Leo Tolstoi
.... where he started a school for peasant children. He investigated during further travels to Europe (1860-61) educational theory and practice, and published magazines and textbooks on the subject. In 1862 he married Sonya Andreyevna Bers (or Behrs). Between the years 1865 and 1869 appeared Tolstoy's major work, War and Peace, an epic tale depicting the story of five families against the background of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's other masterpiece, Anna Karenina (1873-77), told a tragical stor .....
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Lewis And Clark
.... Jefferson wanted to establish communication and some interaction with the Indians.
The purchase of the Louisiana Territory was an entirely unexpected outcome. Robert Livingston, an ambassador to France, was told to discuss the purchase of the port of New Orleans from France. After weeks of fruitless efforts to buy the port, Livingston got lucky. The French, in need of money to wage wars in Europe, offered him the entire Louisiana Territory. A surprised Livingston purchased the entire territory for .....
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Lewis Latimer
.... sons, and one daughter.
Lewis Latimer, the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. George Latimer disappeared shortly after the decision became known. Because he had no official papers to prove .....
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Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
.... of letters called The Proper Sphere of Government, his first major publication. It contains his political philosophy of extreme individualism and Laissez Faire, which was not much modified in his writings in the following sixty years. Spencer expresses in The Proper Sphere of Government his belief that “everything in nature has its laws,” organic as well as inorganic matter. Man is subject to laws bot in his physical and spiritual essence, and “as with man individually, so with man soci .....
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Life And Times Of Fredrick Douglas
.... Auld and then the cruelty of Covey, he finds the lack of religion in the life of Mr. Freeland an "advantage." Douglas called the religion of the south ''a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection." Douglass preferred to have a master without religion than one with. I think it was this co .....
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Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
.... also an event that fell just short of being miraculous, for the king and queen had been married for twenty-three years and they detested each other. After all these years of unfruitful marriage, everyone had become resigned to the idea that the reigning couple, Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, would remain childless. This meant that the King's brother, Gaston d'Orleans would eventually inherit the throne. The birth of the new king brought national rejoicing (though not Gaston's). France finally had th .....
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Life Of A Roman Slave
.... and kill with accuracy was a skill few knew well. Seeking new recruits, Gnaeus and Argus traveled to Pompeii. The next several days, earth tremors startled the visitors and made for an apprehensive trip. On what would be his last day, Argus was exploring the side streets of Pompeii and found them to be unusually busy. Dogs were barking constantly and many birds were fleeing the city. A strange cloud was over Mt. Vesuvious. Strange ash started to fill the streets which began a widespread panic. People we .....
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Life Of Fredrick Douglass
.... his autobiography he claims he “was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery” (73). Throughout the novel Douglass never encounters a slave who is not black. “Why am I a slave,” Douglass asks (Douglass 73). This is surely a question asked by every victim of prejudice. Another piece that illustrates discrimination is Joseph Brant’s, “Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization.”
Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and died in 1807 (Barnett et al. 938). Brant, .....
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Lincoln
.... he did.
In March 1832, Lincoln announced himself a candidate for the state legislature. Lincoln was twenty-three and had settled in New Salem, where he was a clerk in a small country store. He was a young man with limited formal education and no government working experience. He campaigned well, but in the end the votes were counted and Lincoln ran eighth out of thirteen candidates. In 1834 he entered his second race for the state legislature. Lincoln received 1376 votes, placing him the second highe .....
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Lincoln - The Truth
.... uniforms were made and sold at high prices. And the War and Treasury Departments overpaid many unworthy characters. While such things look bad on the acting president, none of the corruption on these financial matters ever pointed to Lincoln. This loss of money, was more the cause of confusion and waste than dishonesty on the president's part.
One early scandal fell upon General John Frémont. The people working for him managed to obtain big army contracts without looking for the lowest bidder like i .....
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Lincoln 2
.... he thought he must take a stand against the Confederacy, and he concluded he might as well take this stand at Sumter.
Lincoln's primary aim was neither to provoke war nor to maintain peace. In preserving the Union, he would have been glad to preserve the peace also, but he was ready to risk a war that he thought would be short.
After the firing on Ft. Sumter, Lincoln called upon the state governors for troops (Virginia and three other states of the upper South responded by joining the Confede .....
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Lines - William Wordsworth
.... man’s children hop and play, and they might not understand what man is thinking and why that gives them pleasure. The children might not understand why destroying Nature makes man happy. In a way, the birds represent that man’s children can go into the forest and see the beauty of what surrounds them, and they only need to run and play to be happy. The children do not see the bad, they just see the pretty flowers and the twigs that are growing and that everything is happy where it is. The .....
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Lizzie Borden
.... the now-adult daughters had been referring to Abby Borden only as "Mrs. Borden", and refusing to eat meals with their parents for 5 years (Meganet, 1998). With a resident maid to do the heavy housecleaning and cooking, and dressmakers to do the serious sewing, Abby, Emma, and Lizzie were left with little to do all day outside of a little dusting, ironing, and fancy needlework, if they were in the mood. Of the three, Lizzie seems to have had the hardest time adjusting to this lethargic existence (Crimelibra .....
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Lizzie Borden 2
.... divided public opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, incompetent prosecution, and acquittal.
Not much is described of Lizzie Andrew Borden's childhood. On March 1, 1851, Emma Lenora Borden was born to Andrew and Sarah Borden, and on July 19, 1860, Lizzie had arrived. While Lizzie was at the young age of two, Sarah died of uterine congestion. In 1865, Andrew Borden wed Abby Durfee-a short, shy, obese woman who had been a spinster until the age of 36. Abby's family were not .....
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Locke Vs. Locke
.... where it was common, and belonged equally to all her children, and hath hereby appropriated it to himself" (Locke, 20). Here, Locke explains that by mixing one’s physical labor with, for example, an apple from a tree, one removes the apple from the common cache of apples in the tree, and the apple becomes his own personal property.
Locke believes that the law of nature also sets limits for property acquisition. "The same law of nature that does by this means give us property, does also bound t .....
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