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- 601: Biography of 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 ...
- 602: George Washington: Biography
- ... state debts, the Bank of the United States, and the excise tax--Washington became the target of attacks by Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans. Washington was reelected president in 1792, and the following year the most divisive crisis arising out of the personal and political conflicts within his cabinet occurred--over the issue of American neutrality during the war between England and France. Though his policy of neutrality angered the pro-French Jeffersonians ...
- 603: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... back pay and half-pay pensions. Committees were created to deal with these problems, and Hamilton was appointed to both. The impost was crushed when Virginia withdrew its support; and meanwhile the army situation reached crisis proportions. While congress debated the terms of payment--whether the states should pay their armies, or whether Congress should pay with continental securities--mutinies began to spring up around the country in early 1783, and ...
- 604: Donatello
- ... was unpaid for and the Gattamelata monument not placed until 1453. Offers of other places reached him from Mantua, Modena, Ferrara, and even Naples, but nothing came of them. He was clearly passing through a crisis that prevented him from working. He was later quoted as saying that he almost died "among those frogs in Padua." in 1456 the Florentine physician Giovanni Chellini noted he had successfully treated the master for ...
- 605: Benjamin Franklin
- ... writes that possibly an extreme case would be best. “ Either Parliament could make all the laws for the colonies on it could make none, and he preferred to latter view.” (Aldrige 1965, page 195). The crisis brought about by the Stamp Act propelled Franklin into a new role as chief defender of American rights in Britain. At first, Franklin urged to colonists to be obedient to the act until it could ...
- 606: The Writings of Cicero
- ... am persuadedthat Romulus be establishing the auspices and Numa by instituting our sacred rites laid the foundation of our state."9 It is important to note that at this point in time Rome was in crisis of religious belief. Cicero often took the stance of disclaiming Roman divination, yet as a statesman he returns to his Roman attitudes. In De Legibus, Cicero hesitatingly shows his support for the notion of divination ...
- 607: The Nomination ofAndrew Jackson to the "Presidents Hall of Fame"
- ... the tariff was a major controversy in the United States around the years of his Presidency and his strong support for a unified nation oven states rights would hold the country together in this national crisis. Jackson had promised the south a reduction in duties to levels established in 1828, which were acceptable to southerners as opposed to the higher rates since then. In 1832 his administration only sliced away a ...
- 608: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... University of Mississippi. In Cuba both the Bay of Pigs occurred, in which U.S. supported rebels revolted in a poorly laid out plan of events that fell out beneath them, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the Soviet Republic were building missile silos in Cuba, 100 miles away from Florida. The Space Race was in full force with both Russia and the U.S. in competition to reach the ...
- 609: John F Kennedy
- ... Kennedy was the thirty-fifth president of the United States and the youngest to be assassinated. He also served in World War II on a PT boat. He also helped to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was assassinated in 1963 in dallas texas. He also started the peace corps to help 3rd world countries better them selves. He was born of Irish decent in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917 ...
- 610: Thomas Jefferson
- ... was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves. The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for the Boston Tea Party of the preceding year. Jefferson ...
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