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- 771: 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.
- 772: Macario Sakay
- ... This affectation may have been exploited by the Americans in their efforts to portray Sakay and his men as brutish outlaws preying on the simple folk of the countryside. In April 1904, Sakay delivered a proposal asserting that the Filipinos had a primary claim to fight for Philippine independence. The American occupiers had already made support for independence, even through words, a crime. Sakay also acknowledged that they were bona fide ...
- 773: Margaret Hilda 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 ...
- 774: Louis Pasteur 2
- ... are the pasteurization process and ways of preventing silkworm diseases, anthrax, chicken cholera, and rabies. Pasteur sought no profits from his discoveries, and he supported his family on his professor's salary or on a modest government allowance. In the laboratory he was a calm and exact worker; but once sure of his findings, he vigorously defended them. Pasteur was an ardent patriot, zealous in his ambition to make France great ...
- 775: Lizzie Borden 2
- ... Bank, director of First National Bank, director of Durfee Safe Deposit & Trust Company, director of Globe Yarn Mill Company, director of Troy Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, and director of Merchants Manufacturing Company. They led a modest life in the south part of town near factories and City Hall. Despite this crowded neighborhood and closeness to the police department, none of the neighbors saw anything helpful on the morning of the murders ...
- 776: Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
- ... lasting reward perhaps has been the kindly verdict of history. Louise de La Valliere never capitalized on her position; she neither asked nor gave favors, she refused expensive presents, avoided cliques and intrigues. Faithful and modest in bearing, she never stopped loving Louis, even after she had been ruthlessly supplanted. She had four children by him, the first two of whom died soon after birth. Louise de La Valliere and the ...
- 777: 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 ...
- 778: Harriet Stowe
- ... her to establish a writing career, and served as her literary agent in both America and England. For almost thirty years she produced a book a year and through her writing supplemented her husband's modest earnings. Her husband was regarded as a distinguished Biblical scholar, and she persisted in nagging him to write; eventually he published The Origin and History of the Books of the Bible, which was well-received ...
- 779: George W. 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 ...
- 780: 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 ...
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