Papers 2081-2090 of total 17041 found.
Category: /History
…Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio on the island of Corsica. He had 7 brothers and sisters, and his father was a lawyer whose family stemmed from the Florentine nobility. His original nationality was Cursican-Italian. In 1779…
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…was in jail, he was well known to the guards. One time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he forgot his number. The guards beat the hell out of him and sent him to the darkroom. In the darkroom he met Brother Baines. Baines was a man everyone…
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Category: /Literature/English
brothers would be dead, each by the other’s hand. Power over Thebes would then fall on the brother of the late Jocasta, Creon. Being a man who was loyal to Thebes, Creon’s first order of business was to banish any traitors and forbid the burial of Polynices…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…lead them to death and tragedy. These men approach their troubles in different ways and cause conflicts in their lives. Firstly, Hamlet must avenge the death of his father, Secondly, Claudius's ambition leads him to killing his own brother, and finally…
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Category: /Literature/English
…and Orville Wright, the Wright brothers. Orville made the first successful flight. Although their "air machine" flew for only twelve seconds, the Wright brothers started a revolution that has greatly affected the entire world. “The time will come when gentlemen…
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Category: /History
…school education. Although George was shy and not highly literate, he was a large, strong and handsome child. His half-brother Lawrence, fourteen years George's senior, looked out for him. Lawrence counseled the boy about his future and introduced him to Lord…
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Category: /Literature/English
brother symbolizes Christians or other followers who have stood strong in their religious values. The story also tells of a famine, which represents the hard times that people face in life. In addition, and probably most importantly, there is the younger son…
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brothers in combat. One on Omaha Beach, one on Utah Beach, and the other in New Guinea. They realize this is not a simple mission to save a life but a test of their honor and duty. Their sole obsession-and their last hope for redemption. Upon…
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…Benjamin Franklin: New World Physicist Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. He was one of seventeen other brothers and sisters. His father, Josiah Franklin, who emigrated from Oxfordshire, England, worked as a soap…
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Category: /Literature/English
…that he never loved her. Later in the play, at Ophelia’s funeral procession, Hamlet professes that he loved Ophelia more than “forty thousand brothers could have loved her”. An explanation to this incongruity rests on Hamlet’s relationship with his mother…
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