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- 1731: William Richardson Davie
- ... political and military realms were not the only ones in which Davie left his mark. The University of North Carolina, of which he was the chief founder, stands as an enduring reminder of Davie's interest in education. Davie selected the location, instructors, and a curriculum that included the literary and social sciences as well as mathematics and classics. In 1810 the trustees conferred upon him the title of "Father of ...
- 1732: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and above all the US dollar/imperialism. Yet although his parents, notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he took no part in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine, first with a view to understanding his own disease, later becoming more interested in leprosy. In 1949 he made the first of his long ...
- 1733: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... known as the new deal. What the public did know was that Hoovers system of government was not helping improve the country’s economic situation. What President Roosevelt came to office the country’s unemployment rates were hitting record highs. The farmers in the Midwest were in a mass migration to large cities in California to seek out a source of income that could support their families. This was caused by ...
- 1734: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... Christmas the jaundice returned and John had to drop out of school. Before the next school year began, he told his father he wanted to go to Harvard("JFK" 98). On campus, young people took interest in politics, social changes, and events in Europe. The United States was pulling out of the Great Depression. Hitler's Nazi Germany followed aggressive territorial expansion in Europe. It was at this time that John ...
- 1735: The Biography of Husband E. Kimmel
- ... the military, understand a majority of the exemplary level of the language. Most of his words are directed to a more general audience of the average American household. The book is difficult to read without interest and concentration prevalent. Works Cited --- The Accused, Brownlow, Donald Grey, Vantage Press, New York-Washington-Hollywood, ©1968---
- 1736: The Accomplishments of Peter The Great
- ... Great adopted Western dress. Two of Peter's close foreign friendships were with Patrick Gordon and Franz Lefort. Their education and their information about ways of life, science, and Western institutions were always of great interest for Peter. He was attracted and enjoyed the company of foreigners mostly because of the greater social, sexual, and intellectual freedom. He recognized his own drives and energy among the ambitious and adventurous foreigners who ...
- 1737: Archimedes
- ... geometry, and arithmetic. Archimedes had more stories passed down through history about his clever inventions than his mathematical theorems. This is believed to be so because the average mind of that period would have no interest in the Archimedean spiral, but would pay attention to an invention that could move the earth. Archimedes'? most famous story is attributed to a Roman architect under Emperor Augustus, named Vitruvius. Vitruvius asked Archimedes to ...
- 1738: Mozart: Portrait Of A Genius
- ... that people should not separate the difference between Mozart the artist and Mozart the man. In time, individuals continued to show kindness to Mozart and his family, but the great majority of acquaintances quickly lost interest in the performances. Mozart shows contradictions in his personality--he is the creator of music which is in a way “sublime, pure, and immaculate.” Mozart’s attitude toward court society was seen negatively. His feeling ...
- 1739: Hemingway and His Writing Style
- ... a physician, and Ernest was the second of six children born to Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. His mother, a devout, religious woman with considerable music talent, hoped that her son would develop an interest in music. Instead, Ernest acquired his father’s enthusiasm for guns and for fishing trips in the north woods of Michigan (Lynn 63). From almost the beginning of his writing career, Hemingway employed a distinctive ...
- 1740: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... musical talent. His qualities on the organ was unequaled in Europe, in fact, he toured regularly as a solo virtuoso. 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 people of great talent, he was never very good at playing the political game, and consequently suffered drawbacks in his ...
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