The Third of May 1808 (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid‚ or Los fusilamientos de la montana del Prìncipe Pìo‚ or Los fusilamientos atled tres de mayo) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish depicter Francisco Goya‚ now in the Museo del Prado‚ Madrid. In the work‚ Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies during the possession of 1808 in the Peninsular War. Along with its coadjutor fact of the same largeness‚ The Second of May 1808 (or The Charge of
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The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a powerful earthquake that shook mainly the city of San Francisco (USA) the morning of April 18‚ 1906. The earthquake was of magnitude between 7.9 and 8.6 degrees Mw1 and its epicenter was according to the experts of the United States Geological Survey‚ on the coast of Daly City and southwest of San Francisco. The main tremors began at 05:12 in the morning along the San Andrés fault. It was felt on the Pacific coast from Oregon to Los Angeles and inland
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San Francisco is located in northern California‚ a hilly city at the tip of a peninsula‚ surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. The city has a fairly large population of 400‚000 people‚ however‚ it wasn’t always large. The California Gold Rush of 1848 turned a small population into what it is now. It became America’s largest city west of the Mississippi River until 1920 when it lost its title to Los Angeles. All that changed when the 1906 earthquake struck. On April 18‚
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The 1906 San Francisco earthquake is widely believed to be the most significant earthquake of all time with regards to destruction‚ loss of life‚ and subsequent learnings. On the 110th anniversary of the April 18th‚ 1906 earthquake‚ we delve into how our understanding of earthquakes has developed and how this particular earthquake helped further our understanding. In 1906 San Francisco was a thriving city of 400‚000 and an important economic and trading center of the U.S. west coast. On April 18th
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Cuelgamuros in the Sierra de Guadarrama. The environment is composed of large granite formations‚ and vegetation is pine‚ oak‚ elm‚ rock roses‚ rosemary‚ thyme. It is flanked by several hills. The monument belongs to the National Trust since 1957. Francisco Franco ordered its construction‚ is buried
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Fascism can be defined as a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power‚ forcibly suppression opposition and criticism‚ regimenting all industry commerce and emphasising an aggressive nationalism and often racism (Idaho). Francisco Franco was the dictator of Spain for over 36 years which was made possible by the Spanish Civil War. Even though he had some of the characteristics of a fascist he was not a true fascist. He was a pragmatist‚ nationalist and anti-communist who did not desire
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Francisco Franco was born on December 4‚ 1892‚ in a little town off Spain’s northwestern edge. His father and grandfather were both came from sea based military backgrounds and at the age of 14 Franco enrolled in a secondary naval school with the intention of following his father and grandfather. In 1907 Franco began school at the Infantry Academy in Toledo as a result of the Spanish government suspending applicants into the secondary naval school. In the Infantry Academy Franco struggled and graduated
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Case 2: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Preserves Expertise with Better Knowledge Management 1. What are the business goals of SFPUC? How is knowledge management related to those goals? SFPUC is a department of the city and county of San Francisco that provides water‚ wastewater‚ and municipal power services to the city. SFPUC’s Power division provides electricity to the city and county of San Francisco‚ including power used to operate electric streetcars and buses; the Regional
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Over time there have been many dictators in the world. Today I will compare and contrast two of them‚ Fransisco Franco and Benito Mussolini. So let’s jump right is with Franco. Franco was a Spanish general who‚ after the Spanish government began to fail in 1936‚ took up arms and rebelled against the government. It took him three years‚ and the help of other famous Fascists such as Hitler and Mussolini‚ but in 1939‚ he became the dictator of Spain‚ or El Caudillo (the leader) as most people referred
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James Franco: All-Around Star Watching movies and TV shows is something that everyone has done. Ever think about the actors and directors that are behind all the things people watch? Meet James Franco‚ the man who started young‚ known for his all-around doings. He is acknowledgeable for his outstanding work in filmmaking and performance art. In order‚ to have gotten to where he is‚ he would have needed to learn what he knows somewhere. He studied at Playhouse West‚ an acting school‚ for years (Miller)
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