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60 Cards in this Set
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John Harrison
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lattitude, clock--stand damp, salty conditions
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King Leopold II
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Belgium, constitutional monarch; Congo
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Czar Alexander II
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Russia; democratic reforms; freed the serfs; killed by a bomber--The National Will (radical revolutionary organization)
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Willhelm I
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Germany; United; king of Prussia
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Victor Emmanuel II
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Italy; constitutinal monarch; all of northern Italy--united under him
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Giuseppe Girabaldi
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Italy; freed Sicily from Bourbons; joined his conquered territories with northern territores--united Italy
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Puritans--literature; Scarlet Letter
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick; copied Fenimore Cooper's seafaring tales
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Transcendentalism
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nature; more than five senses; poets; religious overtones; no religion
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self Reliance; Nature
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Henry David Thoreau
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big fan of Emerson; "Walden" (pond); "On Civil Disobedience"
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Emily Dickinson
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poet; inside self vs outside world; transcendentalist
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American Civil War
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1861-1865; both sides had advantages
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Scopes trial
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Darrow (Darwin) vs Bryan (bible scholar; micro vs macro evolution
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Intelligent Design
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do not believe in Macro nor creationism
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Quantum Theory
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Neils Bohr; calculate the energy states of a hydrogen atom
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Uncertainty Principle
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Werner Heisenberg; position and momentum of an electron
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Theory of Relativity
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Albert Einstein; relative nature will change; its relative!
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Edouard Manet
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Romantic painter; inspired Impressionists; Luncheon on the grass-- nude; art for art's sake
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Claude Monet
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impressionist; painter; leader; light and color
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Pierre August Renoir
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color and light; people; impressionist; le moulin de gallete (happy costumers with light coming through trees)
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Edgar Degas
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focused on movement; realism; ballet!; rehearsal of the ballet painting;
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Georges Seurat
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pointillism; A sunday on La Grande Jatte
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Paul Cezanne
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post impressionist; View over Mont Sainte-Victoire; father of modern painting; natural order rather than impose order; forms in nature--cone, cylinder, sphere
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Paul Gaugin
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paintings of natives of tahiti; La Orana Maria; collected art; wealthy; achieve primitive emotions
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Henri Matisse
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Fauvism; emotion--color, subject matter; The Red Room
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Auguste Rodin
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The Thinker, Burghers of Calais; classical in concept--impressionistic in execution
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Claude Debussy
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Clair de Lune
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Maurice Ravel
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Impressionistic composer as well; Pavanne for A Dead Princess; Bolero (more instruments--build up);
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Feodor Dostoevsky
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master of the psychological novel; Crime and Punishment; meaning of life and death
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Henrik Ibsen
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Norwegian Playwright; ordinary life as settings of his play; controversial themes; A Doll's House; psychological themes in plays
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Friedrich Nietzche
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"God is Dead"; wrote philosophy; reject intellectuality--rely on basic animal passions
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Triple Alliance
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Germany, Austria, Italy
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Triple Entente
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Russia, France, Great Britain
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Vladimir Lenin
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leader of the communists in Russia before Stalin; able to declare establishment of Soviet Union
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Josef Stalin
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aggressive communism enforcement; spread communism all over the world
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Third Reich
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Hitler Youth; men learned military skills, girls learned home-making skills; mandatory
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Jazz Age
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speak easies; credit; disregard for law
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Marcel Duchamp
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art aimed at aggravating people; Nude Descending A Staircase; Fountain; most people thought it absurd
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Dadaism
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Duchamp was the leader in this movement; abstract art--meaningless and random; viewer
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Salvador Dali
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Surrealism; Persistence of Memory; Inventions of the Monsters;
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Louis Sullivan
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steel, towering skyscrapers;
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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architecture blends in with nature; organic design;
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Louis Armstrong
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Ambassador of Jazz; developed scat singing
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Duke Ellington
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another Jazz ambassador; turned harmony upside-down--trombones play high, clarinets play low with trumpets
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George Gershwin
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jazz gained a more lofty status because of him; American composer; wrote jazz in classical form
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Axis Countries
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Allies
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great Britain, France and other countries of the world including USA
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Battle of Britain
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Air war; Britain had faster planes with radar;
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D-Day
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beaches of Normandy; lots of allied casualties; enemies thought it was going to happen somewhere else
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Yalta Conference
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divide up Germany into four parts; democratic part vs communist part= problems
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Marshall Plan
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US gives loans; still at war with Japan
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Cold War
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USSR vs USA; nuclear weapons
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NATO
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North Treaty Organization--USA and others against communism
Warsaw Pact: opposing side |
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Red Scare
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Joseph McCarthy; hunt for communism in USA
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Jean Paul Sarte
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most famous novel: Nausea; inanimate objects, daily situations; existentialism; Being and Nothingness
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Albert Camus
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existentialist author; The Stranger
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Jackson Pollack
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splattered paint
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Andy Warhol
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pop art
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John Cage
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Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds
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