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... , which consists of a narrow coastal strip extending thru southern Europe to the Mediterranean Sea and to Italy. It is a very well known place for being a winter resort. Communities on the French Riviera, also called the Cate d'Azur (Azure Coast), include Saint Tropez, Antibes, Cannes, Nice, Menton, and Monte Carlo. Nice is one of the most notable communities in the region. It ... ...
... he was left handed. In writing he also wrote different, writing right to left. Leonardo's most famous saying is "To know how, to see how." But he had many good sayings. A few for example are "Truely man is the king of the beasts, our brutality exceeds theirs." DaVinci wasnt just a painter, he was an artist, sculpter and a scientist. Leonardo was the ... ...
... opinion about the type of government Vietnam should have. To find out why the war broke out you will have to go back to the 1750's. This is where the French started their so called protectorate state of Vietnam. For many years the people of Vietnam protested but could not organize into a force powerful enough to resist the ... French. Then in 1946 a communist educated individual called Ho Chi Minh organized the people of North Vietnam and drove out the French rulers in a war that took eight years. During peace settlements in Geneva they allowed North and South Vietnam to become ... afr...
... that were current in France. Their characteristic features - exuberant lines, harmonious proportions and the integration of decorative features with structure - were taken directly from French furniture. Time and distance did, however, lead to changes that gave French Canadian furniture its own special character. The colony's craftsmen, unrestrained by rules established by trade guilds, could give free rein to their imagination. They adapted ... the forms of the major styles and created traditional motifs characteristic of New France. Most traditional French Canadian furniture made befo...
Fauvism (which is French for "wild beast") is a term that art critics hurled at the painters whose art they neither liked nor understood when they first viewed it in art galleries. It was a short-lived art movement (1905-1908) that was adopted by a group of French painters: Henri Matisse, George Roualt, Claude Derain, Maurice de Vlamink, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet, and Kees van Dongen (a Dutch painter living in Paris). The Fauves' influence was international and is considered as having been crucial to Twentieth Century art. It was characterized by a bold distortio...
Ebonics is as much a language as Spanish or French. Ebonics reflex a whole unique culture. Ebonics was developed by African slave descendants; it is a blend of primarily West African and European English. The main difference between Ebonics and traditional English ... ...
Beauty and the Beast There are many differences in the two stories of the French story "Beauty and the Beast." The two stories begin differently when the person that casts the spell on the prince is not actually a witch in the movie. Also there is ... ...
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves «koo stoh, zhahk eev ยป, (1910-1997), was a French oceanographer, author, and motion-picture producer. He developed many techniques for undersea exploration. In 1943, Cousteau helped invent the aqualung. This breathing device enables a diver to move about freely under water for long periods. Cousteau also developed the first underwater diving station and an underwater observation vehicle called the diving saucer. After 1951, Cousteau explored the oceans with his research ship Calypso. He wrote books about sea life that have been translated into many languages. These...
Grappelli, Stephane Grappelli, Stephane (1908-1997), French violinist, one of the few musicians to adapt the violin successfully to jazz. Grappelli was born in Paris. He studied classical music at the Paris Conservatoire, but after hearing American improvisational jazz recordings, he dropped out of school and began playing in that style. By the 1930s Grappelli was giving concerts and recording with the great Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt as part of the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Their quintet was one of the most popular attractions in France, occasionally performing with Joseph...
Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide OXYGEN (O) Oxygen was discovered by a British chemist, Joseph Priestly in 1774, and independantly by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Sweedish chemist. Oxygen has many uses - it is used in welding torches, to assist in hospital patient's breathing and in metal fabrication industries. Oxygen is also used for defense purposes as a propellant for guided misiles and rockets CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2). Carbon dioxide was named "fixed air" by a Scottish chemist, Joseph Black. A French chemist, Antoine Lavoisier proved that "fixed air" is an oxide of carbon, by showing that the gas obtaine...
... American civilization. In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? And what of the cubists, through whom the influence of African art changed modern painting- I think that it is true that American ... ...
