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    Giraffe History

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    averagely 60 liter (16 gallons) blood in a minute. (Turtle head) Giraffes are very big animals. The best-known giraffe celebrity in history is Zarafa, the first giraffe in France and a royal gift to King Charles X from Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt. (List verse) Zarafa—meaning “The Lovely One” in Arabic—arrived in France in October 1826. (List verse) Giraffes are common zoo animals; three main components to a giraffe’s life are physical features, diet, and habitat. A giraffe is…

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    “Liberty Leading the People” was painted by Eugene Delacroix in 1830 in response to the July Revolution in France. This painting is very famous and that is why it is displayed in the Louvre. In the center of the painting is Lady Liberty herself. She is wearing a tattered yellowish gold dress that is secured around the waist by a dark red ribbon. The upper portion of the dress has fallen off of the upper portion of her body exposing both of her breasts. Her hair is up and she is wearing some sort…

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    Machiavelli Biography

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    became secretary of the Ten he had held this until fall in 1512. Machiavelli was employed in a great variety of missions. He did a mission for the Emperor Maximilian. And machiavelli did four more more for france. The dispatches during Machiavelli journeys and his treatises pm affairs of France and Germany. They are full of far reaching insight. Machiavelli was involved in the down. Fall of his patron. Machiavelli was best known as the Prince which he Enunciated his political…

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    fact that he had bravely fought in the Revolutionary War and rebuilt his home country of France following the French Revolution. If you never read about him before you may not know much about Marquis De Lafayette. Luckily, this essay will go over the early life, role in the American Revolution, and post American Revolution life of Marquis de Lafayette. On September 6, 1757 in the province of Auvergne, France, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Montier, Marquis de Lafayette was born in the…

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    The Renaissance, the period in Europe roughly from 1350 to 1550, was a very interesting period in the Western world. It was a period in which the people living during this time knew that they were trying to reform western culture, hence why the period was named by the people of the time, which is very rare. The citizens of the Renaissance period were bringing back the various aspects of life that were lost in the eras before them. One of the fundamental objectives of this period was to throw…

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    (1450-1521)/France  Rulers used secular political ideas to push out powerful nobles and decrease the power the Church  Francis Valois I  Was an important monarch who used art to glorify France  Francis decorated palaces with the work of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian  He built the Louver and bought Mona Lisa  Had a humanist education  Searched for classic texts  Ordered the New World voyages of Verrazano and Cartier in 1524  Made French the official language  King Charles VII …

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    Valuation of land areas left unexplored before the conquest. The French believed and followed three concepts: civilising, commerce and christianity. The French set up Christian schools and clinics in an effort to convert the Algerians. Kings Charles X of France invaded Algeria because he wanted to expand his territory and join the european…

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    The Notre Broad Church Paris or Notre Lady de Paris (Signifying 'Our Woman of Paris' in French) is a Gothic house of prayer situated in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France, It has its primary access toward the west. The Notre Broad Church with its models and recoloured glass windows demonstrate the substantial impact of naturalism, not at all like that of prior Romanesque building design. It was one of the first Gothic houses of prayer, and its development occurred all through the…

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    in society like the count and countess. The artist was clearly familiar with the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, but also had clearly witnessed the landscapes and nature of Latour, France. This creates the possibility for the artists to have been an Italian painter that came to France, possibly as a result of the invasion, or a French artist influenced heavily by the newer Renaissance stylistic ideals. Regardless, the painting aligns itself well with other art of the time and…

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    Paradise Now Summary

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    Louis XVIII and Charles X. He became a radical lawyer defending dissidents. He helped lead the protests against King Charles X to make a change. He helped make Charles give the throne over to his cousin who was much more accepted amongst the people. But in 1834 he was accused of treason and escaped to England. After spending time in England he was quite influenced by Robert Owen and his view on utopia and in doing so pushed him to find his view on his own utopia. He went back to France after 5…

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