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- 1101: Socrates
- ... philosopher. His theories were not ones with which I would agree; such as those stating that all things were made of tiny substances which contained a little of everything, that the sun was a hot rock, and that the moon was made of earth. For these teachings, he was banished from Athens. Nevertheless, he was a good teacher and allowed me to realize that my philosophies were going to be antiscientific ...
- 1102: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... and was reelected for his second term in November. President Eisenhower was very concerned with promoting peace and equality. He began with the desegregation of schools, of which he had to send troops into Little Rock, Arkansas to assure the compliance with the Federal courts decision. He also ordered the complete desegregation of the armed forces. He wrote There must be no second class citizens in this country. A program that ...
- 1103: Blaise Pascal
- ... summer of 1654. They considered the dice problem, and the problem of points, both of which were considered by Cardan, Pacioli, and Tartaglia. The dice problem raised the question of how many times one must roll a pair of dice before one expects double sixes while the problem of points asks how to divide the stakes if a game of dice is incomplete. They solved the problem of points for a ...
- 1104: Al Capone
- ... a $50,000 fine, court costs of $30,000, and eleven years in jail. (Nash 116 ) Capone started his sentence in an Atlanta prison. In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz, also known as The Rock. Five years later he was released from Alcatraz as a helpless paretic, due to the untreated syphilis he got from prostitutes. Later that year, Al Capone was judged insane and was released to the care ...
- 1105: Socrates
- ... to build the Acropolis. The Athenians were proud mostly of Pericles, because he was the one who founded and organized it. Anaxagoras, a scientist nicknamed "the mind", who walked around Athens daily, had found a rock that had fallen from the sky and had concluded that there were no gods, but that the sun was hot metal and the moon earth. He was put on trial by the majority, who was ...
- 1106: Gangs
- ... however, that the need for attention and the desire to obtain material goods are fast becoming the motivations driving youngsters to these groups. While conducting a interview with a known gang member calling himself "LIL ROCK" , I was told that in order for him to have stayed away from the violence, a role model should have intervened . but he ended up selling crack cocaine on the streets of my home town ...
- 1107: Prophet Muhammad
- ... al-Israa and al-Miraaj (around 621 C.E.). In al-Israa, Jibril (a.s.) took the Prophet (s) from the sacred mosque near the Kabah to the furthest mosque in Jerusalem (Dome of the Rock) in a very short time in the latest part of the night. Here, Prophet Muhammad (s) met with previous prophets (Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and more, peace be upon them) and he led them in ...
- 1108: Magic Johnson
- ... s sister). The next game, Earvins shooting was off and he ended up with sixteen assists. The Everett Vikings again did not pass quarterfinals. In Earvins junior year, the Vikings got on a roll and made it to the state semi-finals, but were knocked out in a sixty-eight to sixty loss to Detroit Catholic Central. Earvin fouled out with 1:29 left in the game. He had ...
- 1109: Orson Welles
- ... Theater as the result of a feud with the Federal Theater Project after its attempt to sensor his work. Welles refused to bow to their demands to make his pro-labor play, The Cradle Will Rock, less political. Throughout the rest of his life, he preferred ostracism to compromise and often endured ridicule and condemnation rather than give in to the demands of those in authority. Welles utilizes very distinctive images ...
- 1110: Nelson Mandela
- ... not earn them any leniency toward the brutal apartheid laws. The government wasn't alone in trying to frustrate Mandelas legal practice. The Transvaal Law Society petitioned the Supreme Court to strike him off the roll of attorneys but was unsuccessful. Mandela's desire to serve his black fellow citizens had done nothing unworthy to remain in the ranks of an honorable profession (Apartheid). During the fifties, Mandela was the victim ...
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