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- 12391: Nanak
- ... O my friends, pray for me that I may meet my Lord." The Guru placed a sheet over him. The next morning, there was nothing found beneath it. I thought Nanak's life was a great one. He believed that we're all children of one God. I think he accomplished what he wanted to do and that was creating a new religion. He did well with that. He passed on ...
- 12392: Napoleon 3
- ... Moscow many died from illness and starvation. Of the 600,000 men he began his journey with, 500,000 where now dead. When he returned from Moscow he fought and won a battle against Austria, Great Britian, Russia, Prussia and Sweden. In October the two sides fought again. This time Napoleon lost and retreated to France. On April 11, 1814, Napoleon gave up his power as emperor of France. He was ...
- 12393: Neil Simon
- ... female candidate, came forward, and not until 1936 that she was actually ordained. In 1929, after Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, and three other feminists won the Persons Case, it was declared that, "Now only two great institutions wouldn't accept women on equal terms - the church and the beer parlour!" Arguments declaring that women would not be as capable counsellors as men, and that female priests would act as temptresses, slowed ...
- 12394: Nikita Sergeyevich
- ... construction of much of Moscow's subway system, and in 1939 he became a full member of the Politburo. Khrushchev's rise to power coincided with one of the darkest periods in Soviet history: the Great Terror. During the 1930s, Stalin began a series of bloody purges to consolidate his power. The terror spread throughout the Soviet Union, and Khrushchev was part of it, denouncing several fellow students and workers as ...
- 12395: Seabrook's Family Values: Home Sweet Home
- Seabrook's Family Values: Home Sweet Home Mr. OserKathy Apacible Arriving from school and coming home was always a great feeling. My grandma would always prepare a snack for me to eat. In my family, the term home is a place where I am loved and cared for. Growing up in a close knit family ...
- 12396: Nostradamus - The Man
- ... say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Did he, as his believers claim, predict some of history's most monumental events - from the Great Fire of London to the launch disaster of the space shuttle Challenger? Nostradamus was typical of the Renaissance time period. He made many prophecies and was a major contributor to not only the Renaissance but ...
- 12397: Bacillus Anthracis 2
- ... soil for years. The only way to destroy the spores is by steam sterilization or burning. There has been no evidence of person to person transmission of the disease, though Anthrax was a subject of great concern for the military in the Gulf War. Many believed that the Iraqi armies held canisters of the Anthrax bacterium that they could use against their enemies. The largest reported outbreak of Anthrax was in ...
- 12398: The Circle of Souls in John Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- ... perfect relationship based on reason and harmony. The physical universe is a metaphor for the spiritual realm. The trepidation of the spheres is another obsolete astronomical theory, used to make the speakers point that great chances in the heavens may be imperceptible to the layman. The speaker presents this comparison between the earthquake and the trepidation of the spheres to suggest that matters beyond ones control should be approached rationally ...
- 12399: Literary Devices in Homers Odyssey
- ... no matter what, but Odysseus has to worry about the suitors because they want to be King and will not let him just walk back into the leadership position. Odysseus is supposed to be a great leader, but he does not use his cleverness and leadership abilities when trying to protect his crew. He leads his crew into danger many times and many of his men end up dying because of ...
- 12400: Pablo Picasso
- ... the Spanish republic and set up its fascist regime. These two events had a profound effect on Picasso. He thereafter openly expressed his negative feelings towards Franco's regime and used his paintings, especially his great mural Guernica to "clearly express [his] abhorrence of the military caste which", he believed, had "sunk Spain [into] an ocean of pain and death." (Barnes) The way Picasso set about painting has been well documented ...
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