.... out a successful campaign against the defecting Thracians, penetrating to the Danube River. On his return he crushed in a single week the threatening Illyrians and then again took of to Thebes, which had revolted. He took the city by storm and razed it, sparing only the temples of the gods and the house of the Greed lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving inhabi¬ tants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in crushing the revolt of The¬ bes brought the other Greek states into instant submission. Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by crossing the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) with an army .....

.... the Hannibal Journal. During this time he became accustomed with much of the frontier humor of the time. From 1853 to 1857, Twain worked in many cities as a printer, and wrote articles for his brother's newspapers under various nicknames. After a visit to New Orleans, he learned how to pilot a steamboat. That became his job until the Civil War closed the Mississippi River, and it set him up for "Old Times on the Mississippi" and "Life on the Mississippi." In 1861, Twain traveled to Carson City, Nevada, with his brother Orion. After attempts for silver and gold mining had failed, he continued to write for newspapers. It .....

.... 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia. His family was very poor shoemaker who drank heavily and beat Stalin frequently. At the age of fourteen Stalin’s father died and Stalin was sent to a seminary to join the priesthood. He was later kicked out for revolutionary activity. After being expelled he joined the Russian Social Democrat Party. Stalin then organized a force to revolt against the Czar. Stalin was arrested six times from 1902 to 1913. Stalin frequently attended Bolshevik party secret meetings. At these meetings is where Stalin befriended Lenin and they each had high regard for each other. Because of this friendship Lenin had Stalin workon the Revo .....

.... philosophy major. That's is where he met his future wife, Linda Lee. The only problem was, she was white and he was chinese. Back then interacial marriges were not accepted. So Bruce decided to marry Linda anyway and move back to San Fransisco to open his schools to teach Kung-Fu . The chinese triads, who are similar to the mafia, ordered him to close his schools or he would face the consequences. He refused and had to fight one of their gradmasters in order to continue teaching. He won the fight, but was discouraged at the time it took him, so he decided to device his own style of martial arts. He called it Jeet Kune Do or"the way of the interceptin .....

.... him to work as a clerk. Poe, disliking his new duties intensely, quit the job, thus estranging Allan, and went to Boston. There his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), was published anonymously. Shortly afterward Poe enlisted in the U.S. Army and served a two-year term. In 1829 his second volume of verse, Al Aaraaf, was published, and he effected a reconciliation with Allan, who secured him an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. After only a few months at the academy Poe was dismissed for neglect of duty, and his foster father disowned him permanently. Poe's third book, Poems, appeared in 1831, and the following year he moved to Baltim .....

.... which is Greek for walking. The reason for this name was because Aristotle did most of his teaching while he was walking with his students. After Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, Aristotle was charge with impiety by the Athenians, which was a similar crime that was brought upon another philosopher, Socrates. Worried that he would be set to death for this charge, Aristotle fled to the city of Chalcis. A year after his arrival in Chalcis, Aristotle died (World Book 663). Aristotle’s Physics Aristotle work on basically all of the basic known subjects (Math, Science, Literature, English, Ethic, etc…). He also made his cont .....

.... Allan Poe was born, he left his family. Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a widow at the age of eighteen. Two years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410). In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him .....

.... trade. They all eventually took up currency. Karl's idea of concentration of wealth is faulty. People who are rich, are rich because they get ideas on how to make something better than the next guy. Poor people many times come up with million dollar ideas. Money keeps being transferred from rich to poor, poor to rich. These ideas of Karl's are wrong about economics and don't work. Karl Marx's ideas on communism are incorrect based on his ideas of society. Karl believed that all people will react the same. It has been proven that everyone reacts just a little different from the next person. People all have different ideas, that makes us human. Another .....

.... 6, 1945, a star was born. However, on May 11, 1981, that star died. Bob Marley's death was a shock to his legions and legions of fans. After being hospitalized since April 3 because of cancer, on May 11 he was flown back to Miami after even the doctor had given up. In his mother's condo, he passed away in the presence of family and friends. He did not leave this world without leaving something. To his oldest son, Ziggy, he said, "On the way up, bring me up. On the way down, don't let me down." And to Stephen he said, "Money can't buy life." He didn't leave unnoticed, either. At the moment of his death, Judy Mowatt, a close friend of .....

.... he went to a school in Basel, met many rich people and realized that he was poor, compared to them. He liked to read very much outside of class and detested math and physical education classes. Actually, gym class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis) and his father worried that Jung wouldn't make a good living because of his spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious. He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology, history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University .....