of it was lit which is what would happen if Venus moved around the sun. Galileo also observed that the moon has mountains and has the same physical composition as the Earth. In 1615 Galileo wrote a letter to Madama Christina‚ the Grand Duchess Dowager in which he states that the Bible and all its teachings had no place in scientific investigation. He also stated that academic philosophers show more interest in their own opinions than in the actual truth and refuse to consider other views. ‘’Showing
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Comparison Essay 3: China and Japan The Asian countries of China and Japan have very different histories of their beginnings and how they became the countries they are today. For hundreds of years‚ there was very little contact or influence the countries share with one another‚ for both shared the desire to keep all foreign influences away. While this has certainly created many historical differences in art between these countries‚ as influence from one another was allowed ideas and techniques were
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Taj Mahal Taj Mahal‚ the pinnacle of Mughal architecture‚ was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658)‚ grandson of Akbar the great‚ in the memory of his queen Arjumand Bano Begum‚ entitled ‘Mumtaz Mahal’. Mumtaz Mahal was a niece of empress Nur Jahan and granddaughter of Mirza Ghias Beg I’timad-ud-Daula‚ wazir of emperor Jehangir. She was born in 1593 and died in 1631‚ during the birth of her fourteenth child at Burhanpur. Her mortal remains were temporarily buried in the Zainabad garden
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Choose two texts which do not portray food as a source of nourishment or comfort and compare them. A Modest Proposal is a political speech by Jonathan Swift which presents a solution to the problem of the hunger in Ireland in the 18th Century‚ published in 1729. It is a satirical essay about how the religious divide between the Protestants and the Catholics caused the Catholics to be declined the right to vote in 1627 which meant they couldn’t go against the Protestant rules‚ they were forbidden
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of pictures put together which tells a story . 7. Why are images of Justinian and Theodora in the Ravenna church ? Because Ravenna was built by the order of Justinian and he was the empire of the byzantine empire and his wife Theodora was the empress. 8. What does mosaics of Justinian say about him ? The mosaics of Justinian in the Ravenna tells us that Justinian is both the leader of the church and state of his empire 9. What is iconoclasm? It’s the participation of destroying religious
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In the 1300s‚ literature began to advance. The famous writer‚ Geoffrey Chaucer‚ was working on The Canterbury Tales. This story was a collection of small stories told by the travellers on their journey to the remains of Saint Thomas Becket. Around the same time‚ Giovanni Boccaccio was writing The Decameron‚ which was a collection of small told by nobles to pass the time while trying to hid from the plague. Bother stories have a similar concept‚ but also have completely different styles. Both
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Queen Victoria’s Life and Reign You may have heard of the Victorian Era‚ which was most definitely a Magnificent Era. It signifies the beginning of Modern Times‚ inventions that forever changed our lives‚ political‚ religious‚ and social movements that I can’t even begin to describe. Queen Victoria has impacted our life’s and the life’s of our ancestors in one way or another. Alexandria Victoria born on a lovely spring morning on May 24th 1819 in Kensington Palace‚ London‚ England. Her parents
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On Planet Drosnin‚ a werewolf and a young boy must defeat a wicked dictator destined to take over the planet with magic plants that have the ability to create fantastic powers. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: HECTOR (50) a malevolent dictator on the Planet Drosnin‚ wants to take over the planet with magical plants that grow deep in the green jungle. He runs factories that pollute the planet. He enslaves children and Indigenous Warriors and forces them to work at the factories. It’s up to werewolf JACOB (50) to
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As a result‚ the Nakaz reflects the empress’ view of the role of government in accomplishing liberty for a country‚ the responsibility of the ruler in maintaining liberty for a country‚ and the effect the ideology of liberty can be expected to have on the people. Catherine the great was
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the room as the educators stand before the Goddess‚ and the scene where Dullness triumphs over everything that breathes life into human creativity‚ he makes it a point to describe each scene as a play-by-play battle in itself. An advocate of the empress rising to speak is now a ghost that is a force to be reckoned with. "When lo! A spectator rose‚ whose index hand/ held forth the virtue of the dreadful wand;/ his beavered brow a birchened garland wears/ dropping with infants blood and mothers tears/[line
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