.... and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to bring back to Russia. His voyage ended in the rich and luxurious city of Amsterdam. Peter began to study Holland’s ships and navy, and hired ship builders to go home with him, and help him prepare a sea power. Peter, wanting to really learn how to build a ship, signed on as a carpenter to hide his true identity, because he wanted to work without that being a distraction. After 4 months, Peter had built a ship of his own, called the “Peter and Mary.” Soon enough, he sailed out to distant countries to borr .....

.... past, a time of moral chaos, in which common values were widely rejected. Crime was on the rise and murder happened even in the royal court. Government was routinely corrupt or distrusted by the people. Confucius began a successful political career when he was a young man, but fell out in a short period of time. His personal goal was to restore peace followed the old political system but he retired from public life to concentrate on teaching and studying in his later life. As his students praised his talent for brilliant teaching and recorded them, we can read his words from the Analects. .....

.... publishing little work, and picked up the skill of lens-crafting. He was offered many opportunities to work at a univeristy of academic careers, but reluctantly declined each and every one of them. After a couple of years he was visited my many philosophers. As the years went on, and the days flew by, it is thought that this period of time is when Baruch wrote his first known piece of work, known as the Treatise on God and Man and His Happiness, in which the outlines of his developed philosophical system is foreshadowed. Along with this book, he is thought of to have written many .....

.... also an editor for the Circle which was a Boston Indian Council newspaper. When she worked as an editor she learned about urban community life and took on a new reference point, different from reservation life. She realized that the different people she met had their own problems and confusions and that she wanted to write about them. Louise enrolled in an MA program at John Hopkins University. She wrote poems and stories while she was there that incorporated her Indian heritage which later became part of her books. She started sending her work to publishers and most of them rejected her .....

.... In 1957, his father died of lung cancer. His sister and her husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick. Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there for the remainder of the war. Vonnegut was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany. He witnessed first-hand the bombing of Dresden by the British and Americans. He uses Slaughterhouse-Five to show that the human race has a tendency to inflict de .....

.... them, the Lord assisting them. And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare. But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these, which now came upon them. For some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset and watched night and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and the most were fain to flee and leave their houses and habitations, and the means of their livelihood. Yet these and many other s .....

.... and many army officers. Fascist blackshirt squads carried on civil war with Socialists, Communists, Catholics, and Liberals. In October 1922 Mussolini secured permission from King Victor Emmanuel lll to form a coalition government. In 1925-26, after a lengthy crisis with the parliament following the killing of the Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, he imposed a Totalarian Dictatorship. His Corperative State came to terms with Italian Capitalism but abolished the free trade unions. In 1929 he ended conflict with the church through the Lateran Treaty of 1929. In the 1930 .....

.... At a young age of twelve, Richard pledged homage to the King of France for lands of his. At the age of fourteen, Richard was named the Duke of Aquitane in the church of St. Hillaire at Poitiers (one of the lands made homage to the French King.) Henry's sons, who had been given lands but no real power revolted against their King father aided by their mother. In retaliation King Henry had Eleanor jailed. She remained there for many years. Richard's Mother Eleanor Eleanor was the daughter and heiress of William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitiers, who poss .....

.... wifes would follow after her. During most of his early reign, Henry relied on Thomas Cardinal Wosley to do much of the political and religious activities. Henry soon got tired of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, so he decides that he doesn't want to be married to her anymore, so he tells Thomas Wosley to talk to the pope so he can divorce Catherine. But, Cardinal Wosley wasn't able to convince the pope, so in 1529 Henry took Wosley's authority away from him. Henry then appointed Sir Thomas More. Henry then got that divorce through Thomas Cramner, that he wanted with Catherine of Ara .....

.... pounds. Clay would soon become the man to see at the Columbia Gym. Joe Martin’s wife said that Clay was an overall nice guy. He was polite and always did what he was asked to do. He carried his Bible with him all the time, read when he could, and loved it. Throughout his amateur career and high school, Clay worked at the Nazareth College Library. Clay also was viewed as a kid obsessed with boxing. Clay got bigger and stronger as his talents grew. Sometimes, to keep in shape, Clay would race the city buses to school. Bettie Johnson, a school counselor said “Clay wasn’t .....