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The Franco-Prussian War was fought in 1870 and was provoked by Bismarck as the last step to join Germany. There were two previous wars: one in 1864 named Danish War and other one in 1866 named Austro- Prussian. Bismarck had created the North German Confederation, but still needed to convince the South German states to join. The South German states were mainly Catholic and convinced they should stay independent from Protestant North Germany.

Bismarck sent a telegram "The Ems Dispatch" from Kaiser Wilhelm to Napoleon III to make the France to declare war on Prussia in 1870. Quickly, Prussian troops overwhelmed France and Napoleon III was captured in the Battle of Sedan. The South German States Were convinced to join the new nation of Germany. This happened in January of 1871.
France had to pay a really big amount of money for losing the war. They also lost the part of territories in Alsace and Lorraine that they had at that period, and they had to watch the Germans create their new and beautiful country at Versailles outside Paris. Poor France! This was a little bit humiliating and, decades later, helped construct a huge war, a first world war.

independence of Paraguay

This video explains how does the independence of Paraguay happened and some of the most important facts of this revolution. In the fight for the independence of Paraguay, Paraguay had to fight first against the forces of Argentina. Paraguay rejected the leadership of Buenos Aires and the armed forces of Paraguay. Argentina fought with Manuel Belgrano in 1811. Attorney José Gaspar Rodríguez was the first to govern Paraguay. Independence Day is celebrated in Paraguay on May 15 each year even though the Spanish leaved the country on 14 May. The Paraguayans celebrate this day with parades, ethnic foods, and music. The Independence of Paraguay is really important to all of the people from there. Every Paraguayan feels really moved every May 15 because Paraguay was the first country to be declared as a republic in Latin America. Also, Just as all of the places that are under the regiment of other countries want its independence, Paraguayans wanted its independence too.

WOOW! Sinkholes

10 Of The Largest Sinkholes In The World

Bimmah, Oman

Agrico Gypsum Stack, Florida

Sarisarinama Sinkholes, Venezuela

Texas Devil’s Sinkhole

Daisetta Sinkhole, Texas

Guatemala City (2007)

Qattara Depression, West of Cairo, Egypt

Macungie Sinkhole, Pennsylvania

Guatemala City (2010)

Berezniki, Russia

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Works Of The Fenton Collection.

Here are some works of the Fenton collection.

 

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VOCABULARY

Scientific revolution: new inventions and theories

Geocentric: earth centered

Heliocentric: sun centered

Elliptical: movement

Scientific world: Poland, Denmark, germany, Italy

Latin: lingua Franca

Empirical observation: sense data -> hypothesis -> experimentation -> observation -> analysis -> revised hypothesis

95% Consensus (agreement) is perfect

Englightment: cultural and philophosical movement   “Coming to the light of knowledge”

Empirical: sense-sata

France: most important country

Republic: they loved it

Wemen: treat as equal

Salon: social gathering

Symphony

Opera: extended synphoney 

Synphoney: piece of an orchesta

Epistolary novel: fiction characters writing letters to each other

Catrato: by voice

American Revolution

England: Had to be a protestant.

American colonists: complained about “taxation without representation”

French revolution

First: clergy

Second: nobility

Third: everyone else

Problems in France:

Femin: food shortages

Storming of the bastille: third state took it, prison, they wanted guns

Declaration of the right of men: liberty, equality, fraternity.

Women’s march on Versailles: were hungry, send Luis and Mary to Paris

Guillotines: a lot of people died.

The reign of terror: people put into guillotine

Scorched earth policy: burn your things before the enemy comes.

Negotiation: discussions

Leverage: power point in a negotiation, something you have that the other people want

Compromise: when you give soothing that you want a lot. 

Hard Power: guns and military force, money and economic strength

Soft power: Culture, Admiration, Good will: good feeling “

Quid pro guo: This for that. Money for job. Money for learning.

Left: communist, big changes, Cuba

Center: socialism, some public, some private. Germany.

Right: capitalism, status guo, the way things are now. Mexico

PERSONS

Nicolas Copernic: heliocentric without a telescope, followed by

Galileo galilee: telescope/ recant by the church/ house arrest

Giordano Bruno: there are other stars

Isaac newton: gravity/ eccentric (weirdo)

Francis bacon: scientific method

John Locke: elected government, people have the right of revolution, social contract

Mozart: child prodigy, orchestra

Catherine the Great: from Russia, interested on enlightenment

Ann: sad, problems with babies

George I: he didn’t talk English

Thomas Gefferson: part of the founding fathers, ideas from john lock

Maximilier Robespierre: woow of the committee of public safety.

Charlotte Corday: killed a person in his bathroom

The dauphin: he survived?

Napoleon: from Corsica, Italy.

NAPOLEON: he was sent to have a military career.

Talleyrand: represent napoleon, good

Better at land even though he was from land and sea

Horatio nelson: bad for him, his nemesis

Coup d’etat: tack over France

Napoleonic code: French laws, new constitution

Wars of the coalitions

Peninsular war: Spain and Portugal because he didn’t had it; he put joseph Bonaparte, his brother.

Battle of Austerlitz: good for napoleon

Battle of waterloo: bad!

Naval blockade: good for hi, it was his idea.

Invasion to Russia: bad

Elba: bad

St, Helena: bad

GROUP

Republic of litters: intelligentsia everyone can write.

The founding fathers: founded the USA.

Hessians: Germans mercenaries.

National assembly: tennis court oath, made by the third state, Louis XVI kicked them out of Versailles.

Emerges: people who go to other country, they move out, French nobility, third state.

Jacobins: revolutionaries, radicals.

The committee of public safety: collected people in order to go to the guillotine.

Fenton Crimean War Collection

Roger Fenton's Crimean War photos represent the earliest organized event to document a war through photography. Fenton, who spent almost 4 months in the Crimea (between march 8 to June 26, 1855), made 360 photographs under really extremely conditions. Even though these photographs capture lots of participants and the landscape of the war, there are no actual combat photographs.

            The library of the congress bought 263 of Fenton’s works and albumen prints from his grandniece, Frances M. Fenton. Including his most known photograph, “valley of the shadow od death”. This group of photos is really unique because they reflect an arrangement imposed by Fenton. It is possible that this collection is composed of a set of Works kept and annotated by the only Roger Fenton.