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Catherine The Great
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the
military, and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of
the Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter
I--westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she
did not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but
rather encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She
succeeded to a degree with the upper classes, but did nothing for the
overwhelming majority of the population--the enserfed peasantry.
To learn the needs of the country and to gain popula ...
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Michelangelo
Number of Words: 1326 / Number of Pages: 5
... figures of the active and contemplative life-representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays and revised schemes. had hardly begun work on the pope's tomb when Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to complete the work done in the previous century under Sixtus IV. The overall organization consists of four large triangles at the corner; a series o ...
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Evita Peron
Number of Words: 1812 / Number of Pages: 7
... young Evita
fled her stifling existence to go to Buenos Aires. Perhaps, as some have said,
she fell in love with a tango singer who was passing through.
She wanted to be an actress, and in the next few years supported herself
with bit parts, photo sessions for titillating magazines and stints as an
attractive judge of tango competitions. She began frequenting the offices of a
movie magazine, talking herself up for mention in its pages. When, in 1939, she
was hired as an actress in a radio company, she discovered a talent for playing
heroines in the fantasy world of radio soap opera.
This was a peri ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of Words: 947 / Number of Pages: 4
... After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job as organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians, for example, the church choir, rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he became involved in some hot disputes d ...
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Henry Carey
Number of Words: 3355 / Number of Pages: 13
... He was the son of a self-made Irish immigrant, Mathew Carey. His father, whom was a leader in early American economic thinking, emigrated from Ireland on account of the political upheaval during the time. Henry Carey was also self taught and in 1821 at the age of twenty-eight assumed ownership of his fathers printing press. Carey who was a largely self-educated man, retired from active business at forty-two in order to devote the rest of his life to his literary career. Carey was known for his enormous published output. Many believe his quantity took away from the meaning he was trying to co ...
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Mantle Vs. Mays
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... Mantle hit over fifty home runs in two of those four years.
Mantle was moved around a lot early in the career from short stop, where he had a short error filled season in minor league ball, to right field where he became the Yankee’s regular starter. Then in the fall of 1951 he was moved again to center field after the retirement of Joe DiMaggio. Defensively Mantle was an average player that seemed to always get the job done, but never made the headlines on the defensive side of the game.
There really was no need for Mantle to make any headlines in the field; the list of awards and achievement ...
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Helen Keller
Number of Words: 1000 / Number of Pages: 4
... Boston
Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children
with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for
things in the world. She did not know what words meant. Although she did
not give up easily.(Howell 1)
Up until the age of seven, when her teacher Anne Sullivan put her
hand under water did she know that things in the world had meanings. Anne
being half blind herself had the ways of knowing how to teach Helen.
In about two hours she had mastered over sixty words. Her and Anne
developed a way of communicating through touching of the palm of the han ...
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Adolf Hitler 2
Number of Words: 888 / Number of Pages: 4
... was a good solider and for the first time he found some recognition and felt himself to be part of community. Over the years Hitler became very devoted to the German military and Germany its self. The collapse of Germany was a personal catastrophe for him. Hitler did not want to believe that the fall of Germany was due in part to his admired military leaders. In the eyes of Hitler the collapse of Germany was due to those dark forces that he had scene in Vienna - Marxists and Jews.
After the war in 1918 Hitler returned to Munich and was employed by the army as a propaganda speaker to keep the military ...
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Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
Number of Words: 2852 / Number of Pages: 11
... Alois, and two children, Alois and Angela. Klara gave birth to a baby boy named Adolf on April 20, 1889 at the Pommer Inn. The Hitlers soon moved to Braunau. His godparents were Mr. and Mrs. Prinz and Maria Matzelbeger. As a child little Adolf was babied and his mother protected him from his father, Alois Hitler. Alois was quite a tyrant, but he usually ignored Adolf. In 1892 Adolf's father earned a promotion and the family was forced to move to Passau. Here Hitler enjoyed playing Germans and French or cowboys and Indians. At about this time, in 1984 Klara gave birth to another boy whom she n ...
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Francios Rabelias
Number of Words: 776 / Number of Pages: 3
... works, but it is believed there is more. ” Below I have listed a believed chronology of Rabelias, it may have inaccurate due the lack of information on Rabelias.
“1494 Now the Generally accepted date of Rabelias’s birth, although at times it has
been published back as far as 1483. Born at La Deviniere, a family
property near Chinon, where his father, Antoino Rabelias, was a lawyer. ”
“1511 Possibly date for his entry into a monastery of the Franciscan order at
Fontenay-le-Comte ”
“1525 Passes to the Benedictine Order with the hope that he can pursu ...
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