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Monday, May 9, 2016
DAY OF EUROPE: SPAIN, FRANCE AND ITALY
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DAY OF EUROPE: UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND, BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS AND ICELAND
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THE DAY OF EUROPE: FORMER AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE COUNTRIES
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Boudicca: the Celtic Queen who fought against Rome
Queen Boudica
Boudicca was the Celtic Queen of the Iceni tribe of modern-day East Anglia, Britain, who led a revolt against Rome in 60/61 AD.
The Iceni King, Prasutagus, an independent ally of Rome, divided his estate between his daughters and Emperor Nero of Rome. When Prasutagus died, however, his lands were taken by Rome and the Iceni lost their status as allies. When his wife, Boudicca, objected to this action she was flogged and her two daughters raped. She mounted a revolt against Rome which left the ancient Roman cities of Camulodunum ( Colchester, today ), Londinium ( London ) and Verulamium ( modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire ) in ruins and over 80,000 Roman citizens of Britain dead.
She was defeated at the Battle of Watling Street by the Roman Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. Boudicca is said to have committed suicide by poisoning herself after her defeat.
The primary sources of the story of Boudicca's revolt are the Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 AD) and Cassius Dio (150-235 AD). These two offer different versions of the story in that Tacitus claims the revolt sprang from the ill treatment of the Iceni following Prasutagus' death while Dio writes that the cause of the uprising was a dispute over a loan.
Tacitus' account is generally accepted as being more factual because his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40-93 AD) was the governor in Britain chiefly responsible for the successful conquest of the region and served as Tacitus' primary source of information. There is no doubt of Agricola's participation in the suppression of Boudicca's revolt.
Boudicca first struck the city of Camulodunum (modern Colchester) where she massacred the inhabitants and destroyed the settlement. Governor Suetonius and imperial agent Catus Decianus sent a lightly armed force of 200 men of The Ninth Roman Division, led by Rufus, marched to relieve the settlement.
Suetonius, returning from Mona, marched to Londinium (modern London) but, Boudicca's army sacked Londinium and, as before, massacred the inhabitants.
Suetonius had offered the people of the city safe passage with his army and it seems many accepted this offer. However, Tacitus writes, "but those who stayed because they were women, or old, or attached to the place, were slaughtered by the enemy. Verulamium suffered the same fate."
While the Britons were destroying Verulamium (modern St. Albans) Suetonius decided to destroy them in a final battle: the Battle of Watling Street. Boudicca's superior numbers were of no advantage in the narrow field Suetonius had chosen.
While the site of the battle is unknown, it is referred to as The Battle of Watling Street and suggestions as to precise location range from King's Cross, London to Church Stowe, Northamptonshire. Following Boudicca's defeat, Suetonius instituted harsher laws on the indigenous people of Britain until he was replaced by Publius Petronius Turpilianus who further secured the south of the region for Rome through gentler measures.
Other, smaller, insurrections were mounted in the years following Boudicca's revolt but none gained the same wide spread support nor cost as many lives. The Romans would continue to hold Britain, without any further significant trouble, until their withdrawl from the region in 410 AD.
Though she lost her battle and her cause, Boudicca is celebrated today as a national heroine and a universal symbol of the human desire for freedom and justice.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Diego Cameirao
In the summer before to start the new grade in the High School, 15-year-old boy Charlie, was writing a dairy because his only friend in the middle-school committed suicide and, when he was 7, his aunt died in a car accident. The reason to make the dairy was that he felt misunderstood by his family.
When Charlie started the school, he couldn´t make friends at the beginning, like always, but one day in a football match he met Sam and Patrick.
They carried Charlie to a party, where he knew the Sam and Patrick´re friends.There were Mary Elizabeth, the first Charlie´s girlfriend. But on that day Patrick drugged to Charlie and the police caught him unconscious in the snow. From that moment, Charlie started to see visions.
In another party, the group of friends were playing to truth or dare, and Patrick proposed Charlie to kiss the most beautiful girl there, so Charlie kissed Sam and Mary was a lot of angry with the both.
At the lunch where Patrick broke with his boyfriend and they had a battle, Charlie attack to Patrick´s ex-boyfriend and his friends and Charlie won, so he recovered Sam´s friendship and all return to the normality.
Some moments after, Sam get entered to a very important university and she had to leave Charlie. Charlie recuperated his visions that he had in bad situations where he was seeing horror situations. And when his sister left her home where they lived together, he wanted to commit suicide, so his sister called to the police and Charlie went to a hospital.
Pearl Harbor by Bryan Quimbiamba
PEARL HARBOR.
I'm going to talk about the film, Pearl Harbor, a film tells a story of love and war. It's based on real facts.
The story begins with two friend pilots of planes entering to the United States Navy just at the beginning of the II World War, after one of them, Rafe, falls in love with a nurse.
Unfortunately he was transfered to England to fight the Germans, where his plane falls down and all give him dead but did not, Rafe, was alive and returned to Pearl Harbor where learned that his friend, Dany was with his girlfriend and she was pregnant, but Dany didn't know, then the two friends fight.
Unfortunately he was transfered to England to fight the Germans, where his plane falls down and all give him dead but did not, Rafe, was alive and returned to Pearl Harbor where learned that his friend, Dany was with his girlfriend and she was pregnant, but Dany didn't know, then the two friends fight.
The next morning, the Japanese make a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and begin to destroy all. Rafe and Danny are trying to find a hangar where there is a plane already that the Japanese destroyed nearly all the hangars and in the end they defeat the Japanese.
The Prado Museum by Gorka León
The Prado museum is directed by Miguel Zugaña.
