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- 801: President Millard Fillmore
- ... moderate Whigs were divided, and Gen. Winfield Scott, the candidate of the antislavery faction, became the Whig standard-bearer. Suave, courteous, and handsome in a rather stodgy fashion, Fillmore was by nature a kindly and modest individual. Characteristically, while traveling in Europe in 1855, he declined an honorary degree offered by Oxford University. He did so partly because he was reluctant to accept a degree in Latin, which he could not ...
- 802: Poussin And Roman Influences I
- ... Career: Nicolas Poussin was born just outside Les Andelys in Normandy in the year 1594. Though his father had once been a soldier, his family was of the farmer peasant class. In spite of the modest means of his family, his parents struggled to give him a complete education in Latin and letters where he discovered at an early age his natural talent and interest for drawing. Close to the age ...
- 803: 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 ...
- 804: Political Policies Between The
- ... it was a way of managing the emergence of the Soviet power. The Soviet leaders, on the other hand, saw it as a way of managing the transition of the United States to a more modest role in international relations from one of superiority. Each country saw itself as the manager of transition in an age of nuclear parity. Richard Nixon said, "our goal is different to theirs. We seek peace ...
- 805: 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 ...
- 806: Polygamy
- ... s national platform a call to abolish the "Twin Relics of Barbarism, Slavery and Polygamy". ("The Mormons and the Law: The Polygamy Cases", Orma Lindord, Utah Law Review, p. 312.) 1856 March 17, The 2nd proposal for Statehood for the State of Deseret, rejected due to growing anti-Mormon sentiment and complaints that unbelievers were said to be mistreated and that the Territorial Government was a shadow or puppet government for ...
- 807: 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 ...
- 808: On J.J. Thompson
- ... 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 ...
- 809: The Life Of 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 ...
- 810: Themes Of Death And Desire In
- ... reveal a woman riddled with conflicting desires. From the outset it is clear that she desires to be seen as someone from a higher class. This is shown by the repugnance she feels for her modest surroundings. It is also evident in her class snobbery, the way she dismisses the friendly help from Eunice, "what I meant was I'd like to be left alone." (scene 1). This is also seen ...
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