Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 101 - Various
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Who introduces small artisan businesses and why do they choose Shopify?
My name is Shannon Maldonado. I am the founder of the Jaui gift shop, which sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the equipment, I found it to be one of the easiest to use equipment. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All tools needed for sales, such as stock planning, are in the dashboard. Start your free trial at shopify.com.
I founded Ornot in 2013. I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills. We can manage the company's background systems and front-end and sell online. If Shopify was a bicycle equipment, it would be a bicycle itself. That way things are handled and our business is handled in Shopify. Start a free trial at shopify.com website.
My name is Shannon Maldonado. I am the founder of the Jaui gift shop, which sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the equipment, I found it to be one of the easiest to use equipment.
What are Adam Mickiewicz’s life and major poetic works as narrated here?
It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All tools needed for sales, such as stock planning, are handy on the dashboard. Start your free trial at shopify.com website.
Adam Mickiewicz by Encyclopædia Britannica mizievic seventeen ninety eight to eighteen fifty two polish poet was born in seventeen ninety eight near novogrudek in the present russian government of minsk where his father who belonged to the shlakhta or lesser nobility had a small property the poet was educated at the university of vilna but becoming involved in some political troubles there he was forced to terminate his studies abruptly and was ordered to live for a time in russia he had already published two small volumes of miscellaneous poetry at vilna which had been favourably received by the slavonic public and on his arrival at st petersburg he found himself admitted to the leading literary circles where he was a great favourite both from his agreeable manners and his extraordinary talent of improvisation
in eighteen twenty five he visited the crimea which inspired a collection of sonnets in which we may admire both the elegance of the rhythm and the rich oriental colouring the most beautiful are the storm bakchiserai and grave of the countess in eighteen twenty eight appeared his konrad wallenroth a narrative poem describing the battles of knights of the teutonic order with the heathen lithuanians here under a thin veil mitskewitch represented the sanguinary passages of arms and burning hatred which had characterized the long feuds of the russians and poles the objects of the poem although evident to many escaped the russian censors and it was suffered to appear although the very motto taken from machiavelli was significant dovete adunque sapere come sono duo generazioni da combattere bisogna essere volpe e leone
this is a striking poem and contains two beautiful lyrics after a five years exile in russia the poet obtained leave to travel he had secretly made up his mind never to return to that country or poland so long as it remained under the government of the muscovites wending his way to weimar he there made the acquaintance of goethe who received him cordially and pursuing his journey through germany he entered italy by the visited milan venice and florence and finally took up his abode at rome there he wrote the third part of his poem diady the subject of which is the religious commemoration of their ancestors practised among slavonic nations and pantadeush his longest poem by many considered his masterpiece a graphic picture is drawn of lithuania on the eve of napoleon's expedition to russia in eighteen twelve in this village idyll as brueckner calls it mitskewitch gives us a picture of the homes of the polish magnates with their somewhat boisterous but very genuine hospitality we see them before us just as the knell of their nationalism as brueckner says seemed to be sounding and therefore there is something melancholy
and dirge-like in the poem in spite of the pretty love-story which forms the main incident mitskevich turns to lithuania with the loving eyes of an exile and gives us some of the most delightful descriptions of lithuanian skies and lithuanian forests he describes the weird sounds to be heard in the primeval woods in the country where the trees were sacred the cloud pictures are equally striking there is nothing finer in shelley or wordsworth
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who introduces small artisan businesses and why do they choose Shopify?
0:00–1:15
2
What are Adam Mickiewicz’s life and major poetic works as narrated here?
1:15–2:09:04
3
How did Rosecrans and Bragg maneuver leading to the Battle of Stone River?
2:09:04–2:32:05
4
How did syphilis first appear in Europe and what contemporary accounts link it to the Americas?
2:32:05–2:44:32
5
What archaeological and clinical evidence refutes pre‑1493 syphilis in the Old World?
2:44:32–3:04:45
6
What caused the Boxer‑era unrest in China from a Christian Chinese perspective?
3:04:45–3:44:02
7
How did early 20th‑century observers describe Mexico’s political unrest and Porfirio Díaz’s long rule?
3:44:02–5:31:09
Speakers
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Three Homilies concerning the Power of Demons-St. John Chrysostom
Love-at-Arms-Rafael Sabatini