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rule. I consider that Charlemagne is a good leader and will go down in history. The first of Charlemagne’s accomplishments was the Carolingian Empire. Charles the Great ruled after his father Charles Martel. Charlemagne built a court and capital at Aachen, where didn’t spend that much time at. Instead, he was riding around on horseback traveling around maintaining authority. His capital relied on deputies known as counts which held political, military and legal authorities. Although Charlemagne…

The U.S Army Corps of Engineers had 150 years of experience in national wars and in statutory assignments prior to entering World War II (Beck, Bortz, Lynch, Mayo, Weld, 1985). The engineers tend to have a high esprit de corps, they consider themselves to be elite specialists. Engineer units have a rich history dating back to World War II, whether their military occupation skill was bridge, construction, or combat engineer. They conducted numerous amounts of training on different fighting…

were considered subordinate and not requiring a lot of intelligence. Many artists, such as Leonardo and Michelangelo, tried to elevate the status of painting and sculpture. The painting Athena Introducing Pittura to the Liberal Arts, by Hans von Aachen, helped elevated the status of painting by using female personification. Self-portraits also helped improve the status of art because they would portray the artist as a respectable member of society. Unfortunately, allegorical personification…

government issued a series of measures that were aimed at the Jewish citizens ( “Anne Frank” History.com). In the fall of 1933 Otto Frank moved to Amsterdam, where he started a small but successful company. After staying behind with her grandmother in Aachen, Anne joined her family in Amsterdam in February of 1934. Anne started attending a Jewish private school in 1935 in Amsterdam and earned herself a reputation as a popular and energetic young…

David M. Lederman – the founder of Abiomed found the organization in Danvers in mid 80s as Applied Medical Corporation, and later, began to take a shot at the making of an artificial heart. The assembling was subsidized by government funds. Later, Lederman joined The Texas Heart Institute to build up the AbioCor, and implanting the Kentucky man with an artificial heart in July 2001. There were around fourteen of the AbioCor device which were implanted, while the clinical trials were being held…

Charlemagne was a great king. He was King of three different cultures so he ruled over Western Europe when he was king of those three different cultures. He fought a war so that he could keep his country safe. Charlemagne was king of the Lombards, Franks, and was the king of the Holy Roman empire. Charlemagne’s father was king Pepin the short and his mother was Queen Bertrada. He had four sisters and two brothers who were really nice to him, and when his father passed away in the year of 768,…

The First Crusade and the idea of crusading was not as much a rupture in a way of thinking as much as it was an evolution of the ideas which originated from the Cluniac papal reforms began by Pope Gregory VII and continued by his successor, Pope Urban II. The response to Pope Urban II’s call for the crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095 was a large mobilization of both knights as well as clerical and lay noncombatants. However, there were numerous impetuses of both spiritual and…

Before an in depth analysis about the visual perceptions of both the common barn owl (Tyto alba) and the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virgiriianus) can be provided, it is important for the reader to understand the environments of which these organisms can from. Unlike the Odocoileus, the Tyto genus are nocturnal, medium sized creatures with white-brown fur, and are found in almost all parts of the globe except Antarctica (Harris, 2002). In regards to the courtship ritual among these owls, it is…

It is said that he was barely able to read, however wanted to make reading more available. Therefore, throughout his empire, he set up schools. In addition, he invited scholars from all over Europe to a palace in Aachen that would become a school. This ended up being the German city that he made the capital. In this time manuscripts had very little standards, such as punctuation, and was a very long process as well. This makes reading and writing very difficult because…

and or priests to understand manuscripts that had been written much less write them. Charlemagne brought them out of this illiteracy by creating reformation of schools and course studies. Also, it is said that Charlemagne convinced Alucin to come to Aachen to bring these course studies. This was intended to teach the clergy and monks. Conclusively this is where one might find the origins of the seven liberal arts: comprised grammar (how to write), rhetoric (how to speak) and logic (how to think)…