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Mahatma Gandhi
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... revolutionary ideas about politics and society, an unusual combination of perceptions and values. Gandhi’s life was filled with contradictions. He was described as a gentle man who was an outsider, but also as a godly and almost mystical person, but he had a great determination. Nothing could change his convictions. Some called him a master politician, others called him a saint, and millions of Indians called him Mahatma or Bapu (father).
Gandhi’s life was devoted to a search for truth. He believed that truth could be known only through tolerance and concern for others, and that finding a trut ...
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Archimedes
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... but would pay attention to an invention that could move the earth. ^? most famous story is attributed to a Roman architect under Emperor Augustus, named Vitruvius. Vitruvius asked to devise some way to test the weight of a gold wreath. was unsuccessful until one day as he entered a full bath, he noticed that the deeper he submerged into the tub, the more water flowed out of the tub. This made him realize that the amount of water that flowed out of the tub was equal to the volume of the object being submerged. Therefore by putting the wreath into the water, he could tell by the rise in water level t ...
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Jfk Alliance
Number of Words: 1257 / Number of Pages: 5
... leaders and immediately boosted U.S. relations throughout the hemisphere.1
The alliance’s charter was signed by all members of the organization except for Cuba at a special meeting at Punta del Este, Uruguay, on August 17, 1961.2 The drafters of the charter emphasized that the twin goals of economic development and social injustice should be pursued simultaneously and that both should be paralleled by efforts to expand political freedom in the hemisphere. One of the most important factors of the program was the promotion of self-help. Under the alliance’s charter, the participating Lati ...
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Stefan Edberg
Number of Words: 1009 / Number of Pages: 4
... was close to quitting after the first term. -My friend wanted to quit,and so
did I. But my trainer convinced me to continue, Stefan says with a smile on his
face. The young Edberg soon became taken by the sport. Soon he played matches
with the boys' team, and outside his home he played fantasy Davis Cup-matches. In
the sommer holidays he almost lived at the tennis court. At the age of ten he
stopped playing his two other sports, football and icehockey, and concentrated
everything on tennis. Soon he won his first tournament, ”Ostkustenspärla,” a
very memorable victory for him.
Star even in school
But ...
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Vespasian
Number of Words: 2436 / Number of Pages: 9
... in which his elder son, Titus,
was born.
Vespasian ingratiated himself with the ruling emperor, Caligula (Gaius
Caesar); and in the next reign, that of Claudius, he won the favour of the
powerful freedman Narcissus. He became commander of the Legio II Augusta,
which took part in the invasion of Britain in 43. After distinguished
conduct at the crossing of the Medway River, he was given charge of the
left wing of the advance; he proceeded to occupy the Isle of Wight and to
conquer tribes as far west as Devon, capturing more than 20 "towns." For
these achievements he was awarded triumphal honours and ...
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Slobodan Milosevic
Number of Words: 1479 / Number of Pages: 6
... the most powerful military grouping in history launched air attacks on rump Yugoslavia to compel adherence to a peace accord, a human tragedy of grotesque proportions continues to unfold in Kosovo. Nearly 50 per cent of its Albanian population has been forced to flee the country under the relentless assault of the Yugoslav army and police, amid unbelievably cruel carnage of human lives and burning of villages and towns.
Kenneth Waltz’s first-image theory rests on the assumption that the causes of war are to be found in the nature and behavior of man and on the role of specific individuals, as in ...
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Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... after the United States used this weapon on Japan twice, The Soviet Union
developed their own nuclear weapon. The Arms Race was on. Suddenly both
countries expended large amounts of resources on making these bombs useful in
combat. Three hundred billion U.S. dollars2 were spent to ignite this project
and produce only a small number of functional bombs. The Soviet Union was
thought to have spent about equal amounts.
By the late 1950's what we now know as the Cold War erupted. Nuclear Holocaust
seemed inevitable. Tensions between the Communists and the States reached
monumental highs. Th ...
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Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
Number of Words: 974 / Number of Pages: 4
... succeeded in securing the northern border with the
dangerous German tribes. Tiberius made two more marches into the heart of
Germany. On his return to Rome he was awarded a triumph, the highest official
tribute that was given to honor a victorious warrior.
Augustus died in AD 14 and Tuberius assumed sole power of the whole
Roman empire. Tiberius was a large, strong man, and very tall. He had a fair
skin complexion that was sometimes subjected to outbreaks of skin disease.
According to Suetonius, he wore his hair long in the back. This was an old
fashioned style for the time. Perhaps it was ...
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Biography Of Galileo
Number of Words: 655 / Number of Pages: 3
... gravity of substances by weighing them under water. Galileo also found that Aristotle's belief that objects fall at velocities proportional to their weight was wrong. He found that all objects fall at the same rate; it’s only the density of the median they fall through that causes larger objects to fall slower. Galileo made many discoveries while he was teaching at the University of Padua including a calculating compass, a thermometer, a pump,and the theory of parabola. The parabola was due to the combined forces of horizontal motion and vertical acceleration. This theory was very useful in the f ...
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The Life Of Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 26653 / Number of Pages: 97
... until her death of natural causes, at which time Alois went to live on a small farm with his uncle.
At age thirteen, young Alois had enough of farm life and set out for the city of Vienna to make something of himself. He worked as a shoemaker's apprentice then later enlisted in the Austrian civil service, becoming a junior customs official. He worked hard as a civil servant and eventually became a supervisor. By 1875 he achieved the rank of Senior Assistant Inspector, a big accomplishment for the former poor farm boy with little formal education.
At this time an event occurred that would have bi ...
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