The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839.. The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the …

Content. The painting depicts the struggle of Hannibal's soldiers to cross the Maritime Alps in 218 BC, opposed by the forces of nature and local tribes. A curving black storm cloud dominates the sky, poised to descend on the soldiers in the valley below, with an orange-yellow Sun attempting to break through the clouds.

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: ; 8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), was a French-German philosopher, encyclopedist, writer, and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon.He helped in the …

Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th century.In his lifetime he was among the most famous painters, known for his flamboyant personality, and regarded as an …

Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" 1802, 11 May "Within our happy castle there dwelt One" Poems founded on the Affections. 1815 To H. C. Six years old 1802 "O Thou! whose fancies from afar are brought;" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood: 1807 To the Daisy (first poem) 1802

Andrew Moray (Anglo-Norman: Andreu de Moray; Latin: Andreas de Moravia), also known as Andrew de Moray, Andrew of Moray, or Andrew Murray, was an esquire, who became one of Scotland's war-leaders during the First Scottish War of Independence.Moray, heir to an influential north Scotland baron, initially raised a small band of supporters at Avoch Castle in early …

Although today principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities, the British Museum was founded as a "universal museum".Its foundations lie in the will of the Anglo-Irish physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), a London-based doctor and scientist from Ulster.During the course of his lifetime, and particularly after he married the widow of a wealthy …

A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is a political pamphlet, written by the 18th-century British writer and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, which attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism.Wollstonecraft's was the first response in a pamphlet …

Early life. Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily.Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV.He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun. ...

Alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of initial consonant sounds of nearby words in a phrase, often used as a literary device.A familiar example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".Alliteration is used poetically in various languages around the world, including Arabic, Irish, German, Mongolian, Hungarian, American Sign Language, Somali, Finnish, Icelandic.