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- 3631: Pierre De Fermat
- ... life many things happened as world events. First Ludolph Van Ceulen died, there is a site dedicated to this long-ignored mathematician, who spent his entire life, approximating Pi to 35 places. Then Blaise Pascal lived his entire life, born in 1623 and died in 1662. Next Sir Isaac Newton was born in the year 1642. Then Marin Mersenne, French philosopher, mathematician, Jesuit theologian, and scientist died in the year 1648 ...
- 3632: Peter The Great
- ... feared the wrath of God would get them. Peter instantly had Sophia banished to a tower outside the city of Moscow. Soon after, Peter married, and had an heir to the throne. Eight million people lived in Russia. Ninety-five percent of all of the population consisted of serfs, the merchants, nobles, and elite only populated five percent of Russia. The elite, like the serfs, were not very well educated at ...
- 3633: Oprah Winfrey
- ... a child, and her lifelong battle with weight. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954. As a child, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then moved back to Nashville. She has lived through poverty, repeated sexual abuse, and a sentence to a juvenile delinquent home. (Hyde 1997 p.57) Oprah was crowned Miss. Black Tennessee at age 19. In 1973. She left Tennessee State University and became ...
- 3634: Oliver Cromwell
- ... in Huntingdon, England in 1599. His father, who was active in local affairs, had been a member of one of Queen Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother ...
- 3635: Oleg Vladmirovich Penkovsky
- ... doesn't ring a bell for most people. However, for many in the intelligence community this name is as about household as you can get. He is a legend in his own right. Those who lived during and through the Cuban missile crisis actually benefited from this man's activities. Colonel Penkovsky was a joint spy for the United States and England. He is often thought of as the highest ranking ...
- 3636: Norman Schwarzkopf
- ... my great grandparents live in Germany. He served in Vietnam and so did my grandfather. Norman and I also have many differences. His family has a popular military background and my family does not. He lived his whole life through the military and I am not going to do that. Norman also followed in his father’s footsteps that I am also not going to do. Now you see how many ...
- 3637: Nicholas Romanov
- ... Victoria . Nicholas nor Alexander III were well trained for the job of ruling this vast country. Alexander was not so much superior to the son in character of abilities to justify admirers hopes that he lived longer, so the monarchy would have. There is some evidence to suggest that had Alexander ruled 22 years, like his son, instead of just 13 he would have had to face the wars and revolution ...
- 3638: Neal Cassady
- ... any rules and his manic search for answers to all the questions in his head gave him a certain appeal to both groups of people. Underlying both generations lie the same ideals, the ones Cassady lived by. The Beats loved Cassady’s free spirit as equally as the Pranksters did. "For a period in the late forties, both Kerouac and Ginsberg trailed Cassady around with their notebooks open, their pens at ...
- 3639: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I don’t see that there is anything left for me but to be an author." (" American Writers II, pg. 227) For the next twelve years Hawthorne lived in his mother’s house. He Seldemly went out except late at night, or when going to another city. " I had read endlessly all sorts of good and good for nothing books, and in dearth ...
- 3640: Muhammed Ali
- ... controversial because of his religious beliefs, his name change from Cassius Clay to and his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War. grew up in Louisville, Kentucky but he was known as Cassius Clay. He lived a normal life until the age of twelve when his bicycle was stolen during a local convention of the Louisville Service Club. Clay wanted to report the crime and went to find a police officer ...
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