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- 6621: Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power
- Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though. At first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist. He later married Rachele Guide and had 5 children. He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. Benito Mussolini founded the "Fasci di ...
- 6622: Hitler - A Man of Too Much Power
- ... in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art ...
- 6623: Sigmund Freud
- ... the fields of psychiatry and psychology. Freud was born on May 6, 1856, In Freiberg, Moravia. He was the oldest of eight children, and his father was a wool merchant. He graduated from the medical school of the University of Vienna in 1881. Freud later decided to specialize in neurology, the study and treatment of disorders of the nervous system. Freud began to work extensively with hysterical patients. He gradually formed ...
- 6624: Catherine The Great: Empress Of All Russia
- ... how to select capable assistants--for example, Nikita Panin in foreign affairs, Alexandre Suvorov in the military, and Grigori Potemkin in administration. Among Catherines more benevolent achievements were the foundation of the first Russian school for girls and of a medical college to provide health care for her subjects. In the early years of her reign, Catherine sought to win the approval of the gentry, which was a small part ...
- 6625: Twain
- ... a constant smile. A smile that sometime conceled his readiness to bash institutions that he disagreed with. That was Mark Twain. A man, not a legend. ³The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education,² Mark Twain, 1885. 4
- 6626: Ivan the Terrible
- ... which lasted for ten years. Ivan transformed his palace into a monastery as he, now wearing a monk's robe, woke up at 3:00 AM every morning to pray. He spent his morning in prayer, and his afternoon in torture. Ivan and the Oprichniki carried out the deportation of over 12,000 Boyar families to Siberia, taking away their wealth and their influence. Metropolitan Philip of Moscow was the only ...
- 6627: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel. In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among ...
- 6628: My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
- ... in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899 but nobody really knows for sure and that is how I am going to keep it. I grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. I attended school through the sixth grade and got too sick of it. I received my nickname Scarface during these years as a result of a knife attack from the brother of an ugly girl I had insulted ...
- 6629: Life Of John Milton
- ... devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Life Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and educated at Saint Paul's School and Christ's College, University of Cambridge. He intended to become a clergyman in the Church of England, but growing dissatisfaction with the state of the Anglican clergy together with his own developing poetic interests ...
- 6630: Billy Sunday
- ... into full-time Christian work. He had played for different baseball teams and was sold to play for the Philadelphia Phillies. After being sold to the Phillies for a three year contract he prayed this prayer, "Lord, if I don't get my release by March twenty-fifth, I will take that as assurance you want me to continue to play ball; if I get it before that date I will ...
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