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The Enigmatic End of a Wunderkind On December 5th of 1791, one of the greatest composers ever to live passed away. However, due to the differences in medical practices and the uncertainty of information about his symptoms, the causes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s death remained unknown, with suggestions such as poisoning, renal failure, Henoch–Schönlein purpura, trichinosis, and many others. Throughout the research, I was able to find a couple of scientific articles and books regarding his…

culture of the Czech Republic because of the wedding taking place along the river. The end of the piece takes the listener through the rapids and chaos ensues. Then, in the final moments of the song, the river makes it through the rapids and out into Prague, where it then vanishes soon after. This shows a clear conflict and resolution in the story. The conflict would be the ride through the rapids, and the resolution would be the river making it through the rapids in the end. The coherence of…

Nikola Tesla and The War Of Currents When you are watching a movie and it gets just a little too loud it only takes a click of a button to fix that, and when you want to remember a moment forever all it takes is a little raise of a camera and a click. Nikola accomplished many great things in his lifetime. Simple things that make life easier are often overlooked, but we have Nikola Tesla to thank for many; Tesla developed the alternating-current electrical system that is widely used today.…

This paper will briefly highlight the causes and the resulting consequences of the disorder and violence that involved a large portion of Europe in the first half of the 17th century known as the Thirty Years’ War. Religious conflict was nothing new. However, developing new concepts like absolutism and the ‘nation state’ played key components in the causation and continuation of this sustained conflict. Changes in the science of warfare was also a contributing factor. In the end there was a new…

Unveiling Past Heroes The Holocaust is a catastrophic part of human history that revealed many heroes through its destruction. The Holocaust was born through Hitler’s twisted “campaign against the Jews” that started with his rise to chancellor of Germany in January 30,1933. He thought that to protect the supreme Aryan race he would have to get rid of all Jews. By the end of Europe’s war in May 8,1945 approximately six million Jews were killed and five thousand communities destroyed. Hitler…

remains and works. In juxtaposition to the church’s persecution of Wycliffe, the church’s persecution of Hus was severer. Instead of simply losing his job as Wycliffe had lost his, through the authority that Pope Alexander V empowered the archbishop of Prague to eliminate heresy in the archbishop’s diocese, the archbishop excommunicated Hus in 1410. However, this did not hinder Hus’s message. Hus continued preaching his message. Eventually, in 1414, he travels to Constance where the church…

resolution banning all nuclear weapon testing. Supporters of a ban believe the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will need ratification . The ratification of the CTBT will allow for greater cooperation on the other elements of the President's Prague Agenda. The Prague Agenda showed President Obama's vision to live in a world with world peace and without nuclear weapons ( Tauscher, pg.2). One of the arguments of the supporters of the CTBT is the idea that the United states doesn't need to conduct…

The effects of the Thirty Years War The Thirty Years War is considered to be one of the longest and most destructive war in European history. In the beginning of the war there were two sides, the Catholics of the Holy Roman Empire and the “Protestants” a term used to describe followers of a Christian church that isn’t catholic. By the end of this long and bloody conflict most of Europe was caught in the spider web of war. When it was finally over the religious, political, and social environment…

over-emphasise Ferdinand’s impact, so his description must not be taken as gospel. It has been interpreted that the initial trigger of the war was his election and his first attempts to re-Catholicise Bohemia which resulted in the 1618 Defenestration of Prague. Religious tensions were seen when he attempted to close Protestant Churches through the use of representatives (four Catholic Lords Regents) of the Holy Roman Empire, including Matthew Leopold Popel Lobcowitz who was the grand prior and…

Long ago, people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that all the stars, planets, and other celestial bodies orbited around it. However, as pivotal discoveries were made and new theories emerged, society gained a much more insightful understanding of the cosmos above. In the second century, an astronomer by the name of Claudius Ptolemy proposed his geocentric model of the solar system, which depicted Earth in the center of the universe and the planets and the Sun…