Frederick I of Prussia

From the age of 11 to 17 years old, Handel composed church cantatas and chamber music that were for a small audience, which failed to attract much attention and wasted quite a lot of his time. In 1698, Handel was fortunate enough to play for Frederick I of Prussia and also got the chance to meet Giovanni Battista Bononcini (Famous Baroque Composer) in…

grandchildren, did some calculations with chalk on two boards on the motion of balloons. He then discussed with Lexell and Fuss the recently discovered planet Uranus. About five o'clock in the afternoon he suffered a brain haemorrhage and uttered only "I am dying" before he lost consciousness. He died about eleven o'clock in the evening (O’Connor…

Admiration for the policies instituted by the English Revolution was noted by the French as early as 1782 when the French foreign minister noted that England “in its constitution and in the establishments which it has permitted her to form, resources which are lacking to us.” (B. Stone, p. 14). The French minister further laments about English “advantages which our monarchical forms do not accord us (B. Stone, p. 14). Louis XVI’s reign of France from 1774 to 1792 was characterized by financial…

Lecretia Seales passed away at the end of 2015, fighting for her life and the right to have an assisted death. Rather than suffering through the end stages of a terminal brain tumor, and all the complications that arise with that, Lecretia started a legal battle with the New Zealand court system to be able to pass away on her own terms. Unfortunately, Lecretia passed away because of her complications of the tumor, but her story created a public debate within New Zealand society, one that is…

War throughout history has been limited as opposed to absolute. Limited war by its nature is the opposite of absolute war, and absolute war is a theory that fails as a construct. This essay discusses the two groups or types of war (absolute and limited) and the category subsets of those two groups that Carl von Clausewitz first discussed in his treatise On War. Categories of war, as defined by Carl von Clausewitz, are absolute war, ideal war, limited war, real war, war to disarm the enemy, war…

Louis XVI reigned France from 1174 to 1792 and was characterized by financial instability. However, the lack of wealth was not depicted in the lifestyle of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The royals and the nobility were living in wealth and due to an unfair tax system, only the poor paid taxes. Furthermore, two decades of poor grain harvests, drought, and increasing bread prices had started unrest among peasants. A number of ill-advised financial maneuvers in the late 1700s worsened the…

Moses Mendelssohn In this essay I will go into depth about Moses Mendelssohn’s life, beliefs, contributions and wether his contributions were positive or negative. To begin my essay I will start with his life and summarise his achievements and significant events that happen throughout his life journey. Born on the 6th of September 1729 and died on the 4th of January 1786. He was a German philosopher, bible translator and commentator who immensely contributed to the integration of Jews into…

Catherine the Great Catherine the Great, Yekaterina Alekseyevna in Russian, was bound to the heir to the Russian throne at the young age of 14. Sophie Friederike Auguste Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German- born princess. At the beginning of her reign, she overthrew her husband Peter after he began cheating on her. Now without Peter she accomplished several things for Russia and was a principal leader of the Russian Royal Family. Being born German and ruled Russian Catherine the Great is a…

the thirty thousand Catholics there precisely as they had always done” (O’Malley 1107). The institute that is most known was Georgetown Academy. While Two rulers refuse to believe/ follow what was implemented about the Jesuits, they were Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia. These rulers allowed the the Jesuits in their community to keep doing what they were doing without the suppressions rules from Rome. Seeing as this happens it seems that some people think that…

way they wore their hair, and the way they dressed that always caught my eye, especially the women. Madame de Pompadour was the person I have chosen to write about for my research paper. I chose Pompadour because I read a brief summary of her life story seeing that she was born into the 17th century and I happened to like that time period got my full attention. Also, I have chosen her because she was well known during her lifetime. There were several sparkles and flames she was introduced to…