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The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco , initiating a major cultural and political shift. Although hippies also gathered in major cities across the U.S., Canada and Europe, San Francisco remained the epicenter of the social earthquake which would come to be known as the Hippie Revolution. [ 1 ] Like its sister enclave of Greenwich Village , the city became even more of a melting pot of politics, music , drugs , creativity, and the total lack of sexual and social inhibition than it already was.
The Spring and Autumn Period ( Chinese : s 春 秋 时代 , t 春 秋 時代 , p Chūn–Qiū Shídài ) was a period in Chinese history that took place from approximately 771 until 476 BC (or by some authorities until 403 BC [ 1 ] ) in the alluvial plain of the Yellow River , the Shandong Peninsula and the river valleys of the Huai and Han . [ 2 ] It roughly corresponds to the first half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty .
The Banquet of Chestnuts , known more properly as the Ballet of Chestnuts , refers to a fête in Rome , and particularly to a supper held in the Papal Palace by Cardinal Cesare Borgia , son of Pope Alexander VI on October 30, 1501. An account of the banquet is preserved in a Latin diary by Protonotary Apostolic and Master of Ceremonies Johann Burchard (it is titled Liber Notarum ), but its accuracy is disputed. [ edit ] History
An augur holding a lituus , the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), [ 1 ] known as Sir Anthony Blunt , KCVO from 1956 to 1979, when he was stripped of his honours, was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life. Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London , director of the Courtauld Institute of Art , Surveyor of the King's Pictures in London.
Congresul Partidului Comunist al Uniunii Sovietice era cea mai înaltă instanță de conducere a Partidului Comunist (și a predecesorilor lui) .
Apartheid ( Afrikaans pronunciation: [ɐˈpɑːrtɦɛit] ; from Afrikaans [ 1 ] "the status of being apart") was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa , under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained.
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