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…John Locke ia known as one of the most influential philsophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. His ideas and influences are still evident today. He has been called the father of democracy and was one of the key men who shaped the American Constiution…

…In many history and theology books John Calvin has been presented as a speculative genius. Authors say that his theological style was methodical, some may even say exaggeratedly, stiff. In the true sense he was he was distinctly a Biblical theologian…

…It was in the early 1800s that John Dalton, an observer of weather and discoverer of color blindness among other things, came up with his atomic theory. Let's set the stage for Dalton's work. Less than twenty years earlier, in the 1780's, Lavoisier…

…Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937), American industrialist. Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, and educated in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio. He became a bookkeeper in Cleveland at the age of 16. In 1862 he went…

…Dalton, John (1766-1844), British chemist and physicist, who developed the atomic theory upon which modern physical science is founded. Dalton was born on September 6, 1766, in Eaglesfield, Cumberland County, England. He was the son of a weaver…

…In 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Company was created to oversee the affairs of colonists in New England. The following year, on board the Arabella, John Winthrop and others sailed to America. In the 20 years that he governed Massachusetts, he imposed his…

…John Locke and John Stuart Mill differed in their opinions on man’s freedom in political society. Locke’s Second Treatise on Government and Mill’s On Liberty are both potent literary works, but as they outline each philosopher’s view, they expose…

…John Wallis was born in the later part of the month November in 1616. It was the 22 of November in Ashford Kent when Reverend John Wallis and Joanna Chapman had there third out five children. John Wallis was very educated throughout his life he attended…

…If ever there was an incubator for crime it was the Italian Harlem tenements of the South Bronx. In one of those crowded dirty apartments, a young John Gotti seeked an impoverished existence with his parents and eleven sisters and brothers. His…

…, and attended mass regularly. He also befriended a priest, who would later help Joe learn Latin. Most importantly, Joe never forgot the final words of his father, Tim McCarthy: 'Don't forget to say your prayers, Joe.'         Joe then decided that a higher…