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- 761: Woodrow Wilson
- ... Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography, also notes that President Wilson "grew more suspicious, secretive, and egocentric." An occupational hazard of the presidency--or a change in personality resulting from brain damage? The U.S. Constitution has since been amended to provide for presidential disability in office, but what neurologist would be brave enough to declare a president disabled from such a history? If Woodrow Wilson's brain had suffered no ...
- 762: William Marshall
- ... absolved of any wrongdoing. Events such as these coupled with his inability to efficiently run the government eventually lead John to be forced to sign the Magna Carta, the first basic document of the British constitution, which eventually lead to the creation of the English Parliament. Loyalty to the king during this time was obviously most difficult for Marshall. After a rebellion by the Barons, John grew ill beyond reconciliation. He ...
- 763: William Bradford
- ... as one. The Mayflower Compact endorsed the right of everyone, who signed a share in the making and administering of laws and the right of the majority to rule. It was the beginning of a constitution of pure democracy. Although William Bradford died in 1657, having been governor of the Plymouth Colony for almost the entire period since 1621, the success of the Pilgrims and his writings will live on in ...
- 764: Virginia Woolf
- ... die of a terminal illness, Virginia wrote: The waiting in intolerable… the worst of it is he is so tired and worn out, and wants to die… I shall do my best to ruin my constitution before I get to this age, so as to die quicker… I can not bear to become the wretch my father became when he reached my stage of life. (Bond 62). Virginia had great difficulties ...
- 765: Slobodan Milosevic
- ... The complexion of the top hierarchy of Serbia can be gauged from the character of its President, who, in December 1997 got himself inaugurated as the president for the third term although barred by the constitution and having lost the local elections! Milosevic , whose ideology spawned such mass murderers as Radovan Karadzic and General Mladic in Bosnia, had deprived Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989. He maintained his power by his ...
- 766: Samuel Adams
- ... year in and year out on numerous committees."(Carlson 91) Although Adams’s influence in state and national affairs waned during the 1780s, he was elected to the Massachusetts convention on the ratification of the Constitution, which he was ultimately persuaded to support even though it contradicted some Whig principles. But, as in the past, he remained wary of centralized governmental power and never became part of the Federalists, the dominant ...
- 767: Rocky Marciano
- ... Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer Rocky Marciano. When "bambino Rocco" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. Although the infection nearly killed him, his exceptionally strong constitution enabled him to survive without impairment. As a pre-teenager, Rocky relished his mother's Italian cooking so much he bordered on being stocky. This was underscored by his relatively short but muscular arms and ...
- 768: John Marshall Harlan II
- ... the wearing of arm bands was legitimate, and therefor the Tinkers did not have a legitimate complaint. Harlan seems to have been a justice that wasn't afraid to sway. If he felt that the Constitution protected a right, he had no problem voting in favor of it. Nor did he have any trouble voting against something if he felt it to be unconstitutional. There were many times that Harlan was ...
- 769: John Locke
- ... political thinkers of the western world was John Locke. John Locke, the man who initiated what is now known as British Empiricism, is also considered highly influential in establishing grounds, theoretically at least, for the constitution of the United States of America. The basis for understanding Locke is that he sees all people as having natural God given rights. As God’s creations, this denotes a certain equality, at least in ...
- 770: George Washington Carver
- ... more knowledge because he knew everything the Carver’s old blue-back speller could offer. He then enrolled in a public school during the week that met at the church he attended. Thanks to the constitution of 1865 made it mandatory for blacks to get an education under certain circumstances. Since George’s county did not meat the requirements, he had to attend a white school. Whites became angry and soon ...
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