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- 411: Charles Dickens
- ... of his work.10 Besides doing all this after his retirement he got involved in various charities . These charities included schools for poor children and a loan society to enable the poor to prove to Australia. 11 Then about 1865 his health started to decline and he died of a stroke on June 9, 1870. 12 Dicken's Work The Great Expectations This story talks about a guy who is in ...
- 412: Charles Darwin
- ... plant and animal life of South America, oceanic islands, and the Far East. He noted many examples that proved that animals in similar environments didn't always look the same. For example, the emus of Australia and the rheas of South America are two very distinct species, but they live in the same basic kind of habitat. Darwin thought about this, and asked himself the question, if animals were formed for ...
- 413: Alfred Nobel
- ... and Alfred Nobel also proved himself to be a very skillful entrepreneur and business man. By 1865 his factory in Krόmmel near Hamburg, Germany, was exporting nitroglycerin explosives to other countries in Europe, America and Australia. Over the years he founded factories and laboratories in some 90 different places in more than 20 countries.(Encarta) Although he lived in Paris much of his life he was constantly traveling. Victor Hugo at ...
- 414: Herbert Hoover
- ... in 1895. The influences of his engineering training and his Quaker upbringing were to shape his subsequent careers. Hoover began working in California mines as an ordinary laborer, but he soon obtained a position in Australia directing a new gold-mining venture. During the next two decades he traveled through much of Asia, Africa, and Europe as a mining entrepreneur, earning a considerable fortune. At the outbreak of World War I ...
- 415: Sir Sandford Fleming
- ... line was built , greatly facilita ted Canadian railway construction. In the early years of the 20th ce ntury the Canadian Northern railway work. He was a strong advocate of a telecommunication cable from Canada to Australia, which he believ e would become a vital communications link of the British Empire. The Pa cific Cable was successfully laid in 1902. He was also interested in th e development of a satisfactory world ...
- 416: Woman of the Year: 1953-Queen Elizabeth II
- ... Elizabeth and Philip were on a tour in Kenya when her dad died on February 6, 1952, and she automatically became Queen Elizabeth II. She was not just Queen of England but Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and more. They considered her a Queen but she did not have power over them (Trease 1953, 234). Queen Elizabeth the II had no political power. Some of her duties as a queen ...
- 417: Chester Wilmot
- ... Though this student looked in Who's Who and Contemporary information on Chester Wilmot could be found. One considered searching the Directory of American Scholars, but that would not be helpful since he is from Australia. In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points. First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during World War II. He then elaborates on how and ...
- 418: The Beginning of World War II
- ... 1937 Japan had moved military forces onto Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, as well as other regions of China. By 1940, Japanese seizure of territory had spread to deep inside Southeast Asia and even parts of Australia (World War II Commemoration, 2). Also in 1940, the Triparte Pact was signed, allying Japan, Germany, and Italy into a powerful force that stretched halfway around the planet. The association with Hitler and Germany unified ...
- 419: The Ancient Mariners of the Mediterranean and Ming Dynasty China: A Comparison of Seafaring in the Ancient World
- ... the situation regarding the treasure fleet could not be more different. Under the guidance of Zheng He, the seven different treasure fleets that went forth between 1405 and 1433 sailed from as far east as Australia and Batavia to as far west as Africa. They also sailed to India and Arabia and numerous place in between. Because this was a journey to gather patronage for the new emperor, Zhu Di, the ...
- 420: The Aborigines
- The Aborigines The Aborigines people are the native civilisation of Australia. They are believed to be the most primitive people in the world. The homeland of these people is so inhospitable that few Europeans have travelled into it. The traveller made his main camp at Ernabella ...
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