- Renaissance means rebirth
- Started in Florence, Italy
- Medici family brought the Renaissance (Lorenzo)
- Great Artist Leonardo da Vinici and Michelangelo
- Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel
- Sistine Chapel in Rome
- Sistine Chapel full of armed guards
- Pieta is 6 feet tall of Virgin Mary holding Jesus
- The last Supper is another famous artwork
- Is it better to be feared than loved or loved than feared?
- Yohan printed the bible.
- Erasmus was a Dutch scolar
- Tomas Moore wrote a book called utopia
- William Shakespear wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet
- The flemish were the first to use oil on canvas
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Renaissance Notes
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Facts
- Facebook and Youtube didnt exist 6 years ago.
- Wikipedia was launched in 2001.
- We are currently preparing kids for jobs that dont exist.
- Today's 21 year old has watched 20,000 hours of television.
- The number of text messages sent today exceeds the number of people on the planet.
- India has more honors kids than America has kids.
- 1 out of 8 married couples met online.
- There are 31 billion searches on google every month.
- 93% of adults own cell phones.
- The 1st commercial text message was sent in December of 1992.
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