Callous vs. Callus

Our vocabulary word is:
Callous; insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic; hardened 

the word Callus is the homonym of callous which means:
Callus; a hardened or thickened part of the skin

Julius Caesar fun fact!

Based on remarks by Plutarch, Caesar is sometimes thought to have suffered from epilepsy. Modern scholarship is "sharply divided" on the subject, and some scholars believe that he was plagued by malaria, particularly during the Sullan proscriptions of the 80s. Despite the commonly held belief that Caesar suffered from epilepsy, several specialists in headache medicine believe that a more accurate diagnosis would be migraine headache.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was a very important and powerful leader of Rome. Caesar was born on July 13th 100 B.C. and died on March 15th 44 B.C. There are several interesting and important facts on Caesar such as he was once a governor of spain for 3 years. He also has been known to be romantically involved with 3 other women. Caesar also had an adopted son. There are also much more amazing facts of Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar Fact

Caesar gave his daughter Julia to Pompey in marriage to strengthen the alliance.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was a Roman general who played an important role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Caesar entered into a political alliance with Crassus and Pompey that dominated Roman politics for many years. Caesar's achievements granted him unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse Pompey's standing. The balance of power was upset later on by the death of Crassus. Political realignments in Rome finally led to a standoff between Pompey and Caesar. After Caesar assumed control of the government, he began many extensive reforms of Roman society and government. He centralized the bureaucracy of the Republic and was given the title "dictator in perpetuity". Led by Marcus Junius Brutus, a group of senators assassinated Caesar on the "Ides of March" (March 15 44 B.C.), in hopes of restoring the constitutional government of the Roman Republic.

Random facts about Shakespeare.

• Shakespeare's name may have meant "Shaker of Spears," indicating warrior ancestry.
• The river running through Shakespeare's hometown is the Upper Avon, not the Avon. In Shakespeare's time, the town was called Stratford, not Stratford-upon-Avon.
• The ceiling of Shakespeare's stages was called "The Heavens."
• In his will, Shakespeare left his wife his "second-best" bed.

Julius Caesar

When Julius Caesar conquered Britain, he wrote an entire book about what he saw there. Also, when he was on his trip to Rhodes, he was captured by pirates.

Shakespeare Trivia

Did you know that only 18 of approximately 37 plays were written during his lifetime?

Fact about Caesar

Caesar gave his daughter Julia to Pompey in marriage to strengthen the alliance.

Julius Caesar

Did you know that during the reign of Sulla, Caesar was not considered a big threat? By spending enormous sums of money for public spectacles, he built up a reputation and popularity among the public. He was also responsible for bringing Gaul- modern day France- into the expanding Roman empire. With extreme popularity and a powerful army, Caesar turned on Rome and by 46 C.E., had named himself dictator for life.

Fact about Shakespeare

He wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets!

Julis Caesar

In 79 BCE, Julius Caesar was awarded the civic crown for saving the life of a citizen in battle. He was on the staff of a military league. The civil crown were basically oak leaves. I don't know why he would want oak leaves. His general sent him on an embassy to Nicomedes, the king of Bithynia, to obtain a fleet of ships. Caesar was successful at Bithinynia, but subsequently Nicomedes was gay, and he had to sleep with the kind to persuade him to obtain a fleet of ships. When Sulla died in 78, Caesar returned to Rome and began a career as a orator/lawyer and a life as an elegant man-about-town.

Random Fact.

Did you know that in the notorious work "Dante's Inferno", once the protagonist was in the realm of hell, he could see that in the mouth of the devil were three people: Judas, the betrayer of Jesus, and the two conspirators of Julius Caesar, Cassius and Brutus. Interesting, no?

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was stabbed to death.

William Shakespeare, one of the greatest poets of all time.

William Shakespeare, known for his many plays and poems, was born and deceased in April just three days apart (April 26, 1564-April 23 1616). Though he wrote many plays that we know of today, none of them he published himself, after his death two men that he so seemingly entrusted his plays to published them to the public. His history isn't sure and set in stone and the dates may be off on some of the publications of his plays but what we do know for sure is that William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets of all time.

