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- 781: Cardinal Richelieu
- ... own people in government and seats of power where he could, eliminating the king's and his own enemies. He also tried to press France's advantage beyond it's borders by advocating colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Richelieu was also a patron of the arts, founding the Acadamie Francaise and rebuilding the Sorbonne. He built the Palais Royal beginning in 1624, also referred to as the Palais Cardinal. Of ...
- 782: Benito Mussolini
- ... to help defeat the republicans in the Spanish Civil War. His fatal mistake was his alliance with Germany’s Adolf Hitler in 1939. During World War II his armies were swept from Ethiopia and North Africa; and when the Allies invaded Italy in 1943, Mussolini was thrown out by the Fascist Grand Council and imprisoned in the Abruzzi Mountains. Rescued by the Germans several months later, Mussolini set up a Republican ...
- 783: Alice Walker
- ... secure woman. It has been translated into 22 languages and has sold over four million copies. The novel covers the period between the World Wars, telling the story of two sisters, one a missionary in Africa, the other a child-wife living in the South. They sustain each other, and themselves, through a series of letters. However, many critics have objected to its representation of black men. The main problem is ...
- 784: Albert Camus
- ... with great illness in his short life. Camus is a great role model and idol for us all. Camus was born into poverty on November 2, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria (a former French colony in Africa). His mother, Catherine Sintes, was a cleaning woman, and his father, Lucien Camus, was a farmhand. Only a few months old, Albert lost his father in the horrors of World War I in 1914. After ...
- 785: Malcolm X
- ... name was Malcolm Little, however there were big things in store for this child. Born in Omaha, Nebraska. The seventh of eleven children born to Earl Little, an organizer for Marcus Garvey’s "back-to-Africa" movement (Compton’s encyclopedia online). At age six Malcolm’s father was murdered. As a result his mother later suffered a nervous breakdown, and the family was separated by welfare agencies (Compton’s encyclopedia online ...
- 786: Prophet Muhammad
- ... Messenger of Allah with utmost sincerity, and supported him with every thing they had. They faithfully carried the message of Islam after the Prophet, and within ninety years the light of Islam reached Spain, North Africa, the Caucasus, northwest China and India. The message that Prophet Muhammad (s) worked so hard to convey from a small city in the middle of a barren desert, has now reached every corner of the ...
- 787: Princess Diana 3
- ... Norway to attend a performance by the London City Ballet, of which she was patron. Diana visited many other countries on her own including Germany, the United States, Pakistan, Switzerland, Hungary, Egypt, Belgium, France, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nepal. Diana was best known for her charitable work. During her marriage, Diana was president of over 100 charities. The Princess did much to publicize work on behalf of homeless, disabled, children, and ...
- 788: Olaudah Equiano
- ... and not think of them as a person. They thought of them like a product or money. The trade involved the Americans, the Africans, and finally the West Indies. America mostly traded rum for slaves, Africa traded there own people (which would become slaves to whomever owned them) for sugar and molasses with the West Indies. The West Indies would trade rum, molasses, or sugar to America for slaves. This created ...
- 789: Nationalism And Patriotism
- ... such countries as Germany and Japan resulted in racial persecution and aggression against other nations and races such as the Jewish. However, after World War II, nationalism played a large part in independence movements in Africa and Asia. Many former colonies became independent nations. Some authorities believe that nationalism was also a major cause of the "split" between the communist nations, Russia and China, during the 1960's. Works Cited Ebenstein ...
- 790: Mk Ghandhi
- ... capable to defy the physical might. By doing so, it also eliminates any sense of revenge and redresses the idea of seeking remedies. For example, the events of Jalianwala Bagh, Champaran and of South East Africa that Gandhi addresses in the essay, all displayed Hartals. M.K. Gandhi felt that any commemoral of such events are to raise temples of peace, the widows and orphans have been and are being helped ...
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