Chillin in the Sistine Chapel

Humanitarians,

Today we finished up both the High Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance by visiting the crown jewel of the Ren, the Sistine Chapel and then taking a short stop in Venice to talk about how the do things a bit differently.

First, y'all, the Sistine Chapel is so great, make sure you go there some time! Then we took a trip to Venice, where they use oil paints instead of frescos because of the climate - this is a good transition to the Northern Renaissance, which you read about for today and which we will pick back up on Friday.

Homework? 

The biggest thing is to KEEP being creative! Journal check (10 entries) is next Thursday, 4/27. Need some help? Check it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/mLxfPgQ3R3CslGSYshmGGl/ideas-to-fuel-your-creativity 

This day in history: 

• 1775: The "shot heard round the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution. 

• 1824: Lord Byron (poet!) died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks in their fight for independence. 
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• 1882: Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died. 

• 1897: The first Boston Marathon was run. 
• Interesting article on the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a registered participant (she ran it again Monday on the 50th year anniversary of her first run): Katherine Switzer
• 1943: The Warsaw ghetto uprisings began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis. 

• 1993: The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people. 
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• 1995: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK was destroyed by a car bomb set by Timothy McVeigh. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in US history up to that time. 
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• 2005: Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI. He was the one who retired, paving the way for the current Pope, Francis I. 

brunch joke

- cbg