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an english poet and playwright. He was married to Anne Hathaway who was seven years older than 18 year old William when they got married in 1582. After the birth of his twins he left few historical traces , legend says William fled town to escape prosecution for deer poaching.

William Shakespeare

There are many interesting facts of William Shakespeare, one is that since there is so little information of him people don't even know his actual birthdate. Also when Shakespeare first got married to Anne Hathaway they were actually 8 years apart. Another very interesting fact is that Shakespeare never published any of his plays

Interesting Facts on William Shakespeare

For a playwright as famous as William Shakespeare, there is little known about his private life. He has written so many plays and other works of literature, yet there is so little written on his life. His life remains a mystery waiting to be unraveled. Some interesting facts that we do know about him are:

• During his life he wrote a total of 37 plays and 154 sonnets
• He lived up to 52 years old
• Buried in the Holy Trinity Church, where he was said to put a curse on anyone daring to move his body from that final resting place.
• In Shakespeare's plays, suicide appears an unlucky thirteen times in total

Shakespeare or Anonymous Playwright?

All my life I have honestly never heard that his works could have been a hoax. His works and overall life had been based on public records. Supposedly being born on April 23, 1564, Shakespeare had a long life of fulfillment ahead of him. Or was it really him? Some articles stated that his works could have been stolen by various individuals either jealous or really competitive as a supposed writer. Though people might say that this legend of a playwright was or could have been a lost figure, here are some facts that caught my eye of the "legend's" life:

- By the time of 1612, Shakespeare had wrote a variety of sub-genres: comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Some of his famous plays include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King's Men, Macbeth, and other famous plays that some go-hard Shakespeare fans know and love.

- Shakespeare's work has made a lasting impression on later theater and literature. In particular, he expanded the dramatic potential of characterization, plot,language, and genre. Until Romeo and Juliet, for example, romance had not been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. Soliloquies had been used mainly to convey information about characters or events; but Shakespeare used them to explore characters' minds. His work heavily influenced later poetry.

Though Shakespeare has been a mystery for all of us to figure out in the future, I would know that the work of this play writer has inspired many poets today in some way and that there will be many more poets to realize what this play writer had done to a forever growing piece of art called poetry.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is believed to be born on April 23, 1564 and to have died on that day in 1616. Shakespeare is mainly recognized/known for the many plays and poems he wrote during his lifetime. However, Shakespeare never published his plays while he was alive, in fear of other theaters using his work. Shakespeare's plays were at first performed in the Globe Theatre(both of them, the first was rebuilt). What I found interesting about Shakespeare's life is that he married a rich widow, which made people in society respect him more. What I also found interesting about Shakespeare's life is that his family was illiterate! So I found it very impressive for Shakespeare to be so gifted in play writing and poetry, when his family could not read themselves. I believe that Shakespeare is a very bold and gifted writer because many of his plays challenged the society around him with controversial ideas.

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Shakespeare created his play, "Hamlet," a short while after his only legitimate son, Hamnet, died.

Shakespeare's Taboos.

The renowned writer wrote about basically everything around his environment and society during his time, from gossip to politics. This may have attracted a following to his plays, but what I find interesting about his plays is the thoughts of taboos, or ideas that people try to avoid because of religious, traditional, or moral reasons. For example, we see the idea of incest being put into the plot in Hamlet, which some might find pretty gross. Others include racism in Othello, homosexuality in A Midnight Summer's Dream, and anti-Semetism in Merchant of Venice. Not only did he bring these topics into theaters of his time, which may have found his ideas to be wrong, he created a legacy of literature that was passed on into our century, where these taboos are somewhat still put into society. 

Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare was a verbal contortionist, he could bend his words, the way a contortionist bends his frame, Shakespeare was one of the most famous playwrights of his time, however, lately his credibility has gone into questioning... by me. "To be or not to be," that is the question, whether it is nobler in the mind to "borrow" ideas from previous plays or to have no plays at all. So Shakespeare could you "act" like a real artist for once in your life say, Van go, and lend me your ear. So, Shakespeare, what I'm trying to really say is you're not as great as popularly proclaimed. Oh and poetic talent is really easy to fake when "doth sentences dont make any sense ay."

