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Edgar Lee Masters William Jennings Bryan
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Lenin Was Released U Of St Time
1,309 wordsVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, or Lenin, was born on April 22, 1870, in the sleepy little town of Simbrisk, Russia. Childhood in Simbrisk was serene and pleasant for Lenin, and his father, Ilya Nikolaievich, was highly respected by many of the nobles in this province. Vladimir took just as much interest in his schoolwork than he did with his extra-curricular activities on the home front. He quickly impressed his teachers with his keen intelligence and his outstanding memory. He mastered his classes so...
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1,675 wordsRasputin: The Man and the Myth Few people in the 20 th Century have been more notorious, yet more mysterious, than the Siberian peasant who burst upon the world's stage in 1905, Gregory Yefimovich Novykh. Gregory is better known today as Rasputin. Rasputin literally translates to the debauched one, a moral corrupter. To the Imperial Family of Russia, he was simply Father Gregory. Rasputin was known for seeming to dominate the last Tsar of Russia, causing the downfall of both men. Gregory Rasputi...
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Nervous Breakdown Emotional Problems
1,343 wordsPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is in my opinion one of the greatest classical music composers of all time. He also had one of the most interesting lives I have ever read about. Although he suffered through a large enormity of emotional problems and nervous breakdowns, along with having to deal with harsh instances of love and death, his music reflects these emotions in a very beautiful way. Tchaikovsky (also spelled Tchaikovsky or Tchaikovsky, and often referred to as Peter), was born on May seventh, ...
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Revolution Of 1905 000 People
1,202 words... for another, Russian ships were sunk or critically damaged by Japanese torpedoes. 18 Russian strategy was foiled by the early death of a series of admirals. The patriotic mood of the Russian people did not last long when the truth of the war became clear. Witte, the ex-Minister of the Interior, was called upon to negotiate a settlement with the Japanese. He managed to end Russia's humiliation quickly, with only a minor loss of territory to the Japanese. Rural peasants remained indifferent to...
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Russian Orthodox Church 18 Th Century
1,224 wordsMankind has always aspired to be the largest, biggest, strongest, highest, essentially the best in everything. This is not untrue for the Russians who have had the largest country in the world for quite some time now. Russia covers one-sixth of the entire worlds land mass and has had a significant part in modern history. However, in order to understand why a country has become what it is now, one must look at its culture. A countrys culture not only reflects its citizens now but also its history...
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The Russian Revolution Of 1917
809 wordsThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was a rebellion of the Russian people against the rule of the Russian emperor, Nicholas II. Russia was going through changes in the early 1900 s and the late 1800 s. This revolution brought forth the Soviet Union, and was known as the Marxist Revolution. In the 1905 Revolution, thousands of men, women, and children were led by a Russian Orthodox priest, marched to Czar Nicholas IIs Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. The other revolution was the February and October R...
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Social Democratic Party St Petersburg
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3,040 wordsWomens Roles in Communist Russia When the Womens Suffrage Movement was deemed a success in the early 1920 s, women lowered their voices, apparently satisfied with their accomplishment. They did not dare to acknowledge the remaining gender-related inequalities, much less vie for their decline. For over a century, women had fought for the most basic of rights. Mary Wollstonecraft laid the path for future women to follow, but women did not follow this path until they started to become used to the m...
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American Civil War Confederate Army
2,442 wordsCivil War END OF A TRAGEDY THE ROAD TO APPOMATTOX The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding then of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will speak mainly around those involved on the battlefield inthe closing days of the conflict. Also, reference will be made to the leading men behind the Union and...
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City New York Atomic Weight
3,116 wordsDmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the worlds fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a table with the elements and the atomic weights of them put in order by their properties. Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, on February 7, 1834. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy was th...
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Entrance Exams Grew Older
3,875 wordsOnce there lived and existed a great learned man with a beard almost as long as Gods. And one day the people came to this man and said Go to the Lord, and tell him of our misery. I will go, said the man. So he caught a great bubble, and sat down on top of it, and flew up and up until he pierced the heaven above us. And there he saw God and told him of our misery and God pardoned our sins and lightened our burdens. Then the great bearded man came down from the heavens and the people were happy. A...
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Salt Mines Petersburg Mother
397 wordsDmitry Ivanovich Mendeleleyev was born in the town of Tobolsk, Siberia on February 8, 1834. He was the youngest of the 14 children. His father was the principal of a gymnasium (a school where there is not only body development but there is also the development of the mind). His mother was very smart and self-educated. She used her brothers stuff who went to a university. In 1847 his father became blind of the cataracts on his eyes and was forced to retire. In order to support this very large fam...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Raskolnikov
2,941 wordsOften in novels, the life of an author is reflected in his or her literature. For a writer experience can serve not only as a teacher, but also as the foundation of a story line. Some of the most well known authors have used this Romana Clef technique, for example, Charles Dickens in his famous novel, David Copperfield. The Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky does this as well, in his novel Crime and Punishment. Various individuals and occurrences from Dostoyevsky? s life influenced the novel and...
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Edgar Lee Masters William Jennings Bryan
2,090 wordsEdgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, known principally for his poems about life in the Midwest. It has been 49 years since he has died and today he is virtually forgotten. His book of poems entitled Spoon River Anthology may spark a small amount of recognition. This book is a work of free verse poems about the secret lives of the inhabitants of Spoon River, a small Midwest town based on Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. This book remains a landmark in the literature world ...
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War With Japan Bloody Sunday
1,793 wordsAt the beginning of the 1900 s, Russia was still being run by nobility, while the peasants made up more than half of the population. The Russian people didnt see much of the rest of the world outside of their commune way of life. They were hard workers who farmed the land while struggling against the cold and hardships of their life. Czar Alexander II hoping to bring Russia out of the dark ages signed the Emancipation Manifesto. Which freed the serfs from ownership to the nobles. The unwillingne...
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20 Th Century Rite Of Spring
1,236 wordsIgor Igor Stravinsky IGOR STRAVINSKY Igor Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20 th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera singer, Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He grew up hearing his father...
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Leonhard Euler Johann Bernoulli
704 wordsEuler Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler Euler made large bounds in modern analytic geometry and trigonometry. He made decisive and formative contributions to geometry, calculus and number theory. Born: 15 April 1707 in Basel, Switzerland Died: 18 Sept 1783 in St Petersburg, Russia Introduction Euler's father wanted his son to follow him into the church and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry. However geometry soon became his favourite subject. Euler obtained his fathers c...
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String Quartets Three Years
2,559 wordsThe Life of Peter Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born in Votkinsk, in the city of Vyatka, Russia, May 7, 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter, to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St. Petersburg and his mother started to drive to another city, he had to be held back while she got into the carriage, and the moment he was free ran and tried to hold the wheels. There is an anecdote of T...
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Nobel Prizes Gun Powder
1,531 wordsAlfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833. (Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques of blasting rock. Alfred's mother, Andrietta Ahlsell came from a wealthy family. Due to misfortunes in the construction work caused by the loss of some barges of building material, Immanuel Nobel was forced into bankruptcy th...
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