|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 361 - 370 of 376 matching essays
- 361: John F. Kennedy
- ... to contribute to the ransom. On December 25, 1962, "1113 prisoners were released in exchange for food and medical supplies valued at a total of approximately $53 million."6 On June 3, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, Kennedy and USSR leader Nikata Khrushchev met and reviewed relationships between the U. S. and the USSR, as well as other questions of interest to the two states. Two incidents contributed to hostility at the ...
- 362: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... to contribute to the ransom. On December 25, 1962, "1113 prisoners were released in exchange for food and medical supplies valued at a total of approximately $53 million."6 On June 3, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, Kennedy and USSR leader Nikata Khrushchev met and reviewed relationships between the U. S. and the USSR, as well as other questions of interest to the two states. Two incidents contributed to hostility at the ...
- 363: Jacqueline Kennedy
- ... and to get an insight into her earlier family’s way of life. While at the Sorbonne, she studied French literature and civilization. Jacqueline later took a vacation with Claude de Renty through Germany and Austria. They traveled third-class which gave the young Bouvier the chance to witness a new world which had been so unfamiliar to her. Upon her return to the United States, Jacqueline was reluctant to return ...
- 364: Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
- ... years to treat the progressive disease. Meanwhile, a political cancer was growing in Europe. By 1933, the Nazi party had risen to power in Germany. They burned books by Freud, among others. They took over Austria in 1938. Freud's passport was confiscated, but his fame and the influence of foreigners persuaded the occupying forces to let him go, and he and his wife fled to England. He died there in ...
- 365: Marie Antoinette
- Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France. She was born in 1755 in France and was the daughter of the Great Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa of Austria. Because here parents came from two countries at war with each other, their marriage formed a peace treaty. Marie was very spoiled and grew up with an extravagant lifestyle. She herself became the wife of ...
- 366: Louis XIV
- ... he made he offered to make Louis's grandson the sole beneficiary of the vast inheritance to be left behind, Louis Accepted the the offer out of pure greed, but that dicision meant war with Austria. Although, Louis was already getting half of the money he still greedily accepted the offer, if he had not accepted the offer war could have been avoided, but hey we all make mistakes The second ...
- 367: Nikola Tesla
- ... 10th, 1856, in a small Hungarien village. He was born to his father, a priest, and his mother, an unschooled but extremely intelligent women. Training for an engineering career, he attendedthe Technical University of Graz, Austria and was shortly employed in a government telegraph engineering office in Budapest, where he made his first invention, a telephone repeater. Tesla sailed to America in 1884, arriving in New York City with four cents ...
- 368: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. His Christian name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. His father Leopold Mozart educated him and was a violinist, author, and composer. He began composing minuets at the age of five. When Mozart was six ...
- 369: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... 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(Duke is ...
- 370: The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy
- ... of Berlin, begun when World War II ended. The western nations opposed any threat to the freedom of West Berlin. In June 1961, Kennedy discussed Berlin with Khrushchev at a two-day meeting in Vienna, Austria. Nothing was settled, and the crisis deepened. Both countries increased their military strength. In August, the East Germans built a wall between East and West Berlin to prevent people from fleeing to the West. Kennedy ...
Search results 361 - 370 of 376 matching essays
|
