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Napoleon And Unrest In Europe
Words: 622 - Pages: 3.... causing revolts. The response was The Troppau Protocol and Carlsbad decrees. These banned revolution and promised military intervention. The first failure of the Troppau protocol was Greek Independence from the Ottoman Empire. This sparked two series of revolts. In Eastern and Central Europe the focus was nationalism. In Western Europe the focus was growing industrialization calling for lower class political participation. These revolutions threatened European unity.
In Italy Nationalism grew. Many movements and secret societies formed, including “risorgimento”, “Carbonari”, and the “Young Italy” movement. Many states .....
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Stephen King
Words: 595 - Pages: 3.... 50s horror movies. While a teenager, he did things like other teens; he joined the football team, played in a rock band, but he also had two of his short-stories published.
King attended the University of Maine at Orono and earned a Bachelor's degree for English in 1970. He married Tabitha, also a writer, the same year. After graduation, he worked as an English teacher and spent his free time writing and being rejected by publishers. Then came his break with Carrie and things have never been the same.
Today, is the world's most successful writer. He has over a hundred million copies of his works in print and that number is climbing rapi .....
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Caesar
Words: 847 - Pages: 4.... a position in the senate or held a political office. When was twelve, he went to the Curia which is the Senate House to listen to speeches and debates and watch the statesmen at work. was also often found at the Regia which is the offices of the High Priest because his uncle, Cuius Cotta held an important position in the College of Priests.
learned a lot from his uncle, Gaius Marius (Grant, pg 34). Marius was involved in politics at a very young age, just as was. It was very difficult being a young man involved in a career that mostly adults were in charge of, but Marius won the loyalty of the common people and was elected in .....
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James Watt
Words: 1286 - Pages: 5.... and try and qualify himself to become a mathematical instrument maker. After James spoke to Professor Muirhead at the Glasgow University, he was introduced to several scientists who at the time encouraged him later to travel to London to further himself in instrument making.
In 1755 he set out on horseback and arrived in London after either twelve days or two weeks. He tried to get a job in the instrumentation field although the shopkeepers could not give him a job as he did not do an apprenticeship and was too old. Finally though he found John Morgan of a company called Cornhill who agreed to bend the rules and offer an apprenticeship .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Words: 794 - Pages: 3.... Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph was a professional organist, and continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perf .....
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Josef Stalin
Words: 558 - Pages: 3.... Yekaterina Svanidze. She died six years later, in 1910. After her death,
Stalin was subsequently arrested eight times, six in which he escaped. He
was last arrested in 1913, in which he spent four years in exile and was
released in 1917. He married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to
expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause.
He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central
Committee in 1912 and the following year he briefl .....
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Isadora Duncan
Words: 2914 - Pages: 11.... She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep living in the same house. The family began moving from one apartment to another, learning to leave each one a day before the bills came around.
Isadora started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students were expected to sit still during school, memorizing and reciting their lessons. To Isadora this was "irritating and meaningless." She hated school. She said later in her autobiography that her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were inter .....
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Bio On Shakespear
Words: 374 - Pages: 2.... other daughter married to a vintner in 1616. There was a gap in his life where no one had any evidence of him or his wife. Between 1585 and 1592. All people know, is that he left Stratford for London either in 1586 or 87. His reputation was established in London around 1592. His first play he wrote was in 1593, it was called Venus and Adonis. He became a "gentleman" after inheriting his fathers coat-of-arms, even though actors were generally looked at as rogues and vagabonds. He probably wrote his 154 sonnets during this time as well. They were published later on in 1609. His success in London made him very wealthy so he moved into a large h .....
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John DeLorean And His Acomplishments
Words: 5137 - Pages: 19.... with reckless abandon looking for stolen tools from the
Ford plant. They found nothing, and were gone as quick as they came. When
John was old enough for high school, he chose to attend Cass Tech which was
where his best friend was going. Since his grades at the time weren't of
the highest caliber, he was entered as a probationary student. He excelled
at Cass, and won a scholarship to Lawrence Institute of Technology in
Detroit. Two years later, he was drafted and spent three years in the Army.
After that, John worked as a draftsman for the Detroit Public Lighting
Commission to save up enough money to continue at Lawrence. During this
tim .....
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Jesse Jackson: A Brief Biography
Words: 277 - Pages: 2.... million new voters. In 1988 he received over seven million
votes, and registered over two million new voters.He never got one electoral
vote. He sees himself as the leader of African-Americans, women, unionists, the
homeless, the unemployed, and the underemployed. He is offended that Bill
Clinton has a large amount of minority supporters. He has been known to get
overly excited and emotional when speaking, and sometimes offends people. In one
speech he said that the Christian Coalition is made up of "Nazis, slave owners,
and segregationists." Another time he publicly remarked, "In Germany, they call
what's going on "fascism". In South A .....
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