In my heart I prefer fame above all else, even life itself.…Love of glory has the same subtleties as the most tender passions.…In exercising a totally divine function here on earth, we must appear incapable of turmoils which could debase it. ...
where his team was eliminated byrivalSpain in a match that was decided by a penalty kick shoot-out. Ronaldo came into the 2014 World Cup hot off of his second world player of the year win, but his play at the tournament was spotty, and the entire Portugal team struggled during a group...
illustrated by E. B. Lewis (Calkins Creek, 40 pages, grades 2-5). A look at a lesser-known part of Walt Whitman’s life, when he served as a volunteer nurse in the Civil War. After his brother was wounded, Walt traveled from New York to Virginia to visit him in the...
Confucius, China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, whose ideas have profoundly influenced the civilization of East Asia. Confucius’s life and teachings were an expression of self-cultivation, of the ability of human effort to
Table of Contents Introduction The Earth system Evidence for climate change Causes of climate change Climate change within a human life span Climate change since the emergence of civilization Climate change since the advent of humans Climate change through geologic time ...
of the southern parts of Italy. En route he paused to go to theisland of Capri. His intention appears to have been only to stay for a time, but he never returned to Rome. It is the remaining decade or so of Tiberius’s life that has given rise to thelegendof Tiberius the monster....
Monroe joined Livingston in Paris on April 12, after the latter’s negotiations were well under way, and the two ministers, on findingNapoleonwilling to dispose of the entire province of Louisiana, decided toexceedtheir instructions and effect its purchase. Accordingly, on May 2, 1803, they sig...
” of the New World, it presents a remarkable study in contrasts, in both its geography and its society. Colombia’s political instability has been historically tied to the unequal distribution of wealth, and the illicit trade in drugs remains a major disruptive factor in Colombian life....
ofJulia, the sister ofJulius Caesar, and it was Caesar who launched the young Octavius in Roman public life. At age 12 he made his debut by delivering the funeral speech for his grandmother Julia. Three or four years later he received the coveted membership of the board of priests (...
Colin Powell, U.S. general and statesman who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–93) and secretary of state (2001–05), the first African American to hold either position. Learn more about his life, military service, and political care