Comte de Rochambeau was born in Vendôme‚ Loir-et-Cher‚ France on July 1‚ 1725. Comte de Rochambeau‚ also known as Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur‚ was the third son of a family with a long military military tradition. In fact‚ this long family tradition was the reason why he joined the army. His father‚ Joseph-Charles de Vimeur‚ was a governor of Chateau de Vendôme‚ and his mother‚ Marie-Claire-Thérèse Begon‚ was a governess. Later in his life‚ he married a woman named Jeanne Thérèse Tellez d’Acosta
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Crac des Chevaliers ________________________________________ Crac des Chevaliers is the most famous medieval citadel in the world‚ (Qal’at Al-Hosn in Arabic) is sixty five kilometers west of Homs and seventy five kilometers south-east of Tartus‚ Syria. Controlling the “Homs Gap” was the main reason Crac des Chevaliers was built‚ because it was the gateway to Syria. Syria communicated with the Mediterranean through this passage. The site was first settled in the 11th century by the Kurds; as a result
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Olympe De Gouges: Hero or Liability for the French Revolution? “Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights”. Prior to 1789‚ the year the French Revolution began‚ women including Olympe De Gouges‚ were thought to have had few purposes. One being to “please” their husbands and two they were responsible for the upbringing of their children. However‚ because of women like Olympe De Gouges this was about to change. During the last decades of the eighteenth century‚ two parts of French society
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Argentina‚ Bolivia‚ and Peru. And its capital is Santiago de Chile. Chile’s most representative historical site is the Memory and Human Rights Museum‚ which was made to conmemorate all the victims of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Here you can look at different types of things such as: letters of love‚ letters asking for help‚ torture artefacts‚ and many other things. Pinochet`s dictatorship a horrible and desastrous period in Chile’s history ‚ because a lot of people suffered terrible losts and
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Upside Down is an amazing movie‚ written by Juan Solanas‚ which tells the story of Adam. A kid born in the world below and whose curiosity and drive leads him to explore beyond his world’s limit. One day he meets a young girl from the above world called Eden‚ they quickly become friends‚ and begin meeting each other on a daily basis in the same spot. As they grow this relationship becomes stronger‚ and finally fall in love with each other. This leads them to break the law and enter into each other’s
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Venus de Milo is a marble sculpture designed and created by Alexandros of Antioch. The sculpture is believed to resemble Aphrodite‚ the goddess of love. She is presented with a beautiful face‚ wavy pulled back hair and a draped cloth resting at the waist. Venus de Milo is filled with mystery due to her missing arms and where she was found. There are raised questions if Venus de Milo is Aphrodite or if she is the sea goddess‚ Amphitrite. The mysterious sculpture has raised this question. What was
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The History Of Paper & Recycling T he history of paper dates back almost 2‚000 years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Before then‚ people communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone‚ bones‚ cave walls or clay tablets. Paper as we know it today was first made in Lei-Yang‚ China. About 300 years later‚ during the 8th century‚ Muslims (from the region that is now Syria‚ Saudi Arabia and Iraq) learned the Chinese
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Worth 40pts HISTORY 1301 This assignment requires that you write a 2-page paper on what you think is the defining moment in U.S. history during the period of 1492-1865. Make sure you explicitly state in your introduction what you think is the defining moment. In the body of the paper you should support you position with your opinion not with a historical summary. Lastly‚ make sure you end the paper by providing a conclusion by where you try to express how your event continues to play an
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Juan Gris Juan Gris born March 23rd 1887‚ in Madrid. His birth name was; José Victoriano González-Pérez. He studied Mechanical Drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in Madrid from 1902 to 1904. From 1904 to 1905 he studied paintings with the academic artist José Maria Carbonero. It wasn’t until 1905 when he took up his more known name Juan Gris. In 1906 he moved to Paris and followed his friend and fellow countryman‚ Pablo Picasso. He was in the movement of Cubism and mostly did paintings
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History of Psychology Paper Jessica PSY/310 May 3‚ 2010 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY: I certify that the attached paper‚ which was produced for the class identified above‚ is my original work and has not previously been submitted by me or by anyone else for any class. I further declare that I have cited all sources from which I used language‚ ideas and information‚ whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased‚ and that any and all assistance of any kind‚ which I received while producing this paper
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