Henry II of France

So at the beginning of the early modern era the european rulers were more aware and knew that there was other stuff out there so the rulers start sponsoring expeditions. In this portuguese led the way in this, an example of this kind of ruler was Henry the Navigator who sponsored many expeditions. The spanish king also sponsored a very important expedition, the one of Christopher columbus who discovered the americas. The theory of mercantilization spurred colonization. The spanish colonialism…

her last name to Papzian. She died in 1979. According to the LetsorLetson, “Cossete Saroyan was born in 1899 in Bitlis. She never married and died in 1990. Henry Saroyan was born in 1905 in Erzrum, Ottoman Empire, and he died in 1987. In many William Saroyan’s writings he mentioned his brother like Krikor, in other writings “my brother Henry”. William Saroyan was the fourth and the youngest child in his family, and he was the only one who was born in…

help of Robert Heinlein - to Script, a West Coast literary magazine (Weller). In November 1941, the pulp magazine Science Stories published his story, Pendulum, his first professional piece, and it appeared in Super Science Stories. During World War II, his local draft board did not draft him into the military because of his vision problems. By the end of 1942, he became a full-time paid writer. In 1943, he had many of his short stories in periodicals. In 1947, he published his short stories as…

To gain knowledge and grasp an understanding of diversified styles of art through the time periods of modernism and contemporary art, renowned artists Francisco Goya and Peter Booth are explored by comparing and contrasting their influences (personal, cultural, artistic and historical), working method in terms of the use of materials and techniques, distinctive style and lastly the ideas and meanings communicated in their most famous artworks; Painting 1977, Painting 1978, The Third of May and…

The Crusades that took place in the medieval period between 1096 and 1291 were a series of political and religious wars fought by European countries in order to gain control of the Holy Land. The first call for a crusade was made by Pope Urban II in order to send aid to the Christian Byzantine Empire, which found itself under attack during this period from Muslim Turks. This first crusade lasted from 1096-1102, with the Christian knights taking control of Jerusalem in 1099. In response to the…

Drone Ethics Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles are used for surveillance and can be used to decimate hostile forces. Drones have recently become notorious for their lethal casualties around the world especially in the Middle East. Citizens in America are becoming more aware of the increasing use of drones by law enforcement agencies and the use of these ‘unmanned aerial vehicles’ has created a huge controversy on whether they should be used or not. While there are many supporters for the use…

(English Heritage). Its location also makes it a very important defensive site. “The castle was strengthened by William of Normandy, who built the first earthwork castle in 1066 before moving onto London” (User, Super. Dover)”. Between 1179 and 1188, Henry II had completely rebuilt Dover castle. The massive walls were built and shortly after they were put to work. They upheld a series of blows from battels. “The IV. French managed to breach the defenses by undermining the north gate, de Burgh’s…

:-) crippling Europe’s ability to pay off its war debts and damaging America industry 48.Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact significant? A. ? The nations involved agreed not to use threat of war against each other. 49.A primary reason for Henry Ford’s success in the automobile industry was that he C.:-) adopted a strategy of horizontal integration 50.The purpose of the Nineteenth Amendment was to D.:-) grant suffrage to women 51.The Scopes Trial illustrated the nation’s…

“Ich bin ein Berliner”: I am a Berliner. This sentence pronounced by John Fitzgerald Kennedy: the President of the United States of America on the 26th day of June in 1963 during his speech in Rathaus Schӧneberg the city hall of West Berlin would shape history. Those words that would later name the speech, may have prevented the Soviet Union from becoming stronger and maybe start a war that would have killed millions of people, those words have encouraged the West Berliners to keep fighting for…

“America and the Holocaust” is a documentary detail the plight of the jewish people and how governments and people, specifically America, responded to the outcry. This film is prosecuting America for not doing enough during World War II to help the jewish people as the trail towards their deaths ended. The jewish people and many historians make the claim that there were multiple instances throughout the period of jewish persecution where the United States of America could have stepped in and…