Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Niccolo Machiavelli, born May 3, 1469, was an Italian writer, philosopher, diplomat, politician, and humanist. The son of a lawyer, he was born of nobility during the Renaissance in Florence, Italy. He was educated in the humanist fashion of the day. |
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| The Founding of Rhode Island |
| England, in the 1600s, was not a place of religious freedom. In fact, it was not unusual for those who held beliefs deemed contrary to the official church to be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, and often all three. Many of those who came to the American colonies did so in order to escape persecution |
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| Queen Elizabeth? |
| The Elizabethan Era was named after Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was executed when Bess was two and a half. Good Queen Bess, frequently known then and now as The Virgin Queen, reigned over England and Ireland from the end of 1558 until she died. |
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| Facts about Gold |
| Gold may have been the first metal to be used by humans, probably in ceremony and for decoration. The Latin word for gold, aurum means “shining dawn.” An Egyptian king from 2600 bce described gold as “common as dust.” |
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