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- 4191: Atomic Bomb 6
- ... cost some 500,00 American lives and millions of dollars. It was further noted, based on experience in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, that in an amphibious assault of the Japanese coast, would result on the death or wounding of 30%-35% of US soldiers. It was only likely that the same passion and intensity that defended and killed 120,00 American men on the relatively small island of Okinawa would present ... would employ more that 2.3 million well trained and well equip Japanese troops (a number 19 times greater than that killed in both the atomic blast), whose ultimate ending would likely be a proud death in battle, this figure of course does not include any civilian resistance and casualties. And while one could make the case that these 2.3 million men are combatants and therefore are considered expendable by ...
- 4192: Marcus Brutus-the Tragic Hero
- ... Brutus is facing a dilemma in which case he is torn between the life of his friend and what is better for the city of Rome. With Brutus being a true Roman he chooses the death of his friend. With Brutus joining the conspirators, who are plotting against Caesar, they are now even more powerful and can influence the people easier. While all the conspirators stab Caesar in the back, Brutus ... only one to stab Caesar face to face. Marc Antony, Ocatavius, and Lepidus take over the triumvirate. Brutus and Cuis Cassuis took their troops in against Antony and his troops. This will be where Brutus death and tragic flaw take place. While at camp Brutus and Cassius get into an argument leading to Cassuis saying he shall kill himself. After that in solved Brutus heads to bed. In the middle of ...
- 4193: Jonathan Larson
- ... the sold out audience to the opening night preview! Dead. Before he could see with his eyes what he had watched in his head a million times already. And what was the final cause of death you might ask? Was it a deadly infection of ecoli? Possibly a rare virus ? Or mabey a combination of the two. Like a virus introduced to him through food poisoning. The answer is no. An undeniable no at that. The actual cause of death, aortic aneurysm (a foot long tear in his aorta). New York State Health Commissioner stated that it could have been treated with` a surgery which had a survival rate of 80%. Ironies like these plagued ...
- 4194: Jules Verne
- ... and had a permanent limp as a result. His great friend and publisher, Jules Hetzel passed away on March 17, 1886. His mother died next, in February of 1887. He was very sad over the death of mother as that marked the fact that both his parents were gone. He became further immobilized in June, 1893, when he had to battle attacks of dizziness, leg and eye problems. His immediate family as a youth all left him with the death of his much loved brother, Paul in 1897. At the turn of the century, Verne stayed as an active person and continued to write, even with age and illness. March 24, 1905, his family were ...
- 4195: Booker T. Washington
- ... of these speeches, which led to many contributors such as Andrew Carnagie, John Rockefellar, and Collis Huntington. As for Tuskegee Institute, its success was beyond Washington's wildest dreams. At the time of Washington's death, 34 years after its founding, the school property included 2,345 acres and 107 buildings, with nearly 200 faculty members and more than 1,500 students. Tuskegee Institute had become the world's leader in agricultural and industrial education for the Negro. Booker's spirit and name live on long after his death. He is remembered and admired for his struggle for the black man. Tuskegee Institute still exists today and is quite well off, with over 3,250 students, about 5,000 acres, and an annual budget ...
- 4196: Armenian Genocide
- ... Sassun refused to continue paying the extortionary tax to the Kurdish. So Abdul-Hamid ordered Turkish along with Kurdish soldiers to go over to Sassun and to put an end to the insubordinate uprising. The death toll has been estimated at as low as 900 and as high as 60,000 Armenians. International missionaries stationed in Turkey at that time reported these atrocities to the European and American media. They (the ... Hamid stop abusing the Armenians. Abdul-Hamid agreed to stop, but instead he encouraged the Hamidayee to loot and kill Armenians. In one reported incident 3,000 men, women, and children came to a fiery death while huddled inside of a church for (ironically enough) protection. Between 1894 and 1896 about 200,000 Armenians were slaughtered. The primary goal of these massacres was not for extermination however, but rather to teach ...
- 4197: Macbeth From Hero To Murdereth
- ... give a sense of the supernatural. When Catherine Earnshaw's health fails and she's on her deathbed, she thinks that she sees a face in the mirror, which she interprets as an omen of death. Once more, the face is probably her own reflection and because she's sick and feverish, she thinks that she sees a ghost. The other important example of the use of mysticism in Jane Eyre ... bond between the two must be so strong as to transcend into the surreal. Also when Heathcliff tells us that he has been hearing Catherine's voice we becomes aware to what extent Catherine's death has affected Heathcliff, and begin to sympathize with him. Thus we come to the conclusion that the mention of mystical occurrences, plays a big part in the unfolding of the story. One of the last ...
- 4198: Georg Cantor
- ... Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg study mathematics. In 1862, Georg Cantor entered the University of Zurich only to transfer the next year to the University of Berlin after his father's death. At Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 from Berlin, he was unable ... of the important mathematical journals of his day, and he used his influence to prevent much of Cantor's work from being published in his lifetime. Cantor did not know at the time of his death, that not only would his ideas prevail, but that they would shape the course of 20th century mathematics.
- 4199: Blaise Pascal
- ... lead to disputes with various scientists who didn't believe in vacuums. Etienne Pascal died in September of 1651, which hurt Blaise badly. He wrote to one his sisters giving a deep Christian meaning to death in general and also to his father's death particularly. These ideas were to later form the basis of his philosophical work called Pensees. Then in May 1653 Pascal worked with mathematics and physics writing Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids which he explains ...
- 4200: Billy The Kid
- ... to escape. That is when Wallace put a $500 price on his head and when one of his good friends Pat Garrett became a sheriff and was sent to look for him. Billy the Kids death is probably the greatest debated aspect of his life. On July 14, 1881 while Billy was visiting a Mexican woman at the Maxwell ranch Pat Garrett found him in the large ranch house. In Garrett’s report he stated that "Billy came into the bedroom armed with a pistol and a knife expressly to kill me if he could. I had no alternative but to kill him or suffer death at his hands". It is reported that Billy had been shot in the back while others report that Garrett had shot him right in the heart. Either way the brief career of this outlaw ended ...
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