Matt16""BBMatt16"cbpbb?bb<TEXTMACABBħPacket 16 Enemy soldiers found him dying on the battlefield and asked his name. He replied, I am the King, who do seal the religion and liberty of the German nation with my blood. Fired by territorial ambition and wary of growing Hapsburg power, he was known as the Lion of the North, and his heart was taken back to Stockholm in his blood-stained silk shirt. FTP, name this Protestant Swede who met his death against Wallenstein at the battle of Lutzen. Answer: _Gustavus Adolphus_ (Gustav II) Issued on November 2, 1917, it was calculated to win support for British war aims by supporting the ideas of Theodor Herzl, an Austian journalist of Jewish faith. This foreign policy statement expressed British sympathy for the establishment of a national homeland in Palestine, the main goal of Zionism. FTP, what was this pledge named after the British prime minister who issued it. Answer: The _Balfour Declaration_ The title is taken from the name of a shepherd in Vergils third Bucolic, and the poem wrestles with the fact that the good die young and false priests and poets prosper. Composed in memory of the death of a Cambridge schoolmate who drowned in the Irish Sea, the solution offered is partly Christian and partly humanist. FTP, name this elegy upon the death of Edward King, written by John Milton. Answer: _Lycidas_ The _Shih Chi_, the first historical annal in Chinese history, was a record of events during this dynastys rule. Confucianism was made the basis for a bureaucratic empire, while Buddhism was first introduced, and porcelain was produced. FTP, name this dynasty that followed the Chin and was succeded by the period of the Three Kingdoms. Answer: The _Han_ Dynasty When both his own wife and that of his brother prove unfaithful, he concludes that no woman is virtuous, and vows to marry a new wife every night and have her strangled at daybreak. But his resolve is broken when the sister of Dinarzade begins telling story after story just before daybreak and leaving them unfinished until the next night. FTP, name this husband of Scheherazade, the Sultan for whom the tales in the Arabian Nights are told. Answer: _Schahriah_ The first was led by Earl Erskine of Mar, and sought to install as king The Old Pretender. The second was finally ended at the Battle of Culloden Moor, when Charles Edward Stuart or Bonnie Prince Charlie was routed. FTP, name these insurrections in favor of the heirs of James II. Answer: _Jacobite Rebellions_ Primary ones consist mainly of protons with smaller amounts of helium and some heavier nuclei, which collide with atmospheric particles and produce neutrons, mesons, and hyperons. Low energy ones originate from the Sun, while high energy ones come from galactic space, probably from supernova explosions. FTP, what is this kind of highly penetrating radiation from outer space. Answer: _Cosmic Rays_ It was sent by Artemis as a punishment for King Oeneus, who had neglected to sacrifice to her. A dispute over its head led to a war with the neighboring tribe of Curetes. FTP, name this creature that ravaged the land in Aetolia until it was killed by Meleager after being wounded by Atalanta. Answer: The _Calydonian Boar_ While in North Africa with wife Marceline, Michel develops tuberculosis and becomes aware of his attraction to young Arab boys. When he returns to his French estate, his friend Menalque urges him to reject conventional good and evil, so when Marceline falls ill with tuberculosis, he neglects her in order to indulge himself. FTP, give the title of this tale by Andre Gide. Answer: _The Immoralist_ This area has flanking kinetochores to which the microtubules of the spindle attach. Consisting of a narrow region at which chromatids are joined, it plays its most important role in mitotic metaphase. FTP, name this specialized region of a chromosome that attaches to the spindle. Answer: _Centromere_ The opening toccata of this masterpiece also serves as the orchestral background for the Domine ad adjuvandum of the 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin. Subtitled A musical fable, it was first performed at the court of the Duke of Mantua in 1607. Probably the most well-known movement is the recitative Tu se morta -- You are dead, which is sung by the main character to Eurydice. FTP, what is this magnum opus of Claudio Monteverdi, often considered the first true opera? Answer: _Orfeo_ Among its clever lines is: They spell it Vincky and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. Based on a series of letters the author wrote from Europe to newspapers in New York and San Francisco, it was published in 1869. FTP, name this satyrical travel book by Mark Twain. Answer: _The Innocents Abroad_ In 1672, he became secretary to the Council of Trade and Plantations, but he is best known as a philosopher. In 1690, he wrote that All knowledge is founded on and ultimately derives from sense or sensation, thus setting the stage for later empiricists like Berkeley and Hume. Among his works are _A Letter Concerning Toleration_ and _Two Treatises of Government_, in which he defends natural rights. FTP, name this English philosopher of _Essay Concerning Human Understanding_. Answer: John _Locke_ An ascetic in Egypt, his suffering was depicted by many artists. Martin Schongauer employed savage expressiveness and precision to portray outlandish demons tearing at him and beating him with clubs. FTP, name this father of Christian monasticism whom was painted in equally nightmarish fashion by Heironymous Bosch. Answer: _St. Anthony_ or _St. Antony_ the Great or of Thebes He advocated a unification of physical anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, and linguistics, and outlined his theories in _Race, Language, and Culture_. He turned to anthropology after originally intending to study geography in the Arctic and British Columbia and from 1899 on, he taught at Columbia University . FTP, name this native of Germany whose works include _The Mind of Primitive Man_ and _Anthropology and Modern Life_. Answer: Franz _Boas_ In 1913, he presented a scheme for the systematic investigation of consciousness and its objects, which proceeded by bracketing off, or suspending belief in, the empirical world in order to gain an indubitable vantage point in subjective consciousness. His ideas influenced Heidegger and helped give rise to Gestalt psychology. FTP, name this German of Jewish origin, the originator of phenomenology. Answer: Edmund Gustav Albrecht _Husserl_ After her husbands death in 1642, she moved to what is now Pelham Bay in New York, where she and all but one of her family of 15 were murdered by Indians. When she denounced the Boston clergy for being under the covenant of works, not of grace, she was expelled and set up a democracy on land she acquired from the Narragansett Indians. FTP, name this woman, one of the earliest settlers of Rhode Island. Answer: Anne _Hutchinson_ The representatives of the German, Belgian, British, French, Italian, Polish, and Czechoslovak governments, who have met here, from the 5th to the 16th of October, 1925, in order to seek by common agreement means for preserving their respective nations from the scourge of war... So begins what post-WWI pact signed in a Swiss resort town? Answer: The _Locarno Pact_ Among this countrys denizens is the mokele-mbembe -- the legendary god beast, the elephant killer which is thought to be the last surviving dinosaur. It is an inhabitant of the swampy rainforests around the Ndoki river in this African nation. FTP, name this country that has lent its name to a novel by Michael Crichton. Answer: Republic of _Congo_ In 1806, he went to Italy for 18 years, where he was isolated from the development of Romanticism, and he returned to France as one of the last of the Neoclassicists. His most famous portrait is that of Louis Bertin, while among his mythological scenes is Jupiter and Thetis. FTP, name this pupil of Jacques-Louis David most famous for his 1814 Odalisque. Answer: Jean-Auguste-Dominique _Ingres_t7U7-}}3eMatt16MTEXTMACAITEXTMACAB__Ϟj~yԎ]iZQ\o̔Cg ĩY>ai%Ʀ}SD560qpfĻf5Ks_4q94l$\dGK