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Pauls Cathedral Charles Ii
690 wordsChristopher Wren, the son of the Dean of Windsor, and nephew of Dr. Mathew Wren, the Bishop of Norwich, was born in 1632. As his father was the kings chaplain, Christopher spent his early life in Windsor Castle. As a child he played with the kings son who later became Charles II. Christopher was an intelligent boy and did very well at school. He was particularly interested in mathematics and science, and by the age of seventeen had made several inventions. These included an instrument that wrote...
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Pauls Cathedral Neo Classical
861 wordsThroughout history, Classical ideals of the ancient Greeks and Romans have been prevalent in all facets of art. In architecture this is especially true. A few of the Classical ideals employed in architecture are colonnaded porticoes, domed centers and symmetrical designs. Architects such as Andrea di Pietro, Christopher Wren and Thomas Jefferson used these Classical design elements in their respective works. These highly regarded individuals were architects of the Mannerist, Baroque and Neo-Clas...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,415 wordsCommunism in Russia Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup d? tat gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today? s Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians? the only empire that survived into the mid 1980 s (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear and humankind would live in ...
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Hundreds Of Thousands Tower Of London
1,739 wordsThe Great Fire of London A woman might piss it out, exclaimed London mayor Sir Thomas Bloodworth in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, September 2, 1666 (Kishlansky 213). At this time, no one thought that a small fire in a small shop on Pudding Lane would become a sweltering inferno that would destroy over four fifths of the medieval city. Though this devastating tragedy obliterated many of the historical landmarks in the city and ruined the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, some go...
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Works Of Art Amount Of Time
1,535 wordsSir Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren was born under the rule of Charles I. During the year 1632 this child prodigy was born. He was born with the gifts of mathematics. He then learned to do many things with mathematics. Wren became a professor of astronomy, experimented in scientist, and was in the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. Everyone must start somewhere, and that somewhere was the Westminister School. Wren then moved onto Oxford where he received his degree an...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,381 wordsRise of Communism in Russia -Unless we accept the claim that Lenin+s coup d+-tat gave birth an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today+s Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians the only empire that survived into the mid 1980 +s+ (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear and humankind would li...
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Observer Review One Point
1,014 wordsObserver Review: His Invention So Fertile By Observer Review: His Invention So Fertile By Adrian Tinniswood What you see is what you get His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren Adrian Tinniswood Jonathan Cape &# 163; 25, pp 463 In the days before the Dome and the Wobbly Bridge catapulted them blinking uncertainly above stairs, Britains architects struggled to find explanations for the massive public indifference to them and all their works. Britain, they were always saying, is a fun...
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