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- 611: Confucius
- Confucius and Lao Tzu Confucius and Lao Tzu were two highly known scholars in Ancient China. These scholars with their intellectual writings changed the views of the Chinese people. Confucius believed in the moral values and filial piety, he also wanted civic obedience. Lao Tzu was a mystical writer, his comparison ...
- 612: Bruce Lee
- ... is all combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force, which I hold in my hand." Bruce had learned this from Master Sifu Yip Man. Influences Shortly after Bruce entered La Salle College of China (middle school to us), he came home one day and told his mother he was being bullied around after school. He wanted to be trained in the martial arts. His father practiced Tai Chi Chuan ...
- 613: Boris Yeltsin
- ... Clinton. He has also cultivated relations with Germany, France, and Great Britain. In 1997, he aloud former soviet countries to be admitted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Boris has promoted trade and cooperation with China. Boris also gave the Kuril Islands back to Japan (for foreign aide, of course); these islands froze all relations between the two countries since the end of World War 2. Today and Tomorrow Boris has ...
- 614: Billy Graham
- ... completely removed from the attitudes that were prevalent in the nation. He, too feared communism. In a message delivered as early as 1947 he stated, Communism is creeping inexorably into these destitute lands, into wartorn China, into restless South America, and unless the Christian religion rescues the nation from the clutch of the unbelieving, America will stand alone and isolated in the world. (Frady, 1999) Graham became caught up in fear ...
- 615: Authur Miller
- ... Miller has written two books of reportage: In Russia and Chinese Encounters, both accompanied by photographs by his wife Inge Morath, a professional photographer. His book Salesman in Beijing is based on his experience in China where he directed Death of a Salesman. Then, in 1987, Miller published his autobiography Timebends: A Life, in which he recalls his childhood in Brooklyn, the political turmoil of the 1950s, and the later half ...
- 616: Robinson Crusoe
- ... happened since his departure, he left supplies, furnished the islanders with a carpenter and a smith, and divided the island among them. The ship then sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and on to China. On an overland trip through Siberia and on back to England, Crusoe had many more encounters. Ultimately, Robinson Crusoe, after a total of 54 years abroad, returned home, an old, weathered man, and lived out ...
- 617: Richard Nixon 2
- ... should have stayed until victory was ours. I would have. Nixon was reelected in 1972 when he ran against George McGovern. As a president, I think everyone would agree Nixon was outstanding. His opening of China and treaties with Russia were beyond their time. In 1973 Nixon ordered the bugging of the democratic headquarters in Watergate. Nixon got caught and was forced to resign in 1974. I think that in the ...
- 618: Robert Hunter
- ... his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until 1967, when he mailed the lyrics to "St. Stephen", "Alligator", and "China Cat Sunflower" to his friend Garcia and the Grateful Dead. He was almost immediately taken on as the primary lyricist for the band. In collaboration with Garcia's musical talent, Hunter began turning out dozens ...
- 619: Prophet Muhammad
- ... utmost sincerity, and supported him with every thing they had. They faithfully carried the message of Islam after the Prophet, and within ninety years the light of Islam reached Spain, North Africa, the Caucasus, northwest China and India. The message that Prophet Muhammad (s) worked so hard to convey from a small city in the middle of a barren desert, has now reached every corner of the world.
- 620: Nikita Khrushchevs Rise To Power
- ... year economic plan two years short of its completion. By 1964 Khrushchev s prestige had been injured in a number of areas. Industrial growth slowed, while agriculture showed no new progress. Abroad, the split with China, the Berlin crisis, and the Cuban fiasco hurt the Soviet Union s international stature, and Khrushchev s efforts to improve relations with the West antagonized many in the military. Finally, the 1962 party reorganization caused ...
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