Hylke’s blog

I learned that the people in the Renaissance did not have pianos, glasses, pencils or thermometers back then. I also learned that they were very greedy. They tried to find a formula to transform lead into gold making them richer. They were also very religious. They built massive and expansive cathedrals. They had slaves from faraway places. […]

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This is a response to Farrah’s blog 
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=1189138E40109A00&p_docnum=2&s_doc_type=doc&p_queryname=800&p_product=GPCT&p_theme=newcat&p_nbid=O4FN4AUEMTE3ODc4ODIwNC4zNjAyNDQ6MTo0Om1raXM

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http://www.worldexecutive.com/cityguides/maps/casablanca/greater.gif
These two events are connected as they both involve suicide bombers attacking a very important place, only in my article, there were many different examples of suicide bombers, all in Casablanca.
I find this topic very interesting because it is a very big part of terrorism. I am very interested […]

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1. I learned a lot about Renaissance people today. I learned when and where people were people were born. I learned how they lived, how they grew up. I learned who they were and why they were famous. All of these facts were very interesting, and I really enjoyed listening to those interviews. Knowledge is power, […]

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Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter. He has made many paintings such as: The Ghent Altarpiece: The adoration of the Mystic Lamb. He made it with his brother, Hubert van Eyck. He has also worked as a court painter for Philip the Good, the duke of Burgundy. He uses a mixed style to painting […]

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