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Emanuel Swedenborg
 
Heaven and Hell:

British poet

William Blake: 

 http://www.online-literature.com/blake/


Raphael: 

 http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/raphael/

The father of English literature

Geoffrey Chaucer:

http://www.online-literature.com/chaucer/

Sound Bite:

California Sun (Rivieras) 

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Old pyschiatric terms that have become common language:

Idiot  Imbecile Moron

Promotional artwork for 1912 Ziegfeld Follies
 
 

Created the Ziegfeld Follies

Florenz Ziegfeld:

 http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2004-1/thismonth/feature.asp

The Rebel

Albert Camus: 

http://www.camus-society.com/albert-camus-bio.htm

John Locke's writings on the Social Contract were particularly influential among the American Founding Fathers.
The Social Contract

John Locke: 

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/locke.html

Music Video:

We Got Tonight (Bob Seger)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4SxQ5BSJPc

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

Horace Walpole:

http://www.online-literature.com/horace-walpole/

"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."

Lord Chesterfield:

 


            Sir Hans Sloane

Founder of the British Museum

Invented milk chocolate

Hans Sloane:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/sloane-herbarium/hanssloane.htm

The Long Walk of the Navajo: http://reta.nmsu.edu/modules/longwalk/default.htm

 

Navajo code talkers Private First Class Preston Toledo (left) and his cousin Private First Class Frank Toledo in 1943.

American Indian Code Talkers: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/navajo-code-talkers.html 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5UTRbOdfUs

 

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Edmund Burke:  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/B/eburke/burke.htm 

 

 CLICK HERE

History of the Academy Awards: http://www.filmsite.org/oscars.html

 

Nestor Studios, the first film studio in Hollywood, 1913.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics08/00013616.jpg

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics08/00013616.jpg

A sod house from the United States prairie frontier, 1901.

What was it like to live in a sod house? Bugs and mud and turkey wings for a broom!

http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstoryinhistory/tryathome/activities_sodhouse.html

Horace Greeley

The greatest editor of his time

Horace Greeley: 

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h150.html

Sound Bite:

Sunshine (Jonathan Edwards)

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