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- 6171: Billy Sunday
- Billy Sunday Billy Sunday was one of the great evangelists of the twentieth century. People traveled far and packed out his tabernacles of saw dust floors. He was both praised and criticized by the media throughout his career as a revival preacher. The media ... for him. He would arrive in town and the tents would already be full of people waiting to hear him speak. The Sigourney News of Sigourney, IA ran a headline that read, "Packed Houses and Great Interest Manifested." This headline resulted in the town preparing and having everything ready for Billy when he arrived so he could start preaching. There were some newspapers that didn't give Billy such high praise ...
- 6172: The Rule of Halie Selassie
- ... the line of David by Solomon. The old Ethiopian legend of Kebra Hegast tells the story of the Queen of Sheba's visit to Solomon's mighty kingdom to learn the secrets of being a great leader. While in his kingdom the Queen Sheba bore Solomon a son, to which Solomon gave a jeweled ring to prove his descent from the seed of David. The Queen of Sheba returned to her ... Ethiopia nobly. He looked for the betterment of his people, and the modernization of his country. He wanted the benefits of what a good education can do for a country. He compared Ethiopia to the great nations of Europe. Halie Selassie wanted to pull Ethiopia out of its dark ages and bring them into modern times and that is what he accomplished. Bibliography Gorham, Charles. The Lion of Judah: A life ...
- 6173: Karl Marx
- ... way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise above the aristocrats and failed due to the creation of the middle class. Despite this failure, he was still a great political leader and set the basis of Communism in Russia. His life contributed to the way people think today, and because of him people are more open to suggestion and are quicker to create ideas ... suffered from Bronchitis and made it almost impossible to swallow. The next month a tumor developed in his lung and soon manifested into his death on March 14, 1883. Although Marx's influence was not great during his life, after his death his works grew with the strength of the working class. His ideas and theories became known as Marxism, and has been used to shape the ideas of most European ...
- 6174: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... in the Liberator. "Praise be to God!" Garrison rejoiced. On May 24, 1879, William Lloyd Garrison passed away. (Faber 120) The New York World printed a long article Garrison would have enjoyed. Marveling at the great change in public opinion during a comparatively short period, the paper noted that William Lloyd Garrison was a man whom most respectable citizens would have gladly seen hanged only forty years earlier. (Faber 120) But ... upon his death he was sincerely mourned just as widely. For Garrison was "the head and the heart" of the abolition movement, the paper said. As such, he inspired a crusade destined to make a great mark in American history. Although he had many failings, including a notable lack of talent for practical politics, he deserved the acclaim he had won. For the World concluded: The life which ended last night ...
- 6175: Diana, Princess of Wales
- ... how Diana’s appeal now has a truly global resonance. She was a tireless AIDS activist who donated her millions of dollars worth of gowns (79), towards a charity auction , which proved to be a great beneficial factor towards helping to find a cure for the AIDS virus. She supported more then 100 charities during her lifetime. “No one could bring attention to an issue like she could,” says Landmine Survivors ... long time friend,” Camilla Parker Bowles. Therefore, most of her life was spent being deeply depressed and feeling unworthy of ever finding another “love.” Princess Diana is a heroine of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Her great deeds and spirit will live on forever. She touched the lives of millions of people in many different countries, and her greatness will not ever be forgotten. The world should not have had to suffer ...
- 6176: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Introduction Ralph Waldo Emerson "…was truly one of our great geniuses" even though he may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself, "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies." Emerson was also a major leader of "the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism". (Encarta 1) Transcendentalism was belief in a higher reality than that found everyday life that a human can ...
- 6177: Thomas Aquinas
- ... born in about 1225 in the castle of Roccasecca, near Naples. Before his birth a holy hermit foretold Thomas’s career, saying to his mother: "He will enter the Order of Friars Preachers, and so great will be his learning and sanctity that in his day no one will be found to equal him." His father was the count of Aquino. Thomas received his early education from at the abbey of ... Summa Theologiae', which form the classical systematization of Roman Catholic theology. He died on March 7, 1274, while traveling to a church council at Lyons, he was scarcely fifty years old. His teacher, Albert the Great outlived him and became his staunchest supporter. Forty six years later, the Church canonized Thomas Aquinas as a saint. Thomas is still known as ,"The Angel of the Schools". A revival of learning had begun ...
- 6178: The Life and Rule of Cleopatra
- ... the he planned to become king of Rome. On March 15, 44 B.C. a crowd of conspirators surrounded Caesar at a Senate meeting and stabbed him to death. Knowing that she was in a great deal of danger also Cleopatra quickly left Rome with her entourage. Before of immediately after their return to Egypt Ptolemy XIV died, possibly poisoned at Cleopatra’s request. Cleopatra then made Caesarion her co-regent. Caesar’s assassination caused anarchy and a civil war in Rome. Eventually the empire was divided onto three men: Caesar’s great-nephew Octavian, who later became the emperor Augustus, Marcus Lepidus, and Marcus Anthonius, who is better known as Mark Anthony. In 42 B.C. Mark Anthony summoned Cleopatra to Taurus to question her whether she ...
- 6179: General George Custer
- ... enemy, yet he turned sharply off the route Terry had prescribed (Van de Water, 367). By disobeying Terry’s orders and going off the path in which he was ordered he put his men in great danger. George Custer was supposed to continue south and then attack on the day that Terry had given him orders to. It has been urged that Custer disobeyed his orders, broke up Terry’s plan ... his men were killed. In conclusion George Custer made many mistake in the Battle of Little Big Horn. As I have clearly stated in this essay he put not only him, but him men in great danger. He attacked early and had no idea how many Indians he was going up against. That was not a real smart thing to do. His favorite strategy which was the surprise attack led him ...
- 6180: Henry VIII's Divorce From Catherine of Aragon
- ... no question of his choice. Anne Boleyn began her adult life as an English Court of Henry VIII. She was a beautiful, smart young lady. Anne was fifteen years younger than Henry, which was a great difference from Catherine who was older than he. During the time that Anne worked as an English Court, she saw much of Henry. As they spent more and more time together, Henry became to love ... all, but lovemaking. Although she refused him, they still kept in touch. They wrote letters back and forth when they were apart to keep their love burning. Henry once wrote Anne, "I have been in great agony about the contents of your letters not knowing whether to construe them to my disadvantage or to my advantage."(Albert, p.88). Anne had changed her mind, she was going to go for the ...
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