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- 9981: Marquise de Pompadour
- ... King Louis XV. She belonged to a family of grand Parisian bankers, received a refined education, and soon became known as one of the most beautiful and wittiest women in Paris. She was introduced to high society at the home of Charles-Francois Le Normant de Tournehem, a wealthy financier. In 1741, she married his nephew Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Etoiles. In 1746, she met King Louis at a ball ...
- 9982: King of Babylonia: Hammurabi
- ... in present day societies which are influenced by his code. Modern governments currently create specific laws, which are placed into their appropriate family of similar laws. Hammurabi had his laws recorded upon an eight foot high black stone monument. Hammurabi based his code on principles like, the strong should not injure the weak, and that punishment should fit the crime. As for punishment, "legal actions were initiated under the code by ...
- 9983: Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros?
- ... so little) flaw he possessed-his nose-run his life. Roxane, unaware of Cyranos love for her, fell in love with the most handsome face of another man, Christian de Neuvillette. Giddy, like a school girl, Roxane tells Cyrano of her feelings for Christian. Cyrano was crushed. His heart was truly broken. Poor Cyrano didnt know what to do. Well, now for the juicy part, Cyrano and Christian decide ...
- 9984: Al Capone
- Al Capone Al Capone, the most famous gangster in history, had quit school at fourteen after he lost his temper and struck his teacher. He was soon after accepted into a notorious street gang, Johnny Torrio was the gangs leader. Later Capone was hooked up with a job ...
- 9985: Francesco Redi
- ... became a physician for the Dukes Ferninand II and Cosimo III. He loved to write literary works in his free time. During this time he was a member of the Accademia del Cimento, a renowned school in Italy at the time. He believed very much in Hippocratic ways and stressed much on medicine and medical practices. Redi was very much a naturalist and an herbalist. He made sure he ate a ...
- 9986: Frederick Douglass
- ... and for what does he hold the thunders in his right hand, if not to smite the oppressor, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the spoiler?" Every moment they spent in that school because their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. This narrative reflects a lot of the way Frederick felt and the way he viewed Christianity in ...
- 9987: Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia
- ... wives and children with him, because national prejudices had prevented the unification of his empire. His aim was apparently to prepare a long-term solution(he was only 32)by breeding a new body of high nobles and mixed blood and also creating the core of a royal army attached only to himself. But, after his death nearly all the noble marriages were disolved. In the autumn of 324 B.C ...
- 9988: Oskar Schindler - A Saint in Disguise?
- ... during the Great Depression, the Schindler family business went bankrupt. At this time, Schindler's father left his mother, and she died soon after. The picture being painted of Schindler is not exactly one of high class and morals. Indeed, Schindler was an alcoholic and a womanizer. This leads many to think, how can this man be considered a saint? What would possess him, with all of his power and money ...
- 9989: Kazimir Malevich
- ... its size, and contrary to the laws of gravity, while the large white empty area beneath it emphasizes its buoyancy and weightlessness. The absence of any recognizable or "earthly" details seem to put the viewer high in the air, precisely at the level of the red square. The one element that is seen upright and on the picture plane. Below and to the right, dark-toned bars that appear to be ...
- 9990: Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power
- Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the "Fasci di ...
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