Examples of Battle of Red Cliffs in the following topics:
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- After the death of Emperor Zhang (of the Eastern Han period's Rule of Ming and Zhang) in 88 CE, corrupt officials increasingly gained control of the state, while family feuds tore the dynasty apart.
- He nearly succeeded but was defeated in 208 CE at the Battle of Red Cliffs, a memorable turning point in history.
- These three kingdoms, Wei, Shu, and Wu, battled for control in a long series of wars.
- This portrait of Dong Zhuo dates from a Qing Dynasty edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- Demonstrate the significance of the Battle of the Red Cliffs and the Three Kingdoms Period
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- Dietrich Mateschitz launched Red Bull in 1987.
- For the year 2001, Red Bull had sales of $51 million in the United States alone and captured 70 per cent of the energy drink market worldwide.
- From Stanford University on California's west coast, to the beaches of Australia and Thailand, Red Bull has managed to maintain its hip, cool image, with virtually no mass-market advertising.
- The company also organized extreme sports events--for example, cliff diving in Hawaii or skateboarding in San Francisco, reinforcing the brand's extreme, on-the-edge image.
- The company also organized extreme sports events--for example, cliff diving in Hawaii or skateboarding in San Francisco, reinforcing the brand's extreme, on-the-edge image.
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- The battles of the Civil War were fought between 1861 and 1865, with the most significant battles occurring in the western and eastern theaters.
- They were driven from Missouri early in the war as a result of the Battle of Pea Ridge.
- Grant, who won victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, and the Battle of Vicksburg, which cemented Union control of the Mississippi River and is considered one of the turning points of the war.
- Late in the war, the Union's Red River Campaign was a failure.
- A color-coded map of the battles of the American Civil War.
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- In the South, the War of 1812 manifested itself as the Creek Wars and culminated in the Battle of New Orleans.
- Red Stick leaders such as William Weatherford (Red Eagle), Peter McQueen, and Menawa were all allies of the British.
- The Battle of Horseshoe Bend, which occurred on March 27, was a decisive victory for Jackson, effectively ending the Red Stick resistance.
- The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815; it was the final major battle of the War of 1812 and is widely regarded as the greatest American land victory of the war.
- United States nationalism soared after the victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
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- Another project, Karnak's Red Chapel or Chapelle Rouge, was lined with carved stones that depicted significant events in Hatshepsut's life.
- The cavernous underground temple, cut into the rock cliffs on the eastern side of the Nile, was admired by the Greeks during their occupation of Egypt, who compared the goddess to their hunter goddess, Artemis.
- Built into a cliff face, Djeser-Djeseru sits atop a series of terraces that once were graced with lush gardens.
- Funerary goods belonging to Hatshepsut include a lioness "throne", a game board with carved lioness head, red-jasper game pieces bearing her title as pharaoh, a signet ring, and a partial shabti figurine bearing her name.
- One stood at each pillar of the extensive structure of her tomb.
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- Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted designed the exposition as a prototype of their vision of an ideal city.
- Most of the buildings of the fair were designed in the neoclassical architecture style.
- Facades were made not of stone, but of a mixture of plaster, cement, and jute fiber called "staff," which was painted white, giving the buildings their "gleam."
- These were intended to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the Americas.
- Nearby, "The Cliff Dwellers" featured a rock and timber structure that was painted to recreate Battle Rock Mountain in Colorado, a stylized recreation of an American Indian cliff dwelling with pottery, weapons, and other relics on display.
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- Cyrus,
whose rule lasted between 29 and 31 years, until his death in battle in 530 BCE, controlled the vast Achaemenid Empire through the use of regional
monarchs, called satrap, who each oversaw a territory called
a satrapy.
- Sometime
after his coronation, Darius ordered an inscription to be carved on a limestone cliff
of Mount Behistun in modern Iran.
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inscription begins by tracing the ancestry of Darius, followed by a description
of a sequence of events following the deaths of the previous two Achaemenid
emperors, Cyrus the Great and Cyrus’s son, Cambyses II, in which Darius fought
19 battles in one year to put down numerous rebellions throughout the Persian
lands.
- Tariffs on trade were one of the empire's main sources of revenue, in addition to agriculture and tribute.
- A section of the Behistun Inscription on a limestone cliff of Mount Behistun in western Iran, which became a key in deciphering cuneiform script.
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- The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
- The Red Army had the initiative, and the Wehrmacht was in retreat.
- Stalingrad's significance has been downplayed by some historians, who point either to the Battle of Moscow or the Battle of Kursk as more strategically decisive.
- At the time, however, the global significance of the battle was not in doubt.
- Argue for or against the categorization of the Battle of Stalingrad as a turning point in the war
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- The Anasazi (1000 BCE–700 CE) are the ancestors of today's Pueblo tribes.
- For hundreds of years, the Anasazi created utilitarian grayware and black-on-white pottery, as well as orange or red ceramics.
- Southwest architecture includes cliff dwellings (multi-story settlements carved from living rock), pit houses, and adobe and sandstone pueblos.
- One of the most elaborate and largest ancient settlements is Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, which includes 15 major complexes of sandstone and timber.
- These are connected by a network of roads.
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- The Classical period witnessed the continuation of red- and black-figure painting techniques on ceramic objects.
- The "Mannerists" were a group of Attic red-figure painters known for their affected (emotive) subject matter.
- As such, many of the scenes painted on white ground lekythoi depict or allude to funerary scenes (such as funerary rites and rituals) or images of warriors departing their wives for battle and death.
- The Achilles Painter, a pupil of the Berlin Painter and creator of both red-figure and white-ground vessels, is one of the most well-known white ground painters.
- The scenes he painted on his white-ground lekythoi are filled with pathos and sorrow, often depicting women sitting in front of grave stelae or bidding their battle-bound husbands farewell.