Vitalis for his Christian beliefs. Like so many other amazing buildings at this time it housed some of the best Byzantine Art. One of the most famous images of political authority from the Middle Ages is the beautiful Mosaics who are of the Emperor and Empress‚ the beautiful Justinian‚Bishop Maximianus & Attendants and Theodora And Attendants. The mosaic is on the north wall of the apse‚San Vitale ‚Ravenna‚ Italy and was made around 547 BC.. The Emperor Justinian is holding the bread‚ and Theodora
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FROM THE DAY of its publication in 1931‚ The Good Earth has been one of the most popular novels of the twentieth century. Sales figures and prizes tell part of the story. Several million copies of the book have been sold in more than sixty countries‚ including the United States. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells medal for fiction. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid the then-record sum of $50‚000 for movie rights. The film version of the novel‚ released in 1937‚ was seen by over
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The Sui‚ the Song‚ and the Tang Dynasty The period of the dynasty that unified China‚ the Sui Dynasty‚ began the year 580 C.E. and lasted until 618 C.E. I was founded by an officer of the Northern Zhou‚ Yang Chien (Emperor Wen Ti)‚ and his son and successor‚ Emperor Yang Ti. As an emperor Wen Ti in his early actions restored the Buddhists rights‚ their clergy‚ and ended suppression of Daoism. Emperor Wen Ti achieved the unification of China during the Sui era; also‚ the central government was
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Dixon 1 Daniel Dixon Dr. Campbell History 114 3/20/14 Religion in Ancient China and Egypt Religion has played a very important role in society and the history of mankind for over thousands of years. Originally created by ancient peoples as a way to explain the unknown‚ religion has greatly evolved and spread across the globe. As new religions have formed and spread‚ the diversity and similarities between these new religions have also increased‚ especially due to their geographic locations
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Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna best known as Marie Antoinette‚ was the last queen of France who helped with the provocation of the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and the overthrown of the French Monarchy of that moment in August 1792. She was born in November 2‚ 1775 and executed in October 16‚ 1793.She is quite famous in the present with the quote “Let them eat cake”‚ although there is no evidence she actually said it. She was married to the king Luis XVI. In 1776‚ she gave birth
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Queen Victoria Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and died in 1901. She was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). Queen Victoria was born Alexandrina Victoria on May 24‚ 1819‚ in Kensington Palace‚ London. Victoria’s mother was Victoria Mary Louisa‚ daughter of the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Her father was Edward Augustus‚ duke of Kent and Strathern‚ the fourth son of George III and youngest brother of George IV and William
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COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH PERSON INVOLVED IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION 1st Council of Nicea Roman Emperor Constantine the Great with Pope Saint Sylvester I The bold text in the profession of faith of the 318 fathers constitutes‚ according to Tanner "The additions made by the council to an underlying form of the creed"‚ and that the underlying creed was most likely "derived from the baptismal formula of Caesarea put forward by the bishop of that city Eusebius" or that it "developed from an original form which
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red nose to offset his good looks.The bulletin stated that Harrison Bergeron escaped and described his appearance. As the ballerina finished reading the bulletin‚ Harrison barged in stating that he is the emperor and chose a ballerina to become his empress‚ stripping away all of their handicaps. As the musicians stripped away their handicaps and played their best‚ Harrison and the ballerina danced gracefully. Then Diana Moon Glampers‚ the Handicapper General shoots them down with a shotgun after they
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"To promote diplomatic relationships with France‚ Marie Antoinette was asked to marry Louis Auguste‚ the Dauphin of France" (Campan 3).With the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War in 1763‚ an alliance between Austria and France became a priority for Empress Maria Theresa; cementing alliances through matrimonial connections was a common practice among European royal families at the time. In 1765‚ the son of French Emperor Louis XV‚ Louis Ferdinand‚ died‚ leaving his 11-year-old grandson Louis Auguste
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Weeres Pontoon Boat Company Est. 1952 Ambrose Weeres was born and raised in Minnesota‚ the land of 10‚000 lakes‚ and grew to become a farmer who wanted a more sturdy boat. With some experimenting‚ the pontoon was born‚ calling the first prototype The Empress. Ambrose made more and generously sold them throughout the area‚ but the small shop Ambrose worked in was not spacious enough for the large number of orders coming in‚ so he opened the Weeres Pontoon Boat Company in 1952. Although the beginning was
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