Inside, there are pictures of important painters such as Velazquez, Goya, etc. It was inaugurated on 19 of November. You can see there 8600 paintings works of Spanish paintings, German paintings, French paintings, Italian paintings and British paintings.
There are many halls with Roman Empire paintings works. The museum is open to 10:00am at 14:00 in the afternoon. The tickets are 14€ for over 18 years, 23€ with guide, 7€ for senior of 65 years and member of large families and there is also free tickets for people under 18 years old.
The Prado Museum by Alessandro Torazo
The Prado museum
According to the time with wich accountg for the visit, we selected 15, 30 and 50 pieces that cover the most prominent names in addition to exeptional works of jewerlry and sculptures from the museums's artists.
Three routes through the halls, where you can see works of the European masters summit as La Anunciación by Fra Angélico, El jardín de las delicias by El Bosco among many others.
Museums admission includes acces to the contemporany collection and temporary exhibition on the day of visit.
- General admission: 14€
- General admission and copy of "guide Prado": 23€
- Reduced admission for elderly people: 7€
- Ticket and audio guide: 25'60€
The creation of the world by Christian
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
It all started with the first being, Chaos, meaning disorder. After Gea, the Earth, Tartarus was hell and finally Eros, Love, appeared.
The latter is the one that accepts its origin, because although Hesiod makes it appear out of nowhere, as it was felt that love was a necessary step for those first beings to begin breed with each other and that would lead to the creation of other feelings generation after generation.
Other versions say that son of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and sexual desire and Ares, god of war, or Hermes god of commerce and thieves, knowing that these early relationships were not the result of love but of necessity.
Friday, May 16, 2014
American Museum of Natural History by Fran Gonzalez
The name of my museum is American Museum of Natural History. It´s a museum dedicated to science.
It has one of the most biggest collections of Dinosaur fossils in the world and it inclute the tirex, the triceratops and the diplodocus, and moreover this giants from the jurassic and the cretacic.
The American Museum of Natural History also has galleries dedicated to the Flora and the Fauna of the world ( the copy of the blue whale in real size is amazing ) and about the Espace and the anthropology.
You can buy the tickets online. The price of the tickets for children is 13$, for elder people is 16$ and for adults is 20$.
Kiev Architecture by Tanya
Architecture of Kiev
PLAY IT FORWARD
PLAY IT FORWARD
A teacher decided to guive a job to his students of 7th grade to search methods for improving the world, to people around us. One of these boys took hes teacher´s request very seriusly and created an clever system: his idea consists on helping three people in somethig which they couldn´t do themselves and instead of getting another favour back to theirselves each of those three people has to help a other three people and so on. The esctructure of a pyramid bussiness started to be apply idea in the USA and all people were helping each other.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: myself
Art Museum in Chernigov by Tanya
Art museum in Chernigov
Chernihiv Art Museum was founded in 1983 and is housed in a former women's gymnasium on the shaft.
Chernihiv Art Museum was founded in 1983 and is housed in a former women's gymnasium on the shaft.
Before the revolution, the largest collection of works of fine art in Chernigov owned Ukrainian Museum of Antiquities Tarnovsky. In late 1896, this well-known Ukrainian patron of the arts brought to the city his collection, which included more than 70 portraits of Cossack, over 40 icons and folk paintings, about 15 thousand works of graphic art and sculpture, as well as the famous collection of more than 400 works, Shevchenko. About 600 paintings, graphic and sculptural works of Russian and Ukrainian artists XVII - XIX centuries, works of decorative art.
Currently, the Chernihiv Art Museum, there are over five thousand items. In addition to easel painting, a collection of the museum includes an extensive collection of prints, sculptures and decorative art.
The Revolution Museum in Cuba by Elidia Alonso
I will talk abaut the Revolution museum, which is in the Habana ,Cuba.
I have decided to talk about it because I was born there.In this museum we can find out information abaut the revolutionary fight against Batista and about the history of Cuba.
To go to Cuba we need to travel by plane. It´s very far, the flight takes 9 hours.The ticket is very expensive because Cuba is in America.
However, the entry ticket costs 4CUCs (the Cuba coin), that is between 2 an 3€. You can go the day that you want , but only from 10:00 to 17:00.
I have been many times and I recomend it.
The Acropolis Museum by Jennifer Jimenez
I will talk about The Acropolis museum.
The Acropolis museum is in Greece.
You can go by plane from Madrid to Athens , you can go by land and you can take the train from Barcelona.
Trains pass trough Hungary and Bulgary.Another way to get there is by sea.You can go by plane from Italy(Venice) to the Greek ports.It costs 200€
You can see many sculptures since 420,432 B.C. and you see the temple of Athena Nike.
You can buy different tickets. Tickets for adults are 12€ and for students 6€, but they don´t have discounts.
This museum is opened from Tuesday to Sunday , at 9 in the morning to 9 in the evening. It´s closed on Mondays.
You can only stay 3 hours.
This museum seems very interesting for me because it has transparent floors and it also has ancient sculptures.
Science Museum of San Sebastian by Christian Martinez
I have chosen the Science Museum of San Sebastian becuse in this museum there are some areas where you can do a lot of experiments and prove simulators, for example (Earthquake Simulator).
You can visit the planetary, where you can enjoy whit yourself whit a trip across the universe into a virtual experience in Super High Definitio(SHD) 3D.
The most awesome part of that museum is the mirrors laberynth which is the easiest way to get yourself lost. You can visit the museum.
It´s open from Monday to Friday. The price of the museum is 9€ for people who are from 18 to 64 years old and the price for other people is 6€. If you also want to go to the planetary the price increases 2€ from the basic price and if you only go to the planetary the price is 3,50€.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://www.eurekamuseoa.es/es
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