San Vitale Ravenna‚ Italy The Church of San Vitale remains one of the earliest and most prized structures of Byzantine Art. Built in the Etruscan and later Roman city of Ravenna‚ Italy‚ San Vitale stands to be one of the city’s most celebrated possessions. Two-hundred years after Constantine‚ the creator of Byzantium‚ Ostrogoth ruler Theodoric the Great made Ravenna the capital of his kingdom. Theodoric was of Arian faith where Christ was seen as a creation of God the Father and was subordinate
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There is ancient sport played by the Native Americans centuries ago in North America. This is where‚ to this day‚ the native traditional sport still lives on as... lacrosse. Originally lacrosse was created by the Native Americans hundreds of years ago‚ as far back as the 12th century. Studies about the ancient Native Americans show that almost all the tribes‚ residing in present day Canada and U.S.‚ had a type of stickball or lacrosse. The type of lacrosse more similar to what we play today originated
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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3‚ 1847 – August 2‚ 1922) was an eminent scientist‚ inventor‚ engineer‚ teacher and innovator who is famous for invention of first practical telephone. Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. He had two brothers: Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell‚ but they died of the fatal disease called the white plague. His father was Professor Alexander Melville Bell‚ who had written several books on how to speak correctly as well as creating form of
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A Comparison of the Cree and the Iroquois The Cree and the Iroquois have a lot in common. Both the Cree and the Iroquois have gone through the routine Native American problems of self-determination and land controls‚ yet the Cree‚ possibly because of their sheer numbers‚ have weathered these problems much better. The Cree language is one of the few North American languages likely to survive into the next century‚ while the Iroquois Indians have been much more assimilated into the American world
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Kansas‚ and close the bars there. Rather than use hymns and prayer‚ however‚ Nation threw bricks. She continued her destructive tactics in Wichita‚ Kansas. In Topeka in 1901‚ someone handed her a hatchet The Kansas WCTU presented her with a gold medallion inscribed‚ “To the
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her daughter to have an accepted role as a wife. As she was pressured into a stereotypical life‚ Nel secretly desired the life of Sula. At Sula’s house‚ she could escape her reality but her mother frowned upon her hopes. On Nel’s only trip out of Medallion‚ she was on a train faced with blatant racism all around her. The experience left her with a “new found meness” that gave her the capability to change the direction her life was going in (29). She could have led a life like Sula‚ but it was her surroundings
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Solid Stuff At Australian Military Shops! Military shops are a very specialized type of retail business. They offer goods which are unavailable in any other kind of store‚ mainly because such goods come only from the military. The products include surplus goods which the army does not require or cannot use‚ and can be sold to civilians. Apart from the obvious items‚ such as uniforms‚ collectibles etc.‚ military shops also provide customized plaques‚ medals‚ camping gear‚ and other products particular
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the members‚ I was repelled by their horrible choice of clothing. Nearly all of them wore black or brown t-shirts with leather pants and it was ripped in places I would never want to describe. Moreover‚ nearly all of them had styled their hair into mohawks or spikes — a hairstyle which I was now coming to despise. I couldn’t even begin to describe their music. The singing was almost entirely clouded over by the loud beating of the drums and the guitar strums. This act was totally incomprehensible
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In the modern age of American society‚ schools are taking on this rising idea of having students wear school uniforms instead of regular clothes. Why should students sit miserably at their desks‚ listen to the dull sound of teachers‚ do school work‚ and on top of all that have to wear uncomfortable school uniforms? Other than reducing teasing and bullying‚ wearing uniforms do not have many benefits. In America’s schools‚ students should not be forced to wear uniforms because they take away a student’s
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