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- 921: Martin Luther
- Martin Luther lived from 1483-1546. Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben in the province of Saxony. His protestant view of Christianity started what was called the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Luther's intentions were to reform the medieval Roman Catholic Church. But firm resistance from the church towards Luther's challenge made way to a permanent division in the structure of Western Christianity. Luther lived ...
- 922: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... power, and staunch anti-communism. These qualities also led him to intervene militarily in the Dominican Republic-allegedly to stop a Communist takeover-in April 1965. Like many Americans who recalled the "appeasement" of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Johnson thought the United States must be firm or incur a loss of credibility. While the nation became deeply involved in Vietnam, racial tension sharpened at home, culminating in widespread urban race ...
- 923: Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. He studied in Vienna under Mozart and Hayden. In Vienna he first made his reputation as a pianist and teacher, and he became famous quickly. At this time he composed many of his most popular ...
- 924: William James
- ... spare time, in psychology, he found, linked the two together. Before finishing his medical studies, he went on an exploring expedition in Brazil with the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz and also studied psychology in Germany. During this time, William retired due to illness but that didn t stop his from excelling in the field. Three years later, in 1872, at the age of thirty, William become an instructor in physiology ...
- 925: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... American economic resources to stimulate the recovery of European economies outside the Soviet sphere; the Berlin airlift, designed to maintain the Western presence in that city, which was surrounded by the Russian-occupied zone of Germany; and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the nation's first peacetime military alliance. Truman's Point Four program helped new nations develop economically. These steps, which added up to a policy of "containment" of communism ...
- 926: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 2
- ... Lenin was the leader of the revolution and the revolution had profound effects on many societies across the world, Lenin must have had at least a small influential effect on these societies. For example, in Germany there was an attempted revolution in 1918. The revolution failed because they were unable to form an organization independent from the government and the leaders capitulated to their class interests leaving the mass majority of ...
- 927: Rubens
- ... Antwerp alderman. Having converted from Catholicism to Calvinism, Jan Rubens in 1568 fled Flanders with his family because of persecutions against Protestants. In 1577 Peter Paul was born in exile at Siegen, Westphalia (now in Germany), also the birthplace of his brother Philip and his sister Baldina. There, their father had become the adviser and lover of Princess Anna of Saxony, wife of Prince William I of Orange (William the Silent ...
- 928: Princess Diana 3
- ... by herself was in February of 1984, when she traveled to Norway to attend a performance by the London City Ballet, of which she was patron. Diana visited many other countries on her own including Germany, the United States, Pakistan, Switzerland, Hungary, Egypt, Belgium, France, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nepal. Diana was best known for her charitable work. During her marriage, Diana was president of over 100 charities. The Princess did ...
- 929: Peter The Great 4
- ... all of the population consisted of serfs, the merchants, nobles, and elite only populated five percent of Russia. The elite, like the serfs, were not very well educated at all. Timmerman, a knowledgeable man from Germany, taught and showed Peter all of the nautical instruments need to navigate a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to ...
- 930: Profiles Of Courage
- ... would later mathematically prove to put a damper on the economy. Since his constituents were poverty stricken, they supported free silver. George Norris was a member of the House. He was previously a diplomat to Germany. During the time that the US was about to enter World War I, Norris was opposed. He also filibustered against the Armed Ship Bill because he hated war. George failed in these efforts. Robert Taft ...
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