Nicholas Ferrar
.... Virginia Company was in danger of
loosing its charter. Nicholas dedicated himself to saving the family fortune and
was successful. He served for a short time as Member of Parliament, where he
tried to promote the cause for the Virginia Company. His efforts were in vain
for the company lost their charter anyway. Nicholas is given credit for founding
a Christian community called the English Protestant Nunnery at Little Gidding in
Huntingdonshire, England. After Ferrar was ordained as a deacon, he retired .....
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A Martyr's Victory In A Spiritual Sense
.... this time he distinguished himself by the way he cared for war
refugees. Chinese paid a terrible price during this war with Japan, but even
more costly was a civil war that followed. Bishop Ford exemplified the virtue
of fortitude, by not leaving the war-torn country and staying to try to pursue
good.
During this time of war, many would wonder what was the reason for him
to stay in China, and what was his why to live? In the Novel A Mans Search For
Meaning, Nietzsche says "he who has a why to live ca .....
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Siddhartha Gautama
.... till dawn. He cleared his mind of all worldly
things and claimed to get enlightenment at the age of thirty-five, thus earning
the title Buddha, or "Enlightened One." For the remainder of his eighty years,
the Buddha preached the dharma in an effort to help other people reach
enlightenment. When Siddhartha is a Brahmin, he believes in the existence of
many gods, and performs sacrifices to them. After a while he realizes this is
meaningless and decides to leave his family and community and become a Saman .....
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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
.... March 9,1966, Pope Paul VI appointed Msgr. Bernardin Auxiliary Bishop
of Atlanta. In doing this he became the youngest Bishop in the county. On July
10,1982, Pope John Paul II reappointed Archbishop Bernardin to Archbishop of
Chicago. His installation took at Holy Name Cathedral on August 25,1982. Later
Archbishop Bernardin went to the College of Cardinals. On February 2,1983 he
received his "red hat."
On September 9,1996 President Clinton awarded Cardinal Bernardin the
Presidential Medal .....
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Saint Bernadette Soubirous
.... recalled that another relative owned a building
in the Rue des Petits Fossés - this building was the former Lourdes jail. The
old jail was locally known as "the Cachot". The Soubirous were allowed to remain
there rent-free. Each evening, the family gathered around the old fireplace for
family prayers. This concluded with the recitation of the Rosary - often led by
one of the Soubirous girls, Bernadette.
BERNADETTE
The marriage of Francois Soubirous and Louise Casterot .....
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Saint Francis Of Assissi
.... today tend more and more to assert their
independence of any ethical code, were then strictly subordinated to accepted
moral standards, as is clearly shown in the writings of Leo Battista Alberti, a
century and a half later, or in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas.
Bernardone was not in Assisi when his son was born. At first the child was
called John but upon his father's return he was christened Francis, in memory of
France, whence Pietro di Bernardone had just returned. More than any other
c .....
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The Life Of King David
.... becomes good friends with, Jonathan, Saul's son. Saul gets
envious of David because the people of Saul's kingdom really like David. Saul
tried to have David killed but, Jonathan finds out about the plot and saves
David's life. Later on in life David became king of all Israel. One day David
was up on the roof of his palace and he saw Bathsheba bathing on her roof.
Instead of turning away from his sinful thoughts, he had her called to his
chamber where he lay with her, and had sexual intercourse. David did .....
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The Unjust Execution Of Socrates
.... did not publicly speak
about the gods attributed to the fact that the charge was heresy. Socrates
maintains that he is not like other philosohers. He is a free-thinker, and his
beliefs are those of private and intimate thoughts of Gods. Socrates also states
that he is not a teacher, however he was not at all happy with the analogy, but
took it as a compliment and used it in his defense. He used these accusations
to his advantage by saying that he never charged charged anyone for believing or
listening t .....
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Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
.... him to adopt Tiberius as his son and heir.
Tiberius then went into active service in northern Germany against the
Marcomanni. Tiberius succeeded in securing the northern border with the
dangerous German tribes. Tiberius made two more marches into the heart of
Germany. On his return to Rome he was awarded a triumph, the highest official
tribute that was given to honor a victorious warrior.
Augustus died in AD 14 and Tuberius assumed sole power of the whole
Roman empire. Tiberius was a large, strong m .....
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Pompey The Great
.... Pompeys return to Italy in time to
annihilate the remnants of Spartacus's army fleeing from the defeat at Crassus
hands (71 B.C.). For his victory, Pompey celebrated his second triumph although
he still held public office. He got a spot in office by moving into the highest
office of all, the consulship with Crassus as his colleague (70 B.C.). Together
they overthrew Sulla's constitution by giving the plebian tribunes their former
powers and the knights partial control of the law courts.
In 67 .....
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Pythagoras
.... that whole numbers and their ratios could account for
geometrical properties.
Another contribution of Pythagoras and his follower is that of music.
Pythagoras essentially created music in that he discovered the way it works.
Pythagoras noticed that vibrating strings produce harmonious tones when the
ratios of the lengths of the strings are whole numbers. After making this
discovery, he found that these same ratios could be extended further to other
instruments.
Pythagoras was one of the first to teac .....
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Sparta: Uncultured Discipline
.... iron, the
Dorians knew how to forge iron weapons which completely outclassed the bronze
weaponry of the Myceneans (Carl Roebuck, 1966, p. 119).
In Mycenean times Sparta had been a important city, but after Dorian
conquest it sank to insignificance. Over the next three hundred years it
recovered and began to prosper. By 800 B.C it ruled over the region called
Lacedonia.
Up to about 650 B.C Sparta was pretty much like every other Greek state.
They had music, art and poetry. During the seventh century, a .....
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Life And Times Of Alexander The Great
.... generation to generation
throughout the centuries. In many cases Alexander has even taken on a
superhuman aura, and many unbelievable legends have been based on his life.
When Julius Caesar visited Alexandria, he asked to see the body of the
greatest warrior of all time-Alexander the Great. Such was Alexander's
reputation, able to impress even the powerful Caesar. He was, without a doubt,
one of the most remarkable men that ever walked the face of this Earth. And
this is the story of his life.
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Women Who Changed The World: Rosa Parks
.... continued, and in 1956 segregated
seating was challenged in a federal lawsuit. Within a few months bus segregation
was ruled unconstitutional, and the buses were officially desegregated in
December 1956. Parks, who had lost her job because of the boycott, moved to
Detroit, Michigan, the following year, and again took in sewing. She also worked
as a fundraiser for the NAACP. In 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers,
Jr., also a civil rights leader, to manage his Detroit office. She remained
active .....
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Assassination Of Gaius Julius Caesar
.... victory and
pacifying the Roman world, Caesar decided to became dictator for life. This
prompted Gaius Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus to plot an assassination to
preserve the Roman Republic. On March 15, 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was killed in
the Senate house.
The reason behind the assassination of Gauis Julius Caesar was very
clear. He just had too much power. Cassius and Brutus knew that if Caesar
became the dictator he would destroy the Roman republic. Caesar knew that by
becoming the dictator .....
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