… are not “essentially the same in all times and places” and so by this he introduced the idea of perspectivism in to literary thought. Gadamer expands upon this idea and uses the terminology and claims of phenomenology/existentialism, in…

… Red Baron World War 1’s leading fighter pilot for Germany was Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. During his two years of fighting for Germany he shot down eighty enemy planes. Richthofen painted his plane bright red so everyone that saw him…

… was a time of very intelligent writers who successfully published many pieces that are still famous today. It took place between 1785 and 1830 mostly in the country of England. The period of time brought many changes to the English way of life. The…

… Urey was a scientist of considerable scope whose discovery of deuterium helped him win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934. Urey also made fundamental contributions to the production of the atomic bomb through his development of the isotope…

… 1861 in Cavendish,Vermont. She was an American biologist and geneticist, whose research proved that chromosomes determine the sex of an organism. She completed in only two years the four-year course at Westfield Normal School in Massachusetts. Nettie…

… bank of the United States, in 1913 to provide the country with a more secure, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. Presently, the Federal Reserve's duties fall into four general areas: (1) conducting the nation's monetary…

… life by keeping no idle servants, a table that was plain and simple, and cheap furniture. It seems that from this description of such a simple life Ben Franklin could have been following the Puritan belief, that possessions were not important. However,…

… Cubism. Along with Picasso he explored and invented a new way of painting that got its name from critics who pointed out small cubes in his earliest cubist works. At the end of 1907, Braque met Picasso at the unveiling of The Ladies of Avignon.…

… too much about them. Nobody can ever not find enough information writers like Shakespeare and Chaucer. Then there are others that there is almost nothing about them. However, historians have managed to find a happy medium for Robert Herrick, author…

… 1885. His mother gave birth to him in California at San Gabriel’s hospital. He grew up on his grandfather’s ranch at Lake Vineyard. “When he was a boy he was very curious and loved to hear his family read to him about wars and adventures.”(Pr…