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- 271: Julius Caesar: Military and Political Strength
- ... Sulla, Marius's enemy and leader of the Optimates, was made dictator in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. Caesar was not harmed but he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused that order and left Rome he did not return until Sulla's resignation in 78 BC. At the age of 22 Caesar was unable to gain office and went to Rhodes where ...
- 272: Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist
- ... Wright) Another quote of Nellie's was ... "Another trouble is that if men start to vote they will vote too much. Politics unsettles men, and unsettled men mean unsettled bills - broken furniture, broken vows, and - divorce ..." (54, Wright) After women obtained more rights, over time, it paved the way to the acceptance of women in political jobs. Nellie McClung had been elected a Liberal member of the Alberta provincial legislature in ...
- 273: The Life of Jack London
- ... the story of Buck. In this book Jack uses the theory of the survival of the fittest. In the fall of 1904 it was official that Jack London was divorced from Bess Maddern. After the divorce Jack starts his semi autobiographical book John Barleycorn. Jack was in a serious state of depression. His former wife Bess would not allow him to see his daughters. He was afraid that he might kill ...
- 274: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... an affair with Ian, and now pregnant, the time had come for Fleming, at almost 44 years of age to act like a grown-up and marry. As Fleming waited in Jamaica for Anne's divorce to become final, he wrote the first draft of a novel, Casino Royale. Ian Fleming wrote many other books. The most famous of wich are the James Bond 007 Series. The books outline the life ...
- 275: The Works of Graham Greene
- ... in love with the same woman, Phuong. Phuong first started off as Fowler*s girlfriend, but when she realized he could not give her what she wanted, children, because of his wife who will not divorce him because of religious reasons, she leaves for Pyle. Fowler and Pyle still remain friends, but Fowler always carries some envy for Pyle*s youth and confidence. Fowler is against personal involvement in the war ...
- 276: Marilyn Monroe: Suicide or Murder
- ... Century Fox, where she was bound contractually to film Something's Got to Give. Monroe started shooting the film in April 1962, seventeen months after her starring role in The Misfits; fifteen months after her divorce from the movie's screen writer, Aurther Miller; and fourteen months after she had been treated for an addiction to barbiturates and alcohol. But the actress's respiratory infections and chronic stage fright delayed shooting ...
- 277: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... perhaps even outward disdain from the townspeople he encountered. Rachel's husband, who had had her imprisoned in Christiansted some years before for adultery, had posted a public summons for her to appear before a divorce court, declaring her a whore who had given birth to illegitimate children. After Rachel's death from yellow fever, her husband then sued for all her assets, depriving her "whore children" of any benefit her ...
- 278: John DeLorean and His Acomplishments
- ... and Zachary as a millwright in a Detroit Ford factory. The family lived in a small house, and for most of Johns childhood they were relatively happy. Zachary's drinking problem eventually led to a divorce when John was 17. Even as a young child, he was exposed to the underbelly of the automotive industry. When young John was 6 or 7 the family was awakened in the middle of the ...
- 279: The Work of Poet and Philosoher Archibald Lampman
- ... rooted to the lurid floor A bulk that never moves a jot, In his pale body dwells no more Or mind or soul,--an idiot! I take this strange group to mean two things: a divorce of intellect and coporeality, to the corruption or both; and a division of society's destructive implications for individuals and societies alike. It hath no name that rings; But I have heard it called in ...
- 280: Tchaikovsky: His Life and Times
- ... as well as an empty head. As a result of his marital despair, he attempted suicide. He fell into unconsciousness and it was during that time that his brother and a good friend requested a divorce from Antonina. She was extremely calm during their visit, but was later hospitalized in a mental institution after sending several violent threats to Tchaikovsky and his family, stalking him, and consoling in many lovers with ...
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