.... the Empress Alexandra never had relations of a sexual nature with Rasputin; he was a healer to her son, Alex, the heir to the throne, when he had a bleeding crisis. Alexandra put her faith into Rasputin, she became dependent on him, and she saw no wrong in the his ways. Many of the Orthodox clergymen became skeptical of the monk and his close involvement with the imperial family, the Romanov family members of Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich also became concerned and wanted him to be sent away. With many entreaties from Tsars Nicholas’s family to send the monk away, Nicholas was so in love with Alexandra , that he could not send .....

.... of Mongol conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all the way from China to Russia and the Levant. The Mongol hordes also threatened other parts of Europe, particularly Poland and Hungary, inspiring fear everywhere by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and this policy too stimulated trade (Hull 23). Into this favorable atmosphere a number of .....

.... IV was executed leaving the oldest child. In 51 b.c. her father died. Caesar chased Pompey to Egypt where Pompey was beheaded in Alexandria. This is where met Julius Caesar. She smuggled herself into a rug and snuck in to his room. married another brother, Ptolemy XV, due to tradition. However she also became Caesar's mistress and followed him to Rome. In 47 b.c. Ptolemy Caesarion was born. However the Romans refused to believe that Ptolemy Caesarion was Caesar’s child. She stayed in Rome until his assassination 44 BC. He was killed by Brutus and Cassius. It was rumored later that helped the Caesarian party to assassin Caesar .....

.... and other businesses but never stopped working on her artistic skills. For example, as she was walking by she noticed a preacher speaking in a square with only a group of pigeons to hear. Margaret wanted to take his picture but she didn't have her camera with her. She ran into a camera store and asked to rent or borrow a camera. The picture became one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of her best friends. One of Margaret's early dreams was to photograph the inside of a steel mill but women weren't allowed inside. Being a woman didn't stop her and the pictures were a success. Her shots were published in magazi .....

.... the deep analysis of Booker T. Washington's speech to reveal he was a mere trickster that knew how to best satisfied the skewed mind of the white in order to save the future of his people. Booker T. Washington in his address delivered at the opening of The Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia meant to attain at least three goals. The first was of course the most clear-cut, that of winning white advocates that would sponsor his cause (albeit by the use of trickery). The second was that behind the purpose of the trickery itself, advancing his fellow brothers. Trying to bypass whites' mindset and actually making whites help .....

.... of the discussion in his school took place while teachers and students were walking about the Lyceum grounds, Aristotle's school came to be known as the Peripatetic ("walking" or "strolling") school. Upon the death of Alexander in 323 bc , strong anti- Macedonian feeling developed in Athens, and Aristotle retired to a family estate in Euboea. He died there the following year. His works on natural science include Physics, which gives a vast amount of information on astronomy, meteorology, plants, and animals. His writings on the nature, scope, and properties of being, which Aristotle called First Philosophy ( Prote philosophia ), were given .....

.... Carnegie a different lesson. When the Carnegies emigrated to America in 1848, Carnegie determined to bring prosperity to his family. He worked many small jobs which included working for the Pennsylvania Railroad where he first recognized the importance of steel. With this recognition, he resigned and started the Keystone Bridge Company in 1865. He built a steel-rail mill, and bought out a small steel company. By 1888, he had a large plant. Later on he sold his Carnegie Steel Company to J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel Company after a serious, bloody union strike. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he crushed their unions. The riches .....

.... human beings. Morrison viewed her not with horror but with compassion. She believed that what Miss Garner did was an act of love, not one that was laced with evil. According to Morrison, "it was the ultimate gesture of a loving mother". Although I was initially shocked when I heard that Beloved was based on a true story, I soon began to sympathize with Morrison's point of view. Margaret Garner was a mother in a desperate situation. Although extreme, her actions were only a reflection of the society that she had been raised in. She was trying to protect her children from the harsh reality of slavery and all that she had endured. T .....

.... he became a lecturer at the University of Bern, the following year becoming professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By 1909 Einstein was recognized as a leading scientific thinker. After holding chairs in Prague and Zurich he advanced (1914) to a prestigious post at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon discovered by Max Planck, according .....

.... banker who had once had aspirations to become a lawyer and a poet. Because of economic troubles, and his responsibility for a family of half-brothers and sisters when his father died, Robert Franklin Warren forsook his literary ambitions and devoted himself to more lucrative businesses. Robert Warren did not always have ambitions to become a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes. Warren was an outstan .....