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- 761: Marco Polo
- ... last part of his life moving in Venetian aristocratic circles. After living what was then a long life, 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. His will also set free a Tartar slave, who had remained with him since his return from the ...
- 762: Really In The Works Of John Grisham
- ... to write a novel. After three years of grueling work on A Time to Kill his first book was completed. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wychwood Press, who gave it modest five thousand copy printing and published in 1988 (http://www.randomhouse.com/features/grisham/about.html). The success, although only slight, spiked Grisham's new writing hobby. As he began his next book, that hobby ...
- 763: Richard The Lion Hearted
- ... England. Many French historians who have noted only her youthful frivolity, ignoring the tenacity, political wisdom, and energy that characterized the years of her maturity have misjudged her. "She was beautiful and just, imposing and modest, humble and elegant"; and, as the nuns of Fontevrault wrote in their necrology: a queen "who surpassed almost all the queens of the world." The Crusades In 1183 the younger Henry died leaving Richard as ...
- 764: Robert E. Lee
- ... They say you had to see him to believe that a man so fine could exist. He was handsome. He was clever. He was brave. He was gentle. He was generous and charming, noble and modest, admired and beloved. He had never failed at anything in his upright soldier's life. He was born a winner, this Robert E. Lee. Except for once. In the greatest contest of his life, in ...
- 765: Prophet Muhammad
- ... by his saying as related by Abu Bakr r.a.: Allah does not cause a prophet to die but in the place where he is to be buried. Prophet lived a most simple, severe and modest life. He and his family used to go without cooked meal several days at a time, relying only on dates, dried bread and water. During the day he was the busiest man, as he performed ...
- 766: On J.j. Thomson
- ... Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, Thomson was experimenting with currents of electricity inside empty glass tubes. He was investigating a long-standing puzzle known as "cathode rays." His experiments prompted him to make a bold proposal: these mysterious rays are streams of particles much smaller than atoms, they are in fact minuscule pieces of atoms. He called these particles corpuscles, and suggested that they might make up all of the matter ...
- 767: Nikita Khrushchevs Rise To Power
- ... a cavalier fashion, ignoring some and being overly generous with others. (Soviet Almanac) Khrushchev was said to be released from his duties due to poor health and old age. His retirement was spent in a modest dacha at Petro-Dalneye. He was paid a pension of 400 rubles a month and had use of a car. He also had an apartment in Moscow. Khrushchev, above all, is remembered for his contribution ...
- 768: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... 34) he had written over two-thirds of the tales and sketches he would write during his lifetime. A year later, Hawthorne met Sophia Peabody and became engaged to her. Hawthorne felt that with his modest success in writing, he would not be able to provide a life sufficient enough for Sophia. Through the help of some influential people, he was given the position as a Measurer of Salt and Coal ...
- 769: Napoleon
- ... as equality before the law and freedom of religion. This Civil code also gave equal inheritance to all offspring should a parent die. Marriage became a civil rather than a religious act. Napoleon stopped a proposal for girls to marry at thirteen and for boys to marry at fifteen. Instead, he increased the marital age to eighteen for girls and twenty for boys. The civil code also permitted divorce. On the ...
- 770: Mozart 2
- ... have one sister, I married the other.' Whether or not this quote is true, the facts remain the same. Three and a half years after a young musician named Aloysia Weber refused Mozart's marriage proposal, he married her younger sister Constanze, on August 4, 1782. What sort of person was Constanze Weber? Mozart, who nicknamed his bride Stanzerl, described her this way, 'She is not ugly, but at the same ...
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