloading, creatinguncomfortable rides. Subway construction started in 1972 and became operational with 7 km (4.3 mi) of line in 1984. By 1995 all of the subway’s 16.4-km (10.2-mi)route fr...
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Benin - country.
French is the official language of Benin, but most people speak an African language. Each of the country’s ethnic groups has its own language. Fon is the most widelyspoken language. About 52 percent of the population professes traditional religious beliefs, chiefly Vodun, a belief in spirits. Arab merchants introduced Islam to the region, and today it isthe religion of some 20 percent of the people, most of whom live in the north. Christianity, especially Roman Catholicism, is the religion of ab...
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?stanbul - geography.
İstanbul hosts a number of annual cultural events. The İstanbul Cultural Festival, held in the summer, offers music and dance performances in more than 50 venuesthroughout the city, including outdoors at Rumelihisar ı. The city also hosts a summer jazz festival. Turkey is one of the world’s largest producers of motion pictures, anda highly regarded international film festival takes place in İstanbul during the early months of the year. V RECREATION With increasing modernization, recreation is...
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Aegean Civilization .
warlike. The styles are also more formal and geometric than those of earlier examples, anticipating the art of classical Greece. A typical Mycenaean city had, at its center, the fortress palace of the king. The cities were fortified with massive structures of unevenly cut stones, known as Cyclopeanwalls. The Linear B tablets from this time include names of Greek gods, such as Zeus, and contain detailed records of royal possessions. The gold masks, weapons, andjewelry found by Schliemann at the r...
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Aegean Civilization - USA History.
warlike. The styles are also more formal and geometric than those of earlier examples, anticipating the art of classical Greece. A typical Mycenaean city had, at its center, the fortress palace of the king. The cities were fortified with massive structures of unevenly cut stones, known as Cyclopeanwalls. The Linear B tablets from this time include names of Greek gods, such as Zeus, and contain detailed records of royal possessions. The gold masks, weapons, andjewelry found by Schliemann at the r...
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Greek Art and Architecture - history.
powerful independent city-states. From 334 to 323 BC, Alexander the Great extended his father's empire into Asia Minor (now Turkey), Syria, Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan, and as far as India. D The Hellenistic Period (323-31 BC) Although Alexander the Great extended Greek civilization far beyond the Greek mainland and the boundaries of the Aegean Sea, his empire did not survive his death in 323.After Alexander died, his generals and successors divided the empire into a number of kingdoms: Ptolem...
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Italienischer Film.
Democrazia Cristiana bei den ersten demokratischen Wahlen 1948 zum Auseinanderbrechen der antifaschistischen Einheitsfront, die den gemeinsamen ideologischenNenner auch für den Neorealismus gebildet hatte. In den beginnenden fünfziger Jahren reklamierte die Linke das neorealistische Kino für sich und warf Roberto Rossellininach der Entstehung von Stromboli, terra di dio (1949/50; Stromboli ), Francesco, giullare di dio (1950; Franziskus, der Gaukler Gottes ) und Viaggio in Italia (1953;...
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Latin American Painting
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Diego Rivera Museum Gallery
The studio of Mexican painter Diego Rivera is now maintained as an art museum in Mexico City.
The Viceroy Arrives at PotosíThe discovery of silver on a hillside near the town of Potosí in 1545 turned this Bolivian city into a key Spanish possessionin the Americas. The population of Potosí shot up until it reached 150,000 inhabitants by the year 1611. The work shownhere, The Viceroy Arrives at Potosí, by 17th-century Bolivian painter Melchor Pérez de Holguín, was painted during thezenith of the town’s fortunes.Archivo Fotografico Oronoz From about 1580 to 1650 European styles became domin...
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Panama Canal - Geography.
The size of ships using the Panama Canal has steadily increased. About 27 percent of the vessels that use the canal are built to the maximum dimensions that can passthrough it (a category called “Panamax”). This has prompted further widening of Gaillard Cut, so that the larger Panamax vessels may transit safely. However, some ofthe world’s commercial and military ships are too large for the canal. Since the 1940s, new U.S. battleships and aircraft carriers have been built exceeding the canal’sdi...
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Grover Cleveland.
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Grover Cleveland
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Scramble for Africa.
additional territorial grabs. The most significant of these rules stated that colonial powers were obligated to notify each other when they claimed African territory.Further, subsequent “effective occupation” of the claimed area was necessary for the claim to remain valid. Through it all, as Europeans negotiated their rights toAfrican territory, not a single African was present. Once the conference was over, it was clear that a European Scramble for African territories was underway. Southern Afr...
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William Howard Taft.
considered him an ideal successor. Because Roosevelt himself was satisfied that Taft's election would ensure that his reform programs were continued, he used hisinfluence with each state's Republican Party to get Taft the nomination. As a result, Taft became the Republican candidate on the first ballot. He was elected president in1908 with a popular vote of 7,675,320 to 6,412,294 for Nebraska editor and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan, and an electoral vote of 321 to Bryan's 162.Alth...
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William Howard Taft
considered him an ideal successor. Because Roosevelt himself was satisfied that Taft's election would ensure that his reform programs were continued, he used hisinfluence with each state's Republican Party to get Taft the nomination. As a result, Taft became the Republican candidate on the first ballot. He was elected president in1908 with a popular vote of 7,675,320 to 6,412,294 for Nebraska editor and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan, and an electoral vote of 321 to Bryan's 162.Alth...
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National Socialism .
VII THE PARTY IN THE REICHSTAG The movement grew rapidly, recruiting thousands of discharged civil servants, ruined shopkeepers and small-business owners, impoverished farmers, workersdisillusioned with the Socialist and Communist parties, and a host of frustrated and embittered young people of all classes, brought up in the postwar years and withouthope of personal economic security. In the Reichstag elections of 1930 the National Socialists polled almost 6.5 million votes (more than 18 perce...
