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Christopher Wren, the boy of the Dean of Windsor, and nephew of Dr. Mathew Wren, the Bishop of Norwich, was born in 1632. As his male parent was the male monarch ’ s chaplain, Christopher spent his early life in Windsor Castle. As a kid he played with the male monarch ’ s boy who…

 Tyche-Fortuna & St. Hilary of Galeata The Metropolitan Museum of Art, or “The Met”, as it is commonly known, is a grand museum located in New York City, just along the east edge of Central Park. Housing over two million works of art, The Metropolitan Musueum of Art is considered as one of the biggest art…

There are many theaters in our state, but the most celebrated of them are in Moscow. If you want to see a theater you have to purchase a ticket. Now you have bought the ticket. You pass through an entryway and travel to the cloak-room. Then you go to the hall. There are rows of…

I’m struggling with family traditions these days. Those little things that were so important to me growing up, that once gave me such great joy Just a few years ago are becoming Increasingly more difficult to motivate myself to do. As a child I can remember the excitement that each new season brought to me…

Beethovens Egmont Overture was performed by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, with the conductor as Kurt Masur, and soloist as Renaud Capucon. This piece was performed at the Church of St. Nicolai, Leipzig, Germany on October 9, 2009 to commemorate the beginning of the German reunification 20 years later. 70,000 people staged a peaceful demonstration calling for…

            It is an overwhelming task to react briefly to a visit to the Museum of Tolerance’s Holocaust Exhibit.  Overall my reaction is that there are so many facets to this period of history.  My understanding has been quite elementary.  Bad Germans try to kill neutral Jews.  Perhaps that sums it up in a vague…

tMonica Schulz The Rivals 1775 Important events of this time… During this time, the American Revolution begins and the first battle started on April the 19th. This was the battle of Lexington and Concord a day after the famous ride of Paul Revere. The American government was beginning to form with George Washington being appointed…

From a male perspective living in a patriarchal society, as difficult as it is to admit the sentiment that “women are superior to men,” the truth is evident in some rather significant ways. To begin with the obvious, women have the ability to give birth, so without them, the reproduction of mankind would cease to…

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Vietnamese festival where children carry lanterns and play enthusiastically until midnight. As an eighteen year-old, all I wanted was to gather my team to play a spirited soccer match on that day. However, the principal unexpectedly decided to hold the Mid-Autumn Festival at our high school. The idea seemed absurd…

This article breaks down five television shows that have New York City as their setting of their shows. The main argument Sadler and Haskins present is that these portraits of cityscapes put on by these shows generates a “postcard effect,” which gives the audience the understanding of a tourist view. In another sense this phenomenon…