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- 1571: Jack Kevorkian
- ... of Life and Death.² Newsday 10 June 1995: 7. Filene, Peter. In the Arms of Others. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. Gutmann, Stephanie. ³Death and the Maiden.² New Republic 24 June 1996: 20-22. Hamel, Robert. Must We Suffer Our Way to Death. Texas: Southern Methodist Press, 1996. Hendin, Herbert. Seduced by Death. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. Hendin, Herbert. Suicide in America. New York: W.W. Norton ...
- 1572: J.p. Morgan
- ... Harvard university that read: "Public citizen, patron of literature and art, prince among merchants, who by his skill, wisdom and courage, has twice in times of stress repelled a national danger of financial panic." But Robert LaFollette, the Wisconsin progressive, saw him as "a beefy, red-faced thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power." Despite conflicting opinion on his persona, his influence and character shaped the business world more ...
- 1573: Issac Asimov
- ... T. This is the beginning of the future of Asimov s type of robots. Science Fiction writers influenced the last generation of Visionaries. Asimov, along with the genre s two other acknowledged giants, the late Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clark, influenced the generation that propelled us into space and landed us on the moon, Greenberg said. New generations will be more influenced by movies, like the George Lucas epics. (Newsday ...
- 1574: Isaac Newton
- ... turning point in the history of science; it also ensured that its author could never regain his privacy. The Principia's appearance also involved Newton in an unpleasant episode with the English philosopher and physicist, Robert Hooke. In 1687 Hooke claimed that Newton had stolen from him a central idea of the book: that bodies attract each other with a force that varies inversely as the square of their distance. However ...
- 1575: History Of Willian Shakespeare
- ... 10% of their profits. This theatre burnt down while William Shakespeare was preforming one of his master pieces. Shakespeare's comedies of the late 90's relied very strongly on women's parts. One enemy, Robert Greene, wrote a poem conveying his feelings about his younger rival Shakespeare: Groats Worth of Witte: For there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a players ...
- 1576: Henry Ford 2
- ... Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan. His father, William Ford, and his mother, Mary Litogot Ford, lived and worked on their family farm. Henry also had three brothers, John, William, and Robert, as well as two sisters, Margaret, and Jane. Henry was the oldest of all the kids. As Henry grew up he was assigned chores to do around the farm just like all his brothers and ...
- 1577: Harriet Tubman
- ... that Harriet was on her way. Harriet arrived in Dorchester County, Maryland on Christmas Eve, 1854. In the thick woods she assembled with a group of slaves which included two of her brothers, Benjamin and Robert, two slaves from a nearby plantation, John Chase and Peter Jackson, and a woman slave, Jane Kane. Her brother Henry was nowhere to be found. Harriet's rule was that time was freedom, and she ...
- 1578: Harriet Stowe
- ... lived ten years after her husband died, but retired from the limelight, and died in 1896. Throughout America's history, some Christians - for example the Quakers and some radical sectarians - criticized slavery; many excused it. (Robert Dabney defended slavery in his biography of Stonewall Jackson.) By the late 1840s' the anti slavery movement had expanded, energized by newspaper editors, lecturers, authors and clergymen. For abolitionists nothing justified slavery and Mrs. Stowe ...
- 1579: Hannibal 2
- ... his father and Alexander the Great, he will always be known for his maneuvers in battle. He will also be remembered for being the first person to cross the Alps with elephants. Works Cited Green, Robert. Hannibal. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996. Lancel, Serge. Carthage A History. Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. Charles-Picard, Gilbert and Colette. Daily Life In Carthage. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961.
- 1580: Galileo 2
- ... be adapted to increasing knowledge and that no scientific position should ever be made an article of Roman Catholic faith. Early in 1616, Copernican books were subjected to censorship by edict, and the Jesuit cardinal Robert Bellarmine instructed Galileo that he must no longer hold or defend the concept that the earth moves. Cardinal Bellarmine had previously advised him to treat this subject only hypothetically and for scientific purposes, without taking ...
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