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Bartolome Murillo was a painter with a difference. He was more interested in the people he used as subjects than the intricacies of his paintings. This is why his paintings are regarded as sentimental.

Born in Serville, Spain, he became an orphan at the age of 10. Later he went to Madrid where he was trained by the great painter, Diego Velazquez. In 1645, he returned to Seville and made it his home for the rest of his life.
Murille was a prolific painter. He painted mostly for churches and convents.

He also painted groups of beggars and peasants realistically. His hallmark was his excellent use of silver and golden colours which brought a touch of radiance to his paintings.

The earliest painters were cavemen. Paintings of animals were discovered which were a dated back to 30,000 to 10,000 B.C. in southern France and Spain. Many of these coloured drawings are amazingly well preserved since the caves were sealed up for many centuries.

The cave artist filled the walls with drawings in rich bright colours. Some of the most beautiful paintings are in the cave of Lascaux in France. The pigments used by the cave painters were earth ochers (iron oxides varying in colour from light yellow to deep orange) and manganese.

These were crushed into a fine powder, mixed with grease, and put on with some sort of brush. It made the paint fluid and the pigment's particles stick together. The cavemen must have made brushes out of animal hair or plants.

Differences in pressure may exist in a small region around you, and you will have a local wind blowing. If you live near the shore, you have and example of this every day. During the day, the land become heated, the air above it rises, and cool winds come in from the water to takes its place. At night, the water, and the breeze blows out from the land to take place of the rising warm air.
What is true in your immediate neighbourhood is true on a much larger scale of the winds that blow over the Earth. The warmest place on Earth is around the equator. So there is always a belt of warm air rising from this region.

No one really knows when or where the secret of making glass was first learned, though we know it has been used since very early days. The chief ingredients for making glass are sand, soda ash or potash and lime, melted together at a high temperature. Since these materials are found in abundance in many parts of the world, the secret of glassmaking could have been discovered in many countries.

According to one story, the ancient phoencians deserve the credits for this discovery. A crew of a ship landed at the mouth of a river in Syria. When they were ready to cook their dinner, they could find to stones on which to support their kettle. So they used lumps of niter (a sodium compound) from the ship's cargo.

If the earth were not rotating, winds would be north winds or south winds. But the spinning of the earth makes winds in the Northern Hemisphere deflect to the right and in the southern Hemisphere to the left.
The winds blowing towards the equator are called "the trade winds." Those blowing towards the poles are called "the westerlies." The US is largely in the zone of the westerlies.

There are other "prevailing" or common winds in other parts of the world. But as you can see, the wind does come from somewhere-and it comes from there because of very definite rezones caused by the way the air over the earth is heated

The legendary metal gold occurs in nature most exclusively in native state. First found by chance, it was being mined by 3000 BC and was being chemically extracted from crushed quartz (by amalgamation with mercury) by 1000B, or hammering into shapes and is resistant to corrosion and to chemical attack.
The conventional test for gold is to drop hydrochloric or nitric acid separately onto the metal; pure gold resists either acid alone but dissolves in a mixture of the two, known as aqua regia.

In amnesia by forgetting his anxiety, a man also forgets a great many other things, even including his identity. He may still act in a normal manner, but be unable to recall anything about the past.
He acts so normally that the may move about without attracting notice. Or he may wander restlessly from place to place. Or he may assume a new identity. Then he may suddenly recover his memory.
Where this doesn't happen, psychiatric help may enables him to do it. When he does regain his memory, he may not recall events that took place during his period of amnesia.

The moon circles the Earth in an orbit that takes about one month to complete. It also spins, or rotates, on its axis, and it takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes to make one rotation. Because the orbit and the rotation takes about the same amount of time, the moon always keeps the same side facing the earth.
The moon does not shine with its won light the way the sun does. It only seems to shine, because it reflects the sun's light. As the moon travels around the Earth, different parts of its are lighted up by the sun.
Sometimes you see the whole visible face of the moon lighted up, and at other times you see only a part of the moon's face lighted up. This is what makes the moon look as though it were changing shape in the sky.

Children's books writer Annie Johnston published her first book Big Brother in1893. The Little School, her most popular book, was published in 1895 and made into a movie in 1935. It is the story of a little southern girl with the lively temper of her old grandfather, a colonel in the confederate Army.

The Little Colonel was the first of 12 books about the adventures of his little girl. Johnston made her heroine like a girl she had met when visiting the peewee valley, near Louisville. Because she liked the peewee valley so much, Johnston moved there in 1898. It was her home until she died.Three years later Ericsson went to the US and in 1848 became a naturalized American citizen. His life in America was given over to many engineering projects. One of the most important was the construction of iron warships built with their machinery below the water and hence out of the reach of shot.

His most famous ship of this type, the Monitor, was built for the North in the "war between the states". It fought the confederate Merrimac in the first battle between ironclad ships.