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Charlemagne
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While Noahjohn simply captured its live sound on disc, Charlemagne is a studio album. Coming off of a stint of touring with Noahjohn in February 2003, Johns returned home and buried himself inside Science of Sound, a Madison home studio, for a long, cold Wisconsin winter of recording. The album began with an acoustic guitar and a 1970s drum machine (Multivox Rhythm Ace FR-3). Charlemagne is a true solo album, as Johns wrote and recorded everything, aside from the lyrics to the album's final track, which were taken from Tenaya Darlington's poetry book, Madame Deluxe (2001 Coffeehouse Press). Charlemagne was mixed at Butch Vig's Smart Studios in July.
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Beautifully nestled in the hills of south Eugene, Charlemagne is the first part of a kindergarten through high school French language immersion program. There are two classes at each grade level. Students spend half of their day in a French class where they develop oral and written fluency in the French language, and math and science skills. The other half of the day is spent in English class where they study English language arts, social studies, health and social skills. Instruction in PE, music, library, speech, special education services and technology is provided by specialists; art is taught throughout the day. Parent and community volunteers are very involved in the school.
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The main work of Charlemagne in the development of Western Christendom might have been considered accomplished had he now passed away. Of all that he added during the remaining thirteen years of his life nothing increased perceptibly the stability of the structure. His military power and his instinct for organization had been successfully applied to the formation of a material power pledged to the support of the papacy, and on the other hand at least one pope (Adrian) had lent all the spiritual strength of the Holy See to help build up the new Western Empire, which his immediate successor (Leo) was to solemnly consecrate. Indeed, the remaining thirteen years of Charles' earthly career seem to illustrate rather the drawbacks of an intimate connection between Church and State than its advantages.
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To ensure justice, Charlemagne had these laws set down in writing and strictly enforced. He ... issued capitularies that applied to all citizens. Charlemagne kept an eye on events in his empire through the use of missi dominici, representatives who acted with his authority.
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In 789, in recognition of his new pagan neighbours, the Slavs, Charlemagne marched an Austrasian-Saxon army across the Elbe into Abotrite territory. The Slavs immediately submitted under their leader Witzin. He then accepted the surrender of the Wiltzes under Dragovit and demanded many hostages and the permission to send, unmolested, missionaries into the pagan region. The army marched to the Baltic before turning around and marching to the Rhine with much booty and no harassment. The tributary Slavs became loyal allies. In 795, the peace broken by the Saxons, the Abotrites and Wiltzes rose in arms with their new master against the Saxons.
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In 787 Charlemagne issued to all the bishops and abbots of Francia an historic Capitulare de litteris colendis, or directive on the study of letters. It reproached ecclesiastics for “uncouth language”and “unlettered tongues,”and exhorted every cathedral and monastery to establish schools where clergy and laity alike might learn to read and write. A further capitulary of 789 urged the directors of these schools to “take care to make no difference between the sons of serfs and of freemen, so that they might come and sit on the same benches to study grammar, music, and arithmetic.”A capitulary of 805 provided for medical education, and another condemned medical superstitions. That his appeals were not fruitless appears from the many cathedral or monastic schools that now sprang up in France and western Germany. Theodulf, Bishop of Orleans, organized schools in every parish of his diocese, welcomed all children to them, and forbade the priest instructors to take any fees; this is the first instance in history of free and general education. Important schools, nearly all attached to monasteries, rose in the ninth century at Tours, Auxerre, Pavia, St. Gall, Fulda, Ghent, and elsewhere.
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