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- 6721: Pierre Trudeau
- ... the resolutions he offers and then finds himself comprehending the dilemma that French Canadians face in Canada. In the wake of a constitutional referendum, such knowledge can be viewed as ironically significant. A defender of civil rights and freedoms, Trudeau, even as a teenager, was adamantly opposed to supporting any political theory based on ethnic tendencies; he makes this clear on an essay in the book entitled: "Quebec and the Constitutional ...
- 6722: Nostradamus
- ... change to the world will be struck and killed in front of thousands of people. This is thought to explain John F. Kennedy's death. In prophecy number II.V Nostradamus predicts a third World War. He says a great country in the north will be struck by a great blast from the sky, plague and blood. Many will suffer. The books of prophecies are very interesting to read and are ...
- 6723: Marcus Antonius
- ... 36 B.C. Antony gave many of the Roman eastern provinces to Cleopatra and their children. Octavian later convinced many Romans that Antony had behaved badly along with impatriotically. In 32 B.C. Octavian declared war on Mark Antony. Octavian's naval forces defeated Antony's and Cleopatra's combined fleets in the Battle of Actium. Antony and Cleopatra retreated to Egypt where they were soon pursed by Octavian. In 30 ...
- 6724: Marcus Garvey
- ... must be emancipated (p. 137 Altman, Susan. Extraordinary Black Americans.) are the famous words delivered by Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Born a West Indian, he later became a powerful revolutionary who led the nation into the Civil Rights Movement. Garvey dedicated his life to the "uplifting" of the Negro and to millions of Black people everywhere, he represented dignity and self-respect. Like Malcolm X of a later generation, he believed that ...
- 6725: Leonardo da Vinci
- ... Florence for Milan in about 1482 to work for Duke Lodovico Sforza. He stayed in Milan for nearly eighteen years. During his time there he applied his knowledge of mechanics to his obligations as a civil and military engineer. He also took up study in anatomy, biology, mathematics, and physics. During that time he completed his single most important painting, The Last Supper. Leonardo returned to Florence in 1500. Three years ...
- 6726: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- ... the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The young couple worked hard and saved money with a passion. Before long Alfred opened his own grocery shop, and eventually he came to own two." (Mayer,1979 ...
- 6727: Jesse Jackson: a Brief Biography
- ... call what's going on "fascism". In South Africa they call it "racism". Here in America we call it conservatism." He even once called New York City, "Hyme-town." Hearing that remark coming from a civil rights leader shocked everybody, and cost him millions of votes. Another scandal came along when he led over five hundered Stanford University students singing, "Hey hey, ho ho. Western civ has got to go!" Jesse ...
- 6728: James Cook
- ... Marton, England. At the age of 18 James Cook became an apprentice with a shipping company. His first voyages he worked on ships that carried coal to English ports. In 1755, during the French - Indian war, Cook joined the British navy. In 1759 he was given a dangerous wartime mission. He was to enter French territory and survey the St. Lawrence river for the British navy. The charts that he made ...
- 6729: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... his ancestry, though not so prosperous as on his mother's, was equally distinguished. Major Thomas Melvill, his grandfather, was one of the Indians in the Boston Tea Party during the events leading to the war and who had then served his country creditably throughout the hostilities. The Melvill family kept on their mantelpiece a bottle of tea drained out of Major Melvill's clothes after the Tea Party as a ...
- 6730: A Biography of Henry Ford
- ... of a huge plant at Willow Run, Michigan, where production was begun in May 1942. It was said the plant could produce a bomber an hour. Despite certain technical difficulties, by the end of World War II (1945) this plant had manufactured more than 8000 B-24 Liberator Bombers and other military planes. Ford was active in several other fields besides those of automobile and airplane manufacturing. He was nominated for ...
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