The author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization is Lars Brownworth. He was a history and political science high school teacher at Stony Brook School in Stony Brook on Long Island, New York. He created 50 podcast about 12 Byzantine Rulers. He resigned at teaching to write this book. This was his first book he wrote.…
In the movie there were four different newspaper headlines. One read "The Best Place on Earth Seahaven Voted Planets Top Town", they used that title so that Truman would feel safe. He was planning on leaving, but they make the rest of the world seem so horrible so that he won't want to leave his little town that protects him from all of the evil. If he leaves then the entire show is ruined so they are using the media to influence him to stay. Another newspaper headline was "who needs Europe" they posted this article when Truman was calling Fiji asking if there was a Lauren Garland or a Sylvia Garland.…
The Devil in the White City follows the exploits of two men with radically different lives, yet they still bare similarities to one another. The first is Daniel Burnham, the architect challenged with the task of making the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago stand out with an attraction to rival the Eiffel tower. The second central character, and serving as the other side of the coin to Burnham, is Dr. H.H. Holmes; a career criminal, pharmacist and serial killer who designed elaborate traps and mechanisms designed to increase the ease of his kills and disposal of bodies. The lives of these two men are told as two separate stories until they quickly become intertwined, when Holmes arrives in Chicago in anticipation of the World's Fair, hoping to…
The Devil in the White City is a true crime novel written by Erik Larson. The novel takes place during the late 19th century in Chicago, Illinois. The United States decided to host the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, also known as the World’s Fair, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the new world. St. Louis, New York, Washington DC, and Chicago all submitted bids to be the host city for the fair. By popular vote, Chicago was chosen to host the 1983 World’s Fair that was set to take place from May 1, 1893 to October 30, 1893.…
Although it seems that Don Quixote is a purely fictional book with no historical background, the book is actually Miguel de Cervantes’ telling of the land version of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the New World, supported by the fact that both Don Quixote and Columbus were, both men had their ideas rejected, and both men had their followers doubt them at one point.…
With the creation of legislation in 1867, an asylum – a place of refuge and care for those deemed mentally ill – was established in southeastern Ohio. Athens was selected to house the institution after citizens gave nearly 150 acres of farmland across the Hocking River from the town. Residents hoped to promote economic development throughout the Hocking Valley area with the creation of this asylum. In 1868 a large parade marched with great excitement and fanfare out of Athens across the river to the asylum site, with the groundbreaking ceremony and lying of the cornerstone. By January of 1874 the first patients were admitted into the facility with room for 572 patients.…
Over the centuries, the city was abandoned and forgotten as the memory of Pompeii became nothing but a legend passed throughout generations by word of mouth. Despite the fact that the ancient objects from Pompeii were discovered sporadically, the city itself was not found until the 18th century. Ever since, excavations have gone deeper into the city’s mysterious secrets. Archaeological finds reveal how people lived during that time, as well as how they died during the…
The Aqua Augusta aqueduct system was built to provide water to Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as to at least six other ancient cities in the bay of Naples. It is one of the most complex, large and was the costliest aqueducts systems to be built. Pompeii originally received its water supply from the Sarno river, rainwater and wells, but the aqueduct was required when the population grew and their needs increased. Pipes (were made of lead, the Romans were unknowingly poisoning themselves) ran under pavements to provide running water to public baths, fountains and the homes of rich residents.…
Introduction The empire of Mali was formed in the year of 1230 in Mali. The empire was formed by a man named Sundiata Keita, also known as ‘lion king’, and had many other leaders after his death. The most popular ruler was Mansa Musa, because of his extreme wealth and introducing Islam into the empire. The empire lost power in the 14 hundreds,after the death of Musa, but totally fell apart and ended in the year of 1600 lasting 370 years, the lack of leadership after his death was the main reason it ended.…
One time I went to see The Conjuring 2. It made my heart beats very fast. People all over the world like to hear scary stories that made their heart beats fast. One of the stories s El Culebronis a very popular story from chile.…
Where the world economic, trade, cultural, and intellectual centers were at that time before 1500, the world revolved around China and the Indian Ocean. In which, China and India were the most productive corner of the world. China and India were the world’s retail store. If you needed a product you would go to these areas. Trade was first established during the First Axial Age (450 BC.-150 AD.)…
On the contrary these songs has some differences as well. In the spiritual song “ City called Heaven” the time when it was written, was at the beginning of slavery. Christianity in those years were crucial to people, they were strongly believers of God and life after dead “I’ve heard of a city called heaven” in Christian religious “heaven” is described as this wonderful place where people whom were good people in life, go after they die, like some type of paradise after life. For them God was their “Salvation” Next all African American slaves were uneducated, many of them did not know how to write or read. Africans were taken and exported by ships, for long periods of time.…
Before this event, Rome was known as the Eternal City because the Romans believed that the Empire would never fall. This document speaks of those who attributed the ruins of this world, the…
In his book City of Ambition, Mason B. Williams presents an illustrious chronicle of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and its influence on Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia’s New York City. An occasionally trudging, detailed history of the first large-scale federal bailout of New York City, in turn met with more favorable reports and media attention than the comparable New York Times headline stating, “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The alliance between LaGuardia’s ultimate progressivism and President Roosevelt’s inclination to put the federal government—through a myriad of public programs, including the infamous Works Project Administration—into measures that solved the city’s problems, were a critical piece in constructing “a new conception of urban…
The Siege of Constantinople in 1453 represented the fall of a great empire and the expansion of a new one. This month long battle pitted the invading Ottoman Empire against the long standing Byzantium Empire that had held the city since its construction in the 4th century. This battle had enormous repercussions throughout the historical world and marked the beginning of the Ottoman Empire and the spread of the Islamic religion into Europe. Constantinople represented the capital of the Byzantium Empire and the central gathering place of Orthodox Christians; however, the Byzantium Empire separated itself from the Roman Empire in which supported the Roman Catholic Church. This action is a pivotal factor in the Siege of Constantinople…