... of bankers and merchants. No longer were the merchants on the bottom of the chain. Of course the political leaders and the church officials were still on top. The theme of education was strongly stressed during this time. The most highly respected subjects were theology, law, and medicine. Scholars also stressed humanities which are grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history. Many important people were involved during the Renaissance. Such as Lorenzo de’ Medici who was the ruler of Florance. He brought 200 ancient Greek works from Constantinople to Florance, some of which have never been seen before. Anoth ...

... military facility that the government will not discuss. It is a highly restricted military base, many levels above top secret. The United States Government denies its existence despite evidence to the contrary. The town of Rachel is within twenty miles of Area 51, and is a magnet for UFO enthusiasts worldwide. Area 51 has been in existence since World War one, and many advancements in military science and technology have been made and developed there. To breach the perimeter could result in your death, because it is so top secret. It is reported that in order to avoid spy plane and satellite reconnaissance, most a ...

... to fight for their rights. The final justification for the Revolution came from the Coercive Acts. The Sugar and the Stamp Acts were the first events by which the Americans felt their rights violated. The British wanted to collect tax for revenue, from the Americans, who felt they were dispossessed from the right of self- taxation. The Americans felt that they should be able to manage their own taxation, or to select people to manage their taxation. What they absolutely did not want, was the British taking care of their taxation. They did not want taxation without representation. The Townshen ...

... 1837 as an honor student and a speaker at commencement, yet he was still unknown. During his lifetime, Thoreau tried his hand at an assortment of odd jobs. His first experiment was with teaching. He, along with his older brother John, opened a private school, but the school was forced to close down after John became ill in 1841. He lived with his friend and fellow scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson, keeping house and doing chores in exchange for rent and board. In 1843, he journeyed to the home of Emerson’s brother William to tutor. Soon after the death of John in 1842, Thoreau went to live at ...

... faith. The area, however, was still subject to sporadic attacks from various non-Christian factions. A small group of knights, led by Hugh de Payens, vowed to protect the pilgrims. The group was granted quasi-official status by King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who allowed them quarters in a wing of the royal palace near the Temple of Solomon. It is from this initial posting that the order derived its name. They took the standard vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and were bound to the rules of the Augustinian order. [Upton-Ward 1] The order languished in near-anonimity for several years, despite generou ...

... This lack of precision was a reason why self-determination was not the only main aim in Wilson's fourteen points. When Czechoslovakia was redrawn, land was taken from Germany. Germany had its oil and coal digs taken from them because the Czech's said they needed them for there own economy. Also three million Germans became part of Czechoslovakia, a country that was originally made for Czech's and Slavs. The German's where not given a chance to choose were they would belong. Another situation where Germany was ignored was the taking away of their colonies. Germany had no choice and nor did the colonies. ...

... and training, for a period of up to twenty years (Spence 67). The mythologies describe capable of many magical powers such as divination and prophesy, control over the weather, healing, levitation, and shape changing themselves into the forms of animals. even filled the roles of judge, doctor, mystic, and clerical scholar; in other words they were the religious intelligentsia of their culture. The Celtic people believed in a variety of gods and goddess, although not every Celtic nation believed in that same group of gods, they were organized into tribes. They also believed in an afterlife when you die. They ...

... bomb. Some doctors thought that Nazis would use the weapon in the worst way for the world if they got the weapon for the fist time in the world. So they decided to invent it faster than the Nazis in other country. It was America that they chose to cooperate for inventing the first atomic bomb. That was called "the Manhattan Project". An enormous mount of money was invested in the project. The project started in 1942 and improved step by step. Finally, on July 16th in 1945, the members of the project team experimented with the atomic bomb for the first time, and they realized that they succeeded inventing the fi ...

... posed the question “ To what extent had the colonist developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution?” I feel that they developed it greatly. In this essay I will attempt to prove that the colonist slowly became unified as time drew closer to the actual revolution. A political cartoon titled “ Join or Die” was published by Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9th, 1754. The cartoon shows a snake cut into eight different pieces and every one of them representing a colony. Each part corresponds to the geographical position of the co ...

... of this led to certain changes in the regime that was used. A new chief minister Stolypin planned important changes in the countryside. He wanted to prevent another revolution carried out by peasants and he wanted to turn Russia into modern industrial country. For this to happen Russia would had to be more efficient to produce the extra food for the increasing numbers of industrial workers. In 1906 he introduced measures which allowed peasants to leave the mir. The mir operated a system like England in the Middle Ages. Every village had a number of fields which were divided into long thin strips. Each family would ...