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- 1891: Czar Nicholas II
- ... Russia was forced to abdicate the throne for himself and son Aleksey. The abdication left the throne open for Nicholas's brother, the Grand Duke Michael, but he refused to live under the threat of revolution and assassination. The Czar's family was put under house arrest by Lenin's people in a nice palace, However, they were soon moved to a large, secluded cottage. On July 17, 1918, the family ...
- 1892: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top honors in French and Latin. On May 26, 1827, Poe enlisted in the US Army under the name Edgar A. Perry. He joined Battery H of the 1st Artillery, then stationed at Fort Independence. While Poe served there ...
- 1893: ON Doc Hollidays Death Bed
- ... drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and French languages. Amazingly Docs favorite subject was rhetoric, his teachers claimed that Doc had a way with words unsurpassed by anyone in his class. All of these factors may have contributed to Doc having a ...
- 1894: Octavian Augustus
- ... feared that the brothers were trying to take power away from the government. They ordered mobs to kill the brothers and hundreds of their supporters. The Gracchi's efforts were the beginning of the Roman Revolution (Hanes 1997). In 107 B.C.E., a popular general named Marius was elected consul. Because of his military background, Marius was interested in improving the army. He started to accept anyone into the army ...
- 1895: Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader of Germany
- ... Propaganda Campaign in History. New York: Putnam, 1978. Laurie, Arthur P. The Case for Germany. Berlin: International Verlag, 1939. Smith, Bradley F. Adolf Hitler; His Family, Childhood, and Youth. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1967.
- 1896: Michelangelo, Renaissance Man
- ... rather than primarily from the front. The "Bacchus" led at once to the commission for the "Pieta", a devotional image of the Virgin Mary supporting the dead Christ on her knees. The patron was a French cardinal and the theme was borrowed from northern European art. The problem for Michelangelo, was to extract two figures from on marble block. This sculpture won him wide fame. He underlined the many contrasts present ...
- 1897: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... problem of Indians who had come to South Africa as laborers. He had seen how they were treated as inferiors in India, in England, and then in South Africa. In 1906, Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He started protest campaigns and organized demonstrations, but never ...
- 1898: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... and fell in love with Jacqueline Bouvier. "Jackie", as she was known, came from a wealthy Catholic background as prestigious as the Kennedys. She attended Vassar College and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She spoke French, Italian, and Spanish fluently. They were wed on September 12,1953, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. All seemed well, yet after three two-year terms as a Congressman, Kennedy became ...
- 1899: Bill Gate's Biography
- ... States and Canada; more than $54 million to community projects in the Pacific Northwest; and more than $29 million to special projects and annual giving campaigns. Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. The couple has two children: a daughter, Jennifer Katharine Gates, born in 1996; and a son, Rory John Gates, born in 1999. Gates is an avid reader and enjoys playing golf and bridge.
- 1900: The California Gold Rush
- ... Mexico. Due to the lack of a large population and association to belong to, some said, Politically, technologically, and socially, revolutions were occurring everywhere (Axon 5). The year of 1848 was the year of the revolution. There was suffering from a variety of problems, including the change from agriculture to industry and from undemocratic rule to popular elections. Such turmoil in the world at this time caused the basis of communism ...
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