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Countess Elizabeth Bathory Out
Number of words: 451 - Number of pages: 2.... and was taught by her new nurse, Darvulia, in the ways of torture and witchcraft.
C. Her servants could say nothing about the battering (legally) because they were of lower class than their mistress.
III. After years at the castle, she began to realize the one thing she counted on the most, her beauty, began to wane.
A. One day as a servant was addressing her mistress’ headdress, she pulled the hair too hard and Elizabeth slapped her. Blood spurted onto her hand. As she wiped it away, wrinkles seemed to disappear.
B. Turning to witchcraft once again, Darvulia explained the o .....
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History Of The Car
Number of words: 1769 - Number of pages: 7.... (Thomas 321). As petrol cars became more dependable the advantage of not having to wait until steam was generated gave them clear superiority over the steamers, and the self-starter took away the principal advantage from electric propulsion. At the beginning of the century, petrol driven internal-combustion motor car had established itself as the dominant mechanical road vehicle and started its expansion with great rapidity (Ware 291).
In 1894, the French newspaper La Petit Journal introduced a new invention to the wider public by organizing a trial run of motor cars from Paris to R .....
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Guitar History
Number of words: 2166 - Number of pages: 8.... hittites in northern Syria and Asia Minor from as far back as 1350 B.C.
The word guitar also has origins in the middle and far east, deriving from gut, is the Arabic word for four, and tar, the Sanskrit word for string. The earliest European guitars did have four courses of gut strings. A
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course is a pair of strings tuned in unison. These early guitars were distinguished from lutes by body sides that curved inward to form a waist and by four courses of strings. Some but not all early guitars had a flat back, while lutes always had a flat back. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance t .....
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America At The Turn Of The Cen
Number of words: 1248 - Number of pages: 5.... these few weaknesses could make a fairly self sufficient country fall.
President Clinton is a perfect example for the political scandals of our country. In January of 1997 it was announced to the country that President Clinton allegedly had an affair with one of the interns at the White House. Over the period of the next few months President Clinton not only denied the whole thing, then made another statement that he actually did have an affair with the intern Monica Lewinsky. America is the only country that would prosecute this kind of thing. Most of the other countries laughed at us, .....
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Elizabethanfood
Number of words: 646 - Number of pages: 3.... dined twice a day--breakfast at eleven or twelve and supper between five and six.
Of course, the meals of the common man were not so extravagant. The common man ate three meals a day: breakfast in the early am, dinner at twelve and supper at six. The poorer sort supped when they could. A poem by Thomas Tusser gives a good idea of the break fast of the typical farmer:
Call Servants to breakfast, by daystar appear,
a snatch to wake fellows, but tarry not here.
Let Housewife be carver, let pottage be eat,
a dishful each one with a morsel of meat.
Rich Elizabethans loved hospitality and had .....
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Rock And Roll
Number of words: 1697 - Number of pages: 7.... form of music. Finally along comes the 1950’s. America has gotten out of WW2 and is now ready for a new evolution. People are feeling how they did back in the 20’s; carefree and willing to do anything for fun. On March 5, 1951, a rhythm-and-blues band, Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats, recorded “Rocket 88”, a frenetic, toe-tapping tribute to a customized car.2 This was the birth of . The music didn’t catch on until 1955 though, when Bill Haley produced “Rock Around the Clock”. The song soared up the pop charts, and became the first song to ever-hit number 1. From t .....
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Why The North Won The Civil Wa
Number of words: 2810 - Number of pages: 11.... for
its ever-growing industries. The South, on the other hand, devoted most
of what arable land it had exclusively to its main cash crop: cotton
(Catton, The Coming Fury 38). Raw materials were almost entirely
concentrated in Northern mines and refining industries. Railroads and
telegraph lines, the veritable lifelines of any army, traced paths all
across the Northern countryside but left the South isolated, outdated,
and starving (See Appendices). The final death knell for a modern South
developed in the form of economic colonialism. The Confederates were
all too willing to sell what li .....
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The Revival Of Jazz In South Africa
Number of words: 1560 - Number of pages: 6.... were also feeding the organ with air, choking the organ with persistent chords in the right hand and improvising an effective melody with the left. He would call for the aid of a matchstick to hold down a harmonic note. You get a delirious effect of perpetual motion -- perpetual motion in a musty hole where men made friends without restraint." (BEBEY-64)
This was marabi music, a foundation element of South African jazz and an indigenous product of the urban ghettoes that were a feature of South African cities for much of this century.(KEBEDE-40) Its distinctive rhythms, designed to bring so .....
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Reform Judaism In The 19th Cen
Number of words: 967 - Number of pages: 4.... as citizens of
the countries in which they lived in. Ghettos were being abolished,
special badges were no longer required and Jews could dress the way
they wanted, settle were they pleased and work the occupations they
desired.
Many Jews settled outside of Jewish districts, and began to
live like their neighbors and speak the language of the land. They
went to public schools and began to neglect Jewish Studies and forget
about he Shulchan Aruch.
In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat, Jews lost the rights of
citizenship in many countries. Many .....
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American Exceptionalism; The P
Number of words: 898 - Number of pages: 4.... government. On the other hand you have the constitution separating people from the government. The goal of the authors of the constitution was to create a system of government that existed in complete political deadlock because it never allowed any part of the system to be unified.
Geological characteristics also help to fragment the nation. The U.S. is one of the largest nations in the world. As the country was being formed, the availability of land made it possible for almost anyone who was not comfortable where they were, to pick up and move. This encouraged extreme diversity as pe .....
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