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- 3551: Luciano
- ... kept the code of omerta (silence) and served his jail time (Kohn). Proving his loyalty, the Five Points Gang made him a full-fledged member. , a quick witted and pleasurable personality, liked the highlife. He lived by one simple fact; “Money is everything” and he went through anything in order to get that money (Mobsters). believed in his friends, and later took a face-altering knife wound in the face ...
- 3552: Henry VIII
- ... know that Catherine knew he had them all along and she kept silent about it. Then he met his second wife. Her name was Anne Boleyn. She was the daughter of an English diplomat who lived in France and served Henry VIII’s sister Mary. After King Luis died Mary returned to England and became one of Catherine’s servants. With her, she was secretly betrothed to Henry Percy. Percy was ...
- 3553: Cleopatra
- ... later demanded that marry her younger brother Ptolemy XIV and rule Egypt with him (Nardo 29). gave birth to Caesar’s son, Caesarion in 47 B.C. Throughout ’s marriage with Ptolemy IV, she lived with Caesar in Egypt as his “Mistress” (Krapp 616). When Caesar returned to Egypt, he requested Helivus Cinna to propose a law to the Senate allowing and Caesar to marry and for Caesarion to ...
- 3554: Search
- ... the young Aleksey Nickolayovich, “hemophiliac heir to the Russian throne” (Rasputin). Grigory had been against war, but was recognized for his drunkeness (Radzinsky 271). Before Rasputin got his job with the Russian family, he lived off donations from peasants because of his claim of being a “self- proclaimed holy man” (Rasputin). “[Grigory] underwent a religious conversion at 18, where he was introduced to the Khlysty sect” (Rasputin). Rasputin ...
- 3555: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... was buried in Westminster Abbey, among other great men of England. His statue stands today in the hall of Trinity College, Cambridge University. In my personal opinion Sir Isaac Newton was a crazy fruitcake. He lived like a hermit and when he discovered new things, he did not immediately teach the world about his discoveries. He never had very many friends, and the few that he had probably thought that he ...
- 3556: Stalin As A Continuation Of Le
- ... made Stalin so horrible. In the way Lenin acted on behalf of the revolution, Stalin acted on behalf of himself. Although their personalities were similar, it can be argued that they had different ideals. Lenin lived for the revolution and had a long-term goal of worldwide revolution. Stalin, on the other hand, was more interested in seeing revolution on the home front. Another difference between the two was that Stalin ...
- 3557: Sir Thomas More - A Unique Her
- ... stand his ground, when all it took was a simple signing of his name to be with them again. This may seem an act of selfishness, but had he given in, all he had ever lived for, and everything he had ever believed in, would have been gone in that brief moment. More’s battle was not for his country, or for power, or some crusade, but for his own sanctity ...
- 3558: Sigmund Freud
- ... his second wife. Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years older than himself. His family moved to Vienna when he was four years old, and though he often claimed he hated the city, he lived there until it was occupied by Germany in 1938. Freud's family background was Jewish, though his father was a freethinker and Freud himself an avowed atheist. Freud was a good student, and very ambitious ...
- 3559: San Martin
- ... if he had anything to contribute to the internal peace between the new nations. He returned to Europe in 1829, after that he decided that he would not be to much help. After this, he lived as a retired man mainly in France. However, he was not totally inactive, as he "gave moral support to the defenders of American sovereignty." Jose de San Martin died in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France on ...
- 3560: Stonewall Jackson
- ... wasn’t just born a general, he earned it. Since his parents died when he was very young, life was very rough for him. He was raised by his uncle, Cummins Jackson, a miller who lived near what is now known as Weston, West Virginia. Later on, he was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy. He had to work several times harder than the other cadets to learn the lessons ...
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