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- 991: Catherine The Great
- ... development of underpopulated regions by inviting foreign settlers such as the Volga Germans, and she founded new towns (Odessa, for example) and enterprises on the Black Sea. Herself a prolific writer, Catherine patronized arts and letters, permitted the establishment of private printing presses, and relaxed censorship rules. Under her guidance the University of Moscow and the Academy of Sciences became internationally recognized centers of learning; she also increased the number of ...
- 992: Bill Gates
- ... not from a couple teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates 15). While at Harvard, the cool thing to do was to ...
- 993: Augustus Caesar
- ... the official head of the Roman religion. Also in this year, in Egypt, became not only the pharaoh, but a god. A year later Augustus had lost his old advisor and an outstanding patron of letters. Tiberius, a step-nephew to Augustus, was elected to share Augustus' tribunician power in 6 BC. In the year 4 AD, Augustus realized that he had to make Tiberius his heir. So, he adopted Tiberius ...
- 994: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... in 1903.20 Some of Arthur Conan Doyle's later writings consisted of two medical short story collections, Round the Red Lamp and Round the Fire Stories. In 1894, a fictional autobiography, The Stark Munro Letters, was published in 1894.21 The Parasite and The Medal Brigadier Gerard were published in The Strand magazine in 1894. The very famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was published different ...
- 995: Margaret Laurence
- ... 1969), "A Bird in the House" (1970), and "The Diviners" (1974). The last decade of her life focused on promoting causes she passionately supported - peace, social justice, the equality of women, environmental protection - through letters, lectures, essays and fund-raising campaigns. Margaret Laurence died on January 5, 1987, and at her request, her ashes were brought by her children to be interred in Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, on June 23.
- 996: Magic Johnson
- ... Prep Player of the Year" in Michigan. That summer, Reggie was killed in an auto accident. Earvin was devastated by the death of one of his closest friends. Earvin started to receive five to six letters a day. In his senior year, Earvin started off the season averaging forty points a game, but Coach Fox told him to remember his teammates and Earvin started concentrated more in assists. The Vikings beat ...
- 997: Winston Churchill
- ... for writing. He wrote many things from a novel called Savrola to a bibliography on his ancestor, the First Duke of Marlborough. Since writing came easy to Churchill he ventured into journalism. He sent his letters from Cuba, which were published in the Daily Telegraph . 12 Although Churchill was an accomplished journalist and had served in his nations military, he still longed for something more. Following in the footsteps of his ...
- 998: Washington Irving
- ... predecessors. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "He lacked the religious intensity of Mather, the versatility of Franklin, the statesmanship of Jefferson, or the dedication of Paine. Yet he outlives them all in the history of American letters"(649). Others see him as the first real American poet. Everyone saw him as such a great poet because of The SketchBook. Everyone was reading it in that time. It was all the rage. This ...
- 999: Walt Whitman 3
- ... the democracy in American, and the great mysteries of mankind were solved through poetical thought. Whitman s achievements as a poet were truly monumental. He exercised a deep influence on his immediate successors in American letters and even on modern poetry. As a symbolist his influence was felt in Europe, where he was considered one of the greatest American poets ever. Walt Whitman became modern through his utilization of his prophetic ...
- 1000: Woodrow Wilson
- ... his last two years in office provides a troubling example of how brain damage can affect judgment and even block insight into one's own disabilities. Wilson had dyslexia in childhood. Imagine not learning your letters until age 9, not reading until age 12, being a slow reader all your life. Rather than being a prescription for a life as a nonintellectual ditchdigger, this was part of the background of a ...
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