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway (who was 8 years older than Shakespeare) when he was 17/18 and she was 25/26. They were wedded due to Anne's 3 month pregnancy of Shakespeare's child. Shakespeare conveys his love towards Anne Hathaway by inserting his account of love in his playwrights: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night. Also conveying his love on his deathbed-his last will out of love for his wife.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. He was an english poet and playwright and widely known writer in the english language and dramatist. He has written about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems. Most of his work was know between 1589 and 1613. The Romantics thought he was a genious and he was admired by Victorians.

Shakespeare never published any of his plays. The only reason we read them today is because his fellow actors recorded his work as a dedication.

Shakespeare

I thought that Othello was a board game, and it was quite interesting that it was one of Shakespeares plays.Othello was one of Shakespeares most popular plays throughout 17th century.Othello was  first performed in 1604 according to the Accounts of the Master of the Revels  . Othello was first put into print in 1622 by Thomas Walkley. At the first of November, a play in the banqueting house at Whitehall where they played Othello, was played at Hallowmas Day.Tragically, during a performance of Othello at Covent Garden in 1833, Edmund Kean collapsed on stage into the arms of his son who was playing Iago, and died a few weeks later.

Mabillard, Amanda. The History of Othello Shakespeare Online. 12 Oct. 2011. 

Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's life is still a mystery hidden between time and truth. His grave, date of baptism, and documents are the only things that support that he was an actual person although some doubt it. Some claim "Shakespeare" was a penname for a group of three men because of the three distinct styles of writing while others say it could have even been an incognito woman. The mystery still remains because his grave has not been opened. The epitaph reading-
"Good Friends, for Jesus' sake forbear,
To dig the bones enclosed here!
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones."

What is buried underground is still a mystery. Whether he wrote the couplets, people have not looked beyond the casket to see if the remains are of William Shakespeare or simply a pile of rocks.

Who is Shakespeare?

We do not know much about Wiliam Shakespeare, but there are some facts that we do know about his life. We know that in 1592 he bcame a writer and actor. Also that he writes his plays in 'quarto texts', which is a sheet of paper folded four ways. The first of his dramatic works was the "First Folio" which was approximatley nine hundred page manuscript, which took about two years to complete. We know many facts about his life remains a mystery.

William Shakespeare

Yesterday we read a text about William Shakespeare and researching about him online I found out that around 1594, he became an important member of the Lord Chamberlain's company of players. Also, his success was noticeable when his literatures are now studied by historians, his literature was successful in London in his day, and he sold his plays in octavo copies or "penny-copies." Though there are some apparent information available, much of Shakespeare's life remain a mystery 'till today.

Source:http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323?page=2 and http://www.bardweb.net/man.html

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's poems and sonnets are widely known around the world by millions of people, yet facts of Shakespeare himself remain a mystery to many people. As i researched Shakespeare i crossed something that seemed impossible to me, Shakespeare, a man that wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets that are very famous, never had a portrait painted of him while he was alive! All of the portraits we see nowadays were after his death and were purely from memory, earlier images, or imagination.

http://www.life123.com/parenting/education/shakespeare/facts-about-william-shakespeare.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_of_Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare influenced in his life was able to create timeless works which did not only people in literature but thoroughly became deep rooted in culture. During his day and age, in grammar schools; their grammar, punctuation and spelling was much less standardized then we see now. With loose constraints Shakespeare was able to manipulate English in order to develop new words and terms in his writings. Such terms like “a foregone conclusion” and “wild goose chase” developed by William Shakespeare have come to help to develop modern English language.

William Shakespeare

Today, we read about the mysterious life of William Shakespeare because we are going to read his works for the next six or so weeks. Even though he is rather mysterious, I managed to find an interesting fact about him. I was very surprised to learn that Shakespeare put a curse on anyone that dares move his body from his final resting place. Effectively, the great William Shakespeare's body remains undisturbed.