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- 14991: John Quincy Adams
- ... without exerting any force on them at all. On a different occasion, when I was appointed minister to Russia, I was the leading negotiator for the Treaty of Ghent with the British, which ended the War of 1812. These negotiations gained respect for the United States and me as a diplomat. I am a likable person wherever I go. When I was a kid, our family was very closely knit, as ...
- 14992: Cinderella: A Comparison Of Multiple Cinderella Tales
- ... love. A variation of the Cinderella theme is often repeated in movies, such as: \\"Wuthering Heights,\\" \\"Ghost,\\" and \\"Second Time Around.\\" Usually, a dearly loved spouse dies, leaving the other alone to cope with the world, but at the same time benignly watching over them. Sooner or later the widowed spouse encounters a crisis that cannot be faced without the intervention of their guardian angel spouse, whose varied incarnations save the ...
- 14993: Mars 4
- Mars Mars,is a planet in the solar system.I'ts named for the Roman god of war Ares.Mars is the fourth planet from the sun.Mars has two small heavily craterd moons,Phobos and deimos,astronomers think they are areastroid like objects captured by the planet very early in history.Phobos ...
- 14994: Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison
- ... characters of each candidate mattered. People generally were mad at the Democrats at this time and were looking for another president (similar with Clinton, today). The Whigs (later known as the Republicans), used Harrison's "War Hero" past to sell him, and said "Harrison preferred life in a Log Cabin to the White house" (which was very ironic, since Harrison had never been in a Log Cabin and came from a ...
- 14995: The Dialectical Cut in Socrates' Soul
- ... characteristics of both Theaetetus and Young Socrates in relation to what the beautiful is. In so doing, it will provide the basis for political knowledge. To begin, Theaetetus is a youth just returned from battle. War, being the harshest of all teachers places one under the duress of necessity. This is a foreshadowing of the struggle, both internal and external that are about to occur. The exteral battle is the undermining ...
- 14996: Sir Sandford Fleming
- ... Australia, which he believ e would become a vital communications link of the British Empire. The Pa cific Cable was successfully laid in 1902. He was also interested in th e development of a satisfactory world system of keeping time. The railway had made obsolete the old system where every major centre set it s clocks according to local astronomical conditions. Fleming advocated t he adoption of a standard or mean ...
- 14997: Is The Point To Life Love?
- ... is a phase I am going through or maybe it is the condition of my hurt heart I don?t know, but it is this condition that makes me want to open up to thee world and post boring stories up on whimit. I would like to try to answer in depth the question of ?what is the point to life?. Well I guess we all know without me telling you ...
- 14998: Marco Polo
- ... China, joined them. Fearing the hard journey ahead, however, the monks soon turned back. The Polos crossed the deserts of Persia (Iran) and Afghanistan. They mounted the heights of the Pamirs, the "roof of the world," descending to the trading cities of Kashgar (Shufu) and Yarkand (Soche). They crossed the dry stretches of The Gobi. Early in 1275 they arrived at Kublai Khan's court at Cambaluc (Peking). At that time ...
- 14999: Do Not Judge A Book By Its Cover
- ... These days, there is too much emphasis on looks. If everyone would take a brief moment to see the shining wit or loving personality in a person instead of his or her body, then the world would unmistakably be a better place. There are many truly great and natural differences among people. Nerds are not football players. Their talents, skills, and capacities are not the same. An unalterable condition in human ...
- 15000: Emily Murphy: A Great Canadian
- ... and encouraged her to fight for new suffrage bill. In 1914 Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. McClung joined forces and in 1916 after long negotiations a suffrage bill was introduced to the legislature. Because of the war now ranging in Europe "there was an even greater sense of urgency for women's suffrage, and Murphy - McClung team doubled its efforts". The first session in February 24, 1916 Premier Sifton read the bill ...
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