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    18th Century- Foundation and Early Events The Bavarian Academy of Sciences was preceded by a small number of institutions before it beginning with the Academia Carola Albertina in 1720. This academy did not last long, and was replaced two years later by the Parnassus Boicus. The Parnassus Boicus had mainly clergymen and literate laymen in its teachings, and it mainly taught a form of secular naturals studies, though the institution was Catholic. This institution lasted up until 1740, and by then it had published five volumes of a magazine with which lessons were taught to those enrolled. In 1758, in order to “secure the continuity of the new scientific understanding in Bavaria,” * Johann Georg von Lori founded the “Bayerische Gelehrte Gesellschaft.”…

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    The Lady Antebellum Pavilion was packed with over 5,000 attendees of New Life Church’s annual fall festival, Gobble Fest, on Saturday, Nov. 18. New Life began having a fall festival several years ago, but this, by far, was the church’s most highly attended fall festival. There were numerous food vendors, a ferris wheel, inflatables and a turkey giveaway, complete with a live DJ. “It’s something that our Pastors, Bryan and Rhonda Matthews, started to reach out to the community,” said Faith…

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    For almost all of the last 1200 years, Central Europe has been a multiethnic space governed by overlapping political entities. We usually don 't think of it that way, because the Cold War created a new dichotomy o (advanced, democratic) Western Europe and (feudal, primitive, totalitarian) Eastern Europe, even though Vienna is about 150 miles southeast of Prague. Even before the Cold War, Central Europe had gotten a bad rap, since historians touted the nation-state as the teleological endpoint of…

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    The Earth is made up of seven continents, 196 countries, with over seven billion people across them, speaking 6500 different languages. There are thousands of different cultures and subcultures, and no two people will have the exact same preferences, but almost everyone in the world appreciates a good party. Oktoberfest is an annual German festival held in Munich, with the first being held in 1810. It is the world’s largest beer festival, lasting 16 days with over 6 million people attending…

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    The Book of the City of Ladies Since the humans were created there have been gender roles applied to both sexes. Men have been portrayed as the more dominated sex. While on the other hand, women were seen as the weaker. Whatever a man could be portrayed to be a woman could not be. These ideas about gender lasted for many centuries. Even in modern times you can still see the separation between genders, even though some of the lines have been blurred. In The Book of the City of Ladies By…

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    As a patriarchy, our society denotes men as the dominant group, and as a result, masculinity is intertwined with prestige and power. If men change their values or patterns, then society follows them. Within French nobility, the traditional masculinity of bodily strength, chivalry, and skillfulness was no longer enough to gain prestige and proper reputation. The French elite classes began to emphasize the need for gentlemanly and intellectual pursuits. King Charles the Wise hastened this…

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    Expectations for leaders are often set at ridiculously high, as they often must be for people of power. This causes many to be set up for failure, or even to rebel and ignore their responsibilities entirely. A great example of disregarding one’s job as a leader is Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was infamous for spending all the money of his kingdom on extravagant castles, running his country into debt. Ludwig II is the perfect example of someone who was thrown into power due to heresy but destroyed…

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    The origins of a European war Strong tensions between Catholics and Protestants The spread of Protestantism in its Lutheran version in German states in the sixteenth century led to clashes between Lutheran princes and princes remained Catholic under the leadership of Emperor Charles V. In 1555, the Peace of Augsburg suspended hostilities by requiring each state religion of its prince. Lutheranism continued to grow until 1570 while Calvinism new confession not recognized by the Peace of…

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    The illuminati thought this law wasn’t going to initially affect them but just under a year later the duke issued arrests for members of the illuminati. In the process of arresting the members, the Bavaria found evidence to use as a basis for accusing them of going against religion and state. In August 1787, the duke issued a third law that imposed the death penalty on any illuminati member. A year later and the bavarian state finally considered the illuminati dismantled. Their legacy, however,…

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    Germany’s southern state of Bavaria, with its forests, fairy tale towns and picture-book castles has as its capital, Munich, a year-round destination. Gilly Pickup goes in search of Chocolate, Beer Steins and the Mad Monarch Images Gilly Pickup It's amazing how much rich, chocolate Bavarian cream tart you can eat to sustain you during a hard day’s sightseeing. Besides, we’d just climbed all the way to the top of the 15th century ‘Frauenkirche’, Gothic Church of Our Lady, the city’s famous…

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