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The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in 868 CE. However, it is suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date.
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The renaissance was a period of 'rebirth' in learning, exploration and art.
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LEONARDO DIVINCI TOOK A LONG TIME CREATING THE MASTER PEICE THE MONA LISA. INFACT HE SPENT 3 WHOLE YEARS WORKING ON HER.
MANY BELIEFS HAVE ROSE THAT THERE ARE SECRETS OF LEONARDO DIVINCI LOCKED AWAY IN THE PAINTING OF THE MONA LISA. -
Trained in the fields of theology, law, and medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) possessed a deep fondness for mathematics and astronomy that would lead to his unprecedented contributions to modern astronomy.
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When our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, said "Repent", He called for the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
2The word cannot be properly understood as referring to the sacrament of penance, i.e. confession and satisfaction, as administered by the clergy.
3Yet its meaning is not restricted to repentance in one's heart; for such repentance is null unless it produces outward signs in various mortifications of the flesh.
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The translation of the entire Bible into German was published in a six-part edition in 1534, a collaborative effort of Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, Justus Jonas, Caspar Creuziger, Philipp Melanchthon, Matthäus Aurogallus, and Georg Rörer. Luther worked on refining the translation up to his death in 1546: he had worked on the edition that was printed that year.
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The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum) was the 16th-century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered to be one of the Church's most important[1] councils. It convened in Trent (then capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent, in the Holy Roman Empire, now in modern Italy) between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods.
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a group of people managed to put barrels of gunpowder in the mansion of the royal lords.
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The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe. Naval warfare also reached overseas and shaped the colonial formation of future nations.
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Ended when the king was exicuted.
In June 1645, Cromwell’s New Model Army inflicted a fatal blow to the king’s army at the Battle of Naseby. Charles did not recover from this defeat and his cause was lost. -
Rule from the age of four, absolute monarch.
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The telescope was one of the central instruments of what has
been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth
century. It revealed hitherto unsuspected phenomena in the
heavens and had a profound influence on the controversy between
followers of the traditional geocentric
astronomy and cosmology and those who favored the
heliocentric system of
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the age when the majority of the monarchs ruled and were most powerful.
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The Third English Civil War (1649–1651) was the last of the English Civil Wars (1642–1651), a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The Preston campaign of the Second Civil War was undertaken under the direction of the Scots Parliament, not the Kirk, and it took the execution of King Charles I to bring about a union of all Scottish parties against the English Independents. Even so, Charles II in exile had to agree to every punishment.
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The Scots were right in expecting a crushing victory that day but the outcome was far different from what they had envisaged. Their army was decimated. Within a single morning, they had suffered over 3,000 dead, 10,000 taken prisoner and lost over 200 regimental colours. Many of the casualties occurred as the English cavalry rode down those fleeing the battle. English losses, on the other hand, were extraordinarily light; Cormwell claimed only 50 were killed.
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Newton's laws have been the pillars of physics and mathematics for hundreds of years. Not only did Newton theorize his three great laws, he also derived his law of gravity, and his analysis of integration and derivation are the foundation of Calculus.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an invading army led by the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange) who, as a result, ascended the English throne as William III of England together with his wife Mary II of England.
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The first practical steam engine was Thomas newcomens machine The idea of using boiling water to produce mechanical motion has a long history, going back about 2000 years. (see the related link below).
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In this time period, man’s previously held concepts of conduct and thought could now be challenged verbally and in written form; fears of being labeled a heretic or being burned at the stake were done away with.
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"le Bien-Aimé" ("the Beloved"). What most of the people called him(self nicknamed)
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was excuted during the french revolution.
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revolutionary war of france.
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Following his graduation from Yale University in 1792, Eli Whitney traveled to Savannah, Georgia, where he became fascinated with the slow and tedious process of cleaning cotton by hand. He began to sketch on paper some ideas for a machine that would speed up the operation, and within a few weeks he had developed the cotton engine, which quickly became elided to "cotton gin."
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The electric battery was invented by Alessandro Volta. It was the first practical battery created in 1800
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In Grand Detour, Illinois in 1837. The steel plow did not requir oxen to pull it; it was now light enough for horses.
The polished steel helped the thick sod soil of the midwest slide off of it better so farmers didn't have to work as hard to plow the land.
