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- 451: 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 ...
- 452: J.P. Morgan
- ... industry, Morgan again received critical acclaim acting as a mediator in a skirmish between the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad. Calling a meeting between the parties, he got them to agree to his proposal, resulting in restored peace between the companies, undamaged railroad profits, and no one suffering except perhaps the small shippers who might have benefited from the lower rates resulting from the competition (Boardman 121). Following the ...
- 453: Jefferson Davis: Leader of the Confederacy
- ... lieutenant. He was very sociable and was described as witty, sportful, and captivating. He managed to get involved Sarah Knox Taylor daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor, Davis' commander. At 21 Sarah agreed to Davis' marriage proposal against her mother and father's wishes. Three months after their marriage Sarah died of Malari al fever. After Sarah's death Davis stayed in virtual seclusion for seven years. After these sever years Davis ...
- 454: Tchaikovsky: His Life and Times
- ... tormented by his imaginary horrors. Yet while suffering psychological terror, Tchaikovsky was a musical genius. This is his story. Peter Llyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 07,1840 in Russia. He had a younger brother, Modest, whom in later years Tchaikovsky wrote many letters to. His letters told us most of what we know about Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was manic depressive. Slanderous critics may have contributed to his psychological dismay. His reviews ...
- 455: The Life of Mao Zedong
- ... the years following the Great Leap Forward again sought to regain power in the party. 56 Convinced that "new bourgeois" elements were emerging in the party, he began what at first was to be a modest attack on enemies in the Communist Party. It quickly transformed itself into an all- out attack on figures of authority which Mao promoted under the slogan, "to rebel is justified." 57 This marked the era ...
- 456: Alfred Nobel
- ... Nobel was born. In 1837, Immanuel Nobel left Stockholm and his family to start a new career in Finland and in Russia. To support the family, Andrietta Nobel started a grocery store which provided a modest income. Meanwhile Immanuel Nobel was successful in his new enterprise in St. Petersburg, Russia. He started a mechanical workshop which provided equipment for the Russian army and he also convinced the Tsar and his generals ...
- 457: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... to the American public with his stirring rhetoric, Wilson won passage of an impressive array of progressive measures. The Underwood Tariff Act (1913), the first reduction in duties since the Civil War, also established a modest income tax. The Federal Reserve Act (1913) provided for currency and banking reform. Antitrust legislation followed in 1914, when Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act and the CLAYTON ANTI- TRUST ACT. In 1915, Wilson ...
- 458: 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 ...
- 459: Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
- ... frequency of the radiation. The formula for this is E=hv, where E is the radiation, h is a universal constant known as Planck's constant, and v is the frequency of the radiation. This proposal, that the energy contained within a light beam is transferred by individual units, or quanta, contradicted the hundred year old tradition of considering light as a manifestation of continuous processes. My third and most impotant ...
- 460: Abraham Lincoln
- ... stress essentials in simple terms, he effectively appealed to the nation in such classical short speeches as the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address. Moreover, he was a capable diplomat. Firmly rejecting Seward's proposal in April 1861 that the country be united by means of a foreign war, he sought to maintain friendly relations with the nations of Europe, used the Emancipation Proclamation to win friends for the Union ...
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