Karl Marx
.... to overthrow the capitalists by means
of violent revolution. He urged workers around the world to revolt against
their rulers. "Workers of the world unite!" he wrote. "You have nothing to
lose but your chains."
Another thing Marx taught was that organized religion, the churches,
help capitalists to keep the workers quiet and obedient. Religion,
according to Mar 'the opiate of the masses'. The church tells working
people to forget about the injustice they meet in their lives and to think
instead of how .....
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King Henry VIII
.... fallen in love with a lady of
the court, Anne Boleyn.
When the pope (Clement VII) would not annul his marriage, Henry turned
against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court were forbid .....
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Knute Rockne - Coach And Legend Of Notre Dame
.... so much. This obsession almost got him an education.
Knute never made the starting team until he was a senior, so he played on the
scrubs team.
At the same time, Knute tried playing many other sports. His school
attendance slipped and his grades became mediocre. Persistence paid off, and
after 3 years on the scrubs, Knute finally made it to the starting football team.
After this successful senior football season, it was time for him to leave high
school. It was a wonder that he got into Notr .....
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Kurt Cobain
.... in
class and one of my friends tapped into the P.A. system. He hooked it up to his
Walkman and started playing Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana's first single. I
was sitting in class day dreaming and suddenly I was pulled out of it by this
amazing sound. A few seconds later the principal shut off the song, but by
that time I was hooked. Later that day I went to the record store and bought
their second first and second album. I took them him and threw them into the CD
player and fell in love. Finally .....
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Robert E. Lee
.... with his death after a prolonged period of ill-health, thought
to be stress induced.
Author Ian Hogg is a prolific writer in the field of defense and
military technology. He is a weapons expert, having written many books on all
types of rifles, shotguns and small arms, such as Modern Rifles, Shotguns and
Pistols, and Modern Small Arms. He is an acknowledged expert on infantry
weapons and is thought to be the world's leading expert on this and artillery
strategies. He is a well known author of milita .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
.... the Swan. At the same time his interests in anatomy led him
to perform dissections, and he organized a study of the flight of birds.
Leonardo left Italy forever, in 1516 to become architectural advisor to
King Francis I of France, who admired him greatly. Leonardo died at the age of
67 on May 2, 1519, at Cloux, near Amboise, France.
Leonardo da Vinci was a true Renaissance man. He was a scholar,
scientist, artist, and inventor. Some of his work includes, The Adoration of
the Magi, Madonna of the Ro .....
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Andrew Jackson
.... made their home in South Carolina. Jackson
Sr., dying suddenly before his son's birth, left Andrew to grow up without a
male parental figure. Living in the Crawfords gave young Andrew little rewards;
he was given very little schooling of basic reading, writing, and figuring. So,
how, in fact, does a man that receives less education than the average American
at that time, not to mention the likes of John Adams or Thomas Jefferson, be, in
the many historians minds, greater than Adams or Jefferson? .....
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Mark Twain
.... worked in many cities as a printer, and wrote
articles for his brother's newspapers under various nicknames. After a visit
to New Orleans, he learned how to pilot a steamboat. That became his job until
the Civil War closed the Mississippi River, and
it set him up for "Old Times on the Mississippi" and "Life on the Mississippi."
In 1861, Twain traveled to Carson City, Nevada, with his brother Orion.
After attempts for silver and gold mining had failed, he continued to write for
newspapers. It .....
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John Muir's Trail In History
.... However, a serious working accident in the factory left Muir
temporarily blind. When he finally regained his vision, he vowed to live life
to the fullest and devote everything he had to nature.
At the age of 29, Muir made a thousand-mile walk from Indianapolis to
Florida for the sheer pleasure of being outdoors. This experience enlightened
Muir and compelled him to extend his travels. With his family's blessings (his
wife and two daughters), he began to wander America's forests, mountains,
v .....
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Martin Luther
.... In the monastery he observed the rules imposed on a
novice but did not find the peace in God he had expected. Nevertheless, Luther
made his profession as a monk in the fall of 1506, and his superiors selected
him for the priesthood. Ordained in 1507, he approached his first celebration of
the mass with awe. After his ordination, Luther was asked to study theology in
order to become a professor at one of the many new German universities staffed
by monks. In 1508 he was assigned by Johann von Staupitz, vicar .....
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Martin Luther King
.... boycott of the Montgomery Bus was begun
when Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man on
December 1st. Two Patrolmen took her away to the police station where she
was booked. He and 50 other ministered held a meeting and agreed to start a
boycott on December 5th, the day of Rosa Parks's hearing. This boycott
would probably be successful since 70% of the riders were black. The bus
company did not take them seriously, because if there was bad weather, they
would have to take the bus. .....
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Michael Jackson
.... Michael Jackson was nine
years old, he started being the lead singer of the Jackson 5. The Jackson 5
also consisted of his older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon.
(Jackson: 8) The Jackson 5 had many songs. Michael Jackson's first solo album
is called "Off the Wall," and it first released in 1979. The songs on "Off The
Wall" include "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" and "Rock With You." His
following albums include "Bad," "Thriller," and "Dangerous." Michael had a 2 CD
album called "HIStory Pas .....
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Michael Jordan
.... in the All Star game .
In the 1986-87 season Jordan became the second player
ever to score 3000 points in one season . In the following six
seasons he led the NBA in scoring averaging more than 30 points per
game . Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their first NBA championship
tittle in 1991, and did it again in 1992 and in 1993 . Jordan
retired from basketball in 1994 to play baseball . He only played for
about one year but he didn .....
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Miguel De Cervantes
.... in the following year he entered the service of Cardinal Giulio
Acquaviva. Soon afterward Cervantes joined a Spanish regiment in Naples. He
fought in 1571 against the Turks in the naval battle in Lepanto, in which he
lost the use of his left hand. While returning to Spain in 1575, Cervantes was
captured by Barbary pirates. He was taken to Algeria as a slave and held there
for ransom. (Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia). He did however make several
unsuccessful escape attempts, but he was finally ransomed .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
.... make amends, Gandhi established an organized campaign of
noncooperation. Through India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who
refused to rise even when beaten by the police. He declared he would go to jail
even die before obeying anti-Asian Law. Gandhi was arrested, but the British
were soon forced to release him. Economic independence for India, involving the
complete boycott of British goods, was made a result of Gandhi's self-ruling
movement. The economic aspects of the movement were seri .....
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