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1821: Diego Maradona: ... to many championships in Argentina, Italy, and Spain. During the 1986 World Cup tournament, won by Argentina, Maradona gave what was perhaps the greatest performance in all of World Cup History. While a national hero in Argentina, Maradona has also earned a reputation for being outspoken and controversial. In what is probably his last international competition, he led Argentina into the ... earlier, Maradona scored five goals in a six game effort to forget about his poor play in the 1982 World Cup. Experts called it the best performance in World Cup history. In the final game of the 1982 World Cup Argentina was able to defeat West Germany. The score was tied at 2 and Maradona had the ball. He was able ...

1822: De Tocqueville: ... to say, He willingly imposes duties on himself towards the former and latter [ancestors and descendants], and he will frequently sacrifice his personal gratifications . . . . It is a nice sentiment, however, history has taught us that it is rare to find a self-sacrificing person, and even rarer is the benevolent overlord. De Tocqueville s argument lacks a solid and provable basis ... serfs and servants by throwing them off his land. It would destroy De Tocqueville s argument to show that lords were hard, if not cruel at times, on their tenets. History has proven it. De Tocqueville tries to justify the isolation of the aristocracy by claiming that it binds people together by fixed positions one above another, the result is that ...

1823: Darwin: ... in his hometown of Shrewsbury. He stayed here for the next seven years of his life. It is said that, "even at this age he showed a passion for natural history by collecting all sorts of things, shells, seals, franks, coins and minerals." [Charles Darwin and His World, Pg. 8] Later Darwin would remark, "The passion for collecting was clearly innate ... support the Darwin Salamander. (A Jesus fish with legs.) Our society has accepted Darwin and his beliefs and will forever be immortalized in our scientific efforts from this point in history forward. Charles Darwin was truly one of the great minds of science, and we shall forever be blessed with the knowledge he has given to us.

1824: Dante Alighieri 2: ... after him have copied this format (Wilkins 12). His most famous piece of literature, The Divine Comedy, is said to be important also because of It s place in the history of the development of the Italian language (Dante: The Divine Internet). To understand this we need to look at the language and writings at that time in history. During Dante s lifetime different dialects of Italian were spoken in different parts of the country (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Internet). Dante was a very skilled writer who wrote in ...

1825: Dwight D. Eisenhower: ... 1944. IfEisenhower had made a wrong choice, Hitler would have continued to rainV-1 & V-2 rockets on London (Benson 7). Eisenhower had nowsuccessfully completed the most important invasion in history wiping out allmost 100% of German units. Luckily Allied forces only suffered 76% casualties (Barry 30). Dwight Eisenhower was one of the most popular and successfulpresidents in our country's history. Eisenhower was elected to the office ofpresident twice. His first term with vice president Richard Nixion began in1952 (Hargrove 65). Then again in 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was reelectedto president winning ...

1826: Descartes 2: ... The Oxford Companion to Philosophy ed. Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1985. Cottingham, John Descartes. Oxford, 1986. Williams, Bernard Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry. Harmondsworth, 1978. Russell, Bertrand The History of Western Philosophy. George Allen and Unwin, 1961. 11. Kripke, Saul Naming and Necessity. Oxford 1980. Word Count: 4577 Descartes How does Descartes try to extricate himself from the sceptical ... The Oxford Companion to Philosophy ed. Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1985. Cottingham, John Descartes. Oxford, 1986. Williams, Bernard Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry. Harmondsworth, 1978. Russell, Bertrand The History of Western Philosophy. George Allen and Unwin, 1961. 11. Kripke, Saul Naming and Necessity. Oxford 1980. Word Count: 4577 Descartes How does Descartes try to extricate himself from the sceptical ...

1827: Descartes: Rene Descartes 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 ... One, that he actually was an immaterial thing, and two, that there is in fact an external corporeal world Although Descartes is still a well respected philosopher, it seems that history has judged much of his reasoning as faulty. Kant calls him a problematic idealist for whom there is only one empirical assertion that is indubitably certain, namely that I am ...

1828: David Hume: ... writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology. Besides his chief work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), he wrote Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and a History of England (1754-62) that was, despite errors of fact, the standard work for many years. "Nothing seems more unbounded than a man's thought," quoted Hume. Hume took genuinely ...

1829: Criticism Of Alexander Pope: ... as a writer and as a satirist. Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" is in essence an apologia, or a means for him to defend his own poetry. (Perkins, A history of Modern Poetry, 349) Through the course of the epistle, Pope makes references to the politics of England, while sarcastically criticizing it. Pope also talks about his literary ancestors, including ... approach of writing (both in first person and in a dialogue format) that makes "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" and all of his other poems and writings admired and understood throughout history.

1830: Comparison Of Nicholas I And Nicholas Ii: ... different when their rule ended. While the names may suggest that Nicholas I was the father of Nicholas II, Nicholas I was actually Nicholas II s great granduncle. The summarized history of their terms below will tell of and compare the Nicholas reigns of the Russian monarchy. Nicholas I (1796-1855) was born at Tsarskoe Selo, the third son of Czar ... soldiers who had fought in Europe during the Napoleonic wars and favored reform in Russia. This uprising occurred in the month of December and the rebels became known in Russian history as Decembrists. The new czar ordered the principal leaders killed and the rest exiled to Siberia. He felt there was something wrong with the government of the country, and he ...

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