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Lewis Carroll was an English logician, mathematician, an ordained minister, a photographer and a writer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He was born on January 27, 1832, with the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Many people don’t know that the Alice stories were based on a real girl, Alice Liddell. Carroll first met Liddell on a boat trip. She asked him to tell her a story and he did. It was such a good story he wrote it down for her and from there the Adventures in…

Anti-Semitism has been an influence in the way the Jews have been treated since the beginning of the modern era, with many societies discriminating against the race as a whole incredible harshly. The prejudice towards the Jews in the 11th century onwards has been used as a political and social tool for government bodies from many countries. This idea is exemplified through the Blood Libel which occurred during this time frame, with events such as the first accusation, treatment of the Jews…

In 1961 John F. Kennedy would become the 35th President of the United State of America, his presidency would come to a sad and abrupt end on November 22, 1963 (Biography.com). In 1964 President Kennedy was planning to run for reelection, but in order to gain the nomination from the Democratic party he needed to carry Texas (Jfklibrary.org). This was an issue because Democrats in the state were add odds with each other (The Day). President Kennedy’s visit to the state in late November was made in…

Queen Elizabeth the first was known as the “Virgin Queen”, never to marry. She ruled as England’s monarch for half a century alone (Hanson 1). Beloved by many she was known to be a very influential queen. Though Elizabeth was illegitimate, she managed to leave a mark on England's history as a powerful queen, who overcame trials such as the Queen of Scots and the pressure she received from the church to marry. Greenwich Palace was Elizabeth's birthplace, her father was Henry VII and her mother…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an acclaimed poet in the 1800s and the first non-British writer to have a honorary bust placed in Poet’s corner, Westminster Abbey, in 1884 (Belanger 1). He was very popular during his time and still is today. Many events in Longfellow’s life influenced what he wrote about and his style. Longfellow’s travels, schooling, and obstacles in life wholly created Longfellow’s simple and sentimental style of writing that was so admired. To begin, Longfellow was a…

Henry VIII King Henry is perhaps the most popular kings of all time. Mostly known because of the amount of wives that he had. Henry VIII was born in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, United Kingdom on June 28 1491.When Henry was a kid he was highly intelligent and was very athletic. Henry’s other interest were books,music, and he was a lavish patron of the arts and even participated in wrestling,jousting,hunting and writing .Later on in England after the death of Henry VII (Henry VIII’s…

Steam power, from boiling water in a simple kettle to massive boilers towering a hundred feet into the air are most certainly impressive. One Japanese animated feature film captures the grandeur of steam power in Katsuhiro Otomo’s “Steamboy” released in 2004. “Steamboy” is about a young 13-year-old inventor James Ray Steam who lives in Manchester, England in 1866 who is caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary steam powered device created by his father and grandfather.…

Tyranny. Murder. Warfare. Power. What do these things have in common? They’re all themes in the life of the notorious King Richard III. King Richard III was one of the most striking kings of England; he led a life in need of power and dominance, speckled with murder and secrecy. Richard was born in England in 1452 and was notoriously known for ruling England for two chaotic years between 1483 and 1485. Seizing power at the mere age of 12, young Richard III was destined for sovereignty, following…

defeated, in fact king Harold was shot in the eye and killed. “After his victory at the Battle of Hastings, William marched on London and received the city’s submission. On Christmas Day, 1066, he was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end” (This day in history). What this ultimately meant was that an entire country changed, and that would go on to impact our world today. Another famous battle in the Middle Ages…

William Blake was a 19th century poet and artist who now is regarded as a seminal figure of the romantic age. His work and art has influenced countless writers and artists throughout the years. Blake is even labeled as a “magical” writer and an “original” thinker. Although during his own time period, this artistic genius went wildly unnoticed. Born in 1757 in London, England, William Blake began writing at a young age. He claimed to have his first “vision” of a tree full of angels, at only the…