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- 7241: Guy Fawkes
- ... Day. Every year since 1605, every town and village in Great Britain lights bonfires, lets off fireworks, burns and effigy of him and celebrates the fact the Parliament and James I were not blown sky high by Guy Fawkes(Miller 579).
- 7242: George Washington
- ... son of the late Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. Augustine was a tobacco farmer and a stock raiser. Washington spent most of his early childhood on the Ferry Farm in Fredricksburg, Virginia. He attended school up until his fifteenth year. Washington married Martha Dandridge on January 6,1759. Washington spent his early adult years as a farmer and as a surveyor until he was appointed adjutant for the southern district ...
- 7243: George C. Marshall
- ... and wounded, moving more than 3,000 cannons and 40,000 tons of ammunition, all the while hiding these movements from the Germans by moving only at night. After World War I he was a high-level aide to General John J. Pershing. Prior to the outbreak of World War II he progressed steadily from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff ...
- 7244: George Brenard Shaw
- ... had no children. In Dublin the theatre was the only thing that actually interested, and had something to offer to Shaw. George also went to many schools while living in Dublin, including the Wesleyan Connexional School, but said he learned little from schools and was self-educated. In 1876, mother, daughters, & son left their father behind and moved to London to seek a more cultured way of life. They lived at ...
- 7245: George Berkley
- ... knowledge comes from the senses. In opposition, the rationalists maintained that knowledge comes purely from deduction, and that this knowledge is processed by certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distance ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that ...
- 7246: Galileo Gallilei
- ... a monk, but he left the monastery when he was 15 because his father disapproved of his son becoming a monk. In November of 1581, Vincenzio Galilei had Galileo enrolled in the University of Pisa School of Medicine because he wanted his son to become a doctor to carry on the family fortune. Vincenzio thought that Galileo should be able to provide for the family when he died, and his sister ...
- 7247: Frederic Douglass
- ... the University of Pittsburgh called A Talk to Young Men. In this speech he talks about how to be a self made man and rise up in the upper ranks of an industrialized company. " . . . aim high . . . I would not give a fig for a young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm." Carnegie was looking at the dream from more of an ...
- 7248: Frank Liszt
- ... for which he is known, conducted new operas by Wagner, Berlioz and Verdi and, as the teacher of Hans von Bülow and others in the German avant-garde, became the figurehead of the 'New German school'. In 1861- 1869 he lived mainly in Rome, writing religious works taking minor orders in 1865; from 1870 he traveled regularly between Rome, Weimar and Budapest. He remained active as a teacher and performer to ...
- 7249: Francios Rabelias
- ... a monastery of the Franciscan order at Fontenay-le-Comte " "1525 Passes to the Benedictine Order with the hope that he can pursue more freely his humanistic studies. " "1530 September 17-- Rablelais registers at the school of medicine of the University of Montpellier. " "1531 April 17 to June 24 gives lectures on Hippocrates and Galen. Towards the end of the years goes to Lyons. " "1532 Publication of Pantagruel and the Pantagrueline ...
- 7250: Fidal Castro
- ... refuse to handle the crude petroleum that the Cubans were receiving from the Soviet Union. The companies such as Shell and Standard Oil had been buying crude from their own plants in Venezuela at a high cost. The Cuban government demanded that the refineries process the crude they were receiving from Russia at a much cheaper price. These refineries refused at the U.S. advice stating that there were no provisions ...
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