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- 431: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... Julian calendar then in use: the date was January 4, 1643, according to the Gregorian calendar in use today), in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham Lincolnshire, England. Newton came from a family of modest yeoman farmers. His father died several months before he was born. Three years later his mother remarried and moved to a nearby village, leaving Isaac in the care of his maternal grandmother. Upon the death ...
- 432: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... were never left alone together. No matter what they did, they were always accompanied by a chaperon. In 1904, they became secretly engaged. The announcement of the engagement didn't come until long after the proposal. Eleanor asked her uncle-President Theodore Roosevelt- to give her away. He responded my saying he would be "dee-lighted!"(A Life of Discovery,Freedman) Due to the presidents schedule, the wedding would somehow have ...
- 433: Hitler's Ambitions
- ... president again. He said that he was too old. Hitler was then called by Chancellor Bruening to discuss the possibility of extending Hindenburgs present term. Hitler gladly went to the meeting and listened to the proposal. Hitler however did not give a response. He thought that there was no reason to help the chancellor and thus keep the republic alive in Germany. In February 1923 Hindenburg decided to run for president ...
- 434: Hemingway and His Writing Style
- ... To explain Hemingways style in a few paragraphs in such a manner as to satisfy those who have read his articles and books is almost impossible. It is a simple style, straight forward and modest. Hemingways prose is unadorned as a result of his abstaining from using adjectives as much as possible. He relates a story in the form of straight journalism, but because he is a master of ...
- 435: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... Julian calendar then in use: the date was January 4, 1643, according to the Gregorian calendar in use today), in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham Lincolnshire, England. Newton came from a family of modest yeoman farmers. His father died several months before he was born. Three years later his mother remarried and moved to a nearby village, leaving Isaac in the care of his maternal grandmother. Upon the death ...
- 436: Michelangelo
- ... money, however, the pope ordered him to put aside the tomb project in favor of painting the Sistine ceiling. When Michelangelo went back to work on the tomb, he redesigned it on a much more modest scale. Nevertheless, Michelangelo made some of his finest sculpture for the (circa 1515), the central figure in the much reduced monument now located in Rome's church of San Pietro in Vincoli. The muscular patriarch ...
- 437: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... fields changed the world immensely. He was a noted politician as well as respected scholar. He was an important inventor and scientist. Particularly interesting is his impact on the scientific world. Benjamin Franklin was a modest man who had had many jobs in his lifetime. This may help explain his large array of inventions and new methods of working various jobs. He did everything from making cabbage-growing more efficient to ...
- 438: Julius Caesar
- ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the consular election on condition that Pompey abandon his military command at the same time. On January 7, 49 BC Antony ...
- 439: Biography of Julius Caesar
- ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the consular election on condition that Pompey abandon his military command at the same time. On January 7, 49 BC Antony ...
- 440: Life of Julius Caesar
- ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the consular election on condition that Pompey abandon his military command at the same time. On January 7, 49 BC Antony ...
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