... on a farms all his life. he was forbidden to play roughhouse games because of his glasses. He was a bookworm--a sissy, as he said himself later on, using the dreaded word. 3. Education When Truman was six years old, his family moved to Independence, Missouri, where he attended the Presbyterian Church Sunday school. There he met five-year-old Elizabeth Virginia (“Bess”) Wallace, with whom he was later to fall in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight, and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness. His poor eyesight did not interfere with his t ...

... to The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty. He wrote such works as the 1812 Overture and the First Piano Concerto in b flat minor. All during his life Tchaikovsky wrote detailed letters to his brother and close friends, including Madame Von Meck, the patroness he never met in person. His letters give us insight on how he felt about his music and life. This biography includes many exerts from such letters. Tchaikovsky was married to Atonina Milyuka, one of his students, in July of 1877. He made it clear however, that they were married due to her threat of suicide if they were not married. ...

... into the World Cup Tournament in the United States. Diego Armando Maradona was born on October 30, 1960. He lived in Lanus, Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. He was one of eight children raised in the poor area of Villa Fiorito, one of the roughest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires. His father, also named Diego, was a factory worker. His mom, Dalma Franco, was a housewife. Though the family was very poor, there was always food on their table. Maradona received his first soccer ball from his father at the age of three. His father encouraged him to play soccer. Diego practiced all ...

... Africa, Gandhi was treated as a member of an inferior race. He was disgusted at the lack of civic liberties and political rights available to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He then committed himself to the struggle for elementary rights for Indians. Gandhi remained in South Africa for twenty years, suffering imprisonment at times. In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by a mob of white South Africans, Gandhi began to teach a policy of passive resistance to, and noncooperation with, the South African authorities. For this, Gandhi coined the term Satyagraha, a Sanskrit word meaning truth and firmness. I ...

... countries powerful in the world. Since each was a skilled user of propaganda, they could use their words to twist and manipulate the minds of people into believing that what they were saying was the absolute truth. Using this power, they would get people to do anything for them, which proves their amorality. Since their countries were still trying to recover from World War I, they desired to restore the power back in to their countries. These three reasons will prove that Hitler and Stalin were similar in many ways. The names Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are synonymous with the word propaganda. In order to under ...

... prominent sources of literature was the book The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre families of Lancaster and York written by Hall. used this book to help inscribe his plays about many kings including three plays about Henry VI and a play written about Richard III. Also he wrote Othello on the basis of Hecatommithi and Twelfth Night on the basis of His Farewell to Military Profession. More than fifty percent of ’s plays were influenced from various groups of topics. Other things that influenced ’s plays were his life experiences. As a young boy dramatic events that occurred led to his writing of Hamlet. ...

... the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow. Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for a regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own citizens, it stifled dissent. (1) ...

... nearly all his time indoors in offices. Everyone called him Vozhd-leader. His full name was Joseph Vissarionvich Djugashivli. He was born on December 27, 1879. He was born in the town of Gorion the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. This is glorious country. Swift rivers, fed by runoff from snow capped peaks, course through fertile valleys. His father was a very aggressive low life drunk cobbler. His mother was a housecleaner. His father died in a bar from wounds he got from a bad brawl. His town was a very aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. You ...

... under J.J. Thomson. Rutherford abandoned work on his radio wave detector and carried out experiments on the conductivity of gas ionised by X-ray radiation. In 1897 He started to carry out research involving the conductivity of gases ionised by radiation, and by doing so became very aquainted with experimental methods involved in carrying out work with radioactivity. At the age of 28 Rutherford took up the position of professor at the University of McGill in Montreal, Canada, carrying out research into radioactivity. The some of the most important work was in the identification of the alpha, beta and gamma radi ...

... from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our army and our navy . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit ...