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- 2151: Shadow And Custodial President
- Shadow and Custodial Presidents Grant (1868) – Cleveland (1892) Throughout the history of the world there have been many people remembered for their actions and a great deal more forgotten for no real reason. This does not exempt more recent history. After the American Civil War, six lesser-known Presidents, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, and Harrison, have been given titles of either shadow or custodial presidents. A shadow, is a ...
- 2152: Rasputin The Mad Monk
- Throughout Russian history, there were many individuals who captured the interests and curiosity of scholars both domestic and foreign, but one stands out as the most ambiguous. Grigori Yefimovitch Rasputin, the so- called ... spiritual healing was the aid he provided the Tsarevitch Aleksei, a hemophiliac, in 1912. Aleksei had inherited the blood disorder from his mother, Alexandra, and the Romanov family had a history of the affliction. Aleksei had been badly bruised by his own actions and was bleeding to death. Nicholas and Alexandra were extremely reluctant to invite Rasputin, because their son's ...
- 2153: Influences Of Socratic Philoso
- ... therefore our own in the western world. This philosophy, was based upon the thoughts of Socrates, who was an Athenian philosopher and possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. To begin, after about 450 B.C., Athens was considered the cultural center of the Greek world, and from then on, Athenian philosophy took a new direction. In ... were the earliest Greek philosophers, and were mainly concerned with the natural or physical world and it's processes. This concept gives the pre-Socratics a central position in the history of science. After the pre-Socratics, emerged the sophists, whose name meant in definition, "wise and informed people". The sophists were a group of itinerant teachers and philosophers from the ...
- 2154: Evolution Of The Corvette
- ... to 60 mph in just 5.5 seconds. This engine is known among car enthusiasts as the Chevy 327 small block. This engine was the most successful engine in Chevy history. Even with the great success of this car Chevy decided try something completely new and in 1963 the Corvette was in for a whole new look. In 1963, Chevrolet departed ... Corvette were over. This was a sad day for sports car enthusiasts everywhere. The Corvette would endure but the road leading to the next high-performance era in American automotive history would be a long and costly one. The Corvette changed its appearance in 1978 making the cars lines a little smoother than before. Unfortunately this cars power was even less ...
- 2155: Excellence Redefined
- Excellence Redefined The 1980’s has been called the “me” generation, the decade of materialism, and was responsible for the greatest number of mergers and takeovers in the history of the US market. People were transformed by the power of money, and tried to take advantage of the opportunities in the stock market. The stock market has never guaranteed ... taste of both worlds sooner or later. In the case of the 1980’s this cycle was shown when the stock market took a huge fall, the fourth largest in history, when everyone thought that equities were unsafe because of the corruption Ivan Boesky started as an honest man with a reputable position in the market, but the process of building ...
- 2156: Elvis Presley
- ... all existing Las Vegas attendance records and gets rave review from the public. Elvis opens up what is called his "Vegas" period. January 1973, Elvis makes television and entertainment industry history with his " Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii - Via Satellite Special ". It was the concert by a performer to be broadcast around the world by satellite. Elvis performed for free to help ... Never has one performer held the world's attention in such awe. It was definitely one of the greatest moments in his career. He starred in 33 successful films, made history with his television appearances and specials, and knew great acclaim though his many, often breaking, live concert performances on tour and in Las Vegas. Globally, he has sold over one ...
- 2157: Hitler - The Life Story
- ... assigned the job of going go to various meetings of groups which sprang up like mushrooms and to report on them. One day September 12, 1919 - a fateful day in history, Hitler was sent to investigate a small group which called itself the "German Workers Party". Hitler was not to happy about his assignment. He thought it wouldn't be worth ... speeches attracted more and more listeners and it soon became a major party with many followers. Eventually Adolf Hitler became it's leader and the rest as they say....is history. 4.Hitler In Power While spending time in prison for trying to overthrow the government Adolf Hitler wrote his famous book "Mein Kampf", in which he describes many problems and ...
- 2158: China In The 20th Century
- ... would be controlled by the Communist government. All of the people would work for the common goal of the country. As a result, Chinese socialism was born. The pre-communist history of modern China has been essentially one of weakness, humiliation and failure. This is the atmosphere in which the Communist Party developed its leadership and early growth. This resulted in ... about 70 percent more than that of India or Indonesia (316). As for such growth rates in a huge country like China, there has been nothing like them in the history of the world. (317) In the post-1978 period, Dent established a series of agricultural, industrial, commercial, fiscal and financial reforms that gave a greater scope to market forces and ...
- 2159: Lincoln And His Generals
- Book Report: Lincoln and His Generals Author: Williams, T. Harry Harry T. Williams was born on May 19, 1909. When in college, he was encouraged by a professor to study history. This professors main interest was the Civil War era and had a great effect on Williams. He attended Platteville State Teachers College (later Wisconsin State University at Platteville) where he ... in a deeper sense. . Despite the use of maps and footnotes, it seemed easy to get lost in this area. There is no doubt that reference is required to the history of the war to tell Lincoln’s story, but the author does tend to give more detail than necessary. More information on the selection process would have provided more story ...
- 2160: Lane Frost A Fallen Champinion
- ... put together, a bull ride, called Bullmanina in Guthrie, Oklahoma the ride was to pay tribute to a good friend, Freckles Brown. Later that year was a fateful date in history Lane died on July 30, 1989, riding Taking Care of Business in Cheyenne, Wyoming (Angier 1-76). In 1994, the movie "8 Seconds" was released to pay tribute to Lane ... the money or the fame; he rode for the love of the sport. He was only 25 when he hit the top as the youngest bull-riding champion in the history of the P.R.C.A. Once he made it to the top he stayed there until his death in 1989. If Lane had not died he would still be ...
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