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- 281: Saddam Hussein
- Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi political leader, was born to a poor Arab family on April 28, 1937. Hussein studied law in Egypt after his attempt to assassinate the premier of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem, in 1959. In the summer of 1968, the Baath party returned to power and named Hussein as deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command ...
- 282: Richard Nixon
- ... nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria. In his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins on record. Within a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called "Watergate ...
- 283: Princess Diana
- ... some her dresses and suits worn on engagements and gave the profits to her various charities. In the summer of 1996 Diana met Dodi Fayed, a Hollywood film producer and son of a billionaire from Egypt. They started dating and soon their relationship turned serious. In the year before her death, the Princess was an active campaigner for a ban on the manufacture and use of land mines (British Royal Government ...
- 284: Julius Caesar
- ... Caesar intelligently sent in his last reserve, and Pompeius lines simply collapsed. Nineteen months after the crossing of the Rubico Caesar became dictator and master of the Roman Empire. The defeated Pompeius now fled to Egypt but was killed once there by his own men (Encarta 2000). Although he had to stomp out several rebellions, in 46 BC Caesar finally could stage four Triumph parades for his victories. Caesar is believed ...
- 285: Jimmy Carter
- ... the Social Security system, and appointed record numbers of women, blacks and Hispanics to Government jobs. In foreign affairs, in the Middle East, through the Camp David agreement of 1978, he helped bring amity between Egypt and Israel. He also succeeded in obtaining ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. He established full diplomatic relations with the Peoples Republic of China and completed negotiations of the SALT II nuclear limitation treaty ...
- 286: George F. Handel
- ... the sobriety and essentiality of espression sharing the true passions of the human heart and not just the needs of entertaining the upper society But ironically enoughtoday we tend to see Haendel Oratorios: Israel in Egypt, Saul (1739), Samson (1743), Belshazzar (1745) as the well-ordered firmament surrounding the Messiah (1742). Here operistic techinques like that of "Aria grande col da Capo" concurr tio create an unique religious fresco which neverthless ...
- 287: Ernest Che Guevara
- ... chiefly responsible for pushing Castro towards communism. It was a communism that was independent of the orthodox, Moscow-style communism of some of their colleagues. In 1959, he married Aledia March and together they visited Egypt, India, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Yugoslavia. Back in Cuba, as Minister for Industry (February 1960) he signed a trade pact with the USSR which freed the Cuban sugar industry from dependence on the teeth of ...
- 288: Benito Mussolini
- ... was not militarily prepared she did not enter WWII until 1940 after the Germans had overrun France. The Italians however were driven from Albania and Greece by the Greeks following some major British Victories in Egypt, which shook the foundation of fascist Italy. Mussolini then had to ask Hitler for aid, which left Italy increasingly under German control. In 1941, Italy suffered successive military disasters and growing economic problems caused by ...
- 289: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... traveled to Norway, where Conan Doyle went skiing for the first time. Shortly after this trip, Doyle helps introduce the sport of snow skiing in Switzerland.23 In 1895, Doyle and his wife traveled to Egypt for the winter season. A doctor told them that she would benefit from the therapeutic surrey air. Then they traveled up the Nile River to Sudan, an East African country. This trip later provided the ...
- 290: William Buffalo Bill Cody
- ... real Indians showing how life really was in the west. Cody s show spent ten out of its thirty years in Europe. Buffalo Bill was a featured attraction at Queen Victoria s Golden Jubilee. Only Egypt s fame opposed the Wild West as the talk of Chicago at the World s Columbian Exposition in 1893. His show exhibited many famous people, such as Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull. By the 1900 ...
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