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- 941: Louis Leakey
- ... by the scientific community, he became a civilian intellience officer for the Kenyan government in 1939, and by the end of the year was drafted into the African Intelligence Department when Britain declared war on Germany, and was running guns to Ethiopia. During the remainder of World War II, Leakey became somewhat of a spy, collecting information for the government. However, in his free time he, along with his wife Mary ...
- 942: Leo Tolstoi
- ... literary career, publishing the autobiographical trilogy Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), and Youth (1857).During the Crimean War Tolstoy commanded a battery, witnessing the siege of Sebastopol (1854-55). In 1857 he visited France, Switzerland, and Germany. After his travels Tolstoy settled in his birthplace of Yasnaja Polyana, where he started a school for peasant children. He investigated during further travels to Europe (1860-61) educational theory and practice, and published magazines ...
- 943: Lenis, Vladimir
- ... armed citizens, stopped the revolving door. They took over St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) and later captured Moscow, meeting little resistance along the way (Jantzen 613). Lenin took over the government and signed a treaty with Germany to take Russia out of the war. Immediately thereafter, civil war broke out between the Communists, called Reds, and the anti-Communists, called Whites, who had help from Western nations (Johnson 43). This help from ...
- 944: Katherine Anne Porter
- ... Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944), and Collected Stories (1965), which was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Porter's only novel, Ship of Fools (1962), depicts an ocean voyage from Mexico to Germany on the eve of World War II. Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter also appeared in 1970. Many of Porter's works portray a rejected individual. The short story "The Circus" tells ...
- 945: Karl Marx 3
- Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish parents. His mother, Henrietta, was originally from Holland and never became a German at heart. Shortly before Marx was born, his father converted the family to Christianity ...
- 946: Josef Stalin
- ... 30s he launched a major campaign of political terror and deportations to labor camps which touched virtually every family. The USSR suffered greatly in World War II and Stalin personally directed the war against Nazi Germany, despite the fact that in 1938 he signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler. This bought the Soviet Union two years respite from involvement in World War II. But after the German invasion (1941), the ...
- 947: J.p. Morgan
- ... Boston English High. He did well in the prestigious high school and then in his second high school in Vevey, Switzerland. The family moved to London and John transferred to the University of Gottingen in Germany. John continued to excel in his studies and majored in mathematics. He began to become interested in business affairs as he started and investing club amongst his friends and kept strict records of his own ...
- 948: Henry T. Ford
- ... was interested in steam engines and turbines that produced electricity for Detroit Edison; investors in the United States and Europe were adapting such engines to small passenger vehicles. On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz of Germany received a patent for primitive gas fueled car. This gave the Americans the idea of creating their own gas-fuel-powered car. This can be surprising but the first one to do this was not ...
- 949: Harriet Stowe
- ... the social issues closest to her, and Lincoln held it as a priority also. There is also a picture of Josiah Henson, a fugitive slave who, with the help of the Beecher family, escaped to Germany where he became a Doctor of Theology. A Black man's photograph hanging on the wall of a White person's home carries powerful sentiment even today, so you can imagine how sobering it must ...
- 950: George Frideric Handel
- ... Frideric Handel, certainly one of the founding fathers of music, introduced new types of music and affected the many composers who followed him. Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, a town in Germany. He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained in law. Handel played the organ, violin, harpsichord, and composed songs. His music influenced that of ...
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