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- 9181: Essay on Christopher Columbus
- ... man of great and inventive genius. Columbus in today's perception is a grasping fortune hunter, an incompetent governor of the "New World" colonies, those fame to the Indians he "discovered" was plunder, servitude, and death. Columbus is like Hitler to a greater extent, in that he persecuted, and tried to progress his own (European) race, just like Hitler tried to persecute jews, and progress his own (Aryan) race. Environmentalists see ...
- 9182: Catherine II, Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great)
- ... and soon became the granary of Europe. Catherine also participated in the partitions of Poland (1772, 1792, and 1795), bringing a large part of that country under Russian rule. By the time of Catherine's death (Nov. 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: Alexander, John T., Catherine the Great: Life and Legend ...
- 9183: Famous Explorers of Africa
- ... in Africa . Burton's Life story is filled with adventure. In 1853 Burton was disguiseeed as a Moslem he made dangerous pilgrammages to Mecca. In 1854 he went to Harar in Ethiopia where capture meant death. Burton and his companion John Speke were the first Europeans to visit Somalialand. In 1856, again with John Speke, Burton returned to East Africa to look for the source of the Nile River. The trip ...
- 9184: Albert Einstein
- ... 1914) to a prestigious post at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon discovered by Max Planck, according to which electromagnetic energy seemed to ...
- 9185: Adolf Hitler
- ... opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry." The only people which would be spared where the Scandinavians to the north, since they were closely related to the German race. With Hitler's death the Nazi party quickly fated. But there is still a lot of tension in todays Germany.
- 9186: Abraham Lincoln
- ... gradually paid off his and his deceased partner's debts firmly established his reputation for honesty. The story of his romance with Ann Rutledge, a local young woman whom he knew briefly before her untimely death, is unsubstantiated. Illinois Politician and Lawyer Defeated in 1832 in a race for the state legislature, Lincoln was elected on the Whig ticket two years later and served in the lower house from 1834 to ...
- 9187: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... the League, won in a landslide. In December 1920, Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919. The former president and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whom he married in 1915, after the death of his first wife, continued to make their home in Washington, D.C. Wilson died there on Feb. 3, 1924. Bibliography: Baker, Ray S., Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, 8 vols. (1927-39; repr. 1968 ...
- 9188: William Shakespeare
- ... W.S. was able to attend grammer school and learned Greek and Latin classics (this is comparable to college education today). At age 14 his father lost the family fortune and remained poor until his death At 18 he married Anne Hathaway in 1582. She was 26 years old. They had three children Suzanne(1583) and the twins Hamnet and Judith(1585). In his mid-twenties he left Stratford(supposedly because ...
- 9189: Orson Welles
- ... been expelled from school by the age of ten and subsequently banished from home, brought him in 1926 to enrollment in the Todd School for Boys at Woodstock, Illinois, a few months after his mothers death from a liver condition at the age of forty-three. The school was ideally equipped for the nurturing of a young wayward genius.(Taylor) It was run by the proprietor, a terror rejoicing in the ...
- 9190: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... New York led him to join a local Republican Reform Club. In 1881 he was elected to New York assembly where he set out to stop the corruption in both party machines. In 1884 the death of his wife and a defeat in his political career made him retreat to the Dakota Territory. In 1886 he came back to New York. He ran for mayor when he came back.He was ...
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