response to rising issues‚ Napoleon issued a challenge to anyone who could devise a means of preserving food. The winner would receive 12‚000 francs or just over 13‚000 United States Dollars. Fourteen years later‚ in 1809‚ a Frenchman by the name of Nicolas Appert won the prize. Appert was a French confectioner‚ chef‚ and distiller. This background made it possible for him to have access to many materials necessary for canning. After 14 years of experimentation‚ Appert had devised a way to preserve
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Ciera Callahan Art History II 10-20-13 Sfakianos The piece that I chose to write about is entitled The Birth of Venus and was painted by the French artist Nicolas Poussin. This painting was sold to Catherine the Great of Russia in 1771. It was sold another time by the Hermitage Museum in 1932 when the Soviet government was desperate for western currency. It was then that it was acquired for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting was made in Italy in either the year 1635 or 1636. The medium
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On April 26 2013 I visited the Detroit Art Institute. In there I have seen plenty of interesting art sculptures‚ artifacts‚ and paintings. The one that really enjoyed the most is “Selene and Endymion” by Nicolas Poussin‚ a French artist. He made this painting back in 1630. Currently‚ the painting is in the European paintings exhibit section in the DIA. The painting itself uses oil on canvas for its medium‚ and the dimensions are: 48 x 66 1/2 inches. The painting is about Selene and Endymion. Selene
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I strongly agree that the wearing of the burqa should be banned because it is a risk on Australians safety and security. I believe that Cory benardi has a very strong argument that the wearing of the burqa should be banned in public places. I 100% agree with him. There has been an Australian man that was dressed in a burqa that robbed a bank because of this there have been a number of understandable concerns in the community. Police being reluctant to search any suspects wearing a burqa. I am one
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of protection and nonreligious government entanglement‚ but what officials are unaware of is that this stigmatization of people causes human rights to disappear‚ and oppression and intolerance to rise. When the ban was placed‚ French President Nicolas Sarkozy preached for the hopeful end of tensions between European Muslims and non-Muslims. Sarkozy also stated that it would protect the “dignity of women”‚ and others said that it should be enacted to protect French pride and allegiance. But this
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Advantages and disadvantages of the multiculturalism in big cities‚ particularly in London Ethnic and racial diversity is not a new phenomenon in the world history: in the Middle East and the Mediterranean World‚ a multiplicity of cultures coexisted in rural areas as well as in cities since Antiquity. Nowadays multiculturalism has become an official policy in several European countries since the 1970s‚ for reasons that varied from country to country‚ including the fact that many of the great cities
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the dessert sobriquet. (Also‚ he was doughier before shedding pounds to run for president.) A fiscal-policy nerd elected to Parliament in France’s rural heartland‚ the 57-year-old Hollande cultivates blandness to show up the excitable incumbent‚ Nicolas Sarkozy. On the trail in February‚ Hollande spent 12 hours petting cows and kissing babies at Paris’s farm expo without insulting anyone. (President Sarkozy‚ at the same event in 2008‚ famously told a heckler‚ “Get lost‚ you poor bastard.”) Hollande
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Barack Obama The President Of the United States Biography Barack Hussein Obama II‚ born August 4‚ 1961‚ a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School‚ is the 44th and current president of the United States. For your information‚ he is also the first African American to hold the office. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He also worked as civil-rights lawyer and teacher before pursuing a political career. He was later elected to the Illinois State
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My superhero is Common Century‚ also known as Nicolas Tonge or Century. Common Century is an average looking guy in his mid-20s‚ he has medium-length brown hair‚ brown-hazel eyes‚ and works a white collar job in Tysons‚ Virginia. Common Century wears a silver suit along with a black cape‚ red boots and gauntlets‚ and a red belt with silver lettering in the center‚ the letters are CC (for a better visual look up the hero Sentry and recolor the outfit). His powers include flight‚ superhuman charisma
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established by law since 1905 which keeps religion firmly out of the state sphere. “France is a country where there is no place for the Burqa‚ where there is no place for the subservience of women.” These were the words of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in a speech preceding the 2010 ban. It is true that there are cases were women are forced to cover their faces by their husbands or fathers. In this event‚ the government should make sure that resources such as anonymous help lines and community
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