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- 1901: Maya Angelou
- ... at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to ...
- 1902: Mikhail Lermontov
- ... was a beginning of imperialism. Since all conquests were done outside of Europe culture flourished in the Old World. Indeed where there is culture there are thinkers who by their thoughts shape the future. Industrial revolution, being in full expansion, gave rise to the idea of domination of the world by proletariat (Communist Manifesto by Marx). Following all this it is impossible for the contemporary writers not to include some of ...
- 1903: Benito Mussolini and His Impact on World War 2
- ... be turned to her decisive disadvantage. Hitler suggested to Mussolini that Spain might be coaxed on the axis side, thus giving Germany free use of the British Rock of Gibraltar, by offering Franco part of French North Africa, and that France might be persuaded to accept that concession by compensation with parts of British West Africa. Mussolini seemed enthusiastic and very understandable why this was the case, since this scheme included ...
- 1904: Comparing Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein
- ... Hitlers demands could preserve war. That policy became known as appeasement. Chamberlain had several meetings with Hitler, and at every meeting Hitler had increased his demands every time. On September 29, 1938, Chamberlain and French Premier Edoured Daladier met with Hitler and Mussolini, dictator of Italy, in Munich, Germany. The meeting became known as the Munich Conference. Chamberlain and Daladier agreed to turn over the Sudentenland to Germany, which was ...
- 1905: Mohandas K. Gandhi: Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live
- ... evaporating seawater. Sixty thousand people were put in prison. Gandhi began fasting when negotiations fell through. The government knew they had to change the constitution. They knew that if Gandhi died, they would have a revolution on their hands. In studying Mohandas Gandhi, I have developed a profound sense of respect and great admiration for this man. It is totally beyond belief how this meek, little man was able to stand ...
- 1906: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... 000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in B-Minor, the motets, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F Major, French Suite No 5, Fugue in G Major, Fugue in G Minor ("The Great"), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in ...
- 1907: Adolf Hitler
- ... Having neutralized the Soviet Union with the promise of a partition of Poland after the latter's defeat, he attacked Poland in September 1939. The Poles were quickly overpowered, and their allies, the British and French, who had declared war on Germany, would do nothing to help. In the spring of 1940 Hitler's forces overran Denmark and Norway and a few weeks later routed the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. The ...
- 1908: Caravaggio
- ... using the easily understandable terms of the visible world" (Friedlander, ix). His coarse treatment of religious matters has created many interpretations. Some critiques have used a Freudian analysis to link his actions to the sexual revolution of the 1960's and Gay Liberation. Others believe his pictorial realism is a metaphysical - existentialist movement, where visions of death replace that of life (Spear, p.25). His work inspired a number of artists ...
- 1909: Fire 2
- ... fire could be made by focusing the sun's rays with a lens or curved mirror ([CD-ROM], 1996). People remained ignorant of the true character of fire until 1783. In that year the great French chemist Antoine Lavoisier investigated the properties of oxygen and laid the foundation for modern chemistry ([CD-ROM], 1996). Lavoisier showed that ordinary fire is due to the chemical process called oxidation, which is the combination ...
- 1910: Agatha Christie
- ... at "the top of his form, few fictional sleuths can surpass the amazing little Belgian. . . with his murderous attacks on the English language" (C.L.C., Vol. 12, p. 118). Poirot speaks some phrases in French, which adds spice and variety to the reading. An example is when Poirot is calculating the misdirection of the chair that Roger Ackroyd was in when he was murdered: "voila' ce qui est curiex," murmured ...
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