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- 8991: Julius Caesar's Personality Was What Killed Him
- ... was warned a few more times by his wife and the Soothsayer that something was going to happen. A conspiracy was taken place. Caesars vanity, pride, and his belief that the hour of his death has not been predetermined, kept him from listening to the warnings. He could not see through the deeds of Cassius. He felt Soothsayer was a dreamer and his wife a worrier. Eventually Julius Caesar was ...
- 8992: Levi
- ... the emergence of Jewish consciousness and pride with the historical documentation of action taken on the Russian front by partisan Jewish groups against retreating Nazi forces. Levi died in Turin on April 11, 1987. His death was apparently a suicide - in his home building Levi hurled himself down the central stairwell. The last work he completed was the essay collection I SOMMERSI E I SALVATI (1986). In it Levi made one ...
- 8993: John Dalton
- ... are composed of tiny, indestructible particles called atoms that are all alike and have the same atomic weight. In 1817 he became president of the Philosophical Society, an honorary office that he held until his death on July 27, 1844 in Manchester England.
- 8994: The Accomplishments of Peter The Great
- ... Western model, and his "play regiments" were transformed into regiments of the Guards. This improvement of military force was going to help him in defeating Russia's enemy. In 1696, after his mother and Ivans death he took over the actual governance of his realm. Peter's violations of the customs and his decision to visit western Europe shocked the Muscovites. Opposition groups and the signs of revolt were very quickly ...
- 8995: Archimedes
- ... and the use of statics in geometry. Miscellaneous mathematical works make up the third group. Toward the end of Archimedes life, the political situation around him became worse as the years went by. After the death of Hieron II, Syracuse fell into the hands of his grandson, Hieronymus, who changed from the alliance of Rome to the alliance of Carthage. After the Romans heard of this revelation they sent a fleet ...
- 8996: The Reign of Hitler
- ... opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry." The only people which would be spared where the Scandinavians to the north, since they were closely related to the German race. With Hitler's death the Nazi party quickly fated. But there is still a lot of tension in todays Germany.
- 8997: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... notebooks as studies. He never built the devices or published the blueprints," explains Professor Dori of the National Museum of Science in Haifa. Da Vincis notebooks were passed along to a friend upon his death and only rediscovered in the nineteenth century. Ironically, some of Leonardo Da Vincis designs such as ball bearings were only re-invented hundreds of years later.
- 8998: Mozart: Portrait Of A Genius
- ... and complete loss, the unfulfillment of his need for love, and the meaninglessness of his life. So he gave up and died--without success, at least in his own heart. But it was after his death that fame and success awaited him around the corner. Mozart was a hard worker but he died feeling defeated by life. He felt his life had lost value and meaning. He felt that he lost ...
- 8999: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- ... different, to be our own person, and to not follow the crowd, or as he says, Be not like dumb driven cattle! He states that we all live our lives awaiting the seductive call of death, when we should be living our lives to the fullest, and trying to better ourselves each and every day we are alive. "Half-way up the stairs it stands, And points and beckons with its ...
- 9000: Isabella I
- ... Valladolid). She was the daughter of John II, King of Castile, by his second wife, Isabella of Portugal. Isabella married an arranged suitor, Ferdinand, in the palace of Juan de Vivero, in 1469. On the death of Henry IV, Isabellawas proclaimed Queen of Castile. Ferdinand succeeded to the throne of Aragon, and thus the definitive unity of the Spanish nation was accomplished in the two monarchs to whom a Spanish pope ...
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