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- 3561: Alexander's Empire
- ... Persian empire disappeared. It took three years to subdue all of eastern Iran. After the Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander entered the ancient city of Babylon as a conqueror. From there he moved on to the great cities of the Persian Empire: Susa, Persepolis, and Pasargadae. In 330 B.C. he defeated an army that was guarding a narrow path known as the Persian Gates by finding a track that led around ... where he was greeted by the king and much pomp and ceremony. He then continued on to the Hydaspes (Jhelum) river, where he met and defeated King Porus in what was to be his last great battle. He pushed on to the east, but on the banks of the Hyphasis (Beas) river-his army rebelled. They were tired after long years of war and were anxious to see their families back ... Banquet on June 1, 323 B.C He died on June 13 at the age of 32, possibly as a result of having been poisoned. Few men changed the world so profoundly as Alexander the Great. In his brief reign he covered 22,000 miles and never lost a battle. Usually he knew more of the terrain than the natives did. In his epic march across Asia, he pul
- 3562: Donald Trump
- ... Donald purchased an office building as an umbrella company for his deals. That same year he bought a residential building worth $125 million and named it the Trump Plaza. Trumps empire expanded at a great pace. In the 1980's his net worth leaped from the millions to the billions and he was one of the most successful men in the world. Not all of Trumps purchases were successful. He ... hire a new financial manager. In that same year he missed the payments to the bond holders of the Taj Mahal Casino. Killing Trump at the time was a continuing recession which bordered on a depression in the industries he had all of his money in. As Donald always did, he fought and found a way to make a come back. He sold his airline, his $30 million yacht and one ...
- 3563: Marcus Antonius
- ... life, he became very involved with Julius Caesar. In 54 B.C., Antony became a calvary officer under Julius Caesar. In 48 B.C., Antony helped Caesar defeat a rebel army led by Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus. In 44 B.C., Caesar was assassinated. When he was assassinated on the Idles of March, Antony immediately took possession of Caesar's papers and residence including whatever assets he ... year, Antony agreed to become a co-ruler with Octavian and Lepidus to form the First Triumvirate. Together, they later murdered many opponents in the Senate, a group of powerful government advisors. Mark Antony had great military skills. In 42 B.C., an army led by Antony and Octavian defeated the army of Brutus and Cassius Longinus in two battles at Philipi in Macedonia. These great victories were mostly due to Antony's military skills. Antony then claimed Rome's eastern provinces from Octavian. In 41 B.C., Antony had become involved with Cleopatra, whom he had met several years ...
- 3564: The Australian Outback
- ... they have, and in their opinion, modernization is not needed and does nothing but clutter the mind. The economic situation is very poor. Education plays a major role in their economics; their is not a great deal of money coming to the town so education is usually one to two years behind the United States. The natives of Alice Springs are different from normal Americans. Their attitude is things will get ... odor bothered so many visitors. The odor became worse with the summer months, during December the average temperatures would range between the 90's -125 which made the odor unbearable. The Outback is where a great majority of Aboriginals live. The Aboriginals are not considered locals of Alice Springs. Aboriginals have a very different culture; they have their own language that few can understand. They usually do not associate with other ... off the land. Most Aboriginals do not fully cloth themselves. Aboriginals take baths when it rains or when there is a flood. Aboriginal culture are people we know little about. There has never been a great deal of information about them; they do not let non-Aboriginials see how they live. For the most part Aboriginals keep to themselves and are looked upon as nice people although distant. At night ...
- 3565: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher is the first woman to have held the office of prime minister in Great Britain. She was born Margaret Hilda Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire and educated at the University of Oxford, where she earned degrees in chemistry. After graduation she worked as a research chemist from 1947 to 1951 ... Conservative party to victory in 1979. Thatcher is the only British prime minister in the twentieth century to serve three consecutive terms. In 1990, controversy over Thatcher's tax policy and her reluctance to commit Great Britain to full economic integration with Europe inspired a strong challenge to her leadership. Ms. Thatcher was ousted from leadership, and resigned in November 1990 and was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by ... married Margaret began law courses at a special tutorial college. Mrs. Thatcher's ambition was to become a barrister, which is the "gowned and wigged advocates who present all cases in court. The barristers in Great Britain are the more exclusive and the most highly regarded in the British legal system." (Mayer, 1979) Margaret continued her legal studies through 1952. It was at that time she wrote a newspaper article ...
