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- 1721: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... the dead as sacred and forbidden dissection. Leonardo spent most nights secretly dissecting humans in his home, but he couldn't continue and had to give up his pioneering work (8). Leonardo also had great interest in guns, artillery, and lethal weapons. The powers and strengths was another subject worth studying, which he was more than just advanced at (Costantino 20). "He mastered the science of the past, improved both the ...
- 1722: Louise Brooks
- ... to Paris for a hugely successful retrospective of her films. There she met James Card, a film curator at Rochester’s Eastman International Museum of Photography, and persuaded her to move to Rochester. There her interest in film was revived. Card showed her hundreds of films and Brooks began to write articles for film magazines and journals. In 1960 she went to New York City to introduce a screening of Prix ...
- 1723: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... talent. His proficiency on the organ was unequaled in Europe - in fact, he toured regularly as a solo virtuoso - and his growing mastery of compositional forms, like the fugue and the canon, was already attracting interest from the musical establishment - which, in his day, was the Lutheran church. But, like many individuals of uncommon talent, he was never very good at playing the political game, and therefore suffered periodic setbacks in ...
- 1724: Marco Polo
- ... as the Pamirs, and parching deserts, such as the Gobi. Marco and his party encountered such hazards as wild beasts and brigands; they also met with beautiful women, in whom young Marco took a special interest. The group traveled numerous countries and cultures, noting food, dress, and religion unique to each(Li Man Kin 17). In particular, under the khans’s protection the Polos were able to observe a large portion ...
- 1725: Alphonse Capone
- ... 18, 1931, Capone was convicted after trial, and on November 24, was sentenced to eleven years in Federal prison, fined $50,000 and charged $7,692 for court costs, in addition to $215,000 plus interest due on back taxes. The six-month Contempt of Court sentence was to be served concurrently. While awaiting the results of appeals, Capone was confined to the Cook County Jail. Upon denial of appeals, he ...
- 1726: Emile Durkheim
- ... division of labor, organic. In conclusion, Durkheim once said, “Every member of a totemic clan contain a mystic substance. From it come whatever powers he has and his social position. So he has a vital interest in intact and in keeping it in a state of perpetual youth,” therefore, he made great contribution to sociology and that is why he is going to keep on being one of the fathers of ...
- 1727: Mao Zedong
- ... modernization: However, the type of material headway that he lusted for is seen with doubt in this era. Although he had hoped to fill his place in history as a mouthpiece for Marxism his historical interest was chained to China’s imperial past. He greatly admired the emperors who had brutally sought after their goals. Mao, like them, was obsessed with power and would not stop at anything or for anyone ...
- 1728: William James: The Later Years
- ... to write of some of the ideas he had advanced in Principles and to keep up with psychological developments. James was willing to explore forms of psychology outside accepted scientific bounds. He took a keen interest in spiritualism and "psychical" phenomena, considering them an extension of abnormal psychology; closely followed the efforts of psychical researchers and attended seances; and in 1884 founded the American Society for Psychical Research. From 1898 on ...
- 1729: Thomas Alva Edison
- ... telegraphs such as the Automatic Telegraph, Duplex Telegraphs, Quadruplex Telegraph Repeater, Telephonic Telegraphs, and Acoustic Telegraphs. When he was working at the train station a choice that he had no idea would lead to his interest in telegraphs came about. The station operator’s son had fallen on the tracks. Thomas made a wise decision and decided that he could help him and ran down and got him off the tracks ...
- 1730: Benjamin Franklin Autobiography Analytical Essay
- ... and power. He believed that centralized power was not a good thing. He comments on a political party, “That while a party is carrying on a general design, each man has his particular and private interest in view.” This comment shows even though in politics we may think a person has a particular thing in mind, and are working for a greater good they really, are in it for themselves. Another ...
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