In the 1st century BC Italy was under the control of a single power‚ the Roman Empire‚ which remained in control until the 5th century AD. After the Empire fell‚ a Germanic tribe – the Lombards – invaded Italy and a network of smaller political entities arose throughout the country (Marino‚ 2016). For the next thousand years‚ Italy became a combination of many city-states‚ in which Rome – home to the Catholic Church – was the most powerful. This period is known as the Dark Ages. During the Fourteenth
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William was a (white) abolitionist. William was also the most well-known editor of The Liberator. The Liberator not only promoted abolishing slavery‚ but advocated women’s rights as well. The Liberator ran for 34 years‚ it only ended after the Civil War did. William Lloyd Garrison was also known as quite the radical‚ he (unlike most people) wanted full political rights for slaves. In William’s time‚ he also co-funded the New England Anti-Slavery Society which later became known as the American Anti-Slavery
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by French mathematician Jean Le Rond d’Alembert for part of the project‚ painstakingly collected as much Enlightenment-era knowledge as he possibly could. After Diderot’s involvement‚ an additional seven volumes were completed‚ but Diderot himself did not edit them. *The Encyclopédie became a prominent symbol of the enlightenment and helped spread the movement throughout europe
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seventeen years old‚ he was sent in aid by the French military to the U.S. on the side of the colonists. Even though he did not directly participate in the French Revolution directly‚ it gave him a better outside perspective‚ which soon became his motivation of industrialism ("Henri De Saint-Simon | French Social Reformer." Encyclopedia Britannica Online). Even though Henri did create the idea of industrialism‚ his major work was Noveau Christianisme (1825). In this work he declared that the world
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The officers did not have a good idea who the murderers were but they believed that the murders were gang related. A name that kept coming up was Al Capone. They questioned him but he had an air-tight alibi. He was in Miami at the time trying to escape Chicago’s brutal
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school did not appeal to Charles well and he went back to live with his parents in Devon. Just because Charles was not at university did not mean he did not study. He studied mathematics with great devotion and became fond of algebra. During 1808 the Babbage family had moved to a new neighborhood. This neighborhood is where Charles Babbage would meet many of his lifelong friends and even his wife‚ Georgiana Whitmore. The marriage was not welcomed by Benjamin Babbage‚ Charles father. Ben did not
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Jackson Pollock is an artist who is commonly acknowledged as someone who helped pave the path for contemporary artists. Pollock turned life and circumstance into a visual representation‚ giving way to ultimate expression and subjectivity. Jackson Pollock had many influences in his life: family (or lack thereof)‚ teachers‚ friends‚ and other artists who all contributed to his work in some way. These influences of Pollock were a cocktail that helped to produce some of the greatest examples of modern
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Antoine Lavoisier‚ deemed the father of modern chemistry‚ was born August 26‚ 1743 in Paris‚ France‚ but he did not pursue his love for science as a career until after he received a bachelor’s degree in law and obtained a license to practice law in 1764. Lavoisier always had a strong interest in the sciences‚ but was encouraged by his father to consider it only a hobby. However‚ in 1764‚ the same year he decided against practicing law‚ his first scientific paper was published‚ and he was elected
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Spinal Cord InjuriesArticle Last Updated: Aug 8‚ 2006 BackgroundPatients with spinal cord injury (SCI) usually have permanent and often devastating neurologic deficits and disability. According to the National Institutes of Health‚ "among neurological disorders‚ the cost to society of automotive SCI is exceeded only by the cost of mental retardation."The goals for the emergency physician are to establish the diagnosis and initiate treatment to prevent further neurologic injury from either pathologic
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motion in the heavens with the motion of the earth since “every object in the universe attracts every other object”. One of the most important scientific books‚ The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy‚ written by Newton was where he described how he views the universe. He introduces the idea that the universe is a machine that operates based on natural law‚ or the unchanging conditions of humans. He described the universe as a clock with all of its different parts working perfectly together
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