Michelangelo's father, a Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. ... Michelangelo produced at least two relief sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs (both 1489-92, Casa Buonarroti, Florence), which show that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age. ... The Old Testament hero is depicted by Michelangelo as a lithe nude youth, muscular, and very alert, which is looking off into the dist...

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A phrase anyone can relate to whether you are the 5 year old receiving these harsh demands to eat your colorful, vitamin enriched food, or if you are the parent giving out these healthy demands. ... In his landmark 1940 book, "An Agriculture Testament," he argued that relying on artificial fertilizers was unwise, as it could not maintain and perpetuate farmland indefinitely. ... Demonstrating to neighboring farmers, sometimes thousands at a time how traditional agriculture practices, crop rotations, livestock manures and old fashioned care for the land could restore worn out soil and build hea...

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Around the world, same-sex marriage is slowly gaining a foothold. To date, five countries including: The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway, and Sweden allow the marriage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Civil unions, registered partnerships, and domestic partnerships are available with a wide range of rights in twenty other countries including regions of Australia and South America (Glass 141). But the United States lags behind many of these countries. Currently, only six states offer same-sex marriage, those being: New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New H...

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