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- 3841: 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 ...
- 3842: Confucius And Lao Tzu
- ... 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 ...
- 3843: Colonel 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 ...
- 3844: Coco Chanel
- ... elderly woman wearing a hat with dark pencilled in eyebrows and dark hair encompassing a stern mouth with, all in all, a very upright figure. (15) This is the image of the dressmaking goddess who lived at the Ritz across from the rue Cambon since her comeback. January 10, a Sunday in 1971, Coco Chanel died (15). But her life and memory was to be carried on as the memory of ...
- 3845: Christopher Columbus - American Hero Or Portuguese Idiot ?
- ... fateful voyage was reaching a conclusion. A stately man walks out of the cabin and surveys the situation. He is Christopher Columbus, Portuguese explorer. Some say he was one of the greatest men that ever lived. He discovered the "New World" and brought riches back to his lieges in Spain. These people are wrong. He was an idiot. Chris Columbus was an idiot for many reasons. Most of them include his ...
- 3846: Charlie Chaplin 3
- Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in Walworth, London, and lived a Dickensian childhood, shared with his brother, Sydney, that included extreme poverty, workhouses and seeing his mother's mental decline put her into an institution. Both his parents, though separated when he was very young ...
- 3847: 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 ...
- 3848: Cervantes
- ... later de died. One year later the novel was published. greatest and most well-known work is probably Don Quixote. It was published in 2 parts. It is the story of a poor man that lived in La Mancha. He was a knight errant that rode on his horse named Rocinante(Rosinante). His squire was named Sancho Panza, a peasant from his village. Don Quixote imagined many things and was very ...
- 3849: Carl Gauss
- ... that he had used his least squares approximation method. This successful prediction started off Gauss's long involvement with the field of astronomy.On October ninth, 1805 Gauss was married to Johana Ostoff. Although Gauss lived a happy personal life for the first time, he was shattered by the death of his benefactor, The Duke of Brunswick, who was killed fighting for the Prussian army. In 1807 Gauss left Brunswick to ...
- 3850: Cark Gauss
- ... that he had used his least squares approximation method. This successful prediction started off Gauss's long involvement with the field of astronomy.On October ninth, 1805 Gauss was married to Johana Ostoff. Although Gauss lived a happy personal life for the first time, he was shattered by the death of his benefactor, The Duke of Brunswick, who was killed fighting for the Prussian army. In 1807 Gauss left Brunswick to ...
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