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- 791: 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 ...
- 792: Julius Caesar
- ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the consular election on condition that Pompey abandon his military command at the same time. On January 7, 49 BC Antony ...
- 793: Andrew Carnegie On The Gospel
- ... s document. This also gives concrete evidence proving U.S. superiority in understanding their nation's needs. Finally, there are specific duties of the rich in order to maintain the balance. The wealthy must be modest in their ways. They must provide modestly for those dependent on him and he must think and administer his money in the best possible manner to benefit the most possible people. We trust in this ...
- 794: 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 ...
- 795: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... of America’s youth during that time. All that was considered was feeling good and having fun, not having an emotional attachment to the person that slept with you. A Farewell to Arms is a modest chapter from Hemingway’s own life. Not only does the lieutenant’s fate correspond with his own – from the trenches, through injury, to the hospital – but Catherine’s death was also inspired by personal experience ...
- 796: A. A. Milne
- ... comment, “My real achievement was to be not wholly the wrong person at the right spot at the right time. (Collier, Nakamura 1686) The reason he said something like this is because he is very modest about his work and how talented he was. By what he said in the quote he thought that it was pure luck by him becoming assistant editor of a major magazine not by ambition and ...
- 797: A.A. Milne
- ... comment, “My real achievement was to be not wholly the wrong person at the right spot at the right time. (Collier, Nakamura 1686) The reason he said something like this is because he is very modest about his work and how talented he was. By what he said in the quote he thought that it was pure luck by him becoming assistant editor of a major magazine not by ambition and ...
- 798: Pierre De Fermat
- ... a few papers in his lifetime and gave no systematic exposition of his methods. He had a habit of scribbling notes in the margins of books or in letters rather than publishing them. He was modest because he thought if he published his theorems the people would not believe them. He did not seem to have the intention to publish his papers. It is probable that he revised his notes as ...
- 799: Life On Michelangelo
- ... money, however, the pope ordered him to put aside the tomb project in favor of painting the Sistine ceiling. When Michelangelo went back to work on the tomb, he redesigned it on a much more modest scale. Nevertheless, Michelangelo made some of his finest sculpture for the Julius Tomb, including the Moses (circa 1515), the central figure in the much reduced monument now located in Rome's church of San Pietro ...
- 800: Ben Franklin
- ... chop down as many trees and split as much wood. They were able to used the wood for more useful things than just burning it. Ben wrote, ”Since wood has become so expensive, any new proposal for saving the wood may at least be worth consideration”(Parker 13). They could use wood to build house or any other kinds of building or structures. They could also used the extra wood to ...
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