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- 2111: Lorenz's Work in the Chaos Field and Basic Chaos
- ... had to be cast out. These new chaotic ideas teach us that Newton and almost all pre-chaos scientists were incorrect in their conclusions of the Universe. Many believe there was a predictable cause and effect system incorporating everything. They also believe everything happened according to physical laws and algebra. The chaos theory introduces the idea of probability. Old science put their trust in certainty; everything was possible to predict if ...
- 2112: Richelieu and Olivares: The Quest for European Domination
- ... War of Mantuan Succession. The two men blamed each other for the problems incurred as a result of the conflict. Richelieu's journal for the early months of 1631 shows him receiving reports to the effect that Olivares held him responsible for all Spain's misfortunes and would shrink from no crime or artiface' to destroy him (114). The Cardinal did not think of Olivares very highly either, as it is ...
- 2113: Cleopatra - Queen of Egypt
- ... intelligence, vigor, and fascination." That's when she gained both the love and the political and military support of first Julius Caesar and then Mark Antony. Because she was a Ptolemy, Cleopatra had a negative effect on Egypt as seen in her relationship with Julius Ceasar and Mark Antony.
- 2114: Jonathan Edwards
- ... that everything we know comes from experience. He emphasized that understanding and feeling were two distinct kinds of knowledge. Although Edwards read his sermon in a calm and straightforward manner, it had such a powerful effect on the congregation that he had to ask for quiet several times. In this sermon Edwards uses many metaphors. He refers to God as he is holding the sinners over a pit (of hell) as ...
- 2115: Joseph Stalin
- ... lawyers, teachers and clergy were extracted by many means including torture. After these trials were through thousands of the Russian elite were murdered, with their blood on Stalin's hands. These trails had a horrific effect on the progress of Russia, there was now nobody left to lead Russian into the future, and the few elite's that still remained in Russia lived in constant fear of their lives. Around 1932 ...
- 2116: Biography of Rasputin
- ... the royal family, Rasputin maintained the posture of a humble and holy pheasant, though outside court he soon fell into his former licentious ways. Preaching that physical contact with himself had a purifying and healing effect, he obtained mistresses and tried to seduce many other women. When Nicholas II heard the accusations of Rasputin, the czar refused to believe that he was anything less than a holy man, and Rasputin's ...
- 2117: The Life and Work of Nemerov
- ... reality. He uses his knowledge of history to compare religiously historical figures with the current state of man. Nemerov uses literary and religious references to depict order as a man- made concept that has no effect on "the intrinsic passion of reality", leaving man "powerless in the hands of fate" (Andrews 127). The first portion of the poem explores the evil vitality of reality through literary references: Bear Hamlet, like a ...
- 2118: Biography of Charles Dickens
- ... life was pleasant. Taught to read by his mother, he devoured his fathers' small collection of classics, which included Shakespeare, Cervantes, Defoe, Smollet, Fielding, and Goldsmith. These left a permanent mark on his imagination; their effect on his art was quite important. dickens also went to some performances of Shakespeare and formed a lifelong attachment to the theater. He attended school during this period and showed himself to be a rather ...
- 2119: George Washington: Biography
- ... his absence. Although he became president of the Society of the Cincinnati, an organization of former Revolutionary War officers, he avoided involvement in Virginia politics. Preferring to concentrate on restoring Mount Vernon, he added a greenhouse, a mill, an icehouse, and new land to the estate. He experimented with crop rotation, bred hunting dogs and horses, investigated the development of Potomac River navigation, undertook various commercial ventures, and traveled (1784) west ...
- 2120: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... in the Welsh countryside, hoping the magnificence of nature would seep through to the brain of the unborn child (Dahl, Boy 18- 19). The death of Harald Dahl when Roald was four had a devastating effect on the boy. Although he was very young, Dahl said that the loss of his father was the end of his happy childhood days (Treglown 5), and that in his adulthood he often searched for ...
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