(extra credit) The massacre happened on August, 1572. It was a massacre between protestants and catholics. This tragic episode of the wars of
religion is the result of a complex fight of multiple factors.There was a lot of reasons and causes for why this happened, like the wedding of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarret. This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris, the assassination of Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside. A list of those to be killed was drawn up, headed by Coligny, who was brutally beaten and thrown out of his bedroom window just before dawn on August 24. Once the killing started, mobs of Catholic Parisians, apparently overcome with bloodlust, began a general massacre of Huguenots. The massacre also marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion.
This song is by Owl City, this is comformed by Adam Young. Owl City is one of Young's many solo projects, with all music written, composed, recorded, and produced by him. During live performances he is accompanied by a group of supporting musicians. He plays synthpop and electronic music. Young created the project while experimenting with music in his parents' basement.
Adam Young created this song, because he was curious about the Space Shuttler Challenger Disaster, which happen in January 28, 1986.
Adam Young, the mastermind behind Owl City, has this to say about the curious "January 28, 1986":
"There's a track on the new record called January 28, 1986 and it features a clip from Reagan when the space shuttle Challenger blew up that same year and it's kind of a sobering... piece, and it stuck me. I was actually born that same year, '86, my parents always used to talk about it and so it was always on my mind growing up and I felt like it would be a good thing, to pay dues to that, and I've just out of respect feature a little interlude on the record, that Reagan quote, and the idea behind it is that it's kind of a precursor to the following track on the record called Galaxies, just to kind of set up the premise of the following song and it's just a short little interlude and it was a fun thing to do. I'm glad it came together."
The Space Shuttler Challenger Disaster ocurred when Space Shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51-L) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand SRB's aft attachment and the structural failure of the external tank.Aerodynamic forces broke up the orbiter. As a result of the disaster, the Air Force decided to cancel its plans to use the Shuttle for classified military satellite launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, deciding to use the Titan IV instead.
Here is a video that includes the lyrics and the audio of the song:
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I really like this song, because i didn't know about this disaster, and know i have a lot of information of it, i really do a lot of research to found an interesting song, i found a lot, but i want one song who give me new information, and this one did it. I found another one also interesting it talks about rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between January 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front; it's a good song, it doesn't have like a lot of information, but i like the rythm and the lyrics, it's named "We didn't start the fire" By Billy Joel, if you have time hear it, it is cool.
In the period of 1500-1750 it was legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials. People in Switzerland think that witches make pacts with the devil, giving them special powers, they said that they didn't talk to the devil alone, they were always in groups or coven.
In 17th century colonial North America, the supernatural was part of everyday life, for there was a strong belief that Satan was present and active on Earth. Witchcraft was then used by peasants, who invoked particular charms for farming and agriculture. Over time, the idea of white magic transformed into dark magic and became associated with demons and evil spirits.In 1688, John Putnam claimed that he could prove the existence of witches and ghosts of the supernatural realm. Glanvill wrote about the "denial of the bodily resurrection, and the supernatural spirits".
Men and women in Salem believed that all the misfortunes were attributed to the work of the devil; when things like infant death, crop failures or friction among the congregation occurred, the supernatural was blamed. Because of the unusual size of the outbreak of witchcraft accusations, various aspects of the historical context of this episode have been considered as specific contributing factors. Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Ann Putnam, Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard began to have the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to effect. This resulted in the deaths of 25 citizens of Salem. In the 18th century,were the las executions of people convicted as witches. Catherine Repond, was one of the last people to be executed for Sorcery in Switzerland prior to Anna Goldi. Catherine Repond was arrested in April 1731 and taken to a castle in Corbières, where she was interrogated by torture to confess that she had flown on a broomstick to the witche's sabbath. She was then taken to Fribourg, where she was sentenced to death for witchcraft and executed by strangulation and burning. In 1782, Anna Göldi, often called the last witch, was executed, but Göldi's trial was a dubious witch trial, while Repond was openly executed for this accusation.
