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The Second of May 1808, by Goya, also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes ( Spanish: El 2 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, La lucha con los mamelucos or La carga de los mamelucos ), [1] is a painting by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It is a companion to the painting The Third of May 1808 and is set in the Calle de Alcalá near Puerta del Sol ...
The Dos de Mayo or Second of May Uprising took place in Madrid, Spain, on 2–3 May 1808. The rebellion, mainly by civilians, with some isolated military action [4] by junior officers, was against the occupation of the city by French troops, and was violently repressed by the French Imperial forces, [5] with hundreds of public executions.
The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, [2] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo. Commonly known as The Third of May 1808 .) [1] is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Hints About Today's NYT Connections Categories on Thursday, May 2. 1. Top performer. 2. Car-related. 3. Films that include the same popular actor. 4. The key to this category is found at the ...
2 Maccabees, [note 1] also known as the Second Book of Maccabees, Second Maccabees, and abbreviated as 2 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which recounts the persecution of Jews under King Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Maccabean Revolt against him. It concludes with the defeat of the Seleucid Empire general Nicanor in 161 BC by Judas Maccabeus ...
Definition and context Confirmation bias, a phrase coined by English psychologist Peter Wason, is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed. Confirmation biases are effects in information processing. They differ from what is sometimes called the behavioral confirmation effect, commonly known as ...
May 2 is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 243 days remain until the end of the year. Events Pre-1600. 1194 ...
A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application to which ...