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- 3691: Descartes
- Rene was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the philosophy. Born in 1596, he lived to become a great mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. In fact, he became one of the central intellectual figures of the sixteen hundreds. He is believed by some to be the father of modern philosophy, although ...
- 3692: David Hume
- , a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76, carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything ...
- 3693: Daniel Boone
- ... again heard the call of unknown country luring him, this time to the Missouri region. As his dug-out canoe passed Cincinnati, somebody asked why he was leaving Kentucky. "Too crowded" was his answer. He lived in Missouri the rest of his life, although he twice revisited Kentucky before he died at the age of 85. He was buried beside his wife in Missouri. A quarter of a century later they ...
- 3694: Czar Nicholas II
- ... a boy to fall heir to the throne. On July 30, 1904, their wish was granted. A son they would call Aleksey was born and Nicholas and Alexandra were ecstatic. However, the joy was short lived. Aleksey had hemophilia, a hereditary disease in which the blood does not clot right. A simple scrape could prove deadly. When Aleksey was two, a monk called Rasputin offered his services. He was the only ...
- 3695: Cyrano De Bergerac
- ... of the nose, the question of Cyrano’s happiness is still unanswered. I cannot say that he was happy, but nor can I say he was unhappy, either. Happiness was not his goal. He only lived his life through. Cyrano was waiting for his happiness, or, more specifically, he was waiting for Roxanne. He was not happy without her, yet, he did not seem unhappy during the interim. Was Cyrano happy ...
- 3696: Confucius
- ... and two daughters, but after two years of marriage he was stricken with poverty once again. With poverty striking again he was forced into menial labors for the chief of the district in which he lived. When his mother died in 527 BCE he mourned for a long period of time. After this stage of his life he began a new way of life as a teacher, traveling from place to ...
- 3697: Colin Powell
- ... Luther Powell. He was born on May 5, 1937 in Presbyterian Hospital. He was born, and grew up, in the South Bronx, New York. There was a big influence of drugs and gangs where Powell lived but, he seemed to steer away from all of that (source 1, page 23). Powell's parents were immigrants from Jamaica. His mother's name is Muad Ariel McKoy. In Jamaica the McKoy fammily watched ...
- 3698: Christopher Columbus
- ... was a new land to him he only knew that he wanted to conquer it in the name of Spain for Ferdinand and Isabella. He didn’t realize that he was doing anything wrong. He lived ina time of slavery and that was all he knew. It was a way of his life, therefore he brought it with him to the new world. Despite all of the negative conotations people have ...
- 3699: Charlie Chaplin
- When was a little boy, a sheep escaped on its way to a slaughterhouse near where he lived. Charlie and other youngsters chased the sheep around, laughing and having fun. But when it was taken away, Charlie realized the sad finality of death and cried to his mother. That incident paved the way ...
- 3700: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... Chesnutt who had little formal education taught himself and also received tutoring from family members. Chesnutt is known as one of the great American novelist and short-story writers of the late 19th century. Chesnutt lived most of his childhood in Fayetteville, NC where he worked part time in a family grocery store and attended a school founded by the Freedmen's Bureau. By 14 he had published his first short ...
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