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- 2991: Marco Polo
- ... two priests. Early Life Despite his enduring fame, very little was known about the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice's influence as a city-state coincided with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai ...
- 2992: Seeing Through Salvador DalÃ's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
- ... the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was dubbed after his father and grandfather. Felipe is the male equivalent of his mother's name while Jacinto came from his uncle. The family lived in a small, rural town called Figueres in Spain. It was sixteen miles south of the Spanish-French border, being fed by the Tech and Ter rivers. DalÃ's photographic memory consumed this scenery for ...
- 2993: Joan Of Arc
- ... old Joan started hearing voices and seeing visions in her head. She claimed that they were angels telling her to remove the English from France and give the crown back to the rightful king. She lived the rest of her life listening to them and trying to obey them. Joan told her uncle what the angels were saying and her uncle was told to take her back home until she grew ...
- 2994: Similarities Of Bradstreet And Wheatly
- ... exposed in her poems. In her poems, Bradstreet used a literary device called inversion. These poems were discovered by her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, who published them without her knowing. Phyllis Wheatly may have lived a very short life, but her accomplishments are still appreciated today. She was a slave brought over from Africa, at a young age. She was purchased by the Wheatley's, who taught her English and ...
- 2995: The Life & Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... couldn't agree more. I always ask the supremacist the question, "why do you support a supremacist government that would probably reject you into it's lower class?" I have no doubt, that if Nietzsche lived in his ideal society, he would have no honor, as he misses every requirement, being a sickly man who was rejected from the army, and lacking the strength to compete with his own "superman." Word ...
- 2996: The Life Of Ian Fleming
- Ian Fleming lived a remarkable life in a world full of compromises. To sum up his life in the short space available would be an impossible task even for me, so all that follows is a simple outline ...
- 2997: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... that one must act to reach a goal. But, he believed that one should denounce the rewards and simply devote one's life to acting on the behalf of others and that life should be lived near the soil, away from the influence of machines. Also, Gandhi strongly believed in upholding the caste system, believing that a person of one caste should stay a part of that caste. He also upheld ...
- 2998: Babe Ruth
- ... and lack of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary ...
- 2999: The Life Of Claude Monet
- ... the Franco-Prussian War. Here he was exposed to the English masters, Constable and Turner. Monet eventually moved back to Paris and finally rented a house at Argenteuil on the Seine where he and Camille lived for six years. This period represents the height of the impressionist movement. Frequently joined by Renoir and other friends from his student days, Monet painted every aspect of life and the world outdoors. In 1874 ...
- 3000: Niccolo Machiavelli
- ... Pisa war. There created absolute necessities and he had to function as an ambassador with unimportant assignments. On May 1500, with a more important assignment he was sent to the king of Fr ance and lived away from Italy for six months. After he returned to his country he was assigned to many important political jobs in Toscana. One of the most important of these jobs was the one he got ...
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