warships and three support vessels (the American Asiatic Squadron) entered Manila Bay in the Spanish Philippines. This would become the first major battle of the Spanish-American War. Leading the pack was Commodore George Dewey who was aboard the USS Olympia. The ships were made of steel and powered by coal-fired steam engines; also on board were electrical generators which ridding the need for lanterns to light the lower decks. Dewey was skeptical of the Spaniards ability to place mines in the deep water
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In ancient Greece‚ Agrigento‚ Sicily used to be the Greek city of Akragas. It was known as one of the richest and the most famous of the Greek colonies. Sicily became wealthy in the 8th century BC due to Greek colonization . From the Southern Greek mainland many settlers colonized on the island. At the height of ancient Greece culture‚ Akragas was very prosperous with an estimated population of 300‚000. Sicily had many monumental temples than any other Mediterranean area due to this reason. The
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governments‚ like the following: Democracy‚ Monarchy‚ Tyranny‚ and Oligarchy‚ been the last mentioned the first type applied. (Ancient Greek City-States). The most powerful and popular city-states of the ancient Greece are Athens‚ Sparta‚ Corinth‚ and Olympia. The article Ancient Greece the City of Athens‚ that “During the time of the Ancient Greeks it was the center of power‚ art‚ science‚ and philosophy in the world. Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world as well‚ with recorded history going
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way since 24‚000 B.C.E. when a small‚ female figure was carved by our ancestors. Venus of Willendorf was a first step in a long history of artists‚ styles and conventions that brought us to what art critics named the first truly modern painting: Olympia. Great milestones were accomplished along the way: Praxitales’ Aphrodite was the first Greek female nude. The Sleeping Venus by HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione"Giorgione‚ was the first female reclining nude in European painting
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unconditional courage and bravery. The vicissitude he bequeathed to military tactics made it perceptible that he was not an asset of the society he lived in‚ but a ruler. Alexander‚ born as Alexandros‚ son of King Philip I of Macedon and his wife Olympias‚ could be considered great due to the fact that he was an incredible leader‚ forming the largest empire in all of history. The creation of his empire was a journey toward anti-racism‚ uniting people from the Balkan Mountains to the Indus River and
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Within a life of struggle for the rights of oppressed people‚ especially women‚ she wrote several works‚ the most well-known being the declaration of the rights of women and the citizen. In this document‚ Olympia claims for women the equality defended by the French Revolution‚ and denounces the way in which‚ after taking advantage of its participation in events such as the Bastille‚ it seeks to return women to their domestic roles and the private spaces‚ forgetting
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of Macedon.[5] He was the son of the king of Macedon‚ Philip II‚ and his fourth wife‚ Olympias‚ the daughter of Neoptolemus I‚ king of Epirus.[6][7][8] Although Philip had seven or eight wives‚ Olympias was his principal wife for some time‚ likely a result of giving birth to Alexander.[9] Several legends surround Alexander’s birth and childhood.[10] According to the ancient Greek biographer Plutarch‚ Olympias‚ on the eve of the consummation of her marriage to Philip‚ dreamed that her womb was struck
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coupled with a blue ball and brown ball. Since then‚ 22 ball snooker has been popular around the world The ancient Greeks in 776 BC‚ the introduced the Games (for peace) which was held in Olympia every four years. Games held during the Greek athletes and near the common people gathered in the beautiful town of Olympia in southern Greece scenery. In the first Olympic Games held there in 776 BC‚ the Dorians Klose 192.27 meters sprint game champions‚ the International Olympic Committee was awarded a title
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Among works for which Phidias is famous are three monuments to Athena on the Athenian Acropolis (the Athena Promachos‚ the Lemnian Athena‚ and the colossal Athena Parthenos for the Parthenon) and the colossal seated Zeus for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia; none of these survives in the original. The first of Phidias’ monuments to Athena‚ the bronze Athena Promachos‚ was one of his earliest works. It was placed on the Athenian Acropolis in about 456. According to the preserved inscription‚ it measured
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The allusion to this part of the story occurs once Miranda is born into the world. It begins when Olympia is holding Miranda and examining her after the birth‚ and she notices nothing until she turns her over‚ where she sees an extra appendage‚ a tail. Olympia realizes that she is not the type of baby that Arty would appreciate‚ perhaps because she is not freakish enough‚ and this is where the allusion occurs. “She had Arty’s
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