March Flashcards
This book praises “free spirits” who are independent and free of dogmatism. This book, which begins with an aftersong called “From High Mountains,” opens by asking “Suppose Truth is a woman – what then?”, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Beyond Good and Evil
a “Great Migration” by these people involved the ship Arbella. Members of this religious group divided over the “free grace” question during the Antinomian Controversy. Increase and Cotton Mather were ministers in this church prominent in New England.
Puritans
One of the most famous masses is this one, composed by Giovanni Palestrina in honor of a man who only reigned for three weeks. It legendarily convinced the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music.
Missa Papae Marcelli
This artist of one of Europe’s first landscapes, which shows a footbridge, executed another work for WilliamIV of Bavaria that includes a large panel bearing an inscription about the title conflict (The Battle of Alexander at Issus) created one of the first pure landscapes in oil, his 1520 Landscape with Footbridge.
Albrecht Altdorfer
name this principle of quantum mechanics that forbids two electrons from having identical quantum numbers.It explains why two electrons in the same orbital must have opposite spin, since they cannot occupy the same state.
Pauli Exclusion Principle
This Roman poet took inspiration from Sappho’s “Ode to Anactoria” to write his fifty-first numbered poem. This writer of a poem ending “hail and farewell” often addressed his poems to Lesbia, who was named for Sappho. a “thousand kisses, then a hundred.” The speaker of another poem mourns this woman’s dead sparrow who was “sweeter than honey.”
Catullus
Commands like “take the bitter care from my mind” and “in all my battles fight as my comrade” end a poem by this author addressed to a “deathless” and “iridescent-throned” goddess. “Ode to Aphrodite” is one of the few substantially complete poems by, for 10 points, what ancient Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesbos? Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter is a translation of the fragments of this ancient Greek poet from Lesbos.
Sappho
name this Czech playwright who coined the term “robot” in R.U.R.(Alquist trying to recreate a formula burned by Helena and dubbing Primus and Helena the new Adam and Eve)
Karel Capek
Identify this woman who screamed and pleaded for help as she was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses failed to intervene, used as an example for the bystander effect
Kitty Genovese
This country is home to Camp Lemmonier, America’s primary permanent military base in Africa, and it contains the incredibly saline Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa. In the 20th century, this country was briefly known as the French Territory of the Afars and Issas, The only national park of this nation, Day Forest National Park, can be found in this country’s largest vegetated area, the Goda Mountains.
Djibouti
This organization’s first Grand Master Workman was Uriah Stephens, who was succeeded by Terence Powderley. The influence of this organization declined after it was blamed for the Haymarket Square Riot. Anti-immigrant sentiments in this group may have led to a massacre of Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Knights of Labor
this type of poem that consists of 6 six-line stanzas followed by a three-line envoi.
Sestina
name this ruler who was succeeded by David after becoming the first king of the Israelites.
King Saul
Constantine’s niece Zoe Palaeologus married a ruler with this name who confronted the Golden Horde at the Great Stand on the Ugra. This monarch kicked the Hanseatic League out of their kontor in Novgorod in 1494 and seized all of the kontor’s goods. Name this ruler who won the Battle of the Shelon River and emerged victorious out of a “Great Stand” on the Ugra River. ruler who ended Moscow’s status as a vassal of the Mongols and united most of the Russian states.
Ivan the Great
Name this commander who earned his name by defeating a Swedish invasion along a river north of Novgorod. He also defeated the Teutonic Order at the Battle of the Ice. Great Prince of Vladamir, After the Golden Horde sacked Kiev, this Prince of Novgorod was forced to pay heavy taxes to the Golden Horde after they sacked Kiev, but he more famously fought off the Teutonic Knights at the Battle on the Ice.
Alexander Nevsky
This god stole cacao beans from his brother, after which he taught the secrets of making chocolate to humanity, which he earlier created after going to the underworld and stealing jade bones. This god immolated himself and became the planet Venus after sleeping with his sister. Myths that this god burned himself on a seaside pyre, or that he sailed away on a raft of snakes, may suggest that he was expected to return from the east. usually represented as a feathered serpent?
Quetzalcoatl