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- 6311: The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
- ... married Jetta Umiker, and they moved to Rome and had a family. After that they went to Italy until 1935, but political issues forced them to move first to Switzerland, then to Belgium. In 1941when World War II started and German troops occupying Brussels, Escher returned to Holland and settled in Baarn, where he lived and worked until shortly before his death. His work mostly unnoticed until the 1950's. Among his ... do. Some people say that Escher in works like"Drawing Hands" takes a step into the fields of information science and artificial intelligence. He is exploring the uniqueness of the human brain to process the world in a way that a computer could never do. I don't know what a computer sees, but it is a picture that one hand literally contructs another. Escher was a unique artist and ...
- 6312: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... the Democratic party. He had a couple of jobs before he became a writer. He served in the United States Air Force for a few years. He spent one of those in Korea during the war as an editor for an Air Force newspaper. He has had numerous other works published. His most famous is Helter Skelter. Most of his other works have gone without much notice. The hardcover sleeve of ... many politics going on inside the walls of the justice Building. So both, J Edgar and the FBI, have lost their glitter in my mind. I did like the one part of the book during World War II, where Hoover met with Ion Flemming. I am a fan of the Bond movies. I never really thought of Flemming actually being that involved in spying. I found it extremely interesting that he ...
- 6313: The Life Of Stalin
- ... death. Frantic to catch up with the West in 1928, Stalin and his men launched a set of policies known as the "five-year plans," designed to turn backward Russia into an industrial and military world power, which he accomplished in only one decade. Though this was a great success, the peasants paid dearly, most with their lives. Most of starved to death from famine. Those that survived were killed off ... Committee--by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally worked on while in exile). Stalin was rejected for service in the Russian Army in 1916 (by now Russia was at war with the Central Powers) because of the condition of his left arm. Stalin's Military Career: (1917-1921) In March 1917, Stalin immediately left Siberia (where he was still in exile) for Petrograd (modern St ... name seldom appears in records of the revolution, for he remained in the background as an administrator. His work was largely responsible for the success of the bloody October Revolution in 1917. •During the civil war that followed the revolution, Stalin served as political commissar with Bolshevik armies on several fronts. In 1918, he directed the successful defense of vital Tsaritsyn against the White Army. The city was renamed Stalingrad ...
- 6314: Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin is seen as one of the most contriversal leaders in world history. Between 1928 and 1941 he transformed the Soviet Union into a modern superpower. His rule is characterized by collectivized agriculture, rapid industrialization, great purges and the extermination of opposition. He was a very effecive ... own wife killed. He killed people who talked out against the government. It is said that he had killed up to 20 million people. Stalin’s Five Year Plans created Russia as one of the world’s major industrial powers. Stalin also to make sure that he had total power he set up pictures and posters all throughout Russia saying how he is a war hero and that he should be treated like a god. He also made sure that there were no religions because if there was not just one religion there would not be enough unity in ...
- 6315: Albert Einstein
- ... light squared), became a foundation in the development of nuclear energy. Einstein developed his theory through philosophical thought and through complicated mathematical reasoning. Albert Einstein was once said that only a dozen people in the world could understand his theory. His personal life. Although he lived a quiet personal life, Einstein maintained a vital interest in human affairs. He liked classical music, and played the violin. He had amired people who ... this honor, insisting that he was not fitted for such a position. Einstein was married twice. He was separated from his first wife, a physicist named Mileva Maric, soon after his arrival in Berlin. After World War I, he married his first cousin, Elsa. She died at Princeton in 1936. He had two sons and a daughter by his first wife. He gained two stepdaughters in his second marriage.
- 6316: Biography of Genghis Khan
- Biography of Genghis Khan The old world had many great leaders. Alexander the Great, Hannibal and even Julius Caesar met with struggle on their rise to power. Perhaps Genghis Khan was the most significant of all these rulers. To prove that Genghis ... taken Genghis Khan 17 years to create an empire superior in strength and achievement to Alexander the great, Julius Caesar and even Hannibal. From 1225 until Genghis¹s death in 1227, His army was at war with Yi Yia kingdom. Genghis Khan died on August 18, 1227, and was buried in a secret location in Mongolia. By rewarding skill and allegiance, and punishing those who opposed him, Genghis Khan established a ... took over the empire, founding the chinese-style Yuan dynasty. Mongol rule brought relative peace to Asia, leaving China accessible to foreign visitors, such as Marco Polo. REFERENCES Grolier Encyclopedia. (1995). CD ROM The New World Book. (1995). CD ROM Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan. www.pinc.com/khan/empires.html Online. Internet. 1 May 1996 Heroes (Genghis Khan 1167-1227). http://spruce.evansville.edu/~ ~ ...
- 6317: Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
- ... which rejects all forms of racism, the Nation of Islam declared that whites were the "devil by nature," and that God was black. However, the Black Muslims predicted that in the near future a Great War would take place in which whites would be destroyed and black people would rule the world through the benevolence of Allah, their creator. To prepare for this new order, the Nation of Islam stressed personal self-restraint, opposed the use of drugs and alcohol, and organized economic self-help enterprises that ... into more trouble, Malcolm decided to change his lifestyle and devise a plan to better himself. He goes through a gleaning stage. He began to read and expand his mind. As he did this, a world of knowledge opened up to him. He also tried to improve himself in other ways. He worked on his social skills and his physical appearance. He decides not to associate himself with former friends ...
- 6318: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... serious affairs were documented in her letters and poems. But, since Emily's life was so self kept and private the exact identity of these people remains unsure. What is known, is during the Civil War , worried for her friends and families lives, death increased in frequency to be a dominant theme in her writings. After 1878, the year of her influential father's death, (a treasurer of Amherst college, and ... the gun in the analogy) - may longer live- He longer must- than I- For I have but the power to kill, Without-the power to die-.” Critics state that here Dickinson, (writing during the Civil War, 1863 specifically) speaks of the importance of mortality and death, and highlights the pure foolishness behind killing (Griffith 188). As stated above, Dickinson is known for encompassing many perspectives on a single topic. In, I ... From its inevitable coming to its eternal existence, Dickinson explains her feelings and thoughts toward death in the full, “circumference” of its' philosophy. As she edged towards the end of her life, Dickinson gave the world new poetic perspectives into the human mind and its dealing and avoidance of death (Whicher 30).
- 6319: Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
- ... in the buttox. Which didn't help the large cell growth in that area; being that it had already produced a rash there anyways. So I joined the marines and fought in the Veit Nam war 42 regiment. I was a mechanical engineer and after years of study I developed a high intensity materializing lazer death ray beam gun. they did not put the weapon into use though. There was a ... see, it took fourteen pounds of crack, in order for it to produce enough energy for the flux capacitor. without it the lazer was unable too reach eighty eight miles per hour. So after the war I was shipped back home where I was forced to go to detoxification classes. After I was discharged from rehab I went and inrolled for a class called secondary options. After I was signed up and officially in the class I started my plans to take over the entire world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE END
- 6320: John Paul Stevens: Biography
- ... and then later went to the University its self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered World War 2. Stevens was stationed in Washington D.C, as a intelligence officer on the staff of admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He worked with a group assigned to break Japanese codes. for doing this, he was awarded the Bronze Star. After he returned to Chicago, (at the end of the war) he enrolled himself into Northwestern University School of Law to earn his J.D. degree, where he graduated first in his class. Not long after that, he was admitted into the Order of the ...
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