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Dänemark - geographie.
eine deutschsprachige Minderheit, die über eigene Schulen und Bibliotheken verfügt. Die Anfänge der dänischen Schriftkultur gehen zurück auf den Beginn des16. Jahrhunderts. Auf den zu Dänemark gehörenden autonomen Inseln Grönland und Färöer wird ebenfalls Dänisch gesprochen (neben Eskimo bzw. Färöisch). 3.3 Religion Das Luthertum ist die dominierende Glaubensrichtung in Dänemark. Mehr als 90 Prozent aller Dänen gehören der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (Evangelisk-lutherske Folkekirke in Dan...
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Georgia (country) - country.
1917. During the subsequent Soviet period, religious practice was strongly discouraged because the Soviet state was officially atheistic; however, the GeorgianOrthodox Church was allowed to function openly. Orthodox Christianity is the religion of about 58 percent of the Georgian population. Muslims represent about 19 percent of the country’s population, with ethnicAzerbaijanis, Kurds, and Ajars comprising the principal Muslim groups. Ajars are ethnic Georgians who converted to Islam in the 17th...
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Tokyo - geography.
The port of Tokyo has expanded tremendously in recent years and is now the second largest in Japan (after Yokohama) in value of trade. In 1993 it accounted forapproximately 14 percent of all trade by Japan’s ports. Reasons for the port’s growth include the deepening of sea lanes in Tokyo Bay, large reclamation projects tocreate room for new facilities and container terminals, and improvements to storage and distribution facilities. The largest categories of exports from the port of Tokyoare mach...
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Zimbabwe - country.
contamination—especially from the dieldrin and DDT used in tsetse fly control—has significantly affected wildlife and human health. III PEOPLE AND SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE In 2008 Zimbabwe’s population was estimated to be 12,382,920, giving the country a population density of 32 persons per sq km (83 per sq mi). With a birth rate of27 per 1,000 and a death rate of 22 per 1,000, Zimbabwe’s population growth rate is 0.6 percent. Life expectancy at birth was estimated at 40 years in 2008, downfrom 59...
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Globalization.
higher living standard for their people. The World Bank made loans to developing countries for dams and other electrical-generating plants, harbor facilities, and otherlarge projects. These projects were intended to lower costs for private businesses and to attract investors. Beginning in 1968 the World Bank focused on low-cost loansfor health, education, and other basic needs of the world’s poor. B International Monetary Fund The IMF makes loans so that countries can maintain the value of thei...
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Protests in the 1960s - U.
E Youth Culture Young people played an important role in the movements for social change during the 1960s. Numbers alone made them important; more than 76 million babies wereborn during the post-World War II “baby boom.” In addition, these young people spent more years in school and were more affluent than previous generations. In theearly 20th century, most young Americans had moved quickly from childhood to adulthood. In the 1920s only 1 in 5 Americans graduated from high school, and almostal...
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Renaissance Art and Architecture
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Renaissance Composition
During the Renaissance (15th and 16th centuries) artists discovered new ways to help them create more realistic and
compelling images.
with reliefs, had been familiar for centuries. A Early Renaissance Sculpture Ghiberti’s Gates of ParadiseThe Gates of Paradise are bronze doors created by Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1425 and 1452for the east entrance to the baptistery of the Florence Cathedral in Italy. This detail, showing Isaac and Esau, is from oneof the doors' ten panels, each of which illustrates a story from the Bible. Ghiberti endowed the scenes with volume, depth,and movement, and helped initi...
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Andrew Jackson.
against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...
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Andrew Jackson
against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...
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Andrew Jackson - USA History.
against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...
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Argentinien - geographie.
3 BEVÖLKERUNG Argentinien hat 40,7 Millionen Einwohner (2008). Die Bevölkerungsdichte beträgt etwa 15 Personen pro Quadratkilometer. Rund 90 Prozent der Bevölkerung sind Weiße,vor allem europäischer Abkunft. Zahlenmäßig fallen besonders Argentinier italienischer Herkunft (36 Prozent) und spanischer Herkunft (29 Prozent) ins Gewicht. Rund500 000 Argentinier sind deutscher Abstammung. Im Gegensatz zu den meisten lateinamerikanischen Ländern leben in Argentinien wenige Mestizen (Mischlinge zwische...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer and one of the world's greatest musical geniuses.
Bach served nine years at the Weimar court, first as organist and then, from 1714, as concertmaster as well. His employer, Wilhelm Ernst, duke of Weimar, was a greatadmirer of the organ, and spurred by the duke’s enthusiasm Bach proceeded to compose a vast number of unprecedented works for the instrument: the Orgelbüchlein (“Little Organ Book”), a collection of small chorale preludes for the church year; the so-called Great Eighteen Chorales of larger size; and a series of dramatic preludes a...
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Psychology.
Clinical psychology is dedicated to the study, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses and other emotional or behavioral disorders. More psychologists work in this field than in any other branch of psychology. In hospitals, community clinics, schools, and in private practice, they use interviews and tests to diagnose depression,anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses. People with these psychological disorders often suffer terribly. They experience disturbing symptoms t...
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Montana - geography.
(191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...
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Montana - USA History.
(191 sq mi), is Montana’s largest lake, and the largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous states west of the Mississippi River. C Climate Climatic regions in Montana coincide roughly with the two major physiographic regions. In western Montana, as compared with the eastern plains area, winters tend tobe milder while summers are cooler. Precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year in the west, and it is cloudier and somewhat more humid in all seasons.In addition, the grow...