Jill- Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after. A rhyme EVERY child knows… according to many sites‚ Jack is a reference to King Louis XVI and Jill stands for Queen Marie Antoinette. In 1793‚ Louis XVI was beheaded during the infamous Reign of Terror. Therefore the line “broke his crown (head)”. What followed was Queen Antoinette’s beheading. Hence‚ “Jill came tumbling after”. Well‚ even if this ISN’T the real story
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Marie Curie LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie(1867-1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre‚ who was also a French physicist‚ are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie‚ originally named Marja Sklodowska‚ was born in Warsaw‚ Poland on Nov.7‚ 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught it in high school. Marie’s father must have taught his daughter well because in 1891‚ she went
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resulting in the deaths of thousands of people living in France at that period of time. The terror followed the trial and execution of King Louis XVI in 1793 and was incited by the conflict between the Girondins and Jacobins. Soon after‚ King Louis’ wife‚ Marie Antoinette‚ was executed in the guillotine- the new form of constitutionalist justice. Many of the people who were executed during this period of time were not aristocrats‚ but ordinary people who may have only stated a critical thought or judgment
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Marie Curie How were the elements of the periodic table discovered? Who discovered them? These are questions that some people may ask. Marie Curie and her husband‚ Pierre Curie‚ were two scientists that discovered two elements of the periodic table‚ polonium and radium. She and her husband worked all of their lives to understand radium and radioactivity. When something is radioactive‚ it produces radiation‚ which is moving subatomic particles.The interesting thing is‚ that radium‚ what Marie Curie
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Marie and Meursault: Meant to Be or Want to Be? “It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over‚ that Mamam was buried now‚ that I was going back to work and that really‚ nothing had changed.”(1.1.15) These are some of the words that ran through Meursault’s mind after his mother’s death. He was very isolated from her so he felt as if nothing had changed. He was not the most outgoing person but the same cannot be said about his love interest‚ Marie. Throughout the novel‚ The Stranger‚ Meursault
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the causes that led to his own downfall. The income of the government mainly came from heavy taxation on the citizens and several incidences led to the bankrupt of government. One of the main reasons was Louis and his family‚ mainly due to his wife‚ Marie Antoinette‚ who spent a lot of money in luxuries such as clothes‚ jewelry‚ and gambling. She even spent lots of money in creating beautiful gardens structured like a real peasant village around her palace‚ in which many people found it pointless and
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Adam Chin Ms. Pearlman The French Revolution of 1789 was one of the most important revolutions that had taken place. During that time‚ the political‚ social‚ and economic conditions were disliked by many of the French people‚ especially those in the Third Estate. Many of the French were influenced by the new views of government and society and attempted to try and change the way the government thought. The First and Second Estate were filled with many high class and church members
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general and chancellor. Even though I did end up reaching a high ranking‚ I was unable to advance in the church because I wasn’t born of noble birth. After a few more years I absolutely hated the aristocracy and monarchy‚ ruled by King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette‚ (they had no balance of power) by the time the Estates General were summoned in 1788. After seeing how the nobles acted and the way the monarchy blatantly ignored the Third Estate‚ I wrote What Is The Third Estate? which identified the
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Marie-Laure had always been curious and questioned what ordinary people did. “‘Why not‚’ she asks‚ ‘just take the diamond and throw it into the sea?’” (pg. 23). When she went blind however‚ even small tasks seemed daunting‚ and her father had to help her regain her courage. The Nazi’s invasion of France forces her to use that courage and not lose her mind in a seemingly difficult situation. “‘You did well‚ Marie-Laure. I’m proud.’” (pg. 117) says her father as they evacuate the city. Upon reaching
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approximately six thousand angry French women wanted food and money and were willing push extreme limits in order to fulfill that demand. Conclusively‚ it can be inferred that this event was influenced by the lack of bread and money in the country. Marie Antoinette was the King’s wife‚ and she was a very greedy woman; taking all of the bread and money to herself when there was a decrease in flour throughout the country. For this reason‚ they besieged the Place of Versailles and after a violent and
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