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- 8981: Ignatius of Antioch
- ... carrying him to Rome touched port he was greeted by hundreds of Christians. He literally had to beg wealthy Christians not to use their political connections to prevent his martyrdom. Within Thirty years from his death he was venerated as a saint by the universal Church. Today St. Ignatius of Antioch is remembered in the listing of the saints in the First Eucharistic Prayer. He is remembered on his feast day ...
- 8982: Alexander The Great
- ... among the various peoples, but he was able to keep them under his control, integrating them into a single nation. This is increasingly impressive when you consider how fast it fell apart after Alexander's death. I believe the true achievement of Alexander was not his ability to create this supranational community, but rather the idea he had behind it all. Alexander's philosophy was truly revolutionary, especially when you put ...
- 8983: Walt Disney
- ... in St. Joseph's hospital in Burbank, California, Walt Disney died. Many people were shocked as well as hurt by this. Disney was only sixty six years old but accomplished so many things before his death. By that time, 80,000,000 people had at one time purchased Disney licensed merchandise, 10,000,000 had watched a Disney television show, 240,000,000 people had seen a Disney movie, and 800 ...
- 8984: Joan of Arc
- ... theology, so Joan was trapped into making damaging statements. When she refused to retract the statement that it was the saints of god who commanded her to do what she did, she was condemned to death as a heretic and a sorceress. She was then burned at the stake on May 30, 1431. She was nineteen. Thirty years later she was absolved of all guilt and she was canonized in 1920 ...
- 8985: William Richardson Davie
- ... in the U.S. Army that same year. Davie later served as a peace commissioner to France in 1799. Davie stood as a candidate for Congress in 1803 but met defeat. In 1805, after the death of his wife, Davie retired from politics to his plantation, "Tivoli," in Chester County, South Carolina. In 1813 he declined an appointment as major-general from President Madison. Davie was 64 years old when he ...
- 8986: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... activity in Latin America. Che's intransigence towards both capitalist and communist establishment forced Castro to drop him (1965), not officially, but in practice. For some months even his whereabouts were a secret and his death was widely rumored: he was in various African countries, notably the Congo surveying the possibilities of turning the Kinshasa rebellion into a Communist revolution, by Cuban-style guerrilla tactics. He returned to Cuba to train ...
- 8987: Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
- ... by the US Goverment. For more than ten years he opposed the war and American imperialism. As the president of the Anti-Imperialist League, he was an outspoken critic. From 1900 until shortly before his death, he expressed this opposition in numerous essays, stories, letters and speeches. Twain's impassioned involvement with Anti-Imperialism was one of his most significant and longest political affiliations. He was widely recognized during his lifetime ...
- 8988: Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations
- ... years he may have had second thoughts about ever starting the trip. Yes, he went down in history as the man who discovered America. Yet it does not seem that it was worth the early death he was bestowed. I am now going to discuss his joy of the beauty of what he discovered, and what later became his own hell. " All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes, and all ...
- 8989: Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856)
- ... journals and maybe because he was very isolated from the mainstream of chemistry done in his time. Avogadro's work was recognized nearly fifty years after he had made his hypothesis. Two years after his death, his colleague, Cannizzaro, showed how the use of Avogadro's number could solve many of the problems in chemistry. This time Avogadro's paper was looked at more carefully over a wider and more distinguished ...
- 8990: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... of the Navy also two cousins Margret Suckley and Laura Delano. And Elizabeth Shoumatof an artist who would paint the last life portrait of President Roosevelt. At eleven O’clock on the day of his death he was sitting for Elizabeth signing documents and handing them to secretary Bill Hassett. He put a new cigarette in his cigarette holder, he was once asked why he used a holder his reply was ...
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