Leonardo da Vinci was a painter‚ architect‚ inventor‚ and a true student of everything that had to do with science. He was called a “Renaissance man” because he was so smart in so many areas. Even today‚ he is best known for his art and because he painted two of the world’s most famous paintings‚ the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Da Vinci was so ahead of his time that he believed that art was connected to both science and nature. He filled notebook after notebook with inventions and ideas that
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Washington found himself at the front lines in many of his battles and naturally there where some close calls on his life. At the Battle of Monongahela in 1755‚ Washington had two horses shot out from underneath him and his coat was pierced by four musket balls. At Kip’s Bay and the Battle of Princeton‚ Washington risked his own life when rushing to the front lines to rally his flagging
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Hernán Cortés was for the most part responsible for the conquest of the Mexicans. He was Spanish conquistador who pursued to gain wealth and admiration. “…to investigate rumors of a fabulously wealthy kingdom somewhere in the interior of the mainland.” (American Promise‚ pg. 34) Cortes and his army were welcomed and were given gold. Consequently‚ Spaniards’ greed grew‚ and Cortés took Montezuma captive‚ then murdering him. “Cortes took Montezuma hostage and held him under house arrest‚ hoping to
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The French assistance in the Revolutionary war was essential for the American victory over the British. The Americans were very lucky in their alliance with the French because of their differences in their governmental structure and religion. The French did not support the idea of colonies revolting and democracy because they were a monarchy. The French allied with the Americans in their fight for independence in order to get revenge on the British. The loss of the colonies would weaken the British
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be reduced to sequences of binary digits. He added that this method could be used with any objects at all: "provided those objects be capable of a twofold difference only; as by Bells‚ by Trumpets‚ by Lights and Torches‚ by the report of Muskets‚ and any instruments of like nature". In 1854‚ British mathematician George Boole published a landmark paper detailing an algebraic system of logic that would become known as Boolean algebra. His logical calculus was to become instrumental in the
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together they had 16000 men. Twenty French warships with 3000 men arrived in the harbor. Because France‚ Spain‚ and Holland declared war on Brittan they were staying to protect England and would not send reinforcements. The French supplied 100‚ 000 muskets. The French and Americans blew away the British fortifications. On October‚ 19 1781 the British surrendered. The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle of the war‚ and was such a decisive battle that the British where willing to give Americans
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Theodore McPhail Wednesday‚ August 27th‚ 2014 Mr. Mac History 201 Prompt: Using Nathaniel Philbrick’s book Mayflower‚ complete a 5 page essay answering the following prompt: Nathanial Philbrick writes‚ "When Philip’s warriors attacked in June of 1675‚ it was not because relentless and faceless forces had given the Indians no other choice. Those forces had existed from the beginning." (xiv) What forces lead to King Phillips war and how did those forces change the way historians have viewed the Pilgrim myth
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Daily Life During The Civil War Training To be an effective soldier in the Civil War‚ a man needed to know much more than how to drill on the parade ground and how to fire his musket. It was mostly the hard school of experience that turned a green recruit fresh from his country home into a lean‚ weatherbeaten soldier who was able to march all night and fight all day on scant rations. Many volunteers did not survive long enough to make the transition. Adaptation to army discipline and regimentation
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photographs are taken throughout the world and these photographs speak words. Sontag makes an interesting statement mid way through her criticism‚ (Sontag‚ 1997‚ p. 784)‚ “The old-fashion camera was clumsier and harder to reload than a brown Bess musket. The
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Hawai’i By: Kaleem Minor In January 1778‚ James Cook of Britain made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. He was the first European to ever visit the island group‚ which he named the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his patrons‚ John Montague‚ the Earl of Sandwich. The ships then made a brief stop at Ni’ihau‚ the seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands‚ and headed north to look for the western end of a northwest passage from the North Atlantic to the Pacific. Almost one year
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