Oil painting - The School of Athens (after Raphael) Object: Oil painting Place of origin: Rome‚ Italy (painted) Date: 1752-1755 (painted) Artist/Maker: Mengs‚ Anton Raphael‚ born 1728 - died 1779 (artist) Raphael‚ born 1483 - died 1520 (after‚ artist) Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Credit Line: Given by the Duke of Northumberland‚ 1926 Museum number: P.36-1926 Gallery location: In Storage Public access description Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779) was born in Bohemia now Czech Republic
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Solon Cassy Franson 1st Hour‚ Mr. Cole Work Cited Page 1.) Gill‚ N.S. "About." About. (2012): n. page. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. <http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/solon/a/Solon.htm>. 2.) ".Greeka." .Greeka. n. page. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. <http://www.greeka.com/greece-famous-people/solon.htm>. 3.) "Jona Lendering ." Jona Lendering . (2005): n. page. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. <http://www.livius.org/so-st/solon/solon.html>. 4.) "Solon". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia
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Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is based on his experiences in the German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War. Having grown up an Orthodox Jew in the Hungarian village of Sighet‚ Wiesel and his family was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where his mother and youngest sister were immediately sent to the gas chambers. While both his older sisters survived‚ his father‚ with whom Wiesel had fought to survive the labor camps‚ died shortly before the war ended. Night tells
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The Druids were the Priests - Magicians - of the Celtic people. They were Priests and Priestesses. Although since Christian times Druids have been identified as wizards and soothsayers‚ in pre-Christian Celtic society they formed an intellectual class comprising philosophers‚ judges‚ educators‚ historians‚ doctors‚ seers‚ astronomers‚ and astrologers. The earliest surviving Classical references to Druids date to the 2nd century B.C. The word "Druidae" is of Celtic origin. The Roman writer Pliny
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these oaths. I have also considered any changes or improvements that could be made to the oath to make it more adequate in today’s society. To start off‚ after carefully reading the original Hippocratic Oath‚ I have to say I was surprised by the lucidity and relevance of the content. Being that the Oath was written all the way back in the fifth century‚ I expected the piece to be more
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The first Greek Stoic was Zeno of Citium. He arrived in Athens when he was twenty-two years old and studied with a group known as the Cynics but that does not mean the same as it does today. In Greek it meant doglike or without shame. These people tried to live natural lives‚ using minimal hygiene and clothes and permitting incest and cannibalism. He started teaching when he was thirty-three in the Athenian stoa. A stoa is a long colonnade where there was usually a marketplace. The Stoics preferred
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impressionist painter. His palate was lightened and he started to use very short brushstrokes‚ just as the impressionist ’s did. Because of hardships in his life such as unhappy romances and bad relationships with friends‚ he fell into fits of madness and lucidity‚ which lead him to the asylum in Saint-Remy for help (The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery). While in the asylum‚ he was determined to prove himself equal of his fellow artists‚ and produced what is known today as one of the best expressionist paintings
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Provocative doc from Acton Institute fellow examines why those in need aren’t always thankful for giving — and what can be done to better improve their situation. As if poverty weren’t a challenging enough phenomenon unto itself‚ time has revealed that good intentions by outsiders can in many cases make the problem worse — a cruel irony that serves as the basis of Michael Matheson Miller’s “Poverty Inc.‚” an easy-to-understand docu-essay with a tough-to-accept message‚ especially as it implies that
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Lucid dreaming If a person has ever been in a dream and said to themselves‚” I’m dreaming”. If so then they have had a lucid dream previously before. Lucid dreaming is a sort of dreaming wherein which you are aware which you are dreaming. A lucid dream is any dream during which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. During lucid dreaming‚ the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters‚ narrative‚ and environment. In case one may want to learn to lucid dream
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"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself." These are the famous lines from the 1980s science-themed TV show‚ ‘Cosmos: A Personal Voyage’. It was presented by Carl Sagan‚ one of the most renowned physicists of all time and it was a huge success. Almost three decades later‚ this show received a remake‚ with another celebrated physicist‚ Neil de Grass Tyson. The show aired first on the 9th of March 2014. And this new version of the cosmos was also a tremendous success. This show comprises of thirteen
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