- 3566: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... Livonia, although a large part of the latter was afterwards wrested from her by the Sedish King, Gustavus Adolphus, in 1626." (10) "Finally, the eighteenth century saw the defeat of Charles XII by Peter the Great at Poltava (1709) and the gradual passing of control over the Baltic Provinces from the declining Swedish Empire and Poland to Russia. Riga was captured in 1720 and reval soon after. Livonia and Courland were ceded to Russia by the peace of Nystadt in 1721; Courland gradually became for intents and purposes a Russian protectorate, and in 1795 acknowledged the suzerainty of Catherine the Great (II). In the course of the three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793, and 1795 the whole of Lithuania proper passed into the hands of Russia, although Memel remained part of Prussia, in which it ... it - protesting violence in Tallinn. They called for an open discussian on Russo-Estonian relations, discussed food shortages, and laid out a whole plartform of complaints against the Soviets. (59) The Soviet state had a great deal of concern about the "nationalities question." In 1969, a Scientific Council for Natioonality Problems had been created within the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1975, this group met to "outline a five year ...
- 3567: Animal Farm: Animal Satire
- ... democratic socialism". He says "every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism " (Orwell, 1947) There are two significant events that have great influence on Orwell's political thoughts: The Russian revolution that took place in the second decade of 20th century and The Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. The Russian Revolution Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 was the first great revolution which aimed at to overthrow the owners of the means of production, that is Capitalist Bourgeoisie, and to establish a state to be ruled by the working class, the Proletariat. Ideological basis of the ... were cited. When investigating Orwell's intention in writing the book and his political convictions, mainly his essays were used as primary sources. During this period it was found that the Spanish Revolution was of great influence. Information on the Spanish War was mainly drawn from secondary sources. Since the book is strongly related to the Russian Revolution, Socialism, Communism and Marxism, several sources and Internet sites were searched for ...
- 3568: The Pardoner and The "Brothers"
- ... seen strongly in the Pardoner's tale as well. In the Pardoner's tale, three friends begin a journey in order to murder Death. On their journey, though, an old man leads them to a great deal of treasure. At this point, all three of the friends in the tale display a greed similar to the Pardoner's. The three friends decide that someone should bring bread and wine for a ... and a character in his tale is hypocrisy. Although the Pardoner is extremely greedy, he continues to try and teach that "Avarice is the root of all evil" (6). The characters in his tale display great hypocrisy as well. As the tale begins, the friends all act very trustworthy and faithful towards all of their friends. They nobly make a decision to risk their lives while trying to slay their friend ... so-called faithful "brothers" display their true ruthlessness and reveal their hypocrisy in relation to the Pardoner's character. The characters in the "Pardoner's Tale" match the unctuous nature of the Pardoner in a great deal of ways. All of these traits and ideas that are seen in both the Pardoner and the tale that he tells show a strong relationship in the two. Chaucer used this technique in ...
- 3569: Michelangeo - Renaissance Man
- ... Julius II to produce his tomb. Due to a shortage of money the pope ordered him to put aside the tomb in favor of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "The Sistine Chapel had great symbolic meaning for the papacy as the chief consecrated space in the Vatican (Encyclopedia Britannica, p.5). It already contained distinguished wall painting and Michelangelo was asked to add works for the relatively unimportant ceiling ... for St. Peter's became the symbol of authority as well as the model for domes all over the Western World; the Capital in Washington, D.C. is derived from it. Michelangelo was the last great man of Italy's golden age of art. He worked with many of the leaders of his time, the popes and the rulers of the Italian city-states (Compton's, 1998). He typified the vigor of mind and body, the energy, spirit, and the combination of worldliness and religious zeal that marked the great period known as the Renaissance.
- 3570: Michael Collins
- ... had my first tutors capable of, because of their personalities alone, infusing into me pride of the Irish as a race." As a child Michael also read widely. He was familiar with Shakespeare and the great novelists of the 19th century. Every week he read the nationalist newspapers "The Freeman's Weekly" and "The Leader". When only 11 years of age Michael began to subscribe to 'The United Irishman', edited by ... the direct opposite...On the whole I think the Rising was bungled terribly, costing many a good life. It seemed at first to be well organized, but afterwards became subjected to panic decisions and a great lack of very essential organization and co-operation". Collins and his fellow Volunteers were rounded up and sent on a cattle boat to English prisons. At first he was held in Stafford jail and then ... helped colleagues to escape. While still a fugitive, he was elected to the Sinn Fein revolutionary parliament and served as finance minister. From 1919 to 1921 Collins organized the guerrilla warfare that succeeded in forcing Great Britain to sue for peace. Collins represented Ireland in London and signed the peace treaty that brought the Irish Free State into existence. Later he was appointed commander in chief of the Irish Free ...
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