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Chuck Norris Fact:

Chuck Norris Fact:. “Chuck Norris owns the greatest poker face of all-time…it helped him win the 1983 WS of Poker, despite holding just a joker, 2 of Clubs, 7 of Spades, a green #4 from an Uno deck, and a Get Out of Jail FREE card from Monopoly.”. The Renaissance. Coming Out of the Dark.

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Chuck Norris Fact:

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  1. Chuck Norris Fact: “Chuck Norris owns the greatest poker face of all-time…it helped him win the 1983 WS of Poker, despite holding just a joker, 2 of Clubs, 7 of Spades, a green #4 from an Uno deck, and a Get Out of Jail FREE card from Monopoly.”

  2. The Renaissance

  3. Coming Out of the Dark • Farming • Horsepower • 3 Field System • Longer life • Trade • East and West • Trade Fairs (local) • Cities • Guilds • Jews • Big Cities…Peasants/Serfs • Nastiness

  4. Bring on the Books • Learning becomes cool again • Universities crop up in the West • Paris, Oxford, Salerno, Bologna • Works begin to be translated into the Vernacular • Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” • Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” • Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics debate topics of their day using Aristotle’s Ideas • Summa Theologica My head is too small for my body

  5. What Be da Renaissance? • Literally means “Rebirth” • A movement that started in Italy and spread throughout Europe • “Rebirth” of culture and learning Florence, Italy: The Birthplace

  6. Viva la Italia • Italy becomes the center for the Renaissance • Thriving cities • Wealthy Merchants • Medici Family • Classical heritage of Greece and Rome

  7. Renaissance Ideals Check out my buns of bronze • Humanism – focusing on human potential and achievements • Secular • Worldly • Concerned with the here and now

  8. The Renaissance Man • Art was something all well off people did • Excelling in several different areas is what made you a Renaissance Man • Women could also achieve a similar status…but it was oppressive

  9. New Everything • Art techniques • Writing Styles • Machiavelli • William Shakespeare • Vernacular • Utopia • Printing Press • Johann Gutenberg

  10. A Patron of the Arts I gotta pee • Usually the rich and/or well off supported the arts • Queen Elizabeth was a big patron of the arts

  11. Moment of Zen Something isn’t right here

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