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- 1061: Nikita Khrushcev
- ... two years short of its completion. By 1964 Khrushchev’s prestige had been injured in a number of areas. Industrial growth slowed, while agriculture showed no new progress. Abroad, the split with China, the Berlin crisis, and the Cuban fiasco hurt the Soviet Union’s international stature, and Khrushchev’s efforts to improve relations with the West antagonized many in the military. Finally, the 1962 party reorganization caused turmoil throughout the ...
- 1062: Nelson Mandela
- ... is Dutch and means separation. The system was in practice used to retain the white minority's economical, political and cultural supremacy. There came new laws that devided the population into white, black, coloured and Asian groups. the foundation of apartheid was already made when the first European settlers came to South-Africa, and since then the suppressed have been fighting to abolish it. Maybe the most famous opponent of the ...
- 1063: Lewis Carroll
- ... life he had two selves: Charles Dodgson; being a proper and serious Victorian gentleman and then Lewis Carroll; a character of more humor and mystifying nature where he related best with children. Alice's identity crisis in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reoccurs many times throughout the novel and is one of the main themes that are portrayed. Certain aspects of religion come into play throughout this young girl's journey ...
- 1064: Langston Hughes
- ... published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". It spoke of Black writers and poets, "who ...
- 1065: Karl Marx
- ... his life, after his death his works grew with the strength of the working class. His ideas and theories became known as Marxism, and has been used to shape the ideas of most European and Asian countries. The strength of the Proletariat has been due to the work of Marx. His ideals formed government known as communism. Although he was never a rich man, his knowledge has been rich in importance ...
- 1066: Karl Marx
- ... his life, after his death his works grew with the strength of the working class. His ideas and theories became known as Marxism, and has been used to shape the ideas of most European and Asian countries. The strength of the Proletariat has been due to the work of Marx. His ideals formed government known as communism. Although he was never a rich man, his knowledge has been rich in importance ...
- 1067: John Dryden
- ... greatest plays and one of the masterpieces of the Restoration tragedy. Throughout his career he wrote several "occasional poems," which celebrated particular events of a public character, a military victory, a death, or a political crisis. What made these poems he wrote special was the fact that they were written not for the self but for the nation. In 1670 he was appointed poet laureate and royal historiographer. In 1681 he ...
- 1068: J.P. Morgan
- ... including Carnegie and Rockefeller were stronger than the government and were not subject to ordinary laws. The validity of this statement can be only subjectively measured; however the power of Morgan was clear after the crisis in 1895. The national Treasury had been successively issuing bonds to maintain the depleting gold reserves. However, their actions were hurt by the ironic withdrawals of gold, by the Treasury itself, with which to make ...
- 1069: Indira Gandhfemalei
- ... to appeal to the courts against falsely arrest. "In India democracy has give too much license to the people," she said. "Sometimes bitter medicine has to be administered to a patient to cure him." The crisis began with the decision of a high court judge in Mrs. Gandhi’s native Allahabad, convicting her on two rather minor counts of electoral corruption-using government officials and government jeeps for her campaign. The ...
- 1070: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... had visited ten years earlier following the death of his brother in California (Duchêne 36). In 1866 Schliemann took up residence in Paris and began to study archaeology at Sorbonne. He also took courses in Asian languages, Egyptology, and Sanskrit. In the beginning of 1868 he began attending the meetings of scientific societies, and in May took a pleasure trip to Italy in order to closely study the work of other ...
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