Biography of Marie Antoinette: Her Glamorous, Tragic and Short Life

Posted Yesterday at 03:31 PM by Axel Updated Today at 06:25 AM by Axel

Axel
Lecturer

Collage entitled "Chic Queen Faces the Guillotine" by author. The collage image to upper left is the Queen "en Gaulle" in 1783, the image to the right is a sketch of Marie Antoinette by Jacques David, as she road to her public execution in 1793 - she was 37 years old.

Marie Antoinette was the beautiful Queen of France who...

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The Glamorous and Tragic Life of Marie Antoinette

Posted November 25th, 2013 at 06:11 PM by Axel Updated Yesterday at 03:29 PM by Axel Tags antoinette, france, louis, marie, revolution

Axel
Lecturer

Collage entitled "Chic Queen Faces the Guillotine" by author. The collage image to the right is a sketch of Marie Antoinette by Jacques David, as she road to her public execution in 1793, not yet 38 years old.

Marie Antoinette was the beautiful Queen of France who became a symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century monarchy,...
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Which Side Was the American Navy on in The War of 1812?

Posted November 25th, 2013 at 02:19 PM by Aya Katz Tags daniel todd patterson, dauphin island, fort bowyer, treason, war of 1812

Aya Katz
Citizen

I used to think of Daniel Todd Patterson's actions against Jean Laffite as some kind of bureaucratic lunacy. He had standing orders to remove the hellish banditti from Barataria, so he acted as soon as he got word from Laffite that the British fleet was currently making plans to invade Mobile. Noting that the coast was now clear, Commodore Patterson diverted the entire naval force under his command...
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The Life of Galba

Posted November 21st, 2013 at 12:15 PM by Salah

Galba, who ruled the Roman Empire from June of 68 to January of 69 CE, was the first emperor without connections to the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. Though the Senate initially saw him as a welcome alternative to Nero, Galba would prove to be a short-lived emperor. His death would herald the beginning of the first Roman civil war in a century, the Year of Four Emperors. Background and Rise to Power

Salah
Unchained

Servius Sulpicius Galba was a contemporary of Jesus Christ. He was likely born...
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Bohemond of Antioch
Posted November 20th, 2013 at 02:59 PM by dwight Tags antioch, bohemond, byzantine empire, crusades, robert guiscard

dwight
Citizen

Bohemond of Taranto, as he was known in 1095, was a Norman prince hailing from Taranto, at the point where the heel of Italy meets the boot. Now, the Normans were by no means natives of the area. They were a Germanic race that had early migrated into Scandinavia. In the ninth century, however, some momentous demographic event or phenomenon occurred and they began to invade Western Europe. Norman literally meant North Men. The men from the North. Looting was a favourite profession. Previously they...
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