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- 5231: President Gerald Ford
- ... soon invited to learn law in the college and didn't graduate till he was 27 because of his late start. 1941, he set up a practice in Grand Rapids Michigan which closed after World War II (4, page 145). He joined the Navy and was discharged as lieutenant commander. He married Elizabeth Bloomer Warren and entered the Republican primary in Michigan during 1948. November, he was elected to the House ... vetoed 61 bills and had 12 vetoes overridden. The government was pretty much deadlocked. The government had some things happen while he was in office. South Vietnam collapsed to North Vietnam in 1975 ending the 'war' there. Ford offered a conditional amnesty to Vietnam draft evaders. There was the overthrow of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia Kampuchea by Communist forces. There was a successful rescue attempt for the recapture of ...
- 5232: King Tut
- ... the throne, the arms would rest on carved, golden, lion s paws. The back is sheathed with gold and inlaid with colored glass paste and semiprecious stones. The medallion depicts Tut as if returning from war, preceded by captives and followed by a serpent goddess. The clothing that was found inside the chamber was very abundant. There were various crowns including the Blue crown or Khepresh. This was sometimes incorrectly called a war helmet. The white crown was the crown of Upper Egypt, the Nemes was a headdress made of fabric that drapes the head and cascades down the upper part of the chest. The Red Crown is ...
- 5233: The Once And Future King - Mig
- ... stone and becomes King. Merlyn is the first to address him as King, leaving behind the boy once known as Wart. The next section entitled The Queen of Air and Darkness tells of Arthur s war to defend his title and secure his throne. His fight to claim his rights leads Arthur to a battle within himself. At one point Arthur declares to his subjects Why can t you harness might ... man s greatest demon and it became King Arthur s final foe. This epic tale was as insightful as it was profoundly symbolic. White takes a legend and creates a tale full of love, loyalty, war, peace, and idealism. He gives the reader a tragic tale of the human spirit. As a master at storytelling. His book was woven masterfully and majestically. The plot remained central to the theme of might ...
- 5234: Laura Secord
- ... was a clever man. In her family there were inventors, mechanics, merchants, magistrates, teachers and soldiers. Laura had three sisters. When she was eight her mother had died and her father had gone off to war, so Laura had to look after them. After two years or so Laura's father married someone else. A month later she got ill and died. Three years later he remarried a woman named Sarah ... they moved to Queenston. Laura did not work but James was a Merchant. Life was good for Laura, James and their family, and it seemed the future held nothing but happiness. On June 18, 1812, war was officially declared. It was Great Britain with the Native Americans against the United States. Queenston and Niagara Falls were long awaiting the attack of the US forces from across the Niagara River. James had ...
- 5235: Russian And French Revolutions
- ... Czar Nicholas II, made a very big mistake by in not introducing some reforms to correct the problems. So because of his actions, the situation grew worse. In 1917, the Russians were fighting in World War I. A good majority of the Russian people were weary and uncontent with the way the war was going and with the Czar's rule. This uncontent along with economic hardships caused riots and demonstrations to break out. The Czar called for the army to put down the revolution as they did ...
- 5236: The Longest Day
- ... but they had gained a massive victory over Hitler. The theme of The Longest Day is one of uncertainty because the slightest change in the course of things could change the entire direction of the war. Rommel knew that if he couldn t get the Atlantic Wall as prepared as he did the Allied onslaught would have overwhelmed the German troops quickly and the Third Reich would be over. Eisenhower chose ... Ryan made this book very real by using a huge number of sources, including, but not only, letters, pictures, and interviews with veterans of the combat. His first hand knowledge of happenings in during the war also helped him. This leaves very few if any serious questions left to the reader, or anything that the reader would need further explanation on. In all his books, Ryan stressed realism and was meticulous ...
- 5237: Abraham of Chaldea
- ... numerous as the dust of the earth. So Abram moved his clan and camped near Hebron where he built another altar to Jehovah. In the mean time, Lot got himself in the middle of a war between rivaling Babylonian kings in the area. As a result, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell and their cities were spoiled. Lot and his goods were also carried off. When Abram heard of this ... presented Melchizedek a tenth of all he had. This is the first mention of tithing, and is still used as a guideline today. The king of Sodom attempted to give Abram the spoils of the war, but he refused. Abram told the king, "I have sworn to the Lord God Most High, maker of heaven and earth, that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or your, lest ...
- 5238: Marco Polo
- ... From Sudak, around 1260, another uncle, Maffeo, and Marco’s father, Niccolò, made a trading visit into Mongol territory, the land of the Golden Horde(Russia), ruled by Berke Khan. While they were there, a war broke out between Berke and the Cowan of Levant , blocking their return home. Thus Niccolò and Maffeo traveled deeper into mongol territory, moving southeast to Bukhara, which was ruled by a third Cowan. While waiting ... court of Kublai Khan(Stefoff 13). They were accompanied not by one hundred wise men but by two Dominican friars, and the two good friars turned back at the first sign of adversity, another local war in the Levant. Aside from the pope’s messages, the only spiritual gift Europe was able to furnish the great Kublai Khan was oil from the lamp burning at Jesus Christ’s supposed tomb in ...
- 5239: Leo Tolstoi
- ... accompanied his elder brother to the Caucasus, and joined an artillery regiment. In the 1850s Tolstoy also began his literary career, publishing the autobiographical trilogy Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), and Youth (1857).During the Crimean War Tolstoy commanded a battery, witnessing the siege of Sebastopol (1854-55). In 1857 he visited France, Switzerland, and Germany. After his travels Tolstoy settled in his birthplace of Yasnaja Polyana, where he started a school ... Europe (1860-61) educational theory and practice, and published magazines and textbooks on the subject. In 1862 he married Sonya Andreyevna Bers (or Behrs). Between the years 1865 and 1869 appeared Tolstoy's major work, War and Peace, an epic tale depicting the story of five families against the background of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's other masterpiece, Anna Karenina (1873-77), told a tragical story of a married ...
- 5240: Albert Einstein
- ... world offered him huge amounts of money for an autobiography.He never accepted any of their offers.Einstein was married twice.He was seperated from his first wife after he arrived in Berlin.During World War I he married his first cousin,Elsa.She shared his life with him until she died in Princeton in 1936.He had two sons from his first marriage.He also had two stepdaughters from his ... of the simple problems of atomic energy.The third paper named "The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" set forth the theory of relativity.A manuscrpit of this paper was sold for 6 million dollars at a war bond rally in Kansas City in 1944 and was later desposited with the Library of Congress in Washington,D.C.In 1909 he became a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich in ...
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