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- 2111: "Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam"
- ... of state in the world". (Whitlam, 1985) But he was eager to distance Australia from Britain, for he intended for another country to take Britain's place. Instead of a mother country, he wanted a big brother - the United States of America. Since Australia had felt the threat of invasion from Indonesia only a few years earlier, the sheer isolation and helplessness of our country was brought home to many Australians ...
- 2112: Biography of Julius Caesar
- ... return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar was elected consul for 59 BC through political alliance with Pompey and Crassus . This alliance was called the first triumvirate. Caesar’s purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia ...
- 2113: Francesco Redi
- ... to be more glorified as one of the greatest scientific minds of his day. In my opinion he was one of the greatest thinkers of his time. He used his common sense to solve a big problem. He lived a brilliant rewarding long life. References 1. http://www.island.net/~superior/evolution/spontan.html 2. http://dac.neu.edu/bio1100/Redi_Experiment.html 3. http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/b ...
- 2114: Life of Julius Caesar
- ... attend. After his return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar waselected consul for 59 BC through political alliance with Pompey andCrassus . This alliance was called the first triumvirate. Caesar’spurpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part soughtthe ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for hisdischarged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of Asia. An agrarian ...
- 2115: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... do nothing for you. Your patience and courage do you honor, but give you neither worldly goods nor glory. I shall lead you into the most fertile plains in the world where you will find big cities and wealthy provinces. You will win honor, fame and riches. Soldiers of the Army of Italy! Could courage and constancy possibly fail you?" Once Napoleon took over it didn't take long for him ...
- 2116: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham called his stepmother, “My angel mom.” Then Abraham started working. He was most skilled at clearing forests. He was also really good at making fences. He was good because he was big for his age and could use the ax really well. He was so good that people started calling him, “the rail splinter.” Then he grew up and graduated from a college in Illinois, and got ...
- 2117: John Lennon
- ... time, Peter Shotton, were always playing jokes on teachers and causing trouble. In May of 1955, while John was attending the grammar school, he started a band named “The Quarrymen.” The Quarrymen played their first big show at Woolton Parish Church in Liverpool on July 6th 1957. After the show was over, John met a boy named Paul McCartney. Lennon, who was impressed by McCartney’s knowledge of song lyrics and ...
- 2118: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... do nothing for you. Your patience and courage do you honor, but give you neither worldly goods nor glory. I shall lead you into the most fertile plains in the world where you will find big cities and wealthy provinces. You will win honor, fame and riches. Soldiers of the Army of Italy! Could courage and constancy possibly fail you?" Once Napoleon took over it didn't take long for him ...
- 2119: Langston Hughes
- ... poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of “editorial” and “documentary” fiction, twenty plays, children’s poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies. Some of Langston Hughes works includes: NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER, THE BIG SEA,and I WONDER AS I WANDER, some of the poems include: THE WEARY BLUES, ONE WAY TICKET, and THE NEGRO MOTHER AND OTHER DRAMATIC RECITATIONS. I admire Langston Hughes in many of his aspects ...
- 2120: George Dantzig
- ... instructor at Princeton and as a consultant at the Rand Corporation, the Cold War think tank, Nash moved on to teach at MIT in 1951. He arrived itching to show that he could solve really big problems. According to one story circulating at the time, Nash was in the common room knocking, as he often did, other mathematicians' work. An older professor is said to have challenged him to solve one ...
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