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- 3511: Patton
- ... Army. Shortly afterwards on December 9, 1945, Patton was severely injured in a car accident. Twelve days later he died. [Biography] After his death, many books and a movie were made about Patton keeping the interest alive for the next generation. Patton, produced in 1971, portrayed the General as an American folk hero. The film showed the things he was known for his ivory-handled pistols, racy language, and intemperate manner ...
- 3512: MARGARET ATWOOD
- ... as to innocence or guilt can be formed. She provides the perfect agent for the provocation of Grace's story in the enthusiastic but hopelessly naive young American doctor Simon Jordan, who takes a clinical interest in her case, hoping to map the unconscious, discover the roots of madness, and make his mark on the burgeoning field of psychology. The interviews start well enough--Grace, having spent nearly two decades in ...
- 3513: Mark Twain
- ... that feel Mark Twain is not a racist. One said, Twain succeeded in making his readers genuine respect for Jim, and pointed out that Twain, in creating Jims character, had exhibited his sympathy and interest in the masses of the Negro people.What you find in Twain is the opposite: a lively affection and admiration for black Americans that began when he was a boy and grew up through the ...
- 3514: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... become an industrial country. From 1893 to 1914 he worked for an Indian firm in South Africa as a lawyer. During these years Gandhis experiences of open, racial discrimination moved him into agitation. His interest soon turned to the problem of Indians who had come to South Africa as laborers. He had seen how they were treated as inferiors in India, in England, and then in South Africa. In 1906 ...
- 3515: Michelangelo, Renaissance Man
- ... Medici family rather than the papacy" (Encyclopedia Britannica, p. 7). The city was under the rule of Pope Leo's cousin, Cardinal de' Medici, who would become Pope Clement VII. The cardinal took an active interest in Michelangelo's works. He was moving into architectural design with such work as a new chapel at the parish church for the tombs of the Medici family. He undertook this commission between 1519 and ...
- 3516: Oliver Cromwell
- ... although he admired King Charles X of Sweden, his first consideration in attempting to mediate in the Baltic was the result for his own country. In spite of the emphasis Cromwell laid on the Protestant interest in some of his speeches, the guiding motive in his foreign policy was national and not religious. (Sherwood, 1997) His economic and industrial policy followed traditional lines but he opposed monopolies. For this reason the ...
- 3517: Carol Causs
- ... network of triangles. Gauss often doubted his work in the profession, but over the course of ten years, from 1820 to 1830, published over seventy papers. From the early 1800's Gauss had had an interest in the question of the possible existence of a non-Euclidean geometry. In a book review of 1816 Gauss discussed proofs which suggested and supported his belief in non-Euclidean geometry (which was later proved ...
- 3518: Catherine The Great
- ... job started by Peter I--westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she did not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but rather encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She succeeded to a degree with the upper classes, but did nothing for the overwhelming majority of the population--the enserfed peasantry. To learn the needs of the country and to gain popularity, Catherine in ...
- 3519: Cleopatra
- ... she met Marc Antony for the first time. When she met him later in life she saw him as an opportunity for power and fame. She used her wit, charm, and wealth to gain the interest of Marc Antony. They were later married in 37 b.c. In the winter of 41-40 b.c. Cleopatra gave Mark Antony her undivided attention; she was his mistress, companion and confidante. They had ...
- 3520: Tim Paterson
- ... is an accomplishment that probably can't be repeated by anyone ever." After Paterson graduated from University of Washington in Seattle with a bachelors of science degree, he tried going to graduate school but lost interest. "I thought they were too oriented towards theory and not what I needed." Although he received a good education at U of W, Paterson did not learn the majority of his computer skills from text ...
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