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- 731: John Quincy Adams
- ... Throughout my life in politics, it has usually just been being a different minister for a different country before settling in the White House. I have often been misunderstood, due to the fact of my philosophy to change things for the better, which the people of this country aren't always ready for. For instance, at my inaugural speech in front of Congress, I proposed a plan for national improvements, such ...
- 732: Isaac Newton
- ... into his garden a thought might suddenly occur to him. He would rush upstairs to his room to jot it down, not even sitting down to write. Newton's book The Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy appeared in 1687. It was written in latin, the language which most scientific books were written in those times. Newton's book is usually called the Principia, after its Latin title. Many scientists think its ...
- 733: Sir Wilfrid Laurier of Canada
- ... rather than conflict. In the year 1854 the young lad went to college, De L'assomption. In his studies he took subjects such as Latin, Latin classics, pre- revolutionary French literature, Greek, English and some philosophy. The education which Laurier got from this school was to prepare him for priesthood but he decided to study law in Montreal at McGill University. At the University Laurier was very hard working and serious ...
- 734: Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
- ... type of government. It killed its own citizens, it stifled dissent. (1) At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion. Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against Batista. On January 1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista government. Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat Batista had failed ...
- 735: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... 1967); Cooper, John M., The Warrior and the Priest (1983); Ferrell, Robert H., Woodrow Wilson and World War I: Nineteen Seventeen to Nineteen Twenty-one (1986); Heckscher, August, Woodrow Wilson (1991); Latham, Earl, ed., The Philosophy and Policies of Woodrow Wilson (1975); Levin, N. Gordon, Woodrow Wilson and World Politics (1968); Link, Arthur S., Wilson, 5 vols. (1947-65), Woodrow Wilson: A Brief Biography (1963), and Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary ...
- 736: Werner Heisenberg
- ... author. During his career he taught at many prestigious universities, including the Universities of Leipzig, Goettingen, and Berlin. He also wrote many important books including, Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory, Cosmic Radiation, Physics and Philosophy, and Introduction to the Unified Theory of Elementary Particles. In 1932 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in Quantum Mechanics. With the Nazi's in power, and World War two on ...
- 737: Thomas Jefferson
- ... draftsman, though not good at speaking From the beginning of the struggle with the mother country, Jefferson stood with the more advanced Patriots, grounding his position on a wide knowledge of English history and political philosophy. His biggest early contribution to the cause of the Patriots was his powerful pamphlet A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), originally written for presentation to the Virginia convention of that year ...
- 738: Bill Gates
- ... amazed at Gates' memory. She commented on how Gates had remembered a 3-page soliloquy for a school play in one reading. He read often, tried to take up the trombone, had no interest in philosophy but rather thought of himself as a "scientist." His science teacher, William Dougall, remembers if the teacher wasn't going fast enough, "Bill always seemed on the verge of saying, 'But that's obvious.'" Gates ...
- 739: Sir Issac Newton
- ... to Trinity, Which elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the University to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. By joining them in what he called the Fluxional method, Newton developed in the autumn of 1666 a kind of mathematics that is now known as calculus. Was a new and powerful method that carried ...
- 740: The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown
- ... was as much cultural as it was musical. It was anarchic, against society, and against everything in the established order. New wave refers to new music, sometimes meaning contemporary music. New wave was generally the philosophy of life that manifested itself in certain kinds of music. Alternative music is music that represents another option to what is already commercially viable or has been classified. Alternative groups have a short term following ...
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