... in the neighboring Low Countries, where outbreaks of iconoclasm were met with fierce repression by Spain. Catherine began a two-year tour of the provinces with her son Charles the Ninth, in an effort to establish unity with the nobility. During this tour, she passed through Bayonne and met with the Duke of Alva, the King of Spain's "hard man" in the subjugation ... and reputedly tormented with the guilt of the massacre. His brother, Henri, now installed as the king of Poland, lost no time trying to head toward the borders. He took a tour of Italy and then arrived in France to take up th...

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... 1833. It was a most unhappy one for Dickens. In 1832 Dickens became a very successful shorthand reporter of Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons. But when the liberal daily newspaper The Morning Chronicle was reorganized and expanded, Dickens jumped at the chance of becoming one of its regular staff members. His thoroughness and speed helped the Chronicle provide serious competition ... reporter. He purchased a copy of Gurney's Brachgraphy and taught himself shorthand. At the age of sixteen, Charles Dickens found work as a court reporter. Later he joined the Mirror of Parliamen...

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... well with each other. We work together and we partied together. Life as a single soldier was about beer and women, and I had plenty of both. While at a Salt and Pepper concert in Berlin, I met a beautiful young girl named Pia. Pia was a military brat, which is slang in the military for military dependant traveling with their parents. We started to date shortly ... ...

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... our way to the hotel. It was sunny and really hot, but we were enjoying it. After we checked into the Hotel Ambasciatori Palace, we took our own small little tour. Since my friends and I were tired, we just wanted to relax and look around, so we wandered around the nearby Borghese Park where we could see everything from old villas ... ...

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... energetic bilingual poet and editor, F. T. Marinetti, publisher of the controversial literary magazine Poesia (Milan), announced the movement of Futurism in a belligerent manifesto published on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. The term Futurism caught the imagination of writers and artists throughout the world, as did Marmetti's insistence that the artist turn his back on past art and conventional ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate