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- 1361: John Bates Clark
- ... role in the development of marginal productivity, and had a great influence on the development of economic thought in the United States. Clark was educated at Amherst College and at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He taught at Carlton College in Northfield, Minnesota from 1875 to 1881. He then moved on to teach at Smith College, Amherst, Johns Hopkins and Columbia from which he retired in 1923. In formulating the ...
- 1362: Richelieu and Olivares: The Quest for European Domination
- ... Morgues, who knew Richelieu intimately, speaks of the Cardinal's hatred for the Count-Duke (114). As the impending war loomed, Richelieu and Olivares sought allies to defend against each other. Richelieu found allies in Germany, Italy and even Protestant countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands. While Richelieu gained support from the Protestants, Olivares preferred to fight with only Catholic forces. There was no doubt that Spain lost out the ...
- 1363: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... and its allies invaded North Africa in November 1942 and Sicily and Italy in 1943. The D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches in France, June 6, 1944, were followed by the allied invasion of Germany six months later. By April 1945 victory in Europe was certain. The unending stress and strain of the war literally wore Roosevelt out. By early 1944 a full medical examination disclosed serious heart and circulatory ...
- 1364: Robert Andrew Millikan
- ... the request of his Greek professor during his sophomore year. He then transferred to Columbia University from which he graduated in 1893 as the only student graduate in physics. After this accomplishment Millikan travelled to Germany to study with such professors Planck and others. When this period was on his resume Millikan was offered a position in the Physics department at the University of Chicago and Millikan took it. After teaching ...
- 1365: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ... This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there for the remainder of the war. Vonnegut was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany. He witnessed first-hand the bombing of Dresden by the British and Americans. He uses Slaughterhouse-Five to show that the human race has a tendency to inflict destruction on itself(World Book Encyclopedia). Before ...
- 1366: Biography of Karl Marx
- ... C. James Richardson. Sociology for Canadians: Images of society. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryderson Limited, 1991 Mehring, F, Karl Marx, The story of his life, London: Butler and Tanner ltd., 1936 Marx, K, The Communist Manifesto, Germany: J. E. Burghard, 1848 "Karl Marx." Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia. Cd-Rom. Microsoft Corp., 1993-1995 Vesaey, G. and P. Foulkes. Collins dictionary of Philosophy. London:British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, 1990
- 1367: Vespasian
- ... in August 70, and about the same time an alarming revolt in the Rhineland was broken by Vespasian's cousin Petilius Cerealis. The way was now open for the improvement of certain frontiers. In southern Germany annexation of a territory called Agri Decumates cut off the reentrant angle formed by the Rhine at Basel. In Britain more important advances were made; the kingdom of Brigantia in northern England was incorporated in ...
- 1368: John Maynard Keynes
- ... disagreed with economic terms of the Treaty of Versailles. After resigning Keynes wrote another book called The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919. In this book he predicted that the staggering reparations levied against Germany would goad that country into economic nationalism and resurgence of militarism. Keynes being a well-educated man, made some great investments in a decades time. Within that decade he made his two million fortune by ...
- 1369: The Life of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... physics (especially the study of electromagnetism) is nearly as significant as that in mathematics. He also contributed much to crystallography, optics, biostatistics and mechanics. Gauss was born in Braunschweig, or Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany) on April 30, 1777 to a peasant couple. There exists many anecdotes referring to his extraordinary feats of mental computation. It is said that as an old man, Gauss said jokingly that he could count ...
- 1370: Gregor Johann Mendel
- ... research. The scientists who read his papers of complex theories, dismissed it because it could be explained in such a simple model. He was rediscovered by Hugo de Vries in The Netherlands, Carl Correns in Germany, and Evich Tschermak in Austria all at the same time after 1900. They named the units Mendel described "genes." When the gene has a slighty different base sequence it is called an "allele." Mendel also ...
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