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- 3901: Lincoln - The Truth
- ... This loss of money, was more the cause of confusion and waste than dishonesty on the president's part. One early scandal fell upon General John Frιmont. The people working for him managed to obtain big army contracts without looking for the lowest bidder like is required by law. The required items they delivered were of poor quality- these items included railroad cars, mules, tents, and a few others. One of ...
- 3902: Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
- ... the lackey of Louis. Colbert was an integral part of Fouquet s destruction. Colbert, as drab and deferential as Fouquet was colorful, carefully fed his master s fear of a subordinate who was getting to big. (Aspler 58). Colbert financed all of Louis s wars and turned out to be a decent superintendent. Towards the end of his life Louis expressed some courage. The moral courage with Louis saw the end ...
- 3903: Laura Secord
- ... young man named James Secord. After dating for a long period of time, James asked Laura to marry him. They married in 1797 at the Church of England. They were very wealthy. Laura was a big help to James in his business since she came from such an affluent family. By 1812, the Secord's had five children, two servants, a small pleasant house and a wealthy store. When they first ...
- 3904: King Solomon
- ... to have been handed over to Solomon as a property of marriage with Pharaoh's daughter when she was given to him in marriage. Solomon took important steps to further prosperity and to move a big portion of the national income into the royal treasury to finance his lifestyle and his buildings. His division of the country into 12 districts must have been a highly efficient thing to do, but it ...
- 3905: Katherine Anne Porter
- ... Miranda feels like a rejected outsider because she was unable to attend the full circus after hearing her family share their enjoyment of it . "Everybody had been enjoying themselves while Miranda was missing her first big circus and spoiling the day for Dicey. Poor Dicey. Poor dear Dicey. The other children who hadn't thought of Dicey until that moment, mourned over her with sad mouths, their malicious eyes watching Miranda ...
- 3906: Karl Marx 4
- ... fascism was the main challenge to the democratic way of life. World War II destroyed the military ambitions of the fascist Axis, though. Before the end of World War II, communism surfaced as the next big threat to democracy. At the end of World War I, communism seemed as if it were just a Russian spectacle because Russia was the only communist state in the world. With the defeat of Nazi ...
- 3907: Jon Woo
- ... Troy kills the men that he once commanded. Most of the movie is very dark as the subject matter is. Nicholas Cage is all alone in the movie, but on the other hand in The Big Hit, it has a funny theme to it, as often there were parts where one might laugh. Woo also uses special effects well. He combines montages with slow motion to create a tenser environment. Of ...
- 3908: James Cameron
- ... Judgment Day, became the first movie to go past the $100 milion budget. It also became very successful both domestically and overseas. The movie features some of the most stunning effects ever made for the big screen which include the morphing of the T-1000 and much more. The movie won four Oscars for sound and visual effects, and also brought in several MTV Movie Awards for best action picture and ...
- 3909: Julius Caesar
- ... also very good with people. But most of all, he was a gambler who knew how to calculate the odds. Willing to stake everything he had, even his own life, on a chance to win big in the game of politics, he was very sure of himself. So sure of himself to be considered arrogant on most occasions. The story goes a little something about how he was captured by pirates ...
- 3910: Joseph Haydn
- ... references give March 31 as Haydn's birthday, but official records disprove this. It is rumored that his brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool. At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was to remain for the next nine years ...
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