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- 6681: John Locke
- ... God, because it is a God given right that a man should gain property through labor. This also sets the tone of the role of government, that of servitude instead of command. Locke believed that civil society existed to free individuals from the insecurity of the state of nature. He thought that men united voluntarily in a concerted effort of preserving and protecting life, liberty, and estate. Here again we see ...
- 6682: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... job with the Shell Oil company, which eventually led to a stint in the Royal Air Force. After writing a story for the Saturday Evening Post about being shot down in the desert during World War II, he began to write short stories for a living. After publishing several compilations, critics began to accuse him of plot repetition; in response to this, and also some interesting bedtimes stories he made up ...
- 6683: John DeLorean and His Acomplishments
- ... mouth. Any interruption- in anything- could spell disaster. The first such disaster occ urred when a shipping strike shut down some supply lines. The second was a stagnant US auto market. The worst since World War 2. Dealer credit lines were quickly exhausted. DeLorean dealers lost the ability to pay for the cars they had ordered. The U K government (now under the control of the conservative party,) put DeLorean Motor ...
- 6684: The Life of Claude Monet
- ... was forced to remain in Paris. This marked the beginning of a lifestyle which was becoming increasingly 1870s, culminating in Monet's move to London in the early to avoid involvement in the Franco-Prussian War. Here he was exposed to the English masters, Constable and Turner. Monet eventually moved back to Paris and finally rented a house at Argenteuil on the Seine where he and Camille lived for six years ...
- 6685: Julius Caesar
- ... leaving them to die of thirst hanging naked on crosses in the hot Mediterranean sun. Julius Caesar's most famous accomplishments might as well be the conquest of Gaul and the invasion of Britain. The civil wars that had plagued the Roman Republic kept going during the reign of Julius Caesar, and he was a major player in the struggle for power and leadership. He defeated his major rival Cnaeus Pompey ...
- 6686: Seeing Through Salvador Dalํ's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
- ... in 1934, Dalํ visited America for the first time. He held two solo art exhibitions and as a result was featured in the Hall of Fame section of the American magazine Vanity Fair. As World War II broke out, Dalํ and other artist refugees were forced to move to Paris. Most of Dalํ's recent work was destroyed by fascists. At about this time, a dark, gothic side of Dalํ was ...
- 6687: Adolf Hitler's A Oratory Genius
- ... environment almost immediately. There is little doubt that Adolf Hitler projected a commanding presence. The aforementioned was merely a description of events which took place prior to one of his famous speeches during the pre-war Nazi years, when his party was only coming into power and Adolf Hitler, as a personality, was making his presence known on the scene. This historical backdrop of Germany in the 1930's reveals a ...
- 6688: John Coltrane
- ... From the very moment that he learned his instrument, he wanted to revolutionize it." While enrolled in school, Coltrane worked at the local sugar refinery to help pay for debts. During the occurrence of World War II, Coltrane played with the US Navy Band; and afterwards in 1947, Coltrane returned to Philadelphia and began working around established musicians Jimmy Heath, Howard McGhee, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, and Joe Webb in local bars ...
- 6689: Charles Darwin: His Life Story of Dicovery
- ... interest in Holy order by the and became interested in something never before, Natural History. In 1831 he graduated from Cambridge with a B.A. He met many connections who were his allies in a "war" against the scientific communitys belief of how evolution does occur. Infact, one of his "connections" a professor and friend of his, Johns Stevens Henslow endorsed Darwin for an unpaid position as naturalist on a ...
- 6690: Charles Darwin
- ... increased at a geometric rate, whereas food supply increased only at an arithmetic rate. Therefore population was continually outstripping food supply, and was kept in check only by starvation, or by indirect acts such as war and diseases. Malthusianism raised a very good question which is not easily noticed. Which individuals survived in hard times, and which died? Luck was probably the largest factor, but not the only one, other factors ...
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