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- 5771: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... recognized as the leading natural philosopher of the age, but his creative career was effectively over. After suffering a nervous breakdown in 1693, he retired from research to seek a government position in London. In 1696 he became Warden of the Royal Mint and in 1699 its Master, an extremely lucrative position. He oversaw the great English recoinage of the 1690s ...
- 5772: Mother Teresa
- ... poor that she received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Pope Paul VI honored Mother Teresa by awarding her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. The following year the government of India presented her with the Jawaharial Nehru Award for International Understanding. In 1979 she received her greatest award, the Nobel Peace Prize. Mother Teresa accepted all of these awards ...
- 5773: Jimi Hendrix
- ... a protest song, pure and simple. During this period of the late 1960’s, music had become a popular medium for protest against the Vietnam War, the draft, and the government in general. Hendrix recorded “All Along the Watchtower” after a period in 1967 in which he wore a military jacket to all of is performances (Fairchild, “Electric Ladyland” 3). The ...
- 5774: Emile Durkheim
- ... mistaken ideas. However, he recognizes that this may be a personal view held by the member of a religion. His contribution made many people viewed him as an agent of government anti-clericalism, and charged with seeking “a unique and pernicious domination over the minds of the young.” There were two terms that Durkheim used to define “simple society” and “a ...
- 5775: The Romanovs
- ... I don't know if Rasputin really said that, but the happy Romanov family did come to the end. In February 1917 revolution exploded across Russia. The new Kerensky Democratic Government stripped the Tsar of the throne. First the Romanovs were sent to the Tobolsk, Siberia. Then Kerensky was overthrow by Lenin (Communist) who ordered the Royal family to be sent ...
- 5776: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... revenge. King, on the other hand, became somewhat angry at the lack of progress made on equality. He started promoting non-violent sabotage, which including blocking the normal functioning of government. At one time, Malcolm X actually wanted “to join forces with King and the progressive elements of the Civil Rights Movement,” (pg. 262, Malcolm X: The man and his times ...
- 5777: William Richardson Davie
- ... laws, send representatives to the Annapolis and Philadelphia conventions, cede Tennessee to the Union, and fix disputed state boundaries. During the Constitutional Convention Davie favored plans for a strong central government. He was a member of the committee that considered the question of representation in Congress and swung the North Carolina delegation's vote in favor of the Great Compromise. He ...
- 5778: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... were primary features of the 1870's, and in order to understand Grant's political situation, historians must recognize how fundamental the inconsistency was between the reformers' revered conception of government by the best educated and the notion of black rule in the South, the latter being an essential part of Grant's program. The president's dedication to Reconstruction, which ...
- 5779: Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
- ... WW1 and debated during the Cold War, they provide a rare glimpse of how the history of imperialism was suppressed And more importantly how Americans became mis-educated about their government's historical role in the world. Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings, wonderfully rich in original ideas, are almost unknown because of our inability to deal truthfully with the past ...
- 5780: Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations
- ... to happen in the Indies no matter what. He brought common men to a more beautiful place than they had ever known and expected them to accept rule from a government that was so far away. Anyone would challenge that and seek their own claim.
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