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- 2191: Catherine The Great: Empress Of All Russia
- ... her. Upon the death of Catherine on November 17, 1796, modern Russian society was organized and its culture had struck firm roots. Russia was also playing a determining role in world affairs. Bibliography 1. Scott, Robert, H., “Catherine the Great” Microsoft(R) Encarta, Microsoft Corp., 1995. 2. Http://www.guide.spb.ru/culture-n-history/history/cathii/index.html. 3. Http://www.cityvision2000.com/history/catherine.htm. 4. Http://taft.k14 ...
- 2192: George Dantzig
- ... so, he turned game theory into a powerful tool that economists could use to analyze everything from business competition to trade negotiations. "It wasn't until Nash that game theory came alive for economists," said Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics at MIT. P Ordeshook wrote: The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in game theory. ... Whether we are analyzing candidates' election strategies ...
- 2193: Ivan the Terrible
- ... Ivan the Terrible was personally almost wholly responsible for developing Russia's consciousness of herself as a nation and for setting up political and cultural targets for the Czars who follow him. Works Cited Payne, Robert; Romanoff, Nikita. Ivan the Terrible. New York: Crowell, 1975. Troyat, Henry. Ivan the Terrible. New York: Dutton, 1982. Zwighter, Finch E. The Czarist Empire. San Francisco: Seanet, 1995. Online. Infoseek. Internet. 6 June 1995.
- 2194: The Life of Henry Ford
- ... Times, The Man, The Company. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954 Rae, John B., Henry Ford. New York, Prentice-Hall, 1969 Neyhart, John. The Life of Henry Ford. New York, Johnson Publishing, 1963 Backlund, Robert. Great Men Series: Henry Ford. New York, Tippman and Co., 1979
- 2195: Napoleon Bonaparte: A Great Mastermind
- ... had burned Moscow to the ground. Alexander knew that the winter was coming , and with no refuge Napoleon and his troops would be in grave danger. Alexander was right, Napoleon's lost many men to frost bite and other such related winter ailments. This single strategy killed almost half a million men. This was the beginning of the end for Napoleon. Out of the 500,000 troops that he brought, only ...
- 2196: Kelly Flinn Biography
- ... closed until Mrs. Zigo complained that Kelly had taken Mark home to Atlanta for Christmas. It was only after this complaint of apparent insubordination and “conduct unbecoming to an officer” that Kelly’s commander, Col. Robert J. Elder, decided to take action. Charges were filed on January 28, 1997. These charges included adultery, lying under oath, fraternization, disobeying a direct order and conduct unbecoming an officer. On February 19, the 5th ...
- 2197: William Wordsworth Biography
- ... the natural world and to begin to define himself in relation to that power. Wordsworth's college years were from 1787-1791 at St. John's college, Cambridge. He went on a walking tour with Robert Jones, a Cambridge student, over the French and Swiss Alps in 1790 and another such tour in 1791. In 1792, Wordsworth went to France, amidst the tumult of the French Revolution, where he met Michel ...
- 2198: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... aged, his political perspective grew increasingly pessimistic, and by the last year of his life, 1972, it seemed he had lost all hope. He had grieved over the assassinations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King as well as the deaths of three people that were closest to him. Branch Rickey, his mother Mallie, and his son Jackie Robinson Junior. That year Jackie ...
- 2199: Thomas Aquinas
- ... teachers were called Schoolmen or Scholastics. Thomas was recognized in his lifetime as the greatest of the Schoolmen and was also known as the "angelic doctor." References: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIV Copyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton Company Online Edition Copyright © 1999 by Kevin Knight The Hope and the Glory of Catholic History Copyright © 1997 by BROWN-ROA, a division of Harcourt Brace & Company The Princeton Review Reference Collection Copyrigth © 1998 ...
- 2200: Stonewall Jackson
- ... 1842, he managed to secure a place for himself at the U.S. Military Academy. While there he was assigned to a war zone in Mexico (during the Mexican War), this is where he met Robert E. Lee. During his time spent there, his ranks rose from Lieutenant to Major. In 1851, he left the military to join the staff of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington to teach. He stayed ...
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