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Egon Schiele By: Farshad Engineer Early Life Schiele was born on 12th June 1890 in Tulln, Lower Austria. When Schiele was a child, he was interested in trains he would devote hours sketching trains, he would sketch so much that his father wanted to destroy his sketchbooks. At the age of 11 Schiele moved to the nearby city of Krems, to attend secondary school. Early Life Cont’d. Schiele was a strange child in the eyes of the people around him, he was a shy and reserved and did not do well in…

Thirty Years War 1618-1648 The Thirty Years War brought devastation to Europe during the early seventeenth century. It was a conflict between religious views and political rule in Europe that began in 1618 and ended in 1648, and r was fought primarily within the Christian community over which denomination should rule the Holy Roman Christian Empire within Europe, Catholics,or Protestants., or. The war is categorized into periods, the Bohemian Phase, Danish Phase, the Swedish Intervention…

service. It was service that saved my life and it will be service through which I wish to help bring change in the communities that most need it. As an aspired leader and a future lawyer, coming together with the people who share the same goals as me in Prague is a dream come true. Sometimes I feel as though while I am extremely ambitious, I do not know how to structurally and…

Closset, but because Mozart was worried about finishing Requiem that their labors were ineffective. At one o’clock in the morning on December 5th, 1791 at the age of 35,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart past away. The exact cause of death is not known, this is due to the fact that there were limits in postmortem diagnosis. On his death certificate it shows the cause of death was Hitziges Frieselfieber which is severe miliary fever. Miliary fever is referring to a skin rash that looks like millet seeds.…

June 8 1866 - The Austro-Prussian War, also known as the Seven Weeks War, was from June 8th, 1866 to July 26th, 1866. Austria, aided by Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover and some smaller German states, and Prussia, with the support of Italy declared war on each other. It was started by Otto von Bismarck, a German statesman, to push Austria out of the German Confederation. He did this against the wishes of his king. Bismarck wanted the German unification under Prussian control. Prior to this though,…

Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone “Once upon a time, an angel and devil fall in love. It didn’t end well.” ~Laini Taylor By Liannah Mauldin 28th March, 2016 The Setting Brimstone’s Lair In Eretz or the ‘otherworld’, this tower is where Karou was raised for as long as she can remember with Brimstone (her fatherly Chimera), Issa (the Naja Chimera), Yasari (Parrot Chimera), and Twiga (Giraffe Chimera). With having no recollection of her parents or how she got here, she has assisted…

Change has been a big deal in my life since I was three years old. The reason being because my parents were divorced in 2004, so I was used to changing situations at a very young age. I got very good at this because I had a new surprise waiting for me almost every time I would go to the other parent’s house. I never knew whether it would be a good surprise or not. Because of this there was a lesson that I learned at a younger age than most people. The lesson being that, ”In order to live a good…

and into the dark night never seen again. Then my father stormed into my room and I told him what I saw. Then he said, “It is all in your head now go to, bed.” After growing up in Prague, Czech Republic, I moved to the neighboring country, Austria closer to the Alps. I managed to get a job as a construction worker in Prague. One day we were building a new apartment near the Older side of the town. Well, not “old” for long. As construction workers built many new apartments, replacing the…

Churchill caught the nations attention quickly by explaining, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Behind the iron curtain, the famous cities—Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, Sofia, Bucharest, and Belgrade—were under brutal control…

The opening line of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto claims that communism is a specter haunting Europe. This specter, however, was lively, not only in global history, but in literature. As communism took root in Russia and continued into Eastern Europe, allusions to communism became more present in literary works, not only from intellectuals in those areas, but Western intellectuals as well. Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish intellectual, claims that this increase in communist nations is a natural…