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- 6621: The Life of Julius Caesar
- ... efforts, to protect their valuable commodities. He struck when his enemies least expected it, often harsh weather conditions at the oddest hours. He met with unquestionable success, at every corner, the conquest of Gaul, the civil wars, just to mention a few. Caesar appointed himself as the Proconsul of Gaul and later succeeded in bringing it under Roman control by 55 BC. It is believed that Gaul was of great interest ...
- 6622: Harry S. Truman
- ... became the Grandview postmaster. In 1915 he invested in lead mines in Missouri, lost his money, and then turned to the oil fields of Oklahoma. Two years later, just before the United States entered World War I, he sold his share in the oil business and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He trained at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, but returned to Missouri to help recruit others. He was elected first lieutenant ...
- 6623: Joan of Arc
- Joan of Arc Joan of Arc is also called the Maid of Orleans, a patron of France and a national heroine. Joan led the resistance to the English invasion in the Hundred Years' War. She was born the third of five children to a farmer. Jacques Darc and his wife Isabelle de Vouthon in the town of Domermy on the border of provinces of Champagne and Lorraine. Her childhood ...
- 6624: Henry VIII's Divorce From Catherine of Aragon
- ... all things. Farewell."(Albert, p.237). At two o'clock that afternoon, Queen Catherine died. When Henry received word of this, he was in relief, "Thank God, we are now free from any fear of war."(Albert, p.237). In conclusion, King Henry VIII, was seeking a divorce with Catherine of Aragon, not because of his conscience, but because of his love for Anne Boleyn. Throughout the time of the divorce ...
- 6625: Captain Kidd
- ... Kidd have made him the most famous of pirates. Acts of piracy were never definitely linked to him and some authorities now doubt that he was ever a pirate at all. In King Williams war between the English and the French, he became known as the bold captain of a privateer in the West Indies. Later, at the request of the governor of New York, Kidd was given two commissions ...
- 6626: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... members of the elitist Society of the Antiquaries in Burlington House (Duchκne 66). Following their museum tour, the pieces found a permanent home in Berlin, from where they were stolen by the Russians following World War II. They resurfaced in the Pushkin Museum in the 90's, and have since been dated to 2250 B.C., which makes it impossible for them to have been in King Priam's treasures ("Lost ...
- 6627: Albert Einstein
- ... honor, insisting that he was not fitted for such a position. Einstein was married twice. He was separated from his first wife, a physicist named Mileva Maric, soon after his arrival in Berlin. After World War I, he married his first cousin, Elsa. She died at Princeton in 1936. He had two sons and a daughter by his first wife. He gained two stepdaughters in his second marriage.
- 6628: Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book ...
- 6629: Henry Charles Carey
- ... transported to another land, therefore the produce grown in the states would not be returned to the soils of the states. This simple fact would lead to a multitude of unfortunates including; soil exhaustion, unemployment, war and disruption. By 1951, Carey had established his theory of protection@. His book entitled AHarmony of Interest@ reflected this protectionist theory. Many of his ideas of protectionism resembled those of Freidrich List. As international trade ...
- 6630: Henry David Thoreau
- ... devotion to nature and his writing was a key to his excellence in writing. Henry David Thoreau also felt that individualism was a great necessity to his writing style. In his piece of literature titled "Civil Disobedience", he expressed his belief in the power and the obligation of the individual to determine right from wrong, independent of the dictates of society. Thoreau's friends agreed with his views, but few practiced ...
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