Ernest Hemmingway
.... and the romance of an older woman. He was only nineteen but the war had matured him beyond his years. He was now living with his parents who didn\'t really appreciate what he had been through. His parents where
concerned about his future and wanted him to get a job, and further his education. Hemingway could not find anything he would be interested in. Hemingway often exaggerated his war stories to satisfy his audience. This frustrating period of his life was used to create the short story called, .....
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Eva Peron
.... January 15, 1944 an earthquake almost destroyed the city of San Juan, thousands of people were killed. Juan Domingo Peron who had the post of Secretary of Labor and Welfare organized a national relief effort to aid the people of San Juan. He invited the most popular stars to participate; Eva Duarte was among them and helped aid the needy. On the 22 of January a festival was held with a great number of actors and actresses, all the benefits were destined for the victims of the earthquake. This was when .....
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
.... Mathew Bruccoli explains: Tarleton 3 The story develops a major theme in Fitzgerald\'s fiction: the gifted man ruined by a selfish woman. The hero a scandalous middle-aged novelist who lost his Ginerva as a young man and never got over it. When he marries her after she is widowed, he stops writing. Much of Fitzgerald\'s fiction would take the form self-warnings or self-judgements, and this story is the first in which he analyzed the conflicting pulls of love and literature. The girl is the writer\'s ins .....
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FDR
.... mate), Newton D. Baker, Alfred E. Smith. For three ballots, Roosevelt held a large lead, but lacked the two-thirds margin necessary for victory. He was desperately going to need some help to win this one. His campaign manager then promised John Garner the vice presidential nomination, which he grudgingly accepted. Although John didn’t want to be vice president, he figured Vice President is better than no President at all. Due to this deal, Roosevelt took the presidential nomination on the fourth ballot. .....
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Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
.... in 1890 for his criticism of the Prussian war office, giving him free time to work on his airship ideas.
Zeppelin now finally found the time to concern himself with his visions to the topic of "Lenkbare Luftschiffe" or "guidable airships". This idea had always pursued him in the last 20 years. It was particularly the success of the airship LA FRANCE, which had very much impressed Zeppelin. In a letter to his king, Zeppelin referred, particularly, to the possibilities of th .....
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Ferdinand Magellan
.... at court for a few years, he started checking the supplies for the ships going to India. This was work for the India House, run by the monarchy. India house was the agency for overseas trade. Magellan heard reports of new discoveries brought back by returning ships. It was here that Magellan learned practical aspects of navigation from the sailors and by helping outfit the ships he learned about rigging, repairing, armaments and supplies.
In 1495, John II died, and his brother-in-law, Duke Manuel b .....
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Ferdinand Magellan
.... farther to the Spice Islands which were called the Molucca Islands. Portugal claimed the islands at this time. Magellan’s close personal friend Francisco Serraro went along on the voyage to the Spice Islands and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao’s letters helped establish in Magellan’s mind the location of the Spice Islands, which later became the destination of his great voyage.
Magellan returned to Portugal in1513. He then joined a military expedition .....
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Fidal Castro
.... the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for a
regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that
Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent.
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against
Batista. On January 1959, he pre .....
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Florence Nightengale
.... become a working nurse, and again voiced this idea to her parents. Her parrients finally agreed and Florence was allowed to become a nurse.
Florence, now thirty-one went to work at Kaserworth Hospital in Germany, and was later promoted and moved to a hospital in London.
In 1854 Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia, marking the begging of the Crimean War. The allies had the upper hand in the war but there were vast criticisms of the medical felicities for the wounded soldiers.
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Francesco Petrarch
.... of 20. It wasn\'t until just before Giovanni\'s death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch\'s friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He never saw his son before his death but in his mind knew that he had started to get his life back together. He also had a daughter, Francesca, she gave birth to Petrarch\'s grandchildren one of which died during the Plague. This was of great disheartenment of Petrarch.
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Francios Rabelias
.... Chinon, where his father, Antoino Rabelias, was a lawyer. "
"1511 Possibly date for his entry into a monastery of the Franciscan order at
Fontenay-le-Comte "
"1525 Passes to the Benedictine Order with the hope that he can pursue more
freely his humanistic studies. "
"1530 September 17-- Rablelais registers at the school of medicine of the
University of Montpellier. "
"1531 April 17 to June 24 gives lectures on Hippocrates and Galen. Towards th .....
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Francisco Franco
.... against the republic, Franco
proved an unimaginative but careful and competent leader, whose forces
advanced slowly but steadily to complete victory on April 1, 1939. The war was
bloody, with numerous atrocities on both sides.
During the civil war, Franco established his control over Nationalist
political life and expanded the Falange, the Spanish political party, into an
official political party at the service of his government. Tens of thousands of
executions during the war and in th .....
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Francois Viete
.... his life (Parshall 1).
He took his teaching duties very seriously, while he was preparing lectures for his charge on variety an of topics about science. The first scientific work dates were all from this period. It involves topics, which would continue to occupy him throughout his life. In 1571, he began publication of his track. It was intended to form a preliminary mathematical part of a major study on the Ptolemaic astronomical model. He continued to embrace the Ptolemaic (Parshall 1).
The service t .....
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Frank Liszt
.... with a cynical diabolism and elegant, worldly manners. But though he had a restless intellect, he also was ceaselessly creative, seeking the new in music. He helped others generously, as conductor, arranger, pianist or writer, and took artistic and personal risks in doing so. The greatest pianist of his time, he composed some of the most difficult piano music ever written (e.g. the Transcendental Studies) and had an extraordinarily broad repertory, from Scarlatti onwards; he invented the modern piano r .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
.... his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a draftsman in Chicago. Wright worked for several architectural offices until he finally found a job with the most skillful architect of the Mid-West, Louis Sullivan, soon becoming Sullivan\'s chief assistant. Wright was assigned most of the firm\'s de .....
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