Pablo Escobar, Colombian criminal who, as head of the Medellin cartel, was ... Not only did the facility include a nightclub, sauna, waterfall, and soccer field, it also ... The euphoric effects of sniffing cocaine are relatively transitory and wear off ...
J.P. Morgan, in full John Pierpont Morgan, (born April 17, 1837, Hartford, ... Morgan had intimate and highly useful connections with the London financial world, ...
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader who was the most powerful figure in China ... It was not until Mao's death in September 1976 and the consequent fall from ... In 1987 Deng stepped down from the CCP's Central Committee, thereby ...
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose ... Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional ... sought his advice on how to ward off a threatened Turkish incursion in Friuli.
23 Jul 2020 ... A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician who was president of ... Unlike scientists, engineers are not free to select the problems that ...
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian army officer who served as prime minister ... by the Muslim Brotherhood, Nasser cracked down on this extremist Muslim religious ... Even the loss of two wars, with disastrous results for Egypt, did not dim the ...
Christopher Columbus, master navigator whose four transatlantic voyages ... way to one shaped from the perspective of the inhabitants of the Americas themselves. ... Felipa died in 1485, and Columbus took as his mistress Beatriz Enríquez de ... by which down to this day we do not know certainly that anyone has passed; ...
25 Jul 2020 ... Robert Schumann, German Romantic composer renowned particularly for ... But at Leipzig his time was devoted not to the law but to song composition, ... Fricken, but long before the engagement was formally broken off (Jan.
27 Jun 2020 ... Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, mathematician, and political ... Leibniz dreamed of reconciling—a verb that he did not hesitate to use time and ... His baccalaureate thesis, De Principio Individui (“On the Principle of the ... To ward off this danger and divert the King's interests elsewhere, the ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen consort of both Louis VII of France (1137–52) and Henry ... She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe. ... lifetime; after the loss of Normandy (1204), it was her own ancestral lands and not the ... Richard insulted Leopold V, duke of Austria, by tearing down his banner and ...
Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, ... Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University. ... He took off his leather apron and became a gentleman, a distinctive status in the ... Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Benjamin Franklin · UShistory.org - The ...
Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), and a ... together, which they did after Hewlett-Packard formally turned down Wozniak's design in 1976. ... He would later be renowned for his insistence that the Macintosh be not ...
Antoine Lavoisier, prominent French chemist and leading figure in the ... as a student was not a subject particularly noted for conceptual clarity or theoretical rigour. ... Noting that burning gives off light and heat, that warm-blooded animals ...
24 Jul 2020 ... Muhammad Ali, American boxer and social activist who was the first ... who were opposed to war in any form, Ali was not eligible for such an ...
24 Jul 2020 ... Read more about Bach's life and career. ... His experience at Lüneburg, if not at Ohrdruf, had turned him away from the secular string-playing ...
Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote ... There is no reason to suppose that the marriage did not settle down into an ...
30 Jul 2020 ... Joseph Conrad, English author of Polish descent whose works include the ... Conrad's father, Apollo Nalęcz Korzeniowski, a poet and an ardent Polish ... whole ship's company, except Conrad and the cook, was down with fever. ... finest, and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies not only the heart ...
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, ... “There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ... But despite being a top student in her secondary school, Curie could not ... For roughly five years, Curie worked as a tutor and a governess.
Lavoisier was a French chemist, philosopher, and father of modern chemistry. ... it is difficult not to disclose something inadvertently in conversation with friends ... As his biographer, LaGrange, so aptly wrote: 'it took but a moment to cut off the ...
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the ... According to his brother, Escobar did not purchase Norman's Cay; it was, instead, a sole venture of Lehder's. ... to bring down Escobar and his few remaining allies, but there are reports that some individual Search ... Biography.com.
18 Aug 2018 ... When Phillip Witcomb met his father “for a chat” in Madrid in 1989, he had no idea just how much his world was about to be turned upside down ...
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3 Dec 2008 ... It's not easy to define a person's true legacy. ... with his family; the house where he was gunned down in Los Pinos, and of course his tomb.
3 Dec 2008 ... It's not easy to define a person's true legacy. ... with his family; the house where he was gunned down in Los Pinos, and of course his tomb.
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was paid off by the CIA to allow drugs to come through his state. I'm not fan of the Clintons but if there was even a modicum of truth to ...
6 Sep 2018 ... But the Peña of the show was also depicted as an agent not above breaking the law in order to complete his mission. So how closely does the ...
26 Mar 2020 ... When Pablo Escobar died in 1993, the Colombian drug kingpin's four ... This team cautions that they are not arguing for introductions, merely ...
Incendio en el Delta: Afirman que no hay riesgo de que llegue a zonas pobladas ... Argentina producirá el reactivo de la vacuna contra el Covid-19 en Garín.
Biography of Spiro Agnew, vice president for U.S. Pres. Richard ... could be indicted, Agnew launched an attack on the administration and vowed not to resign.
Guernica, 1937 by Pablo Picasso ... PabloPicasso.org ... This work has gained a monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an ...
Pompeii, preserved ancient Roman city in Campania, Italy, that was destroyed ... The cities had not yet recovered from this catastrophe when final destruction ... and other volcanic debris began pouring down on Pompeii, quickly covering the ...
In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the ... Arabs of today, however, are not exclusively Muslim; approximately 5 percent of ... Arabs live in cities and towns, where family and tribal ties tend to break down, ...
A moving body keeps moving not because of its inertia but only because of the absence of a force to slow it down, change its course, or speed it up. Read More ...
28 Jul 2020 ... There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of ... Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th ...
The islands—including Taiwan, those of Japan and Indonesia, Sakhalin and other ... subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide ... The mountain systems of Central Asia not only have provided the continent's ...
While Kazakhstan was not considered by authorities in the former Soviet ... Very fertile soils characterize the lands from far northern Kazakhstan down to the ...
Whether or not Wikipedia can solve these demographic problems, it has undoubtedly ... This set off the so-called “UNIX wars” among minicomputer enthusiasts.
Cathaysia, a landmass comprising the former tectonic plates of North and South China, was not incorporated into Pangea. Rather, it formed a separate, much ...
Italo-Ethiopian War, an armed conflict in 1935–36 that resulted in Ethiopia's ... League of Nations when League decisions were not supported by the great powers. ... in which statues of Mussolini were torn down, Fascist symbols removed, and ...
24 Jul 2020 ... The Four Seasons, group of four violin concerti by Italian composer ... Spring (Concerto No. ... To go in haste, slide, and fall down to the ground, ... signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from ...
Versailles, Palace ofThe Marble Court at the Palace of Versailles, France. ... Landscape artist André Le Nôtre created symmetrical French gardens that included ... North of the terrace, manicured ornamental gardens slope gently down to the ...
Augustine asserted that Christians' credibility was dependent on their not being ... and one sister, he seems to have been the only child sent off to be educated.
Secession, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding ... the territories should remain free; i.e., slaveholding should not be permitted in them. ... central government when the rebellion had been put down, and that therefore ...
But not everything expressed in words—even when organized and written down—is counted as literature. Those writings that are primarily informative—technical, ...
Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain ... It was not until July 2 that Hitler even ordered a consideration of the problem of ... phases, the underlying object was always to wear down Britain's air defense, and ...
