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- 6521: St. John The Evangelist
- ... If you would ask any person to list his challenges almost everybody would tell you that he wrote a gospel. It is believed that he wrote a Gospel at the year of 96, after the death of Domitian. His object in writing it he tells us himself: “These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, you may have life ...
- 6522: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... again ever since. Today it is called the Binomial Theroem. That same year, 1665, Isaac graduated from Trinity College. He wanted to stay at the university to continue his studies. But the plague, the Black Death, had broken out in England and it was striking many people. The university had been shut down and the students were all sent home, because people were afraid that the plague would strike Cambridge. Newton ...
- 6523: St. Joan Of Arc
- ... commanded by Heavenly Voices to lead the French armies against the English forces which had invaded France. She did so with great success. Betrayed, she was tried by civil and apostolic courts and condemned to death. She was burned alive at the stake in Rouen, May 31, 1431. A later trial established her innocence and after due process she was declared a Saint in 1920. Domremy was a small village in ...
- 6524: Shaka Zulu
- ... was an extremely successful military leader. When his father died, Shaka was not the named heir, but becoming the chief of the Zulu was vital to his future plans. The named heir had a timely death, allowing Shaka to take the chieftainship. One of the first changes he implemented was to conscript all males under the age of forty into regiments where they would learn to use the weapons and tactics ...
- 6525: Stephen Hawking
- ... visited the Vatican, he saw Galileo’s theory that the earth went around the sun. Hawking has a great fondness for Galileo as he was born three hundred years to the day after Galileo’s death. In 1975, Hawking was elected Lucasion Professor of Mathematics (once held by Isaac Newton). There is a big book that everyone who holds this title has to sign. After one year of being Lucasian professor ...
- 6526: Sir Thomas More
- ... the end of the play. In the conclusion of the play because Thomas chose to go against Kings divorce, he was put to trial for treason. Sir Thomas More is still given chances to escape death throughout the trial, but chooses not to because of his strong religious beliefs. Cromwell asks "Sir Thomas you stand upon your silence" More answers "I do" to this. Richard Rich is used as convicting evidence ...
- 6527: St. Gregory Of Tours
- ... His Grandfather was the Bishop of Langres. When Gregory was young, his father died and he went to live with his Uncle. His uncle, Gallus, was the Bishop of Clermont. Gallus educated him until his death in 554. Gregory’s mother left to live with friends in Burgandy and left her son to Avitus who became Bishop of Clermont after Gallus. Avitus taught Gregory all about the Scriptures. Gregory was not ...
- 6528: Samuel Adams - American Patrio
- ... Massachusetts from 1793 to 1797. "Born in Boston, died in Boston" might be a good epitaph for Samuel Adams, as noted by William Fowler in his book Samuel Adams - Radical Puritan. Adams died a peaceful death on October 3, 1803. His contributons to the success of our nation can never be forgotten, and his dedication to the rights of Americans should never go without recognition. ______________________________________________ Bibliography Fowler, W. (1997). Samuel Adams ...
- 6529: Socrates
- Upon reading Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates strongly held views on the relationship between morality and laws become apparent to the reader. Equally, Socrates makes clear why laws should be followed and why disobedience to the law is rarely ...
- 6530: Stalin
- ... the revolutionaries Stalin believed it to be the perfect time to come back and renew his political ambitions. Stalin was appointed Commissar of Nationalities after the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. After Lenin's death in 1924 the country was ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Stalin, G. E. Zinoviev and L. B. Kamenev. From this point on Stalin simply concentrated more and more power into his own hands. In ...
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