taught him music‚ grammar and athletics. At the age of 20 years old‚ Plato meets Socrates‚ who became his teacher‚ mentor and closest person. Eight years with Socrates influenced Plato ’s life path. After Socrates died‚ Plato travels to Egypt‚ Italy‚ Sicily and Cyrene. Then he came back and opened his famous philosophical Academy. The Academy was an institution of higher education. Such philosophers as Aristotle‚ Heraclitus‚ Crates and Xenocrates attended Plato ’s Academy. Plato’s writings are dialogues
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north coast of Africa. Young Leonardo consequently received a Moorish education as well as the traditional European education and was introduced to Hindu-Arabic numbers. Later on‚ he traveled about the Mediterranean visiting Egypt‚ Syria‚ Greece‚ Sicily and Provence‚ meeting with scholars and becoming acquainted with the various arithmetical systems used by the merchants. In his book‚ the Liber abaci‚ which fills 459 printed pages‚ he explained the most perfect methods of calculating with whole
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SAINT ELIZABETH of HUNGARY Widow (1207-1231) Elizabeth was the daughter of the just and pious Andrew II‚ king of Hungary‚ the niece of Saint Hedwig‚ and the sister of the virtuous Bela IV‚ king of Hungary‚ who became the father of Saint Cunegundes and of Saint Margaret of Hungary‚ a Dominican nun. Another of her brothers was Coloman‚ King of Galicia and prince of Russia‚ who led an angelic life amid the multiple affairs of the world and the troubles of war. She was betrothed in infancy to
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In a letter from Jean Victor Marie Moreau‚ a French general to Napoleon‚ Moreau writes‚ “How have you respected these promises? How have you respected these oaths? Everywhere in Europe‚ from Sicily to Moscow‚ yourself are alike feared and detested.” As you can see‚ Napoleon was untruthful and made many empty promises in order to achieve his goals. In a speech by Napoleon‚ he states‚ “For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the
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The kingdom of Judea has always been the center of attention due to its geographical location and fertile lands. In 586 BCE Babylon king conquered Judah. In 538 BCE‚ Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered the region. He was admired by common people kind acts concerning citizens of Judea. He ordered the exiled Jews to return from Babylon to their homeland. Also‚ Jewish temple was rebuilt. In 332 BCE‚ Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great destroyed the Persian Empire‚ gained control over Judea. But after
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In this section‚ Gladwell emphasises how cultural legacies operate as strong forces. He starts with the history of the small town situated on the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky‚ called Harlan. It was founded by eight immigrant families from the northern region of British Isles in the early nineteenth century. The first settlers were herders and this region was cut off from the rest of the state because of its tough accessibility. The town was always thinly populated never crossing the population
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pestilential miasma (Patel‚ 2011). The Black Plague is said to have originated in Asia and China. It was given the name “The Black Death" because of the black spots it produced on the skin (Middle Ages‚ 2011). It then reached the Crimea and then Sicily in 1347. Tartar armies besieged a Genoese trading outpost in the Crimea and intentionally infected the inhabitants. Some of the Genoese escaped by ship‚ carrying the infection that they then unknowingly spread to each port at which they
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The Black Death was a name given to a deadly pandemic that spread from China to Mongolia‚ Northern India‚ and the Middle East during the 1300s. It moved with astonishing rapidity‚ advancing about two miles per day‚ summer‚ or winter. It continued to erupt in local epidemics from the next 300 years; some localities could expect a renewed outbreak between 1661 and 1669‚ although there were sporadic outbreaks in Poland and Russia until the end of the eighteenth century. In 2011‚ medical historians have
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his wings and they would fall apart and he would fall with them. Icarus was to overwhelmed by the thrill of flying that he wanted to go higher so he ended up flying too close to the sun and then falling back down to the ocean. Daedalus escaped to Sicily and his son’s body was drug ashore by a current to an island with no name. Heracles found Icarus’ body and then gave him a proper burial and named the island after the fallen Icarus which is why the island’s name is Ikaria Island. The modern moral
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in the Spanish war of succession (1702-1714) ant never came home. At the age of 16‚ he enrolled at Oxford Naval Academy and received a commission as an Ensign. After serving as a Aid-de-camp or personal assistant for the English ambassador for Sicily and the other Italian states‚ he returned to England in 1716 and was promoted to Lt. captain of the queen’s royal guard after being recommended by lords Argyle and Marlborough. These two men also brought him to the attention of Prince Eugene of
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