apartment with the Eiffel Tower at your windows view‚ the busy streets of New York.. the sunshine of LA.. I’ll be dancing with the Spanish‚ learning the local life of Greece‚ seeing beautiful places and monuments in Italy and learning the life of Tuscany.. When you live in one country your entire life‚ you learn to think it’s all that’s out there.. this little world of yours. But it’s not. Once you come to realise there’s a whole world out there left to explore‚ something inside of you just craves
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On 23 September 1862‚ Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was appointed Minister-President and Foreign Minister of Prussia . Within nine years a new German nation state was created by the unification of the numerous independent German-speaking states in central Europe. The creation of Germany as a cohesive political and integrated country occurred on 18 January 1871 at the palace of Versailles in France. Following the military defeat of France by Prussia in the Franco/Prussian war‚ (July 1870 to January
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ABOUT Headquartered in Orlando‚ Fla.‚ Darden Restaurants is the world’s largest full-service restaurant company. Through subsidiaries‚ Darden owns and operates more than 1‚825 restaurants across North America‚ employing approximately 180‚000 employees and serving 400 million meals annually. HISTORY The company’s roots can be traced back to 1938 when 19-year-old Bill Darden opened a 25-seat luncheonette in Waycross‚ Ga.‚ named The Green Frog. The success of his first restaurant‚ and several more
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place at the king’s court also in a future where Henry II could be dead; however Walter Map flied away when the Young King rebelled against his own father. Henry the Young‚ crowned by his father in 1172 as co-regent of the Kingdom of England and the duchy of Normandy‚ led one of the main rebellion that Henry II affronted during is reign. During two years‚ 1173-74‚ Henry the Young moved war against his father with the support
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(1445–1514 or 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar‚ collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci‚ and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace‚ Borgo Santo Sepolcro‚ Tuscany. Luca Pacioli studied in Venice and Rome and became a Franciscan friar in the 1470s. He was a travelling mathematics tutor until 1497‚ when he accepted an invitation from Lodovico Sforza ("Il Moro") to work in Milan. There he collaborated with‚ lived
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clothes and image; and in the daily ritual of the collective evening stroll or passeggiata – a sociable affair celebrated by young and old alike in every town and village across the country. There is also the country’s enormous cultural legacy: Tuscany alone has more classified historical monuments than any country in the world; there are considerable remnants of the Roman Empire all over the country‚ notably in Rome itself; and every region retains its own relics of an artistic tradition generally
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Impact on Greek-Roman architecture Many historians believe that the Greek and Roman architecture‚ known as "classical architecture‚" evolved from basic Egyptian column design‚ consisting of a pedestal‚ column and "equity" or top. The Greeks and Romans out this design by creating five more types of columns to support their many civilian buildings and religious temples. The Romans also borrowed from the Etruscan arch design to create the dome. Doric column Parthenon in Athens‚ Greece‚ was built in
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Romanov was born near St Petersburg on 18 May 1868‚ the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III. When he succeeded his father in 1894‚ he had very little experience of government. In the same year‚ Nicholas married Princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt (a duchy in Germany). They had four daughters and a son‚ Alexis‚ who suffered from the disease haemophilia. Alexandra was the dominant personality in their relationship and encouraged the weaker Nicholas’s autocratic tendencies. He mistrusted most of his ministers
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Russian Orthodox Church * But more significantly‚ Mongols enlisted local Russian princes around Moscow to aid in the collection of tributary payments; this not only strengthened the Duchy of Moscow but gave them the administrative experience they would need for independence * Not surprisingly‚ the Duchy of Moscow would spearhead the struggle for independence against the Mongols * Between 1450 and 1480 Russia cast off Mongol rule and proceeded on a course of territorial expansion and
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rapidly. More people worked in the city and the city became a trading center. So the purpose of the city changed from military defense to business district. Florence‚ Italy can be an example for this. Florence is the capital city of the Italian region- Tuscany .
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