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- 3071: Henry VIII And Louis XIV
- ... Baptiste Colbert died in 1685, the reign of the Sun King became less glorified. He forced the noble families to stay at court at Versailles, creating the problem of absentee landlords for the commoners, who lived in relative poverty compared to the great splendour of Versailles. Louis died gradually of disease, and after his reign, political influence in France declined greatly for a number of years. However, France remembers him in ...
- 3072: Geronimo
- ... and the Mexicans fought for years, bought once they were settled down, the white man bickered the Apaches. Geronimo got the right to write his book by the President in the early 1900's. He lived in peace until he died in February 1909.
- 3073: Charles Darwin And Herbert Spencer
- ... will survive in a given environment, thus altering life through a selective death rate (2:57-58).” He concluded that with all three factors combined that life will alter slowly and unnoticeably. Herbert Spencer lived from 1820-1903. An English philosopher who advocated the importance of the individual over society and science over religion. He was born in Derby on April 27, 1820. He declined an offer to attend Cambridge ...
- 3074: Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
- ... on the road with my brother and parents. Stopping at places like the worlds largest ball Of string. We ended up going to the air port where my mom sent me too India. Where I lived with a Monk monastery. While I was there, I was beaten repeatedly with tree limbs. The only toys I had to play with were the contents of the care package. I also received for some ...
- 3075: Amerigo Vespucci
- ... field of exploration. Some of the adults told young Amerigo about the wonders and riches of the Indies. Like the other Italian boys in his village, undoubtedly Amerigo was fascinated with by those tales. Amerigo lived in the Ognissanti section of Florence with a lot of the Vespucci family. The Vespucci family was pretty well off, so Amerigo thought that he was in line for a lot of money after his ...
- 3076: Shakespeare: Biography
- William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in ...
- 3077: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... playwright. The odds were against him, but he rose to the occasion and wrote over 38 plays which made him famous throughout the world. He is still considered to be the best playwright that ever lived.
- 3078: Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
- ... and marry Augustus' daughter Julia. This was arranged to better the chance of succession of a descendant of Augustus to take power. The plan did not work because they did not get along and soon lived separately. For this reason Tiberius retired to the island of Rhodes where he devoted himself to study for seven years. When Tiberius returned to Rome in AD 26, Julia had been banished for adultery. The ...
- 3079: Saint Bernadette Soubirous
- The Soubirous family lived in the far north of the little town of Lourdes, in the Lapaca district. A large stream flowed there, and on this stream there were seven mills; one of them known as the Boly Mill ...
- 3080: Siddhartha Gautama
- ... everything, because everything has good in it. He also sees the difference between past, present, and future is just a myth. In his hometown, Siddhartha's social status was very high. He was popular, and lived by everyone, but he decided that he could not stay. When he was with the Samanas, this social status sunk to an all time low. He was considered a beggar. When Siddhartha visited the Buddha ...
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