Mongols are Central and Northern Asian (Inner Asia) ethno-linguistic group. Although the largest Mongolic group are those of Mongolia, they also live as minorities across Northern Asia, including Russia, China, and many of the former Soviet Union states. Mongolic peoples belonging to the Buryat ethnic group live predominantly in what is now the autonomous Republic of Buryatia, Russia. In China, they live mainly either in Inner Mongolia or, less commonly, in Xinjiang. Mongolic peoples are bound together by a common culture and language, a group of related tongues known as Mongolic languages. The Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of Mongol and Turkic tribes of historical Mongolia under the leadership of Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206. The empire grew rapidly under his rule and then under the rule of his descendants, who sent invasions in every direction. The area around Mongolia, Manchuria, and parts of North China had been controlled by the Liao Dynasty since the 10th century. The empire began to split as a result of wars over succession, as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from Genghis's son and initial heir Ögedei, or one of his other sons such as Tolui, Chagatai, or Jochi. The Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260 marked the high-water point of Mongol conquests, and was the first time a Mongol advance had ever been beaten back in direct combat on the battlefield. Though the Mongols launched many more invasions into Levant, briefly occupying it and raiding as far as Gaza after a decisive victory at the Battle of Wadi al-Khazandar in 1299, they withdrew due to various geopolitical factors. By the time of Kublai's death in 1294, the Mongol Empire had fractured into four separate khanates or empires, each pursuing its own separate interests and objectives: the Golden Horde khanate in the northwest, the Chagatai Khanate in the west, the Ilkhanate in the southwest, and the Yuan Dynastybased in modern-day Beijing.
King Arthur, is a legendary British leader of the 6th centuries according to medieval histories and romances, he led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. His historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians. The legendary Arthur developed as a figure of international interest largely through the popularity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful and imaginative 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae. Arthur appears either as a great warrior defending Britain from human and supernatural enemies or as a magical figure of folklore, sometimes associated with the Welsh Otherworld. Although the themes, events and characters of the Arthurian legend varied widely from text to text, and there is no one canonical version, Geoffrey's version of events often served as the starting point for later stories. Geoffrey depicted Arthur as a king of Britain who defeated the Saxons and established an empire over Britain, Ireland, Iceland,Norway and Gaul.
EXTRA CREDIT Ivan IV Vasilyevich, known in english as Ivan the terrible. When he was just a kid his father died and 3 years later her mom died too, he had a terrible childhood. Ivan was crowned with Monomakh's Cap at the Cathedral of the Dormition at age 16. He was the first person to be crowned as "Tsar of All the Russias". By being crowned Tsar, Ivan was sending a message to the world and to Russia: he was now the one and only supreme ruler of the country, and his will was not to be questioned. The young ruler started out as a reformer, modernising and centralising the country. He revised the law code, created an elite standing army and introduced local self-management in rural regions. In 1553 he suffered a near-fatal illness and several years later his beloved wife Anastasia died. Suddenly, in the winter of 1564 Ivan secretly left Moscow declaring that he wanted to abdicate. The panicked population called for his return. After lengthy talks, Ivan agreed to come back but on his own terms, demanding absolute power to punish anyone he believed was disloyal. The next year, an instrument of his new rule was set up: a system called Oprichnina or “separate estate”. One of the most terrifying campaigns by the oprichniki was the 1570 massacre of the wealthy city of Novgorod. Suspecting its people of treason, Ivan personally led the troops. The city was ravaged and thousands murdered. In 1581, during a violent dispute Ivan killed his eldest son, the groomed and chosen heir, Ivan Ivanovich, hitting him with his pointed staff. He was a ruthless monarch and skilled manipulator, he was also a prominent theologian, an accomplished public speaker and one of the most well-educated people of his time.
My name is Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, i was born in March 6 1475, in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. My father was Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, and my mother, Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena. When i was young, my father send me to Florence to study grammar under the Humanist Francesco da Urbino, but i showed no interest in my schooling, i preffered to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of painters. From 1490 to 1492, I attended the Humanist academy which the Medici had founded along Neo Platonic lines. After that, i follow my dreams, then i was considered the greatest living artist in my lifetime, and ever since then I had been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. My output in every field during my long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, i'm the best-documented artist of the 16th century.
Two of my best known works, are the Pietà and David, I sculpted this before I turned thirty. I also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. When i was 74 years old, I succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. I transformed the plan, the western end being finished to my design, the dome being completed after my death with some modification. In my lifetime I was also often called "the divine one". One of the qualities most admired by my contemporaries was my terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate. My impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.
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