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- 441: Terry Fox
- ... Terry made it though the operation successfully, and in no time was up doing the things that he most enjoyed. On October 15, 1979, Terry wrote a letter to the Canadian Cancer centre with a proposal to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. It was then that Terry's fantasy began to form, and soon he would engrave his name in society and in hearts worldwide, forever. Two ...
- 442: Mark Twain’s Greatest Downfall
- ... day or two to conduct the matter and study it out searchingly. I erected Webster into a firm-a firm entitled Webster and Company, Publishers-and installed him in a couple of offices at a modest rental on the second floor of a building below Union Square, I don’t remember where. I handed Webster a competent capital and along with it I handed him the manuscript of Huckleberry Finn. Ten ...
- 443: The Life Of Stalin
- ... were involved in a series of disputes. For example, Stalin proposed that the former Russian provinces which had not managed to fully escape Moscow's grip be fully incorporated into the Russian state; Lenin's proposal, which eventually became the basis for the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was to allow the outlying provinces some degree of self-rule and their own governments (although they were not to be fully ...
- 444: Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
- ... In her novel, Hunger, a straightforward social commentary in the manner of Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist, Lessing relates the experiences of Jabavu, an impoverished African boy from small village who comes to a large modest city to better his condition, only to be assaulted by the town’s depravity and inequities” (Fitzgerald,185). “Her works display a broad range of interests and focus on such specific topics as racism, communism ...
- 445: Charles Darwin
- ... of how far Darwin had come towards universal acceptance and respectability. Darwin's coffin lies next to Issac Newton which is only fitting because Darwin has been called "The Newton of Biology." Darwin w as modest of his monumental achievements to the very end and said of himself shortly before his death,"With such moderate abilities as I possess, it is truly surprising that I should have influenced to a considerable ...
- 446: Siddhartha Gautama
- ... into the world and was confronted with the reality of the inevitable suffering of life. The next day, at the age of twenty-nine, he left his kingdom and new-born son to lead an modest life and determine a way to relieve universal suffering. For six years, Siddhartha meditated under a bodhi tree. But he was never fully satisfied. One day he was offered a bowl of rice from a ...
- 447: The Life Of Babe Ruth
- ... girl named Helen Woodford. During breakfast one morning Ruth looked up at Helen and said, “How about you and me getting married, hon?” After thinking it over for a couple of minutes, Helen accepted his proposal. After the baseball season, Babe and Helen got married in St. Paul's Church, Ellicott City, Maryland, on October 17,1914. Helen Woodford Ruth stayed out of the public eye and was known as the ...
- 448: Napoleon
- ... to capture Syria, but won a smashing victory over the Turks at Abu Qir. France, meanwhile, faced a new threat, the coalition of Austria, Russia, and the lesser powers allied with Britain. Bonaparte, being no modest soul, decided to leave his army and return to save France. In Paris, he joined a conspiracy against the government. In the coup d'etat of November 9th -10th , 1799, he and his colleagues seized ...
- 449: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... year later by the Normandy invasion, aptly named the "Operation Overlord". By this time, however, Churchill carried less weight at conferences and in the general formation of war strategy. Churchill's personal response was a modest one as he believed that the people who were overshadowing him, were more knowledgeable. But his strength and intuition was again prover and in 1946 he spoke of the "iron curtain" that had descended across ...
- 450: Biography of Christopher Columbus
- ... he decided that Asia could be reached quickly by sailing west. In 1484 he submitted his theories to John II, king of Portugal, petitioning him to finance a westward crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. His proposal was rejected by a royal maritime commission because of his miscalculations and because Portuguese ships were already rounding Africa. Soon after, Columbus moved to Spain, where his plans won the support of several influential persons ...
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