Daniel De Leon

(noun)

An American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theorist, and trade union organizer. He was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor Party of America from 1890 until his death in 1914.

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Examples of Daniel De Leon in the following topics:

  • Socialism and the Unions

    • For instance, the Industrial Workers of the World was a labor union that was founded by many notable socialists including Eugene Debs, "Mother" Mary Harris Jones, and Daniel De Leon.

  • Romanesque Painting and Stained Glass

    • Stained glass, the Prophet Daniel from Augsburg Cathedral, late 11th century.

  • Rococo Architecture

    • Amongst the most famous include the Catherine Palace, in Russia, the Queluz National Palace in Portugal, the Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl, the Chinese House (Potsdam) the Charlottenburg Palace in Germany, as well as elements of the Château de Versailles in France.
    • Architects who were renowned for their constructions using the style include Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an Italian architect who worked in Russia and who was noted for his lavish and opulent works, Philip de Lange, who worked in both Danish and Dutch Rococo architecture, or Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, who worked in the late Baroque style and who contributed to the reconstruction of the city of Dresden, in Germany.

  • Renaissance Architecture in Florence

    • Another key figure in the development of Renaissance architecture in Florence was Leon Battista Alberti (1402—1472), an important Humanist theoretician and designer, whose book on architecture De re aedificatoria was the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance.

  • Architecture in the High Renaissance

    • While Renaissance architecture was defined in the Early Renaissance by figures such as Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) and Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), the architects most representative of the High Renaissance are Donato Bramante (1444–1514) and Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).
    • Front of Villa Barbaro in Maser, province of Treviso, Italy, built by Andrea Palladio between 1554 and 1560 for the brothers Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro.

  • Exploration and Conquest of the New World

    • The Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon was an early invader of the Americas, traveling to the New World on Columbus' second voyage.
    • Leon found a peninsula on the coast of North America and called the new land Florida, chartering a colonizing expedition.
    • On the evening of August 3, 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships: a larger carrack, the Santa María ex-Gallega ("Galician"); and two smaller caravels, the Pinta ("Painted") and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña ("Girl") after her owner Juan Niño of Moguer.

  • Acknowledgements

    • The wonderful faculty and staff at Clover Park Technical College—especially Sally Gove and Elaine Holster, but also Mike Wheeler, Dave DeBruyne, Neil Sweerus, LaVerta Schmeling, Lloyd White, Laurie Clary, Dorna Bullpitt, Lori Banaszak, Mathew Williams, Steve Marshall, Scott Blatman, Lucy Dorum, Roger Nix, Jill Gallion, Stan Anderson, Andy Fritz, Dean Lamb, Sherry Nowak, Kathy Hathaway, Tracy Rose Pennisi, Debbie Collins, Barb Rief, Nancy Garcia, and Marilyn Lee.

  • The Right to Vote

    • Jean-Charles de Borda proposed the Borda count in 1770 as a method for electing members to the French Academy of Sciences.
    • His system was opposed by the Marquis de Condorcet, who proposed instead the method of pairwise comparison that he had devised.
    • A variety of methods were proposed by statesmen such as Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Daniel Webster.

  • European Empires in North America

    • After the forming of Nueva Cádiz in Venezuela and Santa Cruz on the present-day Guajira peninsula, explorers led by Vasco Núez de Balboa conquered areas on the coast of present-day Colombia in 1502.
    • The Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon traveled to the New World on Columbus' second voyage.
    • European explorers arrived at Río de la Plata in 1516.
    • A second and permanent settlement was established in 1580, by Juan de Garay.
    • Samuel de Champlain began the first permanent settlement of New France and Quebec City in present-day Canada and created a prosperous trade with the American Indians for beaver pelts and other animal hides.

  • Wiligelmo and Other Forms of Architecture

    • Many of the smaller sculptural works, particularly capitals, are Biblical in subject and include scenes of creation and the fall of man, episodes from the life of Christ and those Old Testament scenes that prefigure his death and resurrection, such as Jonah and the whale and Daniel in the lions' den.
    • The cloisters of Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey, in Northern Spain, and Moissac are fine surviving examples.