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- 5781: The Accomplishments of Peter The Great
- ... modern historians. In order to understand the image of Peter the Great and his significance it is necessary to know his background and the influences that shaped his life. Peter the Great was the fourteenth child of Alexei Mikhailovich, born in Moscow on May 30, 1672. Tsar Alexis died when Peter was four years old. His mother raised Peter. Tsars' Alexis son from his first marriage, Feodor Alekseevich succeeded to the ...
- 5782: Andrew Jackson
- ... meet is to be open minded. He must be able to accept both criticism and ideas from other people. The final requirement that is important is how the president uses his power. He must not abuse his power and must use power to only benefit his causes. His power must be used to benefit the people of the nation. In my opinion Andrew Jackson was a good president. For his cabinet ...
- 5783: Adolf Hitler
- ... troops closed in on Germany, Hitler killed himself. Early Life Boyhood. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau, Austria, a small town across the Inn River from Germany. He was the fourth child of the third marriage of Alois Hitler, a customs official. Alois Hitler was 51 years old when Adolf was born. Adolf's mother, Klara Polzl, was 28 years old. She was a farmer's daughter ...
- 5784: Biography of Pocahontas
- ... eight years. A general peace and spirit of goodwill between the two groups resulted from this marriage. Shortly after Rolfe and Pocahontas married, they had a son whom they named Thomas. He was the only child born to them and would later become an important member of the Jamestown society. Sir Thomas Dale, the leader of a new settlement in Virginia, made an important voyage to England to seek financial support ...
- 5785: Tiger Woods
- ... sport. To say the least, it is not ordinary to have a three-year-old playing on the golf course. Tiger didnt stop there. Tiger just dominated almost every tournament he entered as a child. He went on to win the Optimist International Junior tournaments six times at ages 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 15. Among many tournaments, Tiger won the U.S. Junior Amateur three straight times (91 ...
- 5786: Mohandas K. Gandhi: Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live
- ... him. (World Book G24) As an infant, Gandhi was born into a family that consisted of two parents that belonged to the Vaisya caste of Hindus. Growing up, Gandhi was a very shy and serious child. He married his wife Kasturba when they were only thirteen years old. Their parents arranged the marriage, and they had four children. Gandhi was extremely intelligent and studied law in London. In 1893 Gandhi was ...
- 5787: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... her newborn brother moved from San Francisco to Burlingame, California, about thirty miles away. "According to her mother, Shirley began to compose verse almost as soon as she could write it" (Friedman, 18). As a child, Shirley was interested in sports and literature. In 1930, a year before she attended Burlingame High School, Shirley began writing poetry and short stories. Jackson enrolled in the liberal arts program at the University of ...
- 5788: Bill Gates
- ... few weeks. In the fall of 1968, Computer Center Corporation opened for business in Seattle. It was offering computing time at good rates, and one of the chief programmers working for the corporation had a child attending Lakeside. A deal was struck between Lakeside Prep School and the Computer Center Corporation that allowed the school to continue providing it's students with computer time. Gates and his comrades immediately began exploring ...
- 5789: Agatha Christie
- ... Christie sought hard to hide and protect her inner world from those around her. She was enormously shy and had great difficulty expressing her feelings. Christie considered herself the "slow one" of her family, the child who hated to talk about herself and refused to let anyone enter her beloved secret world (Gill, p.2). Frustrated by her extreme introverted ways, Christie attempted turning to music as a way of expressing ...
- 5790: Wyatt Earp
- ... girl pregnant? (which was no small matter in those days) Or was there something else happening here? Many researchers have theorized that at this point, due to depression from the death of his wife and child, that Wyatt ran afoul of the law in Fort Smith, Arkansas in or about May of 1871. During that time, a "true bill" was returned by the Grand Jury of the United States Court of ...
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