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- 391: Richard The Lion Hearted
- Born: 8th September 1157 at Beaumont Palace, Oxford Died: 6th April 1199 at Chalus, Aquitaine Buried: Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou Parents: Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine Siblings: William, Henry, Matilda, Geoffrey, Eleanor, Joan & John Crowned: 2nd September 1189 at Westminster Abbey, Middlesex Married: 12th May 1191 at Limassol, Cyprus Spouse: Berengia daughter of Sancho VI, King of Navarre Offspring: None Richard Plantagenet (also known as "Richard the lion hearted ... sisters, the first of which died at a young age. Of the remainder, Henry was named heir to the English throne, Richard was to succeed his mother's Aquitane and Geoffrey was to inherit Brittany. John was the poorest to fair out receiving nothing from his father. It is this action that gave him the name John Lackland. At a young age of twelve, Richard pledged homage to the King of France for lands of his. At the age of fourteen, Richard was named the Duke of Aquitane in the church ...
- 392: Compare And Contrast
- Compare and Contrast of two In the story "The General History Of Virginia" by John Smith, was a story on how he made people come to the new world. John Smith style of writing was more poetic than Bradford's, John Smith used lots af adjectives. And William Bradford he was a plain writer he did not use any special words he would use normal words and to his point. Even though these men lived ...
- 393: John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck - The Realist and Naturalist John Steinbeck was born in salinas califorina in 1902. He went to stanford university, but only lasted three years. In his youth he worked as a ranch hand and a fruit picker.John Steinbeck wrote many books his most famous works include Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes Of Wath. Some people catagorize Steinbeck as being a writer of nateralism and realism. ...
- 394: John Rocker
- ... English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?" These were the words spoken from Atlanta Braves Pitcher John Rocker in a December issue of Sports Illustrated. Those powerful lines are what people are chatting over. "Should we forgive him, or should we throw him in jail"? Those are only a couple opinions that ... Rocker was coming from, we have to go back to the MLB Playoffs. The Cinderella New York Mets take the Braves into extra innings in the 5th game of the National League Playoffs. In comes John Rocker, bursting with energy to try and shut the Mets down and take the Braves to the World Series. The Mets had other ideas and laced a couple base hits off Rocker, which eventually lead ... dealing with. As the people's outrage became more evident, Bud Selig, the commissioner of MLB, got involved. Selig gave in to the pressure and gave a demand that a mental test be performed on John Rocker. Strange, but fair. But it wasn't over. In the following weeks he also slapped Rocker with a 20,000 dollar fine and suspended him 45 days of spring training and the first ...
- 395: John Dalton
- John Dalton John Dalton was born on September 6, 1766 in Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England. John Dalton was a British chemist and physicist who developed the atomic theory of matter and therefore is known as one of the fathers of modern physical science. Dalton was the son of a Quaker ...
- 396: John Quincy Adams
- John Quincy Adams John Adams had three remarkable careers in his lifetime. One as an enemy of British oppression and champion of independence. As an American diplomat in Europe and as the first vice-president and second president of ... October 30, 1735. He was born in a small house that is still standing and open to visitors. His father was a Deacon and fifth generation farmer. His parents were both fond of reading, wrote John and give him a good education. He became the first of his family to go to college when he entered Harvard in 1751. For the next six years he read intensly while he taught ...
- 397: Jane Eyre: Ladies First
- ... a boarding school she soon distinguishes herself through her classes. Eventually ends up in Thornfield where she meets Edward Rochester. While growing up in Gateshead Hall, Jane is treated less than a servant. Her cousins John, Eliza, and Georgiana Reed remind Jane she has no worth and is an unwelcome relative. Out of the three cousins John was one of the meanest, not only of Jane Eyre but of all living creatures. John, no one thwarted, much less punished: though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke ...
- 398: John Napier
- John Napier John Napier was a Scottish Mathematician who was born in Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh in the year 1550. He briefly attended St. Andrew's University, but for some unknown reason, left without obtaining a degree, which ... t seem to have any relevance to him. He returned home in 1571 as a scholar competent in Greek. He was an ardent Presbyterian who wrote A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, the first Scottish interpretation of the bible, in 1593 to demonstrate that the Catholic Church was the beast. He was interested in mathematics at an early age and set forth the concept of logarithms ...
- 399: Jon Bennet Ramsey
- ... call would come in at approximately 8-10 am that morning, and they would be informed of the whereabouts to exchange their daughter for the money. However, that call never came. Patsy screamed up to John. They both re read the ransom note again. The police were dispatched to the Ramsey home at 5:25am. It was within this most critical time period that the police made the biggest mistakes, which ... were allowed in an out as they pleased. The fact that they didnt seal off and search the house could have ruined potentially crucial evidence. Instead of the police searching the home, they allowed John Ramsey to search the home with a family friend by the name of Fleet White. During the search of the basement, John Ramsey found his daughters body. Why didnt an officer accompany him on the search? Instead, John found the body, carried it upstairs and disturbed the crime scene. Brutal damage. Some of the ...
- 400: John Keats
- John Keats was one of the greatest poets of the Romantic Era. He wrote poetry of great sensual beauty and had a unique passion for details. In his lifetime he was not recognized with the senior ... nor in the younger group because he was neither a lord nor in the upper class. He was in the middle class and at that time people were treated differently because of their social status. John Keats was born in London on October 31, 1795. He was educated at Clarke s School in Enfield. He enjoyed a liberal education that mainly reflected on his poetry. His father died when he was eight and his mother died when he was fourteen. After his mother died, his maternal grandmother granted two London merchants, John Rowland Sandell and Richard Abbey, guardianship. Abbey played a major roll in the development of Keats, as Sandell only played a minor one. These circumstances drew him extremely close to his two brothers, George ...
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