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    Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt is known throughout US history as a good president. He was more commonly remembered for his presidency during The Great Depression‚ and his signing the United States into World War 2. While the man has been commemorated for those two reasons alone‚ there are many more projects and policies that he put into motion and still affect us today. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30th‚ 1882 in Hyde Park‚ New York. He was born into a very

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    Was King John really the worst king ever? The question as to whether King John was really the worst king ever‚ stills seems to be a topic of much controversy amongst historians‚ as they have not yet come to an exact decision on which side of the argument to deem as the truth. Some people believe that King John is to be blamed for the fate that he suffered because of certain decisions he made and brought himself to his state in the society through his actions; however‚ those who disagree‚ claim

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    This Case study was made by Joshua D. Margolis and Amy Gallo. The article talks about one of the founders of a company called GlobalScope. Gil Lehner was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was a non smoker‚ which is very unlikely to find that out in a lung cancer patient. These types of cases are rare. He had eight-teen percent of surviving the cancer. Lehner was a very positive person and did not let the cancer intervene with his work. From the four founders‚ Gil was the scientific expert. He had a

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    How Was Stonehenge Built?

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    centre of a complex site of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments‚ including several hundred burial mounds. Stonehenge was constructed in three stages‚ with each stage being an ‘improvement’ to the site. Recently‚ there have been efforts to restore destroyed or stolen sections of the monument. Theories have been made concerning what Stonehenge was used for. Many people believe it was used as a temple of Sun-worship for various Sun-cults. Modern scientific beliefs state that it may have been used as

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    John Locke‚ Baron de Montesquieu‚ Voltaire‚ and Jean Jacques Rousseau were all enlightenment philosophers. Each of these men had a particular view of government‚ society‚ and its citizens and they were all passionate about their works. Locke (1632- 1704) was an English philosopher‚ his ideas had a great impact on the development of political philosophy and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential enlightenment thinkers. Montesquieu (1689- 1755) believed that all things were made up of

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    How Old Was Diego Rivera

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    portray the chaotic political situation at the time. The Rockefellers disliked Rivera’s addition of Lenin and they asked Rivera to remove the portrait‚ but the painter refused. The Rockefellers then had Rivera stop working on the mural. Soon after in 1934‚ Nelson Rockefeller ordered the demolition of "Man at the Crossroads." This demolition caused a lot of backlash from the media regarding the expression through art to which the Rockefellers responded that the mural offended them. During the late

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    to him causing him to block out all his surroundings. When Eve becomes acquainted with the serpent of the garden and learns of the tree with the “forbidden fruit” she could not help but be attracted to the mystery and wonder it radiated. Just as she was driven to eat

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    Charles Louis de Secondat‚ Baron de Montesquieu was born in January 18 in the year 1689 in a castle called La Brede in Bordeaux‚ France. His parents were Jacques de Secondant‚ who was a soldier and Marie Francoise de Pensel‚ who sadly passed away when Charles was only seven years old. His mother was a very rich lady‚ she was the one who brought in the name La Brede to the Secondant family. Charles was in the time period where Louis XIV´s (14) long reign was happening. Some say that since many unsuccessful

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    INFLUENCES OF BARON HAUSSMANN ON CONTEMPORARY CITIES Introduction This essay will focus mainly on the urban design developments of Paris‚ France that were largely influenced by Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann (Fig. 1). It is Haussmann’s extensive design work that encouraged a ‘quantum leap’ in the changes and developments of the urban design characteristics of Paris. “Few town planners anywhere in the world have had as great an impact on the city of their birth as did Baron Georges-Eugene

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    indeed‚ without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.”-John Calvin.John Calvin was a very influental theologin because he knew a lot about theology.John was indeed a very important person in history not only because he was a theologian but because he was Martin Luther’s successor. John Calvin was born on July 10‚ 1509 in the city of Noyon‚ France. “He was the second son of Gérard Cauvin‚ who was secretary to the bishop of Noyon. It was decided early in his life that Calvin would serve the Catholic

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