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The New Madrid Fault is the most active seismic area in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. The fault is located in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois. Southwestern Indiana and northwestern Mississippi are also close enough to receive significant shaking from large earthquakes. Despite being far away from current plate boundaries, the New Madrid Fault is a dangerous zone because of the active faults that are…

Kloss asserts that Diego Velázquez was “one of the greatest painters in a European century”. Perhaps the most famous painting by Velazquez is his Maids of Honor, Las Meninas, painted about 1656. It has the distinction of being probably the first painting in which a living King and a painter at work are seen together in a studio” (L36, 20:11). The subject is multifaceted; the painting is entitled Maids of Honor, referring to the princess’ maids who are attending to her, but are not the focus…

The painting Las Meninas is a very exquisite painting. It requires deep thought to understand. Although Velázquez painted the original, Picasso also made his own interpretation of it in a cubistic painting more fit to his style. There are differences and similarities to the two paintings and each painter needed much motivation to paint both masterpieces. The original Las Meninas painted by Velázquez, has a subtle but deep underlying meaning that can be difficult to define. In the painting you…

Francisco de Goya was a Spanish painter. He was born March 30th 1746 and died April 16th 1828. He is known for his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and printmaking. He is also known for his big and wild imagination and his devotion to painting. Francisco was born in Fuendetodos, Spain. He had four siblings named Rita, Jacinta, Mariano, and Carmilo. In 1749 the Goya family moved to Zaragoza, where Francisco went to school at a Pius School. When Francisco was 19 and 22 he sent in entries for the…

The years leading up to the Spanish Civil War were marked by social and economic instability. The War lasted from 1936 to 1939 and resulted in a new leader and a new government. Conditions in Spain continued to decline creating a poor social, political, and economic state after the establishment of autarky. The new regime and barriers like censorship made it difficult for filmmakers to produce new movies, especially with the emergence of CIFESA. Raza and Locura de amor were two films in…

Upon arriving in Hispaniola he preceded to colonize the island immediately. Therefore, Cortés equally sought the value of Velasquez spirit and mimicked the desire of leadership. The fallout of Cortés and Velasquez can be told with many versions. Cortés’s refusal of marriage to a sister of the wife of Diego Velasquez landed him exiled from the land he had helped establish. Hernando was incarcerated and placed on a ship back to Spain under the order of Governor Velasquez. Following multiple…

One of De Goya’s most famous pieces is his Charles IV of Spain and his family, which was created while under the appointment of King Charles IV himself. This painting creates an interesting light on De Goya’s view of the royal family, while using many techniques in order to perfect the life-size image, also puts on display and mocks the family’s power. The interesting dynamics and hierarchy of the family displayed in this painting gives the strongest feel of what was going on within the inner…

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On October 30, 1991, in the Salon de las Columas at the Royal Palace in the Spanish capital, the Madrid Peace Conference was held. Hosted by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, attendees included Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, King Hussein of Jordan, and the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat. Bush stood before the delegates of the Middle East, in an unprecedented meeting that many…

popped into my head, I was so worried. The military gets to my house I told them what was going on and what he looked like. We started on the hunt for him. We were running through New Madrid looking for him and all of a sudden people start shooting at us. We had no idea what was going on so we took cover. New Madrid was getting destroyed. This missing person report just turned into a war! Bullets were flying everywhere, buildings were getting…