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Wow i'm too tired for a sarcastic title and its only 9:58 pm
charles dickens, french revolution, etc etc....sad that i cant think of a sarcastic joke DONT COMPLAIN IF TYPOS IDC USE AT OWN RISK DONT COMPLAIN TO ME
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04/14/2010

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She was an english novelist who wrote Pride and Predjudice and Gentle Jane.
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Jane Austen
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This guy supported executions and was elected to teh head of public safety even though he was the reigning force of the reign of terror. Sorry, i meant DRIVING force :p
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Maximillien Robespierre
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This place was demolished on July 14th, was in St Antoine, was formerly used as prison
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Bastille
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This guy was the leading watercolor painter of his time and bought back his former sold works at his death
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JMW Turner
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This person was killed on the guillotine and reigned during the french revolution
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Louis Sixteenth
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Queen during reign of terror and was executed on guillotine
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Marie Antoinette
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Was queen during victorian era and was prince alberts wife, wore black every day after her husband died
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Queen Victoria
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Prime Minister with queen victoria and was the conservative prime ministr.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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wrote for Vanity Fair, second most popular prose author of all time, addicted to peppers
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William Makepeace Thackery
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scottish satirical writer who wrote entire history of the french revilutunon and dickens used his book as historical reference for his
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thomas Carlyle
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A time when products were made by machines and not hands.
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Industrial Revolution
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wrote book on evolution theory that explains diversity of life and believed in evolution by natural selection
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Charles Darwin
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Started Asetheticarianism, intelligent, wrote "picture of dorian gray", sued his dad bc his dad said he was gay
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Oscar Wilde
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Park in London that admiral Nelson's stautue is in the middle of, this square commemorates the battle of trafalgar
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Trafakgar Square
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poet laureate of britain for his poem in Memoriam AHH, one of greatest poems in niteenth centurey and was the number one poet like dickens was number one novelist
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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This occured when the poor third estate was locked out of general assembly so they had their own meeting
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tennis court oath
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Capital of France for over a century, left abandoned in 1806
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Versailles
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Most known as a radical journalist and polition for Jackobins, spent most of his life in a bathtub,
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jean Paul Marat
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Killed Jean Paul Marat because she believed he killed thousands of people, thought Louis Sixteenth shouldn't have been executed
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Charlotte Corday
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Emperor of france twice, ended French Revolution, DEFEATED BY WELLINGTON AT WATERLOO AND NELSON AT TRAFALGAR
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Napolean Bonaparte
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Where was dickens born and to whom?
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Portsmouth to John and Elizabeth
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Who did Dicken's father represent in one of his books? Which book was it?
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mr. Macawher and David Copperfield
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What was his first job?
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a court reporeter
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Who did he marry?
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Catherine Hogarth
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What was Dickens's first big hit?
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Pickwick papers
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When did Dickens go on his second tour?
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1867
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What was his book that was never completed?
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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROUD
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Who had the longest reign of any english monarch?
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Victoria
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What prime minister worked well with Victoria?
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Benjamin Disraeli
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What prime minister did not work well with Queen Victoria?
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Gladstone
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What did reform bills do?
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gave voting rights to males over 21 who owned property
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Who created communism?
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Karl Marx-think COMunism, KARl
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What was the title of Marx's communist boooK?
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das Kapital
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What is the gist of communism?
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a socio economic system that says the workers own the means of production and TO each according to his needs and FROM eeach according to ability
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What is the gist of Darwinism?
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It was the theory of evolution by natural selection
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What was Darwin's theory of evolution book called?
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Natural/Artificial Selection
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What philiosphy was primarily Darwinism?
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asgnostic
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Who created Utilitarianism
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Jeremy Bentham
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What is the gist of utilitarianism?
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everything is evaluated by its utility or its use. the more practical something is the more valuable it is.
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What is imperialisM?
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The policy of extending the dominion or territories of a country. AKA when you try to enforce your way of thinking on outher countries.
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What was the Oxford Movement/Tractarianism and who proposed it?
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John henry Cardinal Newman and it was the call for England to return to the Catholic church.
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What is Evangelicism?
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helpig your fellow man to demonstrate your faith and that the church doesnt provide you with salvation but yu do that yourself
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What was the motive behind the french rev?
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People wanted to try and introfuce democratic ideas in the country.
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What were France's three estates?
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Church, Aristocracy, and the poor
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Who were the two major influences on the french revolution? (who and what)
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Our rev in 1776 and Jean Jacques Rousseau and his ideas
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What was Jean Jacques Rousseau's book?
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The Social Contract
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What happened with money in 1788 France?
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The estate ran out of $$$ and had to borrow it through the government
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What happened when the estates general met?
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The Third Estate was locked out, and they took a stand @ the tennis court oath
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When was the storming of the bastille?
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July 14th 1789
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All literature started with what?
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poetry
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Who was the more moderate political party in France?
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The Girondins
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Who was the bloodthirsty political party?
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Jacobinns
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What signaled the end of the reign of terror?
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Robespierre's death onthe guillotine
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When did Napolean Bonaparte take over?
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1799
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Who wrote the "poetry revolution" and why, when published
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Wordsworth and Coleridge and they did it to match the political revolution. Published in 1798
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What is a novel?
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an extended work of prose fiction
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What were installments and 3 volume form?
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Installments were how books were published and 3 volume form was how a book was publised.
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What novels were popular when novels were first introduced?
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Travelogues and gothic novels
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