Alexander The Great
.... tants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in
crushing the revolt of The¬ bes brought the other Greek states into instant
submission.
Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by
crossing the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) with an army of 35,000 Macedonian and
Greek troops: his chief officers, all Macedonians, included Antigonus, Ptolemy,
and Seleucus. At the river Granicus, near the ancient city of Troy, he attacked
an army of Persians and Greek soldiers which totaled 40,000 men. His forces
slatured the enemy and according to tradition, only lost 110 men! After this
battle all the .....
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Amerigo Vespucci
.... Amerigo along with the other European boys learned Latin,
math, grammar, history, Italian and Greek Literature, geography and astronomy.
Amerigo learned to love astronomy, because he was fascinated about all of the
shapes the stars made, that his uncle called constellations. Amerigo thought
about traveling about the Earth, but he thought it to be impossible, because he
was tought in school that the equator was a ring of fire that made the waters
boil there.
Amerigo's hopes of traveling the world were become more realistic over
time. The first thing that sparked this was the invention of the caravel, a
light, narrow, 60 to 70 .....
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
.... Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, and decided too let me move back home. Living at home was worse
than I had hoped. I decided to venture, as I called it; on a long and hopefully
successful quest to find an answer to one of mans most pondered questions. "If
a cow laughs, does milk come out of his nose?" So I took what was left of the
care package, most of it though, was broken during my stay in the Turkish prison.
That's a whole different story though. Well anyway; I took what was left of
the care package, and left.
Then at the age of fourteen I moved to Cat-mon-du-Abudabi-allowishi .....
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Charles M. Manson
.... Mrs. Manson reclaimed her son she promised that she would take care
of him and provide for his every need. Unfortunately, all these promises were
soon shattered by liquor and men. She frequently neglected Charles by telling
him she would be back in an hour and then not show up for the rest of the night.
Sometimes when her guilt took her over she would give him fifty cents and
another promise; and at other times she just abused him.
When Mrs. Manson got fed up with taking care of Charles she arranged to
have Charles put in a foster home, but arrangements fell through. As a last
resort she sent Charles to Gibaul .....
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Charles Darwin And Herbert Spencer
.... of naturalist on the H.M.S.
Beagle.
Darwin set sail on December 27, 1831 to study the Pacific coast of South
America and the Pacific Islands. His other duty was to set up navigation
stations in the area. He also studied the geology and biology of these areas.
Upon his return in 1839, Darwin married his cousin, Emma Wedgewood, and was
admitted to the Royal Society. He moved to Downe, Kent in 1842, and was plagued
by ill health until his death. He apparently transmitted Trypanosomiastis from
frequent bug bites in the Pacific. Darwin died on April 19, 1882 and was buried
in Westminster Abbey.
In The Origin of Species, D .....
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Ernesto Guevara
.... tactics were those first used by Mao Tse-Tung. At this time, Ernesto
Guevara first was nick named "Che", which is Italian for pal.
The group invaded Cuba, where Che was commander of the revolutionary
army. From then on, he was known as the most aggressive, clever and successful
guerrilla officer. He also got the reputation for cold-blooded cruelty. One
reason for this reputation was because of his orders to mass execute followers
of the former Cuban president Batista. There after, Che Guevara was second only
to Castro in the government of Cuba.
As the years went on, Guevara ran the department of industry for Cuba.
The g .....
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Deng Xiaoping
.... Deng
Xiaoping believed that a Communist government would do a better job of running
the country. During the Nationalist- Communist Civil War, Deng greatly
influenced the outcome in favor of the Communists by using effective military
strategy. Deng Xiaoping was appointed Politcommissar of the 129th Division of
the Eighth Route Army (the Liu-Deng Army) from 1938 to 1947. He employed
several campaigns against the Nationalists in which he inflicted severe damage.
One campaign was when he led his army in the battle of Huaihai, which put
550,000 men of the Kuomintang troops out of action. Afterwards, he led his army
across the .....
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Dr Jack Kevorkian: Disrupting The Universe
.... to be killed due to other serious medical problems. There have been
reports of a person beating her son in tennis one week before she killed herself
with the help of Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine, but she was terminally
ill and Dr. Kevorkian would not help kill people unless their life was in
danger or they were not living comfortably. Kevorkian was previously a doctor
dealing with terminally ill people and death counseling. From this experience
he knew that for some people suicide was the only Solution.
On the other hand, some people believe that what he started was a
terrible thing. Just the other day there was .....
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Shannon Lucid
.... the first seven Mercury astronauts, none were
females. This is just one more instance she complained of discrimination of
women in traditionally male held occupations. She experienced the same thing
when she tried unsuccessfully to become a commercial pilot. So from Ś66-'68 she
worked at Kerr-Mcgee Corp. as a chemist. This is also where she met her
husband Michael Lucid. After she was married she returned to school at the
University of Oklahoma, where she earned her B.S. in Chemistry. One interesting
occurrence after the birth of her daughter, the very next day she took a
biochemistry exam, which her instructor had expecte .....
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Geronimo
.... deer, etc.
Geronimo's father died when Geronimo was at a young age. They wrapped his
father in his finest clothes, painted his face, wrapped a rich blanket around
him, saddled his favorite horse, bore his arms in front of him, and led his
horse behind, repeating in wailing tones his deeds of valor as they carried his
body to a cave in the mountain. They then slew his horses and gave way all his
property, as was customary in our tribe, after which his body was deposited in
the cave, his arms beside him. Geronimo's mother never married again, which
was not a custom to the Bedonkohe Apache. In 1846, when Geronimo was 17 years
of .....
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Henry VIII And Louis XIV
.... Church inside France. It is apparent now
that Louis basically went along with the reforms dictated by the pope in regards
to religion.
In economic matters, the two rulers perhaps differed even more greatly.
Henry was a fastidious economist, often commenting about the expense of things
at the royal court, and taking action to have whatever the latest offense to the
treasury happened to be. Louis, however, spent extravagantly, sparing no
expense for himself or his nobles. His ultimate goal was once again to make the
court of France the center of fashion and art once again. He created Versailles,
a monstrosity of Baroque art, m .....
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Louis XIV
.... everyone in
France inline at the same time. everyone in France obeyed him because he was
such a grand, rich, fair king. Louis got into many wars with other countries
over the stupidest things, when Charles II were to die with no kids, he made
he offered to make Louis's grandson the sole beneficiary of the vast inheritance
to be left behind, Louis Accepted the the offer out of pure greed, but that
dicision meant war with Austria. Although, Louis was already getting half of
the money he still greedily accepted the offer, if he had not accepted the
offer war could have been avoided, but hey we all make mistakes
The second t .....
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