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- 6571: The Accomplishments of Peter The Great
- ... lively and energetic boy compared to his other siblings who were sick and weak. From his early years he was interested in military games, fire, bombs and fireworks. He organized his own "play regiments" and war games by enlisting gentlemen's sons. He also had contact with foreigners and was fascinated with their way of life. His education started around the age of seven. One of his tutors was Nikita Zotov ...
- 6572: Earl Warren
- Earl Warren, better known as a chief justice who led the Supreme Court of the United States in making difficult decisions in changes with civil rights laws and criminal cases, was an American jurist and political leader. Warren was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angeles California. He attended the University of California for his education, and was admitted ...
- 6573: Andrew Jackson
- ... two terms in office made him out to be a good president. He tied the United States with France and Britain that helped us out in many ways in the future in both economic and war situations. Jackson also estailblished a solid Supreme Court system that is still being built on today. He may have done some contraversal things while president, but I feel his ups out weigh his downs. That ...
- 6574: Eli Whitney
- ... hundred guineas a year. He sailed on a small coasting packet with only a few passengers, among whom was the widow of the Revolutionary general, Nathanael Greene. The Greenes had settled in Savannah after the war. When Whitney arrived in South Carolina, he found that the promised salary was going to be halved. He not only refused to take the position, but decided to give up teaching all together. Coming to ...
- 6575: Marco Polo's Influence
- ... search for China and its riches. The foreigners to China then were very powerful and could have gone to China to strip their goods. This may have linked to some events such as the Opium War, and almost getting China colonized. Even though Marco Polo did not "corrupt" the Chinese deliberately, it did cause some effect by triggering a lot of people to going to China. Not only bad effects, but ...
- 6576: Ernesto Che Guevara
- ... began to move more quickly. Within a year the guerrilla forces began setting up liberated territory in the mountains and moving out across Cuba. Fidel knew that if he could take Santa Clara, then the war would almost be guaranteed his. Santa Clara fell on January 1, 1959 not long after Batista had left the country. By the next day the whole island was under the control of the rebel forces ...
- 6577: Isabella I
- ... authority, a principle expressed in the motto, "Tanto monta, monta tanto-Isabel como Fernando (As much as the one is worth so much is the other-Isabella as Fernando)". While they were carrying on a war against neighboring Granada, Christopher Columbus presented himself to the Catholic sovereigns, and to Queen Isabella fell the honor of appreciating the genius who had not been understood at Genoa, at Venice, or in Portugal. He ...
- 6578: Robert Frost And His Life
- ... close to a brooding Welshman named Edward Thomas, whom he urged to turn from prose to poetry. Thomas did so, dedicating his first and only volume of verse to Frost before his death in World War I. The Frosts sailed for the United States in February 1915 and landed in New York City two days after the U.S. publication of North of Boston (the first of his books to be ...
- 6579: Martin Luther
- ... fight, and do everything else. Dear Lord God the Father, preserve and strengthen this faith in me by your Spirit. Amen" (Luther and Schultz 135-136). It should be understood, however, that Luther never sanctioned war, which he believed was a definite indication of mankind's depravity. Yet, a Christian soldier may possibly be saved by God's Grace just as any other Christian may be so blessed. One of the ...
- 6580: E. E. Cummings
- ... to volunteering as an ambulance driver in France during WWII. From his experiences in La Ferte Mace (a detention camp) he accumulated material for his documentary novel, The Enormous Room (1922), one of the best war books by an American (Triem 2). After a lifetime of literary achievement, Cummings died in Conway, NH, on Sept. 3, 1962 at the age of 68 (Ulanov 565). Thus, his early childhood and his later ...
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