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- 6641: Hudson Taylor
- ... relying on and trusting God for everything. Hudson then proceeded to China and was a witness and testimony to all for Christ glory feeding the God starved people in need of Christ love in the war and poverty stricken country. Hudson was an example of what the missionary should be today. Hudson showed that giving your all to God brought rewards to those who obeyed Him. Hudson succeeded in conveying the ...
- 6642: Alexander the Great
- ... poet Pindar, and selling the surviving inhabi¬ tants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in crushing the revolt of The¬ bes brought the other Greek states into instant submission. Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by crossing the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) with an army of 35,000 Macedonian and Greek troops: his chief officers, all Macedonians, included Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus. At ...
- 6643: Saint Francis of Assissi
- ... Empire he understood but little: he had a respect for ecclesiastical censure, for he had experienced in his own city its blighting effect on his religious life. He sought for far-away adventure, a mighty war, without scruples of conscience, with much glory and the crown of nobility at the end of it. How did he/she affect the world around them? All of the places that Francis visited, for example ...
- 6644: Ida B. Wells 2
- ... most hostile forms of prejudice that has ever existed in this country. Ida B. Wells was a woman who dramatically altered race relations in our country and should be honored and respected as a phenomenal civil rights activist. She kept hope alive in the African-American history and motivated others to work just as hard as she to guarantee a safe environment for all Americans.
- 6645: Ty Cobb
- Ty Cobb "Baseball," Ty Cobb liked to say, "is something like a war...Baseball is a red- blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's not pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out of it. It's...a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest" (Ward ...
- 6646: Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
- ... able to maintain peace at home and security along the borders. Tiberius seems to have been an able soldier and administrator who retained the republican form of government as much as possible. He did improve civil service, the economy and kept the army highly disciplined. Few doubt the fact that after Sejanus death Tiberius became suspicious and vengeful. Others feel that Tiberius was cruel and a tyrant. Tacitus was one of ...
- 6647: Isadora Duncan
- ... full of sorrow. She had brought three lives into the world, only to have them die in childhood. She gave up her most recent school to the French to use for battered veterans of World War I. Isadora decided that the best way to forget what was making her depressed was to abandon her romance and concentrate on her art. She went once again to New York city with only her ...
- 6648: Steven Spielberg
- ... helped him make miniature sets out of paper mache.He turned out his first production, with script and actors, when he was thirteen, and a year later he won a prize for a forty minute war movie titled Escape to Nowhere. At the age of sixteen, his 140-minute production, Firelight, was shown in a local movie theater. In college, his short film, Amblin was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival ...
- 6649: Albert Einstein
- ... his theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in 1913 he was appointed director of a new research institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute. In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the ...
- 6650: Machiavelli
- ... do anything to keep his respect with the people, but at the same time to make sure that he has ultimate control. I believe that so much control by one person will ultimately lead to war and the demise of the society. How can one person with so much power and latitude in decision making possible benefit the s ociety, in fact, they are not even benefiting themselves in that they ...
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