Essays Tagged: "Bohemia"

30 Years War

divided into four different time periods and geographic locations. These four subsections were the Bohemian Period, Danish Period, Swedish Period, and the French Period.The 30 years war began in Bohe ... g the member states of the Holy Roman Empire. Hostilities broke out on May 23, 1913 when Protestant Bohemian noblemen threw two royal governors out a window of the Hradcany Palace in Prague. German an ...

(3 pages) 71 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Uranium.

Uranium.Uranium was discovered in the 1700's in the coal mines of bohemia and Jachlovikna.Uranium's atomic number is 92, its Symbol is U and the atomic mass of uraniu ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Uranium.

Uranium.Uranium was discovered in the 1700's in the coal mines of bohemia and Jachlovikna.Uranium's atomic number is 92, its Symbol is U and the atomic mass of uraniu ...

(2 pages) 53 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

"The winters tale" by Shakespeare.

The play appears to be split into two 'parts', the first taking place in Sicilia and the second in Bohemia. The play falls under the genre of romance, which in Shakespeare time referred to a play tha ... e deaths of Mamillius and Hermione. The play then adopts a pastoral setting of fantasy and magic in Bohemia in the forth act. This new location brings about a more light hearted, comic element to the ...

(6 pages) 62 1 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Essay - Why did France declare War on Austria in 1792?

In April 1792, the French Legislative Assembly declared war against the King of Hungary and Bohemia, for plotting aggression. They declared war in the name of the French nation in defence of l ...

(5 pages) 44 0 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The 'typical Australian' and indeed, Australian national identity, does not cover the diversity of Australian citizens and many groups, including women, are excluded.

urn of the century and were part of the formation of a "new intellectual community, a professional 'Bohemia' in which they could see themselves as men committed to their art. In this way, through both ... themselves as men committed to their art. In this way, through both their professionalism and their bohemianism, they distinguished themselves from those educated middle-class laymen who were committe ...

(6 pages) 148 1 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Brief history of the Thirty Years War.

The war began with the resistance and eventual revolt of Protestant nobles in Bohemia, which was under Hapsburg domination, against the Catholic King Ferdinand. It spread through ... f them and the emperor, was bound to feed upon heated antagonism and involved them all.A dispute in Bohemia precipitated the conflict. The Catholic King Ferdinand violated the "Letter of Majesty." Thi ... holic King Ferdinand violated the "Letter of Majesty." This resulted in the revolt of the Czechs in Bohemia. Thus began a war that lasted 30 years. The ensuing conflict came to be known as "The Bohemi ...

(2 pages) 65 2 2.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts

Old salem North Carolina, The original town for Movarians in North Carolina, A personal experience/visit to the same

ted in the 1400s in the province of Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. After its formation in Bohemia, in 1457, the unity flourished throughout Bohemia and Moravia until the counter-reformation ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

This is a basic history of polish music, from the begining of the creation of the polish nation, to just after world war two. Refrences used are cited and some notes to clarify are put.

c was part of cultural diffusion between Rome at the start of Christianity in Poland, coming trough Bohemia. The religious music was mostly centered on the praise of the Virgin Mary.The earliest noted ...

(4 pages) 53 0 2.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Uncommon Luxury: A Comparison between Jim's family in My Antonia with the typical plains family

onia by Willa Cather, Antonia Shimerda and her family had come to the Great Plains of Nebraska from Bohemia, but Jim and his grandparents were some of the few that did not migrate from a foreign count ...

(3 pages) 35 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

VIKTOR FRANKL

ride, his mother, father, and brother, were arrested in Vienna and taken to a concentration camp in Bohemia. It was events that occurred there and at three other camps that led the young doctor -- pri ... , mother, and brother, were all arrested and brought to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt in Bohemia. His father died there of starvation. His mother and brother were killed at Auschwitz in 194 ...

(3 pages) 60 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

WHY WAS THERE A CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA IN 1918?

h army consisted of prisoners and deserters from the Austria-Hungarian empire from the provinces of Bohemia and Slovakia. The Tsar gave his consent to set up a national force which they became to figh ...

(2 pages) 32 1 3.7 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Notes For AP European History

-EuroHistory Notes-Hapsburg family lands were Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia-Hohenzollerns ruled Prussia, which became a strong united country under Frederick the Great- ... wanted:1. extension of liberal rights2. in the German states national unification3. independence in Bohemia, Hungary and the Italian StatesRev in France-Francois Guizat, Louis Philippe's PM, was again ... assith, wanting autonomy for Hungary-Revolts broke out in Prussia, Rhineland, N. Italy, Vienna, and Bohemia-Piedmont helped Lombard and Venetia rebel against Austria-Papal states rebelled against Papa ...

(85 pages) 753 0 3.4 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Causes of WWII

ovakia as German occupation. This was why Britain's policy which against Germany was broken because Bohemia and Moravia combined and they became client states. I want to compare these two causes with ...

(2 pages) 28 0 1.7 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Russian Nationalism in Piano Literature

e in Russia. This coincided with similar nationalistic movements in other countries such as Poland, Bohemia, and United States. Before the 1830s, music in Russia was influenced by Italian and French m ...

(3 pages) 23 0 3.7 Jan/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

"The Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare

King Leontes of Sicilia begs his childhood friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, to extend his visit to Sicilia. Polixenes protests that he has been away from his kingdom f ... vinced that Polixenes and Hermione are lovers, he orders his loyal retainer, Camillo, to poison the Bohemian king. Instead, Camillo warns Polixenes of what is afoot, and the two men flee Sicilia immed ... ueen's death to her heartbroken and repentant husband.Antigonus, meanwhile abandons the baby on the Bohemian coast, reporting that Hermione appeared to him in a dream and bade him name the girl Perdit ...

(2 pages) 1301 0 1.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

What the author, Willa Cather, is trying to convey throughout her book "My Antonia".

his grandmother and grandfather in Black Hawk, Nebraska. When he arrives, an immigrant family from Bohemia moves in next door. Jim then meets Antonia Shimerda, the youngest of the Bohemian family. Ji ...

(2 pages) 20 0 3.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Coming Of Age

ng of age, and for more than just one reason. Antonia's family immigrated to the United States from Bohemia. When Antonia's family finally made it onto the shore of the United States, her family decid ... t they were all better off. The father of the family had established a successful textile outlet in Bohemia, and he provided the family with a comfortable life style. The mother was determined that th ...

(6 pages) 1250 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Marie Antoinette

the youngest daughter of sixteen children, her mother being the Archduchess of Austria and queen of Bohemia and Hungary and her father the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1770 at the age of fourt ...

(6 pages) 1787 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Define propaganda and its uses in war during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

ring the 17th century when Pope Gregory XV decided that the religious wars occurring at the time in Bohemia, Alsace and Palestine were too far gone to be settled with armed force. Instead he announced ... ew that in January of 1622 Pope Gregory XV decided that the religious wars occurring at the time in Bohemia, Alsace and Palestine were too far gone to be settled with armed force. Instead he announced ...

(10 pages) 25 0 0.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I