.... development. As a tapestry designer, Goya did his first genre paintings, or scenes from everyday life. The experience helped him become a keen observer of human behavior. He was also influenced by neoclassicism, which was gaining favor over the rococo style. Finally, his study of the works of Velazquez in the royal collection resulted in a looser, more spontaneous painting technique. At the same time, Goya achieved his first popular success. He became established as a portrait painter to the Spanish aristocracy. He was elected to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1780, named painter to the king in 1786, and made a court painter in 1789. A serious illness in 1792 l ....

.... revolutionary articles and ideas. At the end of 1901, he was formally accepted into the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Between the years of 1902 and 1913 Stalin was arrested and exiled many times for countless crimes and as a result in 1907 he was expelled from the Social Democratic Labor Party. However, his luck changed in 1912 when Lenin appointed Stalin to the Bolshevik Central Committee. In addition, he was given various commands and was appointed to the position of people’s commissar for nationalities. After proving himself at this position, he was assigned the position of commissar of workers’ and peasants’ inspection. He finally gained the ....

.... brutally stabbed to death? Beneath the persuasive allure of his charm, lay an insatiable hunger for power. Although he was strong and clever enough to wield that power, his tragic flaw, an unbearable arrogance, brought him to a tragic end. It was Caesar’s overwhelming ambition and arrogant personality that resulted from his success, that made his assassination inevitable. Caesar was a fortunate man; he had lived in a great city, seen much of the western world, loved a foreign queen and accumulated enormous wealth. In a world where most rarely left their villages and were always under the shadow of debt, famine, and conquest, Gaius Julius Caesar was privileged. Thro ....

.... had taken leading roles in the American Revolution and in the fiercely competitive commercial and political life of the new country. One grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, was a member of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and also had worked as a New York importer. The other, General Peter Gansevoort, was a friend of James Fenimore Cooper and famous for leading the defense of Fort Stanwix, in upstate New York, against the British. Herman was silent and slow. His mother regarded him as a dull boy. (http://www.comptons.com) In 1826 Allan Melvill wrote of his son: "He is very backward in speech & somewhat slow in comprehension, but you will find him as far as he understands me ....

.... that were predominant in Canadian politics during the mid 1960's. However, throughout my readings I was also able to discover the fundamental principles that Trudeau would advocate in order to establish a strong and productive influence in Canadian politics. Born in 1921, Trudeau entered the world in a bilingual/bicultural home located in the heart of Montreal, Quebec. His acceptance into the University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious instit ....

.... and he played in two super bowls. Lionel suffered from schizophrenia & was homeless for 2 & 1/2 years in the 1970's. Lionel used to give inspirational talks to young people about his 20-year bout with schizophrenia and paranoia. Lionel has been in numerous newspaper and magazine articles for his ability to fight the disease he has fought most of his life. His message was simple to families who have mentally ill children or adults, don't give up on them. His motto was, ''Believe they can get well.” Lionel lost his battle wi ....

.... got into high school, he became a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the last one was named Stories and Gags. R.L. Stine got a scholarship to Ohio State University -- only two blocks from his home. He joined the Sundial as a writer, and later applied to be the editor and got the job. When he made up Jovial Bob (a way to introduce himself and humor to the readers) to help The Sundial because people weren't buying the paper; which they did once they met “Bob”. Jane became his girlfriend after meeting her at a party in Brooklyn and became his wife on June 22, 1969. They ....

.... night before the final exam. In June 1975, dropped out of Harvard to pursue a career in computers full time. Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There he and Allen Kay established Microsoft to produce their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major computer ....