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    the same event and then when they speak on it or create a picture their minds somehow come up with different point of views. I am going to talk to you about the works of both da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Vinci‚ Tuscany‚ during a time called the Renaissance. Leonardo Da Vinci is known as “the renaissance man” because of his achievements in art‚ invention‚ military engineering‚ and science (Gelb 40). In Leonardo’s Last Supper‚ you can see that Christ is in the middle

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    Leonardo was born in the small town of Vinci‚ Tuscany in April 15 1452. In the1460s Leonardo and his parents moved to Florence. His amazing art talent got him to Verrocchios workshop in 1466. That’s where he met Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. When he was working with Verrocchio he learned new things like painting and making large sculptures made of marble and other materials. He invented the helicopter‚ machine gun‚ parachute‚ and many other thing. He painted the Mona Lisa. in 1503 Leonardo made

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    Medici Family of Europe

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    Prologue On what shall be said in this Essay The Medici were an illustrious family that rose to fame and fortune during the Renaissance. Starting as humble merchants‚ the family grew in fame and prosperity until the name was known throughout all of Europe. Every aspect of the Renaissance was influenced by them. They influenced society as a whole‚ and their ways of relating to the different aspects of life set up standards that were followed‚ copied or completely avoided by their peers

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    S.S Lazio

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    Lazio comprises a land area of 17‚236 km2 (6‚655 sq mi) and it has borders with Tuscany‚ Umbria‚ and Marche to the north‚ Abruzzo and Molise to the east‚ Campania to the south‚ and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. The region is mainly flat and hilly‚ with small mountainous areas in the most eastern and southern districts. The coast of Lazio is mainly composed of sandy beaches‚ punctuated by the headlands of Circeo (541 m) and Gaeta (171 m). The Pontine Islands‚ which are part of Lazio‚ lie opposite

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    I Love to Travel

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    apartment with the Eiffel Tower at your windows view‚ the busy streets of New York.. the sunshine of LA.. I’ll be dancing with the Spanish‚ learning the local life of Greece‚ seeing beautiful places and monuments in Italy and learning the life of Tuscany.. When you live in one country your entire life‚ you learn to think it’s all that’s out there.. this little world of yours. But it’s not. Once you come to realise there’s a whole world out there left to explore‚ something inside of you just craves

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    Unification of Italy

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    <center><b>Q: Describe & Explain the Unification of Italy.</b></center> <br> <br><b>The Unification of Italy divides in to 3 main stages:</b> <br>1815-1830: Revolts all over Italy. Revolts are suppressed. <br>1848-1849: Revolts all over Italy. Revolts are suppressed. <br>1858-1870: The unification of Italy <br> <br><b>Introduction</b> <br>To understand the unification of Italy‚ matters before the revolution need to be examined. <br> <br>Up until 1716‚ Italy was just a big piece of land divided among

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    geographically under the three great distinctive cities of activities. Florence‚ Rome and Venice. Florence. One of the chief powers of Italy. A centrally situated city-state. The Florentines notonly exerted considerable influence over the whole of Tuscany but carried Renaissance architecture‚ which originated with them‚ much farther afield. Rome. The distressed Medieval city began to recover its prestige and unique influence while the Renaissance was taking root in Florence‚ and soon popes were reviving

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    ABOUT Headquartered in Orlando‚ Fla.‚ Darden Restaurants is the world’s largest full-service restaurant company. Through subsidiaries‚ Darden owns and operates more than 1‚825 restaurants across North America‚ employing approximately 180‚000 employees and serving 400 million meals annually. HISTORY The company’s roots can be traced back to 1938 when 19-year-old Bill Darden opened a 25-seat luncheonette in Waycross‚ Ga.‚ named The Green Frog. The success of his first restaurant‚ and several more

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    Luca Pacioli

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    (1445–1514 or 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar‚ collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci‚ and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace‚ Borgo Santo Sepolcro‚ Tuscany. Luca Pacioli studied in Venice and Rome and became a Franciscan friar in the 1470s. He was a travelling mathematics tutor until 1497‚ when he accepted an invitation from Lodovico Sforza ("Il Moro") to work in Milan. There he collaborated with‚ lived

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    clothes and image; and in the daily ritual of the collective evening stroll or passeggiata – a sociable affair celebrated by young and old alike in every town and village across the country. There is also the country’s enormous cultural legacy: Tuscany alone has more classified historical monuments than any country in the world; there are considerable remnants of the Roman Empire all over the country‚ notably in Rome itself; and every region retains its own relics of an artistic tradition generally

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