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Abraham Lincoln 4
Number of Words: 2402 / Number of Pages: 9
... Hawk War (1832). Returning from the war, he began an unsuccessful venture in shopkeeping that ended when his partner died. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster but had to supplement his income with surveying and various other jobs. At the same time he began to study law. That he gradually paid off his and his deceased partner's debts firmly established his reputation for honesty. The story of his romance with Ann Rutledge, a local young woman whom he knew briefly before her untimely death, is unsubstantiated.
Defeated in 1832 in a race for the state legislature, Lincoln was elected on the Whig tick ...
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Alexander The Great: A Life With A Meaning Like No Other
Number of Words: 985 / Number of Pages: 4
... of his father. Before Philip's rule, the Greeks held most of the power and influence over Macedon. Therefore, Macedon's power and influence are due almost entirely to Philip. At the time, Greece was not a single nation, but rather a collection of individual states, each with its own government. The Greeks did not derive their power form military strength, but from the cultivation of new ideas in the different areas of study. Due to the fact that Macedon was a city of farmers and herders, they were seen as second rate citizens in the Greek Empire, and were referred to as barbarians. With Philips ...
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Martin Luther And John Calvin Moses
Number of Words: 789 / Number of Pages: 3
... challenging the ways of the Catholic Church. If it wasn't for this, Lutheranism, and even Protestantism itself, may have disappeared all together. Luther's social attitudes also differed greatly with the Catholic Church. Luther said that only the Bible, and not religious traditions and ceremonies and such, could determine correct religious practices and lead to salvation. This, obviously, would have made the Church much less important, thus decreasing the power of the Pope and his followers. He also disagreed with the concept of indulgences. That someone can simply buy his way into Heaven didn't ...
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Marco Polo
Number of Words: 1781 / Number of Pages: 7
... by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and this policy too stimulated trade(Hull 23).
Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders ventured, including the family of . The Polos had long-established ties in the Levant and around the Black Sea: for example, they owned property in Constantinople, and Marco's uncle, for whom he was ...
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Edgar Allen Poe
Number of Words: 1970 / Number of Pages: 8
... In 1815, the Allen family moved to England on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, which would effect his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time ...
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Henrik Ibsen
Number of Words: 584 / Number of Pages: 3
... Theater in Christiania in 1858. The next year, he wrote the historical play The Vikings at Helgeland. The Pretenders was written in 1863. Beside Bjornstjerne Bjornson’s Sigurd Slembe, The Pretenders is considered the main work of historical fiction produced during this era. married Suzannah Thoresen (1836-1914) in 1858. Soon after, he wrote the poem "On the Heights"(1859) and the play Love’s Comedy (1863). The years in Christiania were difficult for Ibsen. He was given a means of escape when a group of his friends, headed by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, collected enoughmoney for him t ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... (1914) to a prestigious post at
the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a
university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from
which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton.
In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon
discovered by Max Planck, according to which electromagnetic energy seemed to be
emitted from radiating objects in discrete quantities. The energy of these
quanta was directly proportional to the frequency of the radiation. This seemed
at odds wi ...
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A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
Number of Words: 1652 / Number of Pages: 7
... Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II.
Though surveys have revealed that at any one time between 15 and 30% of the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority uphold the traditional support of the monarchy, as has been the English custom for over a thousand years. Since 1952 the endeared Queen Elizabeth II has played this role in her country's politics as an important aspect of the modern nation's identity. As she has proved neither conservative nor liberal in her stance, she has so come to symbolize a popular democracy.
It was raining on the sunless April day in 1926 when Elizabeth Bowe ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of Words: 630 / Number of Pages: 3
... was already a major part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers.
Literary Information
Emerson wrote many genres of writing including poetry and sermons, but his best writing is found in his essays. Even though he is noted for his essays, he was also a strong force in poetry. Emerson was known for presen ...
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Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader Of Germany
Number of Words: 1341 / Number of Pages: 5
... This rejection crushed him, as he now had nowhere else to go. I like to speculate what would have happened if he had been accepted into the academy. Would the world have been spared World War II?
While living in Vienna Adolf made his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold as post cards. He wasn’t successful and didn’t make any money. He was a regular reader of a small paper that claimed the Aryan race was superior to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper regularly blamed Jews for all the economic problems and Adolf agreed with its views. Adolf continued ...
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