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- 301: Harriet Tubman 2
- ... have an unusual ability to find food and shelter during these hazardous missions. Among African Americans she came to be known as Moses, after the Biblical hero who led the Hebrews out of enslavement in Egypt. Tubman also served as an inspiration to both white and black abolitionists. She worked closely with black antislavery activist William Still in Philadelphia and with Underground Railroad conductor Thomas Garrett, a Quaker who lived in ...
- 302: Florence Nightingale 2
- ... give up hope. In 1849 her parents allowed her to go abroad and study the European hospital system. In 1850 she began training in nursing at the Institute of Saint Vincent de Paul in Alexandria, Egypt. In June of the year 1851 Florence s parents allowed her to go to nursing school. She was thirty one years old, and she was finally carrying out her calling. The school that she went ...
- 303: Ernesto Guevara De Serna
- ... 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 ...
- 304: Dorothea Lange
- ... for her work during the Great Depression. Other things she photographed were children, ships, the Depression, and many others. She also photographed Mormon communities. During her years in photography, she traveled to Asia, South America, Egypt, and India. She married Maynard Dixon in 1920. Her marriage lasted fifteen years and in 1935 she divorced him. However, while on assignment in New Mexico, she remarried to Paul Taylor. In 1939, she began ...
- 305: Comparison Of Nicholas I And Nicholas Ii
- ... Alexander II followed him as Czar. Nicholas II (1868-1918) was born at Tsarskoe Selo, then son of Alexander III and the grandson of Alexander II. He received a military education and traveled through Greece, Egypt, India, and Japan before he became czar. In 1849, he received the crown and married the German princess Alexandra of Hesse, who bore four daughters and a son. Russian liberals had hoped the new czar ...
- 306: 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 ...
- 307: Alexander The Great 2
- ... Even though Darius III, King of Persia, had raised a large army he was unable to withstand Alexander's powerful infantry and phalanx. The entire region soon submitted to Alexander. Following this he went to Egypt, where he was welcomed as a deliverer because the Egyptians hated their cruel Persian rulers. It was here that Alexander founded the famous city that bears his name. Alexandria, situated on a strip of land ...
- 308: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... close to Vienna, the Austrians surrendered, and made a treaty with France. This gave France the Netherlands, and it made the Rhine River the eastern border of France. He made an unsuccessful attempt to invade Egypt. And in 1799 he returned to France to find the Directory (the French Government) was a mess. The overthrew the Directory, and created a new government, in which there were three consuls, and he was ...
- 309: The Life And Death Of Julius C
- ... 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 ...
- 310: Sir 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 ...
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