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- 1141: Pompey The Great
- ... own army in Picenum. He did such a good job raising his army he was made an imperator general. In 83 B.C., he was sent as an imperator general to Sicily and then to Africa. Successes in both places earned Pompey the name Magnus and the honor of a triumph, although he was little over 25 years old and legally unqualified for such a status. Some years later, the senate ...
- 1142: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... going to let opportunity get away from him. During the time from 1933 to 1939 he went on a huge world tour that spanned the globe. His tours took him from Japan, to Europe, to Africa, and Austria(330)(The New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians,658). Often times, Ellington supported his dreams out of his own pocket or from royalties collected from his ever growing and equally popular songbook ...
- 1143: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... marches, but none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech that showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our country is changing, and helping to change South Africa. The key to all this success was Martin Luther King Jr. who showed us that one man, nonviolently, could make a difference. Most of all he made us realize that all men are created equal ...
- 1144: Gaius Marius: Savior.. or Destroyer?
- ... along with Saturninus and Glaucia, constructed a new form of payment. The legionaries were paid (with money) for each day of service, but upon retirement they were settled on land in Southern Gaul or North Africa. Hence, the former soldiers would not return to their previous life as poor peasants. This was a great incentive to join the army. The poorest of the poor could join the army, serve with distinction ...
- 1145: Important People in History
- ... social institutions. He was one of the earliest supporters of the functionalist school of social science. He rejected the Darwin evolution theory, believing instead that civilization of northern Europe were more advanced than those of Africa and the Pacific, and that anthropology's role was to explain and not to judge. Boas, Franz - Anthropologist (1858 - 1942) He is considered the founder of American anthropology. He focused mainly on the language and ...
- 1146: Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- ... was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in Paris. Miss Keller received honorary doctoral degrees from Temple University, Harvard, and the universities of Glasgow, Berlin, Delhi (India), and Witwaters and Johannesburg (South Africa). She was named an Honorary Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland.
- 1147: Biography of Christopher Columbus
- ... II, king of Portugal, petitioning him to finance a westward crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. His proposal was rejected by a royal maritime commission because of his miscalculations and because Portuguese ships were already rounding Africa. Soon after, Columbus moved to Spain, where his plans won the support of several influential persons, and he secured an introduction, in 1486, to Isabella I, queen of Castile. About this time, Columbus, then a ...
- 1148: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... were reelected to Congress. These setbacks, coupled with the recession that occurred mid-way through his second term, represented the low-point in Roosevelt's presidential career. The United States and its allies invaded North Africa in November 1942 and Sicily and Italy in 1943. The D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches in France, June 6, 1944, were followed by the allied invasion of Germany six months later. By April ...
- 1149: Biography of Christopher Columbus
- ... II, king of Portugal, petitioning him to finance a westward crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. His proposal was rejected by a royal maritime commission because of his miscalculations and because Portuguese ships were already rounding Africa. Soon after, Columbus moved to Spain, where his plans won the support of several influential persons, and he secured an introduction, in 1486, to Isabella I, queen of Castile. About this time, Columbus, then a ...
- 1150: John Cabot
- ... Cabot tried to get Spain and Portugal to back an ocean voyage to Cathay, China. But Spain had already sent Columbus, and Portugal had plans for a voyage to Asia around the southern tip of Africa. Joh Cabot then went to England where he recieved the financing from a group of merchants and the English King, Henry VII. John Cabot sailed from Bristol, late in May 1497, with a crew of ...
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