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On March 4th, 1888, Knute Rockne was born in Voss, Norway. Little did we know he would go on to be an amazing athlete, and even better coach. Rockne was one of the most successful coaches in the history of Norte Dame Football. He coached the Fighting Irish football team in the 1920’s, which is known as their “Golden Era”. During his time coaching, Rockne won three national championships – transforming this diamond in the rough team to the most popular team in the United States. Knute’s family…

not ready for such advance art style. The misfortune and the feeling of being unappreciated were the reasons for his depression. Van Gogh traveled from one place to another in order to find his belonging where his artworks can be understood. Until 1888, He finally persuaded artist Paul Gauguin to join him to start an art colony that he named the "Yellow House" in Arles. He and Gauguin "began to experiment with compositional techniques derived from Japanese art as well as the symbolic language of…

Crane. Stephen Crane is credited with “establishing the foundations of the American Naturalism Movement.” Crane born in Newark, New Jersey in 1871, was the youngest of fourteen children. By the age of nine, both parents had passed away. Then in 1888, Crane attended the Hudson River Institute and Claverack College, there his interest in the Civil War…

represent the bridge between life and death, looming in the foreground. This paintings is currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY. Vincent Van Gogh painted two series of sunflowers in Arles, France: four between August and September 1888 and one in January…

Billy Sunday Was born in a poor house hold, and later he was sent to a soldier school. And went to work when he was 14. even though in the end he still sucseded. becoming a baseball player and later a famous evangelist. but life didn’t always smile for him when his sons comitted suicide and had a mid heart attack.Though the docter told him to quit preaching, because it was bad for his health.But Billy sunday continued to serve God until the last days of his life. And this is why Billy Sunday is…

over a dress, though his kidnapping of pubescent girls may have also been motivation. After his reign, ninety-seven percent of the island’s population was dead of emigrated in less than a decade, much of the island’s cultural knowledge was lost. In 1888, Chile annexed Easter Island, but until 1953 it allowed a European company to manage the island as a giant sheep ranch. There was a revolt in 1964 which resulted in the Rapa Nui obtaining Chilean citizenship and the right to elect their own…

people of the early twentieth century were not ready to embrace the beauty and genius of his style and artworks. Van Gogh produced many artworks under the post-impressionism/expressionism genre counting: Starry night (1889), Café Terrace at night (1888), Blossoming almond…

The Global Aftermath of World War I There have been many political changes after World War I. The empire of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire had been demolished. The economy, at the time, had its share of change after World War I. It was subject to many reparations, in which the Deutsche had suffered a dramatic decrease resulting in an all-time low for Germany. However, Women were on the forefront of social status as more women of multiple countries took charge of local businesses and…

Brazil has a deep and interesting history of slavery, race and racism. Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery in 1888. Brazil holds a deep history, especially the African-Brazilians, since there was a time were Brazil hold 40% of the world’s slaves. Brazil’s past and present has been very dependent on the idea of a society of racial democracy where there are no races. Every country experience slavery in a different way and the differences between Brazil and the…

David Brained evangelized Native Americans in New England and the Middle Atlantic colonies in North America. The Protestant missions were the result of extraordinary spiritual awakenings that were based on the teaching of the Reformation. The influence in missions of the Moravians upon the leadership of Ludwig Von Zinzendorf, they were devoted to missions and determined to reach “the Souls of the Lamb.” The influence of William Carey through his missionary work and his manifesto titled, “An…