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What are some facts about the Romantic period?

Romanticism began with "Sturm und Drang," a German music and literature movement that focused on causing an emotional reaction in the audience. It started in 1776 with a play that had the same name. William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth were famous Romantic poets. Beethoven and Wagner are some of the most famous composers from the Romantic period.

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Where can you find information about phone books from 1980?

Most states, including Wyoming and Tennessee, provide an online catalog-style database that indicates the telephone directory's available years and its primary community or town of origin. Before paying a visit to the nearest state library, check the library's website first, if applicable, to see if it holds a phonebook from 1980. The Library of Congress Local History and Genealogy Reference Services also saves U.S. telephone directories from 1976 to 1995 on microfiche.

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Why did the Puritans move to America?

The Puritans felt that the reformation within the Church of England had not gone far enough. While papal authority had been rejected with the establishment of the state church, much of the ritual found within Roman Catholicism remained. Many of the priests of the day were barely literate and completely out of touch with their flock. This dissatisfaction with the state church put the Puritans at odds with the governing class, and they began to be subject to varying degrees of persecution. Some clergymen were exiled or even executed for expressing their dissent. Still, the movement gained stren..

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When did J.J. Thompson conduct his experiment?

J.J. Thompson was a British physicist born in 1856 who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906. His research on negatively charged particles was essential for understanding the atom's structure, which led to further experiments by Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr. Thompson was the first physicist to develop the idea for the structure of the atom, which was then believed to be the smallest possible particle in the Universe, and was apparently indivisible.

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What was the importance of the Boston Massacre?

The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. It was the result of a confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists. On this day, a group of colonists gathered at the Customs Office in Boston. An exchange of words ensued, reflecting the hostility between the British and the colonists.\nThe group of colonists started throwing snowballs and bottles at the growing number of British soldiers who were there to curb demonstrations against the Townshend Acts. The British soldiers reacted by opening fire on the colonists. This resulted in the death of five colonists.\nThe news about th..

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How did Edmund Cartwright's power loom work?

In 1784, Edmund Cartwright completed the design for his first power loom. He patented it in 1785 and in the same year set up a factory in Doncaster, Yorkshire, to weave and spin cloth. Despite his efforts to refine the machinery, his factory was not successful. He went bankrupt, and in 1793 creditors repossessed his factory.\nA textile manufacturer named Robert Grimshaw built another factory in Manchester in 1790 where he planned to install several hundred of Cartwright's power looms. However, it burned to the ground before it was completed, supposedly as an act of arson by disgruntled ha..

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Who became president after John F. Kennedy?

Prior to becoming president, Johnson was Kennedy's running mate, then became the Vice President of the United States in 1961. He was sworn in as President because of Kennedy's demise. However, in the presidential elections of 1964, he was victorious with 61 percent of the vote. Under his leadership, the U.S. achieved several notable milestones. One of the greatest was the advancement in the exploration of space when three astronauts were sent to the moon in 1968.

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Where did Hernando Cortes explore?

Cortes first left Spain for the New World in 1504 and settled in Hispaniola. He participated in the conquest of Cuba in 1511 and became the mayor of Santiago. In 1518, Diego Velazquez, the governor of Cuba, appointed Cortes to lead an expedition to conquer Mexico. Cortes and his men reached the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in August 1519, where he took the Aztec ruler Montezuma hostage.\nThe Spanish forces were initially driven from the city after an Aztec revolt. They returned in 1521 to lay siege to Tenochtitlan and destroyed the city after several months. Cortes became the governor of New ..

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What is the history of the Montgomery Fair?

The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Division began the tradition of holding Field Days in the fields of a local ranch or farm, the location of which changed over the years. In the 1960s, Field Days began to resemble the modern Montgomery County Fair. The annual show and auction outgrew their new quarters, the Candy Cane Park Pavilion, in 1965 after just three years. The auction then moved to the Cow Palace auction barn before moving again in 1968 due to the growth of the Junior Livestock Show. The new location was the Montgomery County Fairgrounds.\nThe Chamber of Commerce b..

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Who was the president in 1930?

Hoover faced a difficult term in office as the country wrestled with the effects of the Great Depression. The American people were alarmed by the unprecedented unemployment level, and Hoover received many letters from ordinary citizens with suggestions and criticisms regarding the improvement of the American economy. Perhaps because of this pressure, Hoover was an intensely private person and did not like to subject his family to a barrage of media intrusions. He believed that his actions as President were more important and longer lasting than the media's opinion of him.

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