He has his own opinion on what he thinks on the way he wants to rule Cuba.

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 The water frame was great for the European Society. They started to rely on that usuage to help them out in the world today. It also helped because it gave them great ideas for the factories of the future.

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It would have to be something to do with the spinning jenny. I really dont think i could live without clothes.

Leonardo drew the plans for the first armored car in 1485.

He also designed the cannon, a machine gun, gliders, turnspit for roasting meat, canal system to irrigate fields, and invented the parachute.

Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo were not friends despite both being artists during this time.

Unusually for the era in which he lived, Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian, for humanitarian reasons.

He was born April 15th, 1452 and passed on May 2, 1519.

described as the Renaissance Man and is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.

He was a polymath: sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

He was considered an artist at 15.

He was an apprentice for Verrocchico.

in 1472 Leoarnado was accepted into the painters' guild of Florence.

He spent 17 years in Milan.

In France during his later years he painted little but did more scientific work.

His most famous works are the Mona Lisa, The last Supper, The Virgin of the Rocks, and several anantomy drawings.

Bellringer Facts.

George Washington Carver.

-Became the kidnap victim of night riders.
-Had responsibltity for his own education.
-He didm't quit his High School like his brother he wanted to finish it.in Minneapolis Kansas.

Thurgood Marshall
-Born July 2, 1980 in Baltimore Maryland.
-He went to Howard Univerity and went to law school.
-He won 29 out of 32 civil rights cases which he and his aides aruged befoere the supreme court.

Jackie Joyner- Kersee
-Track and field athlete and born March 3,1962
-She became one of the worlds greatest female athletes in history.
-She holds the worlds record in the long jump at 24 feet and 7inches.

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
-She was born a slave in Holly Springs.
-Her family was killed due to Yellow fever while visiting realitives.
-She was foribly thrown out of a first-class car by the conductor because she refused to ride in the car set aside for african americans.

Sojourner Truth
- Born into slavery in Ulster County New York.
-The Narritive of Sojourner Truth was published in 1850
-In 1827 Truth fled Dumont's farm and became a runaway.

Tiger Woods
- He is a professional golfer
-Born on December 30 1975 in Orlando, Florida.
-1999 he kept his tittle at the PGA.

W.E.B Du Bois
-Born Febuary 23,1868.
- In 1891 Du Bois earned his master degree of arts and in 1895 his doctorate in history from Harverd.
-In 1905 he became a founder and a general secretary of the niagara movement.

Maya Angelou
- She was a writer,poet,performer and director.
- Born April 4,1928 in St. Louis, Missouri.
-She was raped and her rapist was found dead in an alley because her uncles had beaten him to death and she had stopped talking all together.

Ralph Bunche
-Highest American offical in the United Nation.
-Born in Detroit, Michigan on August 7,1904.
-Earned master degree at Harvard University.

Roy Wilkins
- Born August 30, 1901
- Role in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Degree in Socialology.

Mathew Gaines
- Slave, community leader, minister, republican state senator.
-August 4, 1840.
- Caught several times running away and got to Wasington County and became a minister.

Virgina Hamilton
-Wrote 41 books and was an award winner.
- Grew up in yellow springs Ohio.
-Died of Breast cancer in 2002.

Quincy Jones
-Born on Southside Chicago.
- He always had a strong love for music and set his mind at playing the trumpet.
- Quincy settled in Paris to sudy is compsion.

Derek Walcott
- Born January 23,1930.
-Poet playwritter and visual artist.
-He wrote the poem Midsummer.

Mae C. Jemson
- First African American woman to go to space.
- Graduated at age 16.
- Stanford Univerity.

Oprah
-Jnury 29, 1954 in Mississippi.
-Highest talk show host in Syndication.
- First African American to be a billionare.

-Davis, Benjamin Oliver
-1877-1970 American General.
- Lieutenant in Spanish American War.
- Retired in 1948

Notes/Facts

People who are on t.v get payed more for making less adds.
95% of music downloaded wasn't paid for.
21 year olds have watched 20,000 hours of t.v
1 in 5 teachers are using technology
Today they are preparing us for jobs that don't exsist.
First text message was in december in 1992
69,400 music was downloaded illegally

The Crusades.

  - Seljuq Turks a Muslim people from Central Asia, gained control of Palestine-knowen among Christians as "the holy land."
-When they threatened the capital city of Constantinople, the Byzantine empire called on pope Urban ii.
-1905 he called a meeting of church leaders and feaudel lords.
-Thus began the Crusades a series of military exepeditions to regain the holy land.
-The First Crusade lasted form 1096 to 1099.
-Seeing the Crusader armies approch his city the emperor feared they might capture and plunder the capital. After much discussion the emperor allowed the crusaders to pass through Constantinople.
- The Crusaders then marchrd down the coast toward Palestine and their main target the holy city of Jerusalem.
-The capture of jersalem brought much holy land under European control.
-In 1146 the turks had united their forces.
-In 1187 the musliam leader Saladin gained control of Jerisalem.
-Pope Innocent iii. gathered of French Knights for the Fourth crusade. in 202 they left on ships provided by the italians city-state of Venice.
-In 1204 the Crusaders attackeed and looted Constantinople another christian city.
-Constantinople remained under western Eroupean control for about 60  years.
-They never regained their power again.
-In 1212 the short-lived and unfortunate Childerns Crusade took place. Young people from across Europe decided to march to the holy land and regain it for Chirstian Europe.
-All of the Crusades was to take the holy land from the turks. All the Crusades except the first failed to reach that goal.