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- 751: John Dryden
- Research Essay on John Dryden John Dryden was born on an unsure date in 1631 in Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire. He was born the oldest of 14 children in a landed family of modest means. His parents sided with the Parliament against he King. There is some question to whether or not he was raised in a strict Puritan environment. His father was a country gentleman of moderate fortune ...
- 752: John D. Rockefeller
- ... charitable purposes. Rockefeller was born on farm at Richford, in Tioga County, New York, on July 8, 1839, the second of the six children of William A. and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller. The family lived in modest circumstances. When he was a boy, the family moved to Moravia and later to Owego, New York, before going west to Ohio in 1853. The Rockefellers bought a house in Strongsville, near Cleveland, and John ...
- 753: George Bush
- ... for our society to become compassionate and responsible we must first teach children to read and comprehend. According to this page he says, "Government is necessary, but not necessarily government." His staff knows that any proposal brought before him must encourage personal responsibility, local control, and fiscal responsibility. He has encouraged a voluntary clean up program for companies and individuals to participate in that has brought back $170 million dollars in ...
- 754: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... in the territory that had been awarded to Spain in 1494. Therefore, Magellan decided to seek support for his plans from the king of Spain. In 1517, Magellan went to Spain. There, he presented his proposal for visiting the Spice Islands as a part of a westward circumnavigation of the earth. The next year, Magellan convinced Charles 1 of Spain to support such a voyage. The king promised Magellan a fifth ...
- 755: Eli Whitney
- ... delivered within two years. Only a man with the status of inventor of the cotton gin could've talked the government into making such a big commitment. Coming from anyone else except Eli Whitney, the proposal would've sounded crazy. Up until this time, every rifle was handmade from stock to barrel. The parts of one gun were not interchangeable with any other gun, and weren't expected to be. Whitney ...
- 756: Chief Seattle
- ... the aspects that the settlers spent much time on trying to change of the Indians was their religion. Influenced by missionaries, Seattle decided to convert to Christianity and was later baptized in 1838 by Father Modest Demers, at which time Seattle adopted the Christian name "Noah". One of the major differences I noticed while researching information about Chief Seattle is that in Catholicism there is one book, I'm sure that ...
- 757: Boris Yeltsin
- ... in the government were worsened by the government's inability to agree on a constitution. A majority of voters expressed confidence in Boris in a referendum held on April 23, 1993, but they rejected a proposal for early parliamentary elections. Boris got feed up, and ordered parliament dissolved and the election of a new one. A few representatives refused to stand down, and locked themselves inside the parliament building with hundreds ...
- 758: Albert Einstein
- ... the relationship in a formula, E=mc2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared), that is now well known to both scientists and non-scientists alike. His fifth and final paper, the most modest of the five, was "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.Ó It was this paper that Einstein submitted as his doctoral dissertation for which the University of Zurich awarded him a Ph.D. in 1905 ...
- 759: Margaret Thatcher
- ... the part her father had played in her life Margaret replied that "of course, I just owe almost everything to my . . . father, and the things which I learned in a small town, in a very modest home. . . ." (Mayer, 1979) At the age of fifteen, Margaret had to start thinking seriously about what she wanted to do with her life. The British education system required young people at that age to choose ...
- 760: Marco Polo
- ... and bask in his almost instant literary fame. He married Donata Badoer, a member of the Venetian aristocracy. Marco died in 1324, only seventy years of age. In his will he left most of his modest wealth to his three daughters, a legacy that included goods which he had brought back from Asia.
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