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jennifer soto

William Shakespeare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • melanie pineda
       
      william shakespeare was one of the most famous writers of all time.
    • melanie pineda
       
      he was a playwright, poet and an actor, one of the plays he wrote was called "Romeo and Juliet"
    • melanie pineda
       
      william was baptised april 26 in the year 1564 but his birth date is unknown, he died the 23 of april in 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
    • melanie pineda
       
      it is believed that william shakespeare was not his real name but just a stage name or a pen name he used to hide his true name and that no one knew what his real name was so they just called him what they believed was his name
  • William Shakespeare
    • jennifer soto
       
      won of the most famouse writers throught out world time. Of peoms stroys even plays. which on of them that he famouse for it Romieo & juliet
platano y salami

William Shakespeare: Biography from Answers.com - 0 views

  • William Shakespeare
  • Best Known As: The famed author of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
abigail collazo

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  • William Wallace
    • platano y salami
       
      william wallce was a rebel. he was like a god to other warriors because he was fierce and deadly.his favorite wepon was the claymore it had enough cutting power to take off three heads. also enough to cut a pig in half.wich is the closesst to a human body.
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    Blind Harry invented a tale that Wallace's father was killed along with his brother John in a skirmish at Loudoun Hill in 1291 by the notorious Lambies, who came from the Clan Lamont.
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Khopu - Inca Writing? - 0 views

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    In 1979 William Burns Glynn postulated that the Inca, long thought to be lacking a written language, actually had an alphabet of twelve letters and ten numbers. In his 1990 book Legado de Los Amautas
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    there is a growing consensus that the Inca had to have had a system of written language in order to form and maintain an empire that stretched across thousands of miles of rugged terrain.
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    Without something akin to the Rosetta Stone any theory about Inca writing is likely to remain nothing more than theory and speculation.
joel abreu

John Foxe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Foxe was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, England of a middlingly prominent family[3] and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child.
    • joel abreu
       
      JOhn Foxe was a martyrologist. He also wrote a book called Foxe's books of Martyrs.
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  • Foxe personally witnessed the burning of William Cowbridge in September 1538.
  • Foxe resigned from his college in 1545 after becoming an evangelical and thereby subscribing to beliefs condemned by the Church of England under Henry VIII.
  • He also worked unsuccessfully to prevent the two burnings for religion that occurred during the reign of Edward VI.
  • Foxe moved to London and probably lived in Stepney. There he completed three translations of Protestant sermons published by the "stout Protestant" Hugh Singleton.
  • Foxe often treated this material casually, and any reader "must be prepared to meet plenty of small errors and inconsistencies
  • his was an age not only of strong language but of cruel deeds.
  • Foxe was, after all, describing the burning of human beings for the crime of holding unfashionable religious opinions.
  • Foxe was so bookish that he ruined his health by his persistent study
  • John Day's son Richard, who knew Foxe well, described him in 1607 as an "excellent man...exceeding laborious in his pen...his learning inferior to none of his age and time
    • joel abreu
       
      As you can see, its like two people burning in FIRE...
jonathan serrano

La Navidad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Columbus called the colony La Navidad, Christmas, because it was founded on Christmas day.
    • anthony anthony
       
      how did they know it was christmas.
  • When he landed, however, he saw eleven corpses of his men on the beach and discovered that La Navidad had been destroyed. He was told by nearby Tainos that the settlers had mistreated the natives, who retaliated by killing all of them.
    • anthony anthony
       
      the tainos destroyed it. what happened to the rest of the other 28 ppl.
  • After Columbus sailed away a second time, the site apparently was forgotten until a Haitian farmer led Dr. William Hodges to it in 1977. Hodges, an amateur archaeologist and American medical missionary, received permission from the Haitian government to excavate a tennis-court-size section of the marshland, and he and his helpers found some artifacts of La Navidad
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