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Time In His Life Academy Of Fine Arts
1,110 wordsPablo Picasso was one of the most interesting artists of his times, and by far was one of the most influential people in art history. Picasso was a man of many different abilities and attributes, which he contributed to the art community in numerous ways. First, Picasso was an extraordinary man for his sheer ability and length of his career as an artist. Also, early in Picasso's life he was deemed a prodigy with the potential to be one of the greatest ever. After Pablo's teen years he went on to...
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Spanish Speaking Puerto Rico
1,862 wordsHISPANIC American baseball players; BASEBALL -- History Hispanic, Apr 99, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p 42, 2 p, 1 c Details the history of Hispanic American baseball players. Trials and tribulations that parallel the Hispanic community; Hunger of the Hispanic Americans for recognition in the field of baseball; Importance of the Latin contingent in American baseball; Language barrier; Racism; Expansion of baseball's Latin contingent in baseball; This title is not held locally Click here to mark for print. ...
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Grand Inquisitor Perfect Society
981 wordsCandide is a reflection of the philosophical values of the Enlightenment. Voltaires novel is a satire of the Old Regime ideologies in which he critiques the political, social, and religious ideals of his time. A common intellectual characteristic of the Enlightenment was anti-feudalism. Philosophers were against the separations in the Old Regime and pushed for equality among human beings. Voltaire parodies the pompousness of the nobility several times throughout his novel. As we are introduced t...
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1960 And 1970 Sri Lanka
1,933 words... Constellation aircraft of Air Ceylon flying in to land at Ratmalana. In 1934 the State Council of Ceylon made a historic decision to construct an aerodrome and found that Ratmalana was the best area because it was within easy reach of the capital city of Colombo. The first plane landed at Ratmalana was on 27 th November 1935, a de Havilland Puss Moth flown by Tyndalle Bio, Chief flying instructor of Madras Flying Club. This was the year of Sumith Wickramasinghe's birth. Little did Sumith Wic...
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1960 And 1970 Sri Lankan
1,309 wordsVernon Corea was one of the world's greatest broadcasters - he was born on the island of Ceylon. The 'Hindu' newspapers placed him among the 'greats' in the world of broadcasting. Vernon was born in Kurana, Katunayke on September 11 th, 1927. His father Rev. Ivan Corea was a curate at the St. Phillips Church in Kurana in 1927. The Corea family are descendants of Dominican Corea who was crowned King of Kate in the 16 th century. Vernon Corea's parents were the late Canon Ivan Corea and Ouida Core...
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Burning Of The Idols Fernando Amorsolo
1,392 wordsThe Burning of the Idols by Fernando Amorsolo is on exhibit at the Ayala Museum in Makati Avenue, Makati City at the Amorsolo Gallery along with several of his other paintings from different time periods such as his Untitled (Nude) painted in 1919, Planting Rice (1922) and Going to Town on Sunday Morning made in 1958. Like the latter painting mentioned (Going to Town on Sunday Morning), the painting Burning of the Idols was made sometime during 1958. It measures 84 x 128 centimeters and was pain...
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Vasco Da Gama Marco Polo Spices
571 wordsThe Search for Spices Merchants who sold spices kept in secret where they were buying spices and the routes to places rich in spice plants. They invented many legends and made a mystery of spice origin. Some of them told that cinnamon is brought from snaky valleys, and cassia is brought from the banks of shallow lakes and rivers where huge and furious birds built their nests at high limestone cliffs. Merchants said that they were lucky to gather spices when these nests were falling down from cli...
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Don Quixote Literary Techniques
2,160 wordsDon Quixote Part One, Cervantes and the Nature of Fiction Spanish novelist, playwright and poet, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is best known nowadays as the creator of Don Quixote, a chivalric romance that gives a panoramic view of the 17 th-century Spanish society and seems to abound in philosophical insights. The most influential personality in the Spanish literature led a nomadic life at permanently subsistence level. Born into a family of the minor nobility, Cervantes was haunted by financia...
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Vice President Largest Country
1,241 wordsBrazil is the largest country in South America. It stretches almost 2700 miles from the bottom of the Andes Mountains eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. It borders on every country of the continent except for Chile and Ecuador. Brazils official name is the Federative Republic of Brazil. Brazil occupies almost half of South America and is the world s fifth-largest country in area. Although its area is just a little less than that of the United States, Brazil s population is only about 60 % that of t...
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20 Th Century Salvador Dali
410 wordsSalvador Dali was Dali DALI Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904. He was a leader in the new movement of art in the early 20 th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Federico Garcia Lorca, and Luis Bundel. He also was influenced by Italian futurists and the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico. In his early works, however, Dali gave credit to his own Cat...
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Man Named Four People
806 wordsThe Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a story which begins in 19 th century France. The Main character, Edmond Dantes begins the story as a happy man. He has everything going for him. ? you? re a lucky man, Edmond, and you have a very pretty mistress, sir? ? she? s not my mistress, sir? ? she? s my fiancee. ? This changes quickly when Dantes is imprisoned. Four people plot against him. The people are Gaspard Caderousse, he want? s Dantes imprisoned because Second was Monsieur de Villef...
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Pope John Paul Ii Native Americans
2,346 wordsMiquel Joseph Serra was born and baptized on November 24, 1713 in Petra, a farming village on the island of Mallorca, Spain. As a child he attended a Franciscan elementary school. At the age of fifteen, Serra left home to enter the Franciscan University in Palma to study philosophy. When Serra was sixteen, he decided to join the Franciscan Order. After years of preparation and careful consideration of his vocation, Serra received his Franciscan habit in 1730 and took the name Junipero which mean...
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Pol Tica Es Muy
437 wordsLa Vida de Fernando Botero Fernando Botero llevado en Colombia en 1932. En 1951, ? l view? a Bogot? , donde? l ten? a su primera exposing? n individual en la games? a de Matiz. ? l estudio? en Madrid en la academia del San Fernando y en Florencia, donde? l appendix? las t? chicks del fresco de los italiano's. En 1956? l tribal? en la escuela de los artes fino's de la universidad en Bogot? y view? a Ciudad de M? xi para estudios el trabajo de Rivera y de Orozco. Durante los a? os sevenths en Nuev...
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Royal Academy San Fernando
402 wordsFrancisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, in the year 1746, in Fuendetodos, a small village in northern Spain. At the age of fourteen he became an apprentice for a local artist, Jose Loan. Later he traveled to Madrid where he took interest in the last of the great Venetian painters. After attempting and failing to enroll in the Royal Academy of San Fernando, Goya then traveled to Rome, Italy. Then on to Sagossa in 1771 where he painted fresco in several local churches, establishin...
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Governor Of Ceuta Mission Of Discovery Henry
1,640 wordsHenry the Navigator Henry was the third son of King John I and Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt of England. Henry and his older brothers, the princes of Duarte and Pedro, were educated under the supervision of their parents; they were taught soldiering, statecraft, and the appreciation of literature. The starting point of Henrys career was the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. According to Henrys enthusiastic biographer, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, the three princes p...
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Head Of A Woman Pablo Picasso Paintings
764 wordsPicasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, son of an artist, Jose Ruiz, and Maria Picasso. Pablo decided at a young age to adopt his mother s name Picasso, rather than his father s much more common name, Ruiz. An artistic prodigy, Picasso, at the age of 14, completed the one month qualifying examination of the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona in one day. From there he went to the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, returning in 1900 to Barcelona, where he spent a lot of time in the ...
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Picasso Pablo Picasso
1,022 wordsThe Biography of Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, to Jose Ruiz Blasco, and Maria Picasso. Picasso was a miracle from the start. There were complications with birth and everyone was sure that he was not going to live. Picasso became one of the most well known artists of all time. He is best known as the inventor of the revolutionary art style, principally Cubism, and for his contributions as a sculptor, painter, and designer. Picasso? s father, Jose Ruiz ...
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