"My tongue was sharper than yours," snapped Abigail Adams. "Not when I was scolding Mr. Lincoln," retorted Mary Todd Lincoln. More than a sharp tongue united these two remarkable American First Ladies, who partnered their president-husbands through the troubled days of two wars that set the course of our country as we know it today. Both Abigail Adams and Mary Todd Lincoln were products of their geography and the times in which they lived. Their love stories and significant contributions to our country are illuminated in episodes that amuse and inform, as they emerge from shadowy history into real life. If you can imagine Abigail Adams scolding sober President John Adams because he had neglected to milk the cows, and Mary, getting as...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Vater (9 December 1684 – 18 November 1751) was a German anatomist from Wittenberg. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wittenberg in 1706, and his medical degree from the University of Leipzig in 1710. He later practiced medicine in Wittenberg, becoming an associate professor in 1719, a full professor of anatomy in 1732 and a professor of therapy in 1746.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Bennet FRS (baptised 20 December 1749 - buried 9 May 1799) was an English clergyman and physicist, the inventor of the gold-leaf electroscope and developer of an improved magnetometer. Though he was cited by Alessandro Volta as a key influence on his own work, Bennet`s work was curtailed by the political turbulence of his time.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortels) (April 14, 1527 – June 28,exile in England to take care of Ortelius. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren who would later move to London. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy.
"I have tried to give to the reader the picture of the man who has so firm a hold on the imagination of his people. To the average American the name of Abraham Lincoln is one to be conjured up in all the exigencies of political life, and his social ideals are to be applied in all the intricacies of modern adjustment." Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1914 года (издательство "The MacMillan Company").
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abraham Gottlob Werner (September 25, 1749 – June 30, 1817), was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth`s crust and coined the word Neptunism. Though much of Werner`s theoretical work was erroneous, science is indebted to him for clearly demonstrating the chronological succession of rocks, for the zeal which he infused into his pupils, and for the impulse which he thereby gave to the study of geology. He has been called the “father of German geology.”
Abuse of Power - Corruption in the office of the president exposes Ukraine`s ruling elite exploiting the state for its personal benefit. The book focuses on the first four presidents of Ukraine starting in 1991, and in particular on the two considered to be the most corrupt: the second president Leonid Kuchma (1994-2004) and the fourth and current president Viktor Yanukovych (2010). Its genesis is in the author`s personal experience as a journalist in Ukraine since the fall of the USSR in 1989. The book is the first to make extensive use of secret recordings of President Kuchma`s conversations, and of those of Viktor Yanukovych`s lieutenants who falsified the results of the 2004 presidential elections. It also reveals how the recordings...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Achille de Harlay de Sancy, bishop of Saint-Malo (1581, Paris – 20 November 1646), the son of Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy, was a French clergyman, diplomat and intellectual. He was noted as a linguist and orientalist.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam Dunkels, Ph.D., is a Swedish software engineer, researcher and co-founder of the Networked Embedded Systems Group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science in Kista, Sweden. His research is mainly focused on networking technology and distributed communication for small embedded devices and wireless sensor networks on the Internet. Adam is best known to the embedded community as the author of the uIP (micro-IP) and lwIP TCP/IP protocol stacks. He is also the creator of protothreads and author of the Contiki operating system. The MIT Technology Review placed him on the TR35 list of world`s top 35 innovators under 35, in 2009.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Later, he proposed the Cambrian period, based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adlerhorst (Eagle`s eyrie) was a World War II bunker complex in Germany, located within Kransberg Castle (incorporated into Usingen in 1971), Wetterau in the Taunus mountains in the province of Hesse.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adolf Hitler`s rise to power began in Germany (at least formally) in September 1919 when Hitler joined the political party that was known as the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (abbreviated as DAP, and later commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). This political party was formed and developed during the post-World War I era. It was anti-Marxist and was opposed to the democratic post-war government of the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles; and it advocated extreme nationalism and Pan-Germanism as well as virulent anti-Semitism. Hitler`s "rise" can be considered to have ended in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month; President Paul von Hindenburg had...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In addition to being a teetotaler and a non-smoker,Adolf Hitler has been regarded by some historians as a vegetarian. On the other hand, biographer Robert Payne contends that Hitler`s alleged asceticism and vegetarianism were fictional propaganda spread by Joseph Goebbels to emphasize Hitler`s self-control and total dedication to Germany. It has been theorized that Hitler`s diet may have been based on Richard Wagner`s historical theories which connected the future of Germany with vegetarianism.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adolf Hitler`s religious views are a matter of dispute. Raised by a skeptic father and a Catholic mother, Adolf Hitler ceased to participate in the Sacraments after childhood. In his book Mein Kampf and in public speeches he often made statements which affirmed a belief in Christianity. Prior to World War II Hitler had promoted a "positive Christianity" purged of Judaism and instilled with Nazi philosophy. According to the collection of transcripts edited by Martin Bormann, titled Hitler`s Table Talk, as well as the testimony of some intimates, Hitler was privately hostile towards Christianity. Others reported he was a committed believer.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Historians and biographers note some difficulty in identifying Adolf Hitler`s political views. His writings and methods were often adapted to need and circumstance, although there were some steady themes, including anti-Semitism, anti-communism, anti-parliamentarianism, German expansionism, belief in the superiority of an "Aryan race" and an extreme form of German nationalism. Hitler personally claimed he was fighting against Jewish Marxism.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adolf Hitler`s 50th birthday on April 20, 1939 was celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany. On that day, the largest military parade in the history of the Third Reich was held in Berlin.
Leave your ideology and delusion at the door and step inside the real world of the titanic, soul destroying struggle of the Whistle - blower within the dark depths of the NHS, the David against Goliath of all battles that will either make or break you but nothing in between. If you dare to dare by standing strong for what you believe to be right then be prepared to have the whole armoury employed against you in the name of desperate NHS cover up. Be prepared to be, in the eyes of everybody from your Employer through to the Employment Tribunals Service, viewed as nothing other than a threat to the status quo to be stopped at all costs. Be prepared, above all else, to have your belief in the system and justice extirpated as you struggle,...