... of Orleans on May 8, 1429. She enjoyed a series of military succcess, during which the king was able to enter Rheims and be crowned with her by his side. As she was attempting to relieve Compienge, she was captured by the burgundians and sold to the English when Charles and the French did nothing to save her.This was in May, 1430. After months of improsinment, she was tried at Rouen by a tribunal presided over by Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, who hoped that the English would help him to becaome archbishop. She was not familiar with the technicalities of theology, so Joan was trapped into making damaging statements. When she refused to retract the stateme ...
... This, of course, had a big effect on the whole family. William was the third of eight children. The older siblings were sistets Joan, born in 1558 and Margaret in 1562. Both of William’s older sisters died very young. (Bender 14). The other dive children were Gilbert born in 1566, a second Joan 1569, Richard 1573, Edmund 1580, and Anne 1580 who died at age eight. (Bender 14). was educated at the local school in Stratford. Ironically, William never attended a university although virtually every English speaking universities studies his works. Bioghrapher a man educated in " the university of life." (Bender 14). His plays and other works display Sha ...
... work was to keep a diary, which he began in 1787 and continued until the end of his life. It ultimately to contained 200,000 entries of meteorological observations recording the changeable climate of the Lake District in which he lived. In 1793 Dalton published Meteorological Observations and Essays. He then became interested in preparing collections of botanical and insect species. In 1787, he began observations about aurora phenomena--luminous, sometimes coloured displays in the sky caused by electrical disturbances in the atmosphere. Some of his studies in meteorology led him to conclusions about the origin of trade winds involving the Earth's rotation and ch ...
... parents did not get along. At this time it was a Macedonian tradition to have many wives. Philip had several and Olympia’s hated them all. She felt much hate towards them. When one of her rivals gave birth to a retarded son Arridaeus, there were many rumors that Olympia’s poisoned him. Olympia’s told Alexander that Philip wasn't his real father although he was. He made sure the boy was well educated, even the great philosopher Aristotle was one of Alexander's tutors. Even thought he though him well Philip wasn’t a very good father. He always discouraged Alexander and made him feel worthless. When was 3 his father’s son King Perdiccas died. His y ...
... be joint czars (4:89). He spent most of his young childhood life in the Kremlin, which he grew to hate, due to the dusky rooms, the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infrequently, where Peter and Ivan sat on their double thron ...
... Eric and Lisa were both actors. She also has several puppies and a German Shepherd-Husky mix named Diego. By watching Julia on screen you may be deceived, whereas she is not quite the glamorous, dressy gal you think. Julia’s quite the opposite, she is a fast talking farm girl who often dresses grunge-like. Also, she is not a very competitive but never misses a chance to put on her dancing shoes. Julia’s homes vary across the United States from an apartment in the East to a house in the West to a retreat in the South. She owns a duplex apartment in New York, a house in Hollywood Hills and a fifty-acre retreat near Taos, New Mexico. Your fi ...
... Gauss until his death in 1806. Gauss conceived almost all his basic mathematical discoveries between the ages of 14 and 17. In 1791 he began to do totally new and innovative work in mathematics. In 1793-94 he did intensive research in number theory, especially on prime numbers. He made this his life's passion and is regarded as its modern founder. Gauss studied at the University of Gottingen from 1795 to 1798. He soon decided to write a book on the theory of numbers. It appeared in 1801 under the title 'Disquisitiones arithmeticae'. This classic work usually is held to be Gauss's greatest accomplishment. Gauss discovered on March 30, 1796, that circle, us ...
... the end of the war Jackie didn’t know what he wanted to do and he was very short on money. Finally Jackie decided he wanted to join the Negro Leagues. In 1944 Jackie officially was on a Negro baseball team. (Shorto, Russell p. 5-10) In 1945 Branch Rickey the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers was looking for a black player to break the serration barrier and rise above it all and join the Major League Baseball Association. Rickey said that whoever the person was to be would have to cope with taunts and insult, with name calling and abuse. Rickey heard of the success of Jackie on the Negro League and sent his scouts to see Jackie. (Ritter, S. Lawrence p. 43-51). A ...
... for hundreds of years the pattern of everyday life had remained largely unbroken. 4 Mao's father, the son of a "poor peasant," during Mao's childhood however, prospered and become a wealthy land owner and rice dealer. 5 Yet, the structure of Mao's family continued to mirror the rigidity of traditional Chinese society. His father, a strict disciplinarian, demanded filial piety. 6 Forced to do farm labor and study the Chinese classics, Mao was expected to be obedient. On the other hand, Mao remembers his mother was "generous and sympathetic." 7 Mao urged his mother to confront his father but Mao's mother who believed in many traditional ideas replied that "was not t ...
... to try all impeachment’s." A two-thirds vote is required in the Senate for conviction. When the president is to be tried, the chief justice of the United States presides. A conviction in an impeachment proceeding results only in removal from office and disqualification to hold "any office or honor, trust, or profit under the United States." (Corwin, 3) A person convicted in an impeachment, however, is subject to further "indictment, trial, judgement, and punishment according to Law." Impeachment originated in England, where the House of Commons would present articles of impeachment to the House of Lords, which then tried the case (internet, 2) Since the